I would flip your comments over on their head in my experience. I found the reviews for the pistol quite positive, particularly the AirgunWorld article and 2 other subsiquent articles which followed, incl one guy who had made a stock for his.. The later 2 articles agreed the breech seal was a touch suspect due to the angle of the breech. Often problematic design issue ...sealing on angles but there was big support for the novel arrangements of both the spring damper technology and the on board silencer. I have all the articles here and would be pleased if you could direct me to the negative comments you suggest. Thus my experience was suspect of the articles accuracy. It just is not as accurate as the 45. We had several through the club and all shooters would agree. The shorter sight base, inconsistant sealing, average trigger and difficulty in fitting a sighting system all lead to less performance when compared to the 45.Originally Posted by harvey_s
I had one for many years until redundancy forced me to sell it.
I loved mine, it was light, compact, pokey and well made.
I never had any issues with my grip as I think mine may have been a mk.II model (I was asked to sell one for a friend some time ago and his grip was noticeably more uncomfortable than mine ever was...)
Likewise I had no issues with the breech seal either.
Accuracy-wise, I could shoot mine as accurately as my HW45 with no-trouble, granted the gun sits somewhat higher in the hand, but this didn't seem to affect my UBC scores at the time.
The only thing that bothered me slightly (because I was inexperienced back then and didn't know any better) was the fact that the sight rail is quite high above the bore and most optical sights run out of elevation adjustment.
Personally I think they're far better than they're credited for - the airgun press weren't particulary complementry at the time or since which is ironic when I think about about the money I've wasted over the years on some of the tat which was well recieved....
As regard the excellent Center, i and a whole raft load of FT guys over on the FT post would disagree with it being nothing less than superb. The sliding breech does not leak but cannot take pointed pellets. However, very few choose pointed for FT or any other form of shooting these days....so not a problem. The sight base at 14 inches pretty much cuts it as being about the optimum before the gun starts to wander about. The underlever seems to kill muzzle flip and consistancy for the leather seal is excellent. The leather also seems unaffected by cold first shots and acts as a very nice damper. The swept volume characteristic against the port length is almot ideally set up too. Dont forget your allowed a 2 handed hold for Sillouette, where i found a gentle hold at the grip with both hands allowed me to trounce even the perfectly set up 45. Some managing to out shoot Original 5 and 6 owners.. It likes RWS Hobby and H&N Hi speed but some will have problems with those barrel in front of cylinder looks......dated is probably a good word!
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