Well done on the write up Marc.RG1 I'm sure it will be of help to many.
For those who want to put a little more meat on the bone take a look here - should answer pretty much all your questions.
http://www.pyramydair.com/search-res...;NB:1&saSearch
As for me, this is a 10/10 gun all the way. It's not "perfect" in the literal sense but it is by far the most evocative airgun I have ever owned and has without doubt, even in the quite short time that I have had it, given the most pleasure. The reason is twofold, firstly it is superbly made and is as close as most of us will sensibly get to owning a shooting version of the real thing. The Colt SAA must surely be the most seen and recognised weapon from stage and screen ever. It is quite simply an icon. The simple, functional design of the original was both groundbreaking and stunning and is wonderfully replicated in this Umarex version and it is accurate with both BBs and pellets.
My best so far and that is with pretty minimal practice is a six shot group of 0.875" ctc from 15 feet off-hand standing. That was with JSB Exact Express. BBs best so far around an inch or so but could do better I'm sure.
The second reason I rate this as 10/10 is quite simply because of its emotional pull. If like me you grew up with Roy Rodgers, The Lone Ranger, all the way through to films like The Magnificent Seven, The Dollar Films, The Wild Bunch, Butch and Sundance, Once Upon A Time In The West and more recently Unforgiven and Open Range and you remember the smell of sulphur from your cap pistols and the disappointment of running out of ammo behind that bale of hay in the barn in the days before it all became rather non PC then you will understand what I'm talking about. Along with Gingernut I defy anyone who has that kind of history to hold one of these Colts, listen to the cocking clicks and run your eye over the superb finish and not want one on the spot.
And if you don't, I'd check your pulse if I were you!!
And finally a gun that gives as much as this in so many ways has no right to be this cheap.
I was expecting something good after all the reviews I had read and watched before I bought one, even so it would have been so easy to have been disappointed or at best to have had misgivings but the real thing has surpassed all my expectations.
This is serious fun with a huge dose of nostalgia thrown in. I and many millions of others have been waiting decades for this revolver - still tickled pink!!
Absolutely wicked
ATB
Hombre
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