Quote Originally Posted by weebster View Post
The magnum was sold in the uk as I purchased one from the owner of this site back in the days when mail order was the norm for air rifles and shotguns,sadly I never got to use it due to sudden circumstances and had to return it to js at a loss to me of £15...if I recall from a press article it may be that the chamber was 2mm wider so a bit more volume,whether the writer was correct in that I have no idea...as for the chamber being put out by the word 'magnum',the chamber is already out of shape due to the name stamp anyway,my mk2 is out and so was the mk1 that I owned.
Are you saying that the action of placing a name stamp/engraving on the chamber actually caused the chamber to lose its shape? If so, this must have been horrendous engineering. I cannot imagine how the factory could not have seen this error. It must have played havoc with the internals.