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    SilentSniper had gone to ground.
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    What a selfish tit.

    Id be mortified if something I sold was faulty or worse. Dangerous!
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    Have you tried the addvice given above with the adjustments.

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    With respect asking the OP to try and fix this gun is missing the point.

    Also I recall that this isn't an FN12 but some sort of pistol /rifle combo.

    The failure of the Seller to respond says it all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gingernut View Post
    With respect asking the OP to try and fix this gun is missing the point.

    Also I recall that this isn't an FN12 but some sort of pistol /rifle combo.

    The failure of the Seller to respond says it all.
    I have to agree with this
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    Quote Originally Posted by MartynB View Post
    I have to agree with this
    Me to,

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    22 sales threads in 6 months and every post se3ms to be sales related. I would venture this guy is trading. I flipped through 3 pages and no posts other than sales. ?
    That said ..... with that many sales over that many years... if he was rogue he would probably have come to the attention of the mods before now.

    It could also be the journey through the mail system has introduced some knocks and bangs a rifle would not ordinarily attract. I have worked for a courrier company and some of the treatment shocked me even if it was suitably marked up as fragile etc.

    Hes been here a few years too and I bought a mount off him in 2015 which was a good deal.

    I try an picture the item and video it working and send it to the buyer before I post it. I also take a piccy of the package with all the postage stickers on so they can see it was well wrapped and in good condition before it is slipped through that lil old glass hatch.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steyr View Post
    22 sales threads in 6 months and every post se3ms to be sales related. I would venture this guy is trading. I flipped through 3 pages and no posts other than sales. ?
    That said ..... with that many sales over that many years... if he was rogue he would probably have come to the attention of the mods before now.

    It could also be the journey through the mail system has introduced some knocks and bangs a rifle would not ordinarily attract. I have worked for a courrier company and some of the treatment shocked me even if it was suitably marked up as fragile etc.

    Hes been here a few years too and I bought a mount off him in 2015 which was a good deal.

    I try an picture the item and video it working and send it to the buyer before I post it. I also take a piccy of the package with all the postage stickers on so they can see it was well wrapped and in good condition before it is slipped through that lil old glass hatch.
    i agree with the quote you said. i had my central heating rads delivered by parcel force. the biggest ones weighted in at 77kg. these were on top of peoples parcels and the guy jump in to get them out so i could help him carry them to the house as they are over the weight he should max be lifting by himself by 62kg. also he is walking on top of the parcels to get at my rads. this is why i dont like posting valuable stuff as witnessing first hand how they treat them puts me off posting an expensive gun by post!

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    Quote Originally Posted by gingernut View Post

    With respect asking the OP to try and fix this gun is missing the point.

    Also I recall that this isn't an FN12 but some sort of pistol/rifle combo.

    The failure of the Seller to respond says it all.
    Yes I remember seeing the title when first advertised and being potentially interested myself, but as the photos were not of a Falcon factory-spec FN12 but what to me looked like an FN8 pistol fitted with (possibly) an FN12 cylinder and an aftermarket attachment and shoulder stock grafted on to the standard Falcon FN8 pistol grip, it wasn't for me.

    Looked quite good though, although as I've said it wasn't (thankfully) for me, as [a] it was a little too Blake Seven looking for my liking (), and [b], if my assumption regarding its origins and assembly were correct, it was either going to shoot below 6ft.lb to comply with legal air pistol limits, or if it had been heavily modified internally to bring it up to nearer the 12ft.lb non FAC air rifle limit, personal experience has taught me that such hybrids can be problematic? ...

    I also note that the seller hasn't at the time of scribing this been back on the BBS to see this thread, so let's give him a chance to catch up before cyber assassinating him, yes?

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