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BAM41 .22, no not the B40, but the cheapened version. Bought it cheap off a mate who had his own airgun business back then (2014). They had to buy two at a time off SMK and he got stuck with one as they got slagged from pillar to post by just about everyone. So I bought it as a project TBH, it was the best OTB airgun I’ve ever bought. No twang, graunching or any other unpleasant noises. Shot with a solid thud and little kick. Over the years I’ve improved the trigger, made new guides and fitted a piston sleeve. Mate John made me a new metal front end to replace the plastic thing that held the cocking lever up. Will group at 60yds if I do my bit. Probably like most things, you can get a very good Chinese airgun the same as you can get an iffy HW and the like.
My modest springer is a SMK B41 bought second hand as a project gun. Simple tuning using home made and no specialist tuning parts except a spring and a decent spring guide transformed this rifle into something as good as if not better than the one it cloned. These views were from TX200 owners who shot it, 4 reckoned it was as good as theirs, one reckoned it was better, another wanted to buy it because he had never shot a rifle putting 3 pellets through the same hole and the final one wished to know how the action had become so fast and with minimal recoil.
It all goes to prove that to own a exceptionally well performing and accurate air rifle there is no need to spend many hundreds of pounds on one or many in having it tuned.