Gamo "The Centre" Air Pistol

[freshman210]

Has anyone heard of these?

It is an under leaver pistol.

[Big Seth]

They have been around for at least 35 years

[johnbaz]

Think from memory they have a swing out breech..



John

[leaky5]

Yep, I had one of these about 30 years ago.

http://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread....ter-ASI-Centre

[red bob]

i have the set of this range of pistol including the rare multi shot bb version.
the centre was surprisingly good quality,floating load port sys.
semi trgt with adj notch sights.and grips l/h or r/h
now becoming collectable so a clean boxed example with the gamo pellet tin [full ]
as well worth hanging onto.
should have a black crackle finish frame and an unusually good quality blued action.
yes stand corrected must stay off that cheap aussie wine.
thats the other one getting very difficult to get hold of [relum hurricane]past the chance
of a few over the years,never thought of them becoming collectable[lol]

[fat man]

yes it was a good pistol, a lot of the ideas came from an unlikley source Relum of Hungary, compare if you will the Hurracance pistol carbine.

[Hsing-ee]

[QUOTE=red bob;5537017laterally loading breech directly into the barrel.
[/QUOTE]

Errr... no they don't. The pellet sits in the swing-out loading chamber and then is puffed into the throat/barrel on firing. This sort of jumpage makes all the loading tap type systems less accurate than the break-barrel and true direct loading systems. Also loses alot of high pressure air around the two sides of the swing-out breech.

They are nicely conceived spring-piston target pistols but they are twangy and suffer alot from the two-way recoil of the springer. A master shooter could probably get some accurate shooting out of them but they will be hard on a beginner.

Good lickle plinker though.

[magicesperanto]

I had one once with the crackle finish, seems well made but I couldn’t hit a thing with it.

I have won comps with .22 Ruger and Vostock pistols so what you have to do with the Gamo to hit targets is beyond me.

Sold it for a song years ago.

[Rickenbacker]

Nasty, plentiful, and people want loads of money for them

[freshman210]

Hi Guys,

Thank you all very much.

It has the swing out loading port. I had a go at a local Gun shop and i have to say it was smooth and fairly accurate over the 8-10 yrd range he had out back. Bull and a couple close.

Think i'll be going back for it.

Once again many thanks.

[appinpar68]

I have one of these

I find it a joy to shoot, very accurate. I also shoot a FAS604 and a for a springer the Center is a good pistol for target work

loaded by a swing out side bit and cocked by an underleaver

Appinpar68


http://i50.tinypic.com/25at3zl.jpg

[18 Wheeler]

Here's an ASI advert from 1990 showing the Gamo Pistol range and recommended pricing.

[red bob]

thanks for the add picc,not if they imported the multi bb version or the one ive got found its way in the back door.