I ummed and ahhed about 98 or 77 for ages. Eventually went full length laminate 77 for the fixed barrel and option of opens or scoped. Personaly find theres plenty of room in the loading port but I have medium sized hands and a compact scope is well clear. It's so accurate that for backgarden 25 - 30m shooting scoped can get a bit monotonous and the opens gives that extra bit of challenge. Think the laminate looks absolutely gorgeous. It put some pcp's to shame at the weekend at an informal get together over 25 - 50m. 4 out of 5 chalk lego men at 45m compared a best of 3 by the pcp's (HW100, bowkett tuned R10 mk2 and an ultra) was a particular highlight 😁

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