Originally Posted by
air-tech
The barrel is not free floated in the proper sense, in fact it is sleeved, and between the sleeve and the very skinny barrel there is a spring steel shim or liner. The front sight retains the sleeve in place, remove the front sight and the sleeve and shim slide off.
Yes, I had one some years back. I thought it was a cheapskate idea. It meant you couldn't get rid of the foresight for a clean scope picture without exposing that tiny, spindly barrel. There are ways around that, of course, but you don't expect such an unsatisfactory solution to an ordinary air rifle requirement from a maker like M&G.
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