This is the best thread I have read in years.

Back in the early 2000's I used to do some of the airgun repairs at Mendip Shooting Ground..... I really don't need to say any more do I.

Highlights: A BSA Super10 with at least 20 pellets jammed in the barrel. A Falcon FN19 traded in that when checked was producing eye wateringly illegal velocities, that one had a few additional bits added and had a trigger that was so heavy it almost would not break. A number of 'rebuilt' Air Arms regs that looked like someone had taken a hammer and chisel to the insides, and on and on and on, oh and a constant stream of complaints that rifles not producing EXACTLY 12 ft lbs were 'faulty / underpowered', no sir, they are LEGAL!

As for the FX tinkering... I blame EBR videos.