Thank you to Jamie at GMK up in Thunder Bay. Very, very simple transaction, done over the phone in 10 minutes, putting me ahead of other customers he undoubtedly had in the shop. Have to email him and buy something else soon.
The rifle arrived in 3 days Express Post, double boxed and tape over that.
Outside of rifle had some remains of mystery preservative, not too much and the bluing looked real nice still. After some Hoppes everything came up sweet.
I got a hilarious 1 page "manual" and thats it.
I am going to email Jamie and buy the sling because he would know which one will fit and it looks cool. Give me a chance to buy something else off him too
Now, keep in mind this rifle was sitting in a corner of the warehouse for at least a couple years I would guess, so the inside was pretty dry. I did NOT take it apart as it looks like more than I want to get in to just now, BUT lubed what I could.
The pistol grip is wood as is the fore stock. The scales on the folding stock are plastic. The usual baby poop brown which I detest, but this one gets a dark mahogany finish later on. I'll match the folding stock scales with paint.
Sights are adjustable, see pictures. EDIT: They do not have windage from what I can see, sorry.
The rifle looks pretty sturdy to me. Not OVERLY beefy, but solid enough.
The folding stock is held in place by a spring loaded detent and snaps solidly in to place. Could you break it by smashing it over your knee? probably, but for normal, reasonable use i see no problems.
Cocking effort is easy, similar to a QB57 or Griffon.
So breech seal bone dry and before I fired it I dropped 7 or 8 drips of silicone oil in the piston hole. I worked the cocking lever 20 or 30 times without fully cocking it.
I was shooting at a hardcover book from 5 feet away with heavy blankets covering the muzzle in case of ricochet and I had safety glasses on.
First shot stuck in the hardcover itself. extremely weak. Hmmmmm..
Using daisy pointed lead pellets.
To make a long story short, some more oil in the chamber, on the seal, etc and the 6th shot was penetrating the book 1/2" and denting another 1/4" of pages. I am pulling this number out of my a**, but at least 450fps in my opinion.
The rifle is VERY quiet. Less noise than 90% of my pistols. Almost NO spring twang.
Dunno what the trigger is but it is pretty good to me. Clean break at..6 pounds maybe? Mine seems more single stage than double, but I havent shot slowly yet to test it.
I will of course take the sucker apart, but it looks a little complex to be honest, and I need a few hours without being harassed by work, pharmacy, nurses, doctors apointments, and so on every 5 minutes.
I am incredibly happy with this purchase. It is a very cool, unique air rifle and i love the darn thing
.....for people that may be reading this and do not know me, I own several higher end ( think German) air rifles and of course they are a different animal, but I am NOT a gun snob...I love these quirky Chinese or Russion oddball things. I think I play with them more than the high end stuff to be honest.
Thanks so much Jamie. A nice ray of sunshine today that helped me forget the last few miserable days