I’ve been air gunning for abt 15 years. My go to on break barrels is my gamo hornet in .22 with a sorovee scope . My others are a gamo bone collector.22 & a gamo silent cat in .177 . All are good shooters but are no comparison to my latest . An air Venturi avenger in .25 with a vortex scope. Its trigger is crisp & the gun is very accurate. I do a lot of bench shooting & some squirrel hunting with them & the Ava is hands down a pleasure to shoot.
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You like your Gamo's? Friend of mine asked me to set one up & zero it in for his son. It is unequivocally the worst P.O.S. I've handled since I got to into airguns! Absolutely ZERO redeeming qualities & wouldn't even hit paper @ 20 yards. WHY would a company embarrass themselves with a product like that? Hope YOU have better luck!
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Hello @Gerry52
I am surprised to hear your bad luck tuning a Gamo. I have owned 3 and still do own two, a Maxxim and a Fusion both being GEN II models. I had no trouble getting them to zero at 25 yards and shoot scores of 20 up to 25 out of a possible 30 on a MOA target. I am wondering if the rifle or the scope had been damage?
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Mine shoot fine. Break barrels are a different animal to shoot. Took me a while to figure them out.
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Well.....I don't personally own a Gamo product. However, I shoot often with my brother, who owns a few Gamo PCP's. I am absolutely astonished at what he can do with them. Seriously astonished. Are they refined and polished like my higher end shooters? Nope. But he can easily stack pellets regularly at 30 yds. If I were not there to personally witness it, I would be very skeptical, but it is simply true, and I am his witness.
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Thanks for the response. I'm SERIOUSLY surprised. We could barely get the magazine to load or work correctly let alone hit an 8x8 piece of paper at 20 yards! Was curious if they're all like that. The instructions didn't EVEN mention the magazine. I'm well familiar with break barrels as that's what I started with but with what knowledge & skill I've acquired in the past few years I still couldn't get that gun to function worth a damn.
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Tuning? Hell, never even got that far. Barely got it to shoot. Worked on it for 45 minutes (which I'll never get back). The included scope didn't work any better than the gun itself did. Glad some of you guys are having positive experiences. Based on mine I'd not go near another one again. I'll try to keep an open mind though.
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Gamo hate is everywhere. This is why I seldom post about any of my Hatsans. Don't need the grief.
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Yeah I had a Hatsan that was terrible and ditto with the Gamos. But to each their own. @Laity likes him a Hatsan and he is an excellent shooter, so I think if comes down to preference and experience. I know you have had overall very positive experiences with Hatsan. Brand bashing is lame because it takes away from the joy of sharing one's personal joy of sharing your experience and possessions. We often think of brand bashing as high-end mine is better than yours type attitude but often it is on lower priced airguns, and I am guilty of that surely. I think healthy criticism from experience is good, but where the line is drawn from "my experience with Hatsan was horrendous" to outright brand bashing is a hard line to define, and something I think of often having talked to individuals on the podcast from every airgun-political isle I can think of. I have my preferences and biases, but those are not the preferences and biases of my neighbor. I used to think that I might be overthinking it, but now I think that I think of it too little. The last thing I want to do is discourage a friend having fun.
PS: I always like your 135 posts.
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You may discount the the rifle, but not the rifleman - "From his perch ten feet up in a pine tree, Murphy fired first to find the range"...
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Just so you know, I Won't give you grief!! Before my current quiver of guns my BT65 (.25) was the gun I learned on & hunted with for a couple years. Also had an AT44 (.22) which I liked WAY better than the Mrod I had bought as my 1st "real" pcp. It was a great platform, for me, to learn on & improve my skills Before moving to a different tier.
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Mine includes Hatsan, HW, Beeman, Diana, Crosman, Mendoza, a Norica, Turk built Webleys. Buy what you like, have fun shooting what you do buy and don't let what others may think of your choices bother you.
Ain't their money, it's yours...lol.
Ain't their money, it's yours...lol.
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Uragan, Taipan, Marauder, and a Caiman, it will only continue to grow, this sport is a healthy disease.
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