Mark, PA was not very forthcoming about accepting the fact that there was an issue with these guns. At least when I contacted them, maybe their opinion has changed by now?
I have a feeling that the vast majority of the rifles were/are just fine. I have been spending a little time the past week dialing mine in and it's spectacular.
100% agree with you Ken. I put a 16x Centerpoint on mine (decent scope for the price I paid) but this rifle deserves an optics upgrade. I did a little more tweaking to the tune and have it shooting the 15.89 JSB's at average 876fps for 50 shots with an extreme spread of 15. ES of 13 if I take out the low shot of 868 in the middle of the string (bad pellet? - all taken straight from the tin). This is with the factory regulator. It will put all of those pellets on a quarter @ 50yds. It can do 10 shot nickle size groups on a calm day. So happy I bought this rifle.