I feel that FX sells a vast amount of air guns. They are all expensive. A gun has a problem and the owner paid between $1000 and about $2650. The owner is upset, understandably so. He goes to the forum and looks for help and maybe vents his frustration. Yet all the owners of trouble free guns seldom let the rest of us know of their good experience. I have not shared my good experience with 2 FX rifles which I've have for several years. Next is FX's percentage of troubled guns. I have no figures, only that the number of problems I read about in the forum are not over whelming and FX does answer the phone and email and fixes the problem. Yes at times some poor shooter gets hit with murphy's law and the fix takes longer then we would expect. But FX went to the trouble to enlist more dealers, install a warehouse/ warrantee/ repair shop/ building., and hire a man I consider to be one of the best at tuning, trouble shooting, and researching ways to improve the product ( the Impact for instance; it's new air plenum, regulator, etc). And they have more then one smith to do the work. Now Mr. Axelson Is continually coming up with new ideas like the Impact MII Compact. 25" long, 500mm barrel, new 300cc carbon fiber bottle. And the factory can't keep up with the demand for all the new rifles that have been designed, engineered and put into production. I keep expecting a valveless semi auto pcp since they stopped production of the previous ones. The man started FX out of his own pocket cause his employer didn't want to introduce improvements to the air rifles. And Axelson has not stopped Improving. I think his goal is to provide us with the most diverse, reliable guns we crave. the FX guns are popular, demand is out stripping production, Axelson ideas are out stripping production, yet they still answer the phone, email, solve problems, supply parts, and if there were some many problem air rifles out there the unwanted used ones wouldn't still command high prices and sell quickly. If you want your early model Impact up graded it can be done. All I ever learned is buy the best you can afford. The best is the one that is hard to get cause so many people want one. No manufacturer is perfect, as long as previous buyers are satisfied you won't find a glut of them on the market. People snap them up quickly, stand in line waiting for their order to be filled. If anyone has read all of this: you are a better man then I am Gugadin( character in an old movie hopefully I spelled it right)