Prompted by meets and swayed by some of the comments on the thread here I thought I'd get into airgunning. Went into a couple of shops, hefted a whole bunch and came out with a Gamo CFX.
First impressions were heavy, vague trigger and weird fliers.
....then tested the speed and found it was only putting out 5.8ft.lbs. Thought about taking it back but by then had read folk on the web saying that some of them we're getting 7 and 8. The one I had seemed to work ok otherwise so decided just to scratch the warranty and have a look inside.
Apart from not having a front spring guide everything was fine. There's no way that the 1/4" of extra preload would have halved the power so I can only presume that Gamo are taking some liberties with their "Full Legal Power" statements.
The weird fliers were pellet based. I've changed to superdomes and am getting to like their whine.
Accupells went though the chrono like a random number generator and the most efficient(BSA Elites) were great and grouped well but mangled in the rotary breach way too often.
I put in a spring/guide kit and aftermarket trigger blade - it's now 11.4ft.lbs and is more accurate than I am but it's irritating that it took all that faffing about just to get it to where it should have been straight out the box.
Given whats been spent to get it there I'd have maybe have been better off trying the HW57 but that's by the by now. Everything's cool and it's practice, practice, practice time.