I'm pretty ticked right now.... The gun fell off the bench last night (I have no idea how, it's like it just rolled over the edge).... When it landed on the floor it got two dents and a crease in the comb of the stock.... no marks on the metal I have found, and it still shoots fine.... I'm pretty bummed, thinking of just getting rid of it.... either that or putting on a Richards walnut thumbhole stock I have sitting here....Bob
Once dropped a hunting rifle (PB) into 8 feet of dark bayou water (OK..was a service canal to an oil rig, but same thing). Winter. Had to get naked (to have somtehing warm to wear after the event) and bare footed. Too deep to just walk around, so was bobboing up and down like a cork, feeling the bottom with my feet. Cold, but unless I stepped on a gator he wasn't going to bother me and the snakes were all in.Round the bend comes a "party barge" with an extended family (or it might have been tourist). One the way in, they got to see the naked guy bobbing up and down in the bayou. On the way out, they got to see the blue/shivering naked man huddle around a fire trying to dry off himself and the rifle.
IF looking for power, would convert a 78 tube to HPA. If less than mega-power, then start with a standard 79.