Quote from: avator on February 23, 2023, 10:45:01 AMQuote from: canadian_shooter on February 23, 2023, 10:16:43 AMQuote from: avator on February 23, 2023, 09:53:00 AMI'd have to look but, I don't think I gave any GAMO springers... I love my Urban though.. I at one time was looking for an Urban but couldn't find one here. Ended up with the FX Dreamline eventually. Have been very happy with it. I have read many good things about the Urban though.I like mine so much that a swapped the wood stock from my BSA Buccaneer to it.Good to know. I do still have it on my "wish" list.
Quote from: canadian_shooter on February 23, 2023, 10:16:43 AMQuote from: avator on February 23, 2023, 09:53:00 AMI'd have to look but, I don't think I gave any GAMO springers... I love my Urban though.. I at one time was looking for an Urban but couldn't find one here. Ended up with the FX Dreamline eventually. Have been very happy with it. I have read many good things about the Urban though.I like mine so much that a swapped the wood stock from my BSA Buccaneer to it.
Quote from: avator on February 23, 2023, 09:53:00 AMI'd have to look but, I don't think I gave any GAMO springers... I love my Urban though.. I at one time was looking for an Urban but couldn't find one here. Ended up with the FX Dreamline eventually. Have been very happy with it. I have read many good things about the Urban though.
I'd have to look but, I don't think I gave any GAMO springers... I love my Urban though..
Quote from: Craymar on February 23, 2023, 03:36:54 AMI see these post and I laugh. I bought my first Gamo over 10 years ago. A lowly Shadow 1000. Been one of the best deals ever for 99.00. Took me a long time and many airguns to realize just how good it is. I've heard people bad mouth Gamo the whole time. I wasn't impressed with polymer breechs and barrels and still ain't because I'm old school. I bought a Gamo Swarm Magnum a little over a year ago and really love shooting that gun, Polymer breech block and all. I liked it so much I bought a Gamo Hunter Extreme Pro to go with it. I rate that Gamo Hunter Extreme right up there with my German springers and I paid half the price for it. People go out and my the cheaper models, they don't know how to properly shoot them or know what pellets to use. All 3 of my Gamos will shoot dime size groups at 30 yards. I know how to shoot them, I know what pellets to use and I know how to properly mount my scopes so they don't move. First thing people do when they can't shoot a group is blame the gun. They swap it for a new one and same results or they toss it aside and call it junk. I laugh cause I know that someone else would drive tacks with that same gun they call junk. Polymer jacketed barrels to me are ugly but if you think about it they are better than a solid steel barrel. They don't rust and I don't think you can bend one on accident. I'm still not totally sold on Polymer breech blocks but I've had no reason to doubt the one on my Swarm magnum will hold up so far. It has a 5 year warranty to boot which you don't get with the lower tier Gamo's and so does my Hunter Extreme Pro which does have a steel breech block and barrel along with a higher grade beech stock that looks and feels great. I can shoot a less than .2 inch group at 25 yards with my HW 30. It ain't me. It's the gun. Or at least it's the gun-shooter combo. With that said, I doubt Chris Kyle or Jerry Miculek could shoot a group with my latest Gamo Swarm which chewed up pellets in the loading process and tried to send them down the barrel sideways.
I see these post and I laugh. I bought my first Gamo over 10 years ago. A lowly Shadow 1000. Been one of the best deals ever for 99.00. Took me a long time and many airguns to realize just how good it is. I've heard people bad mouth Gamo the whole time. I wasn't impressed with polymer breechs and barrels and still ain't because I'm old school. I bought a Gamo Swarm Magnum a little over a year ago and really love shooting that gun, Polymer breech block and all. I liked it so much I bought a Gamo Hunter Extreme Pro to go with it. I rate that Gamo Hunter Extreme right up there with my German springers and I paid half the price for it. People go out and my the cheaper models, they don't know how to properly shoot them or know what pellets to use. All 3 of my Gamos will shoot dime size groups at 30 yards. I know how to shoot them, I know what pellets to use and I know how to properly mount my scopes so they don't move. First thing people do when they can't shoot a group is blame the gun. They swap it for a new one and same results or they toss it aside and call it junk. I laugh cause I know that someone else would drive tacks with that same gun they call junk. Polymer jacketed barrels to me are ugly but if you think about it they are better than a solid steel barrel. They don't rust and I don't think you can bend one on accident. I'm still not totally sold on Polymer breech blocks but I've had no reason to doubt the one on my Swarm magnum will hold up so far. It has a 5 year warranty to boot which you don't get with the lower tier Gamo's and so does my Hunter Extreme Pro which does have a steel breech block and barrel along with a higher grade beech stock that looks and feels great.
When I was getting serious about my airgun hobby back in 2017 a friend who had been in the hobby a few years already told me to stay away from Gamo rifles. He said he had two or three and that he'd never buy another. I don't remember the problems he had all i remembered was that he said stay away from them. I have never bought one.So I don't have a dog in this hunt, but this has been an informative thread.
Update:Redemption stories _do_ happen.Weight is such an important issue for me when I hunt because of how much walking I do that I decided to give a Gamo Varmint one last try. It's lightweight, dead simple, and $100. To my pleasant surprise, it's a really good gun for the $100.I can't stress that enough... keep your expectations in line with the price.I was able to shoot a dime-sized group with JSB Exact Express 7.9 gr pellets at 30 yards with almost no wind. That'll hunt. They fly at an average of 933 fps with a low of 929 and a high of 935 (15.3 fpe). That's not far off from the extreme spread that my HW 30 can achieve. Yes, it's loud and harsh. Yes, it's got plastic everywhere and most people would call the trigger lousy and the bundled scope worse. When the rifle breaks I will probably throw it away and get another one rather than try to repair or tune it. HOWEVER, it shoots.That is all I need or expect it to do.
Tommy boy... do the Rc bearing mod and your vantage will be a lot more enjoyable.
I went to town yesterday to Gun City. I wanted to buy a new .22 Air rifle.All they had was Gamos and a few other second tier guns. The only one that caught my eye was the BSA Spitfire. (AKA Gamo ten shot) I already have one but two wouldn't be that bad an imposition. I got the salesman to get one out of the rack. I wanted to test the barrel with a push through pellet. Then the salesman dry fired it. Oh dear. He took the magazine off and I pushed the pellet. A bad inconsistent barrel. We took the magazine off two others and they all had inconsistent barrels even to the extent of a pellet tipping in the barrel and leaving rifling marks only on one side of the skirt. I could feel a bulge in the barrel. He spent an hour with me and made no profit.Those guns are back in the rack even though they know they are defective.By this time I was thoroughly dejected and went out to the marina and bought a nice little sailing dinghy. Couldn't walk away from it.