Came home from school expecting a box, but nope, it hadn't arrived yet. So I sat on my porch waiting to see the brown truck come up the hill. Eventually, at about 4:40 it arrived. The box was gigantic. Seriously, it was as tall as me, and I'm 5'11". After getting through the first box, I found a flashy benjamin sheridan box. It had multi color diagrams pointing out all the key features. And it was branded with the '1500 fps' claim. Well I quickly, but gently, opened up the box and pulled out the styrafoam mold and unveiled the beautiful super streak. It did, in fact, come with the 4-16x40 scope premounted. But there was a ton of mystery goo around the base of the mounts so I had to take that off to remove the goo and clean the rails. All the scopes accesories came in a plastic bag, the cleaning cloth, extra battery, instructions and mildot chart, and the flip up caps were already mounted. The rifle looked very sleek right out of the box.
This is my first wood stocked rifle so I don't have anything to put the stock up against, but I would give it a 7/10. It feels lice and looks good, but there are definitely scratch marks and some minor dings. The checkering, imo, is well done. The finish looks nice, but again this is coming from a complete amateur. I tried to take a picture of some of the scratch marks on the stock. There are more of those around the corners of the stock, but you can't notice them unless you are looking for them. The butt pad is a comfortable ventilated rubber piece with horizontal treads on the back. The cheek piece is higher than my gamo shadow, but it is comfortable for use with the scope.
I took apart the rifle after inspecting the stock. I am new to this aspect of air rifles too, so all I can say is it looked similar to my gamo shadow. There was the same layout of cocking lever, and some other lever thing that attaches to the trigger block. The trigger also looked of that of my gamo. More on the trigger later. Thats about all I have to say about the action.
After I put the rifle back together, and remounted the stock, I went outside to fire off a few rounds. I don't have anything to clean barrels with, so I couldn't clean it. The first shot dieseled and so did the next few. The dieseling was over within a dozen shots, but the firing cycle was very rough.
I'm tired now, but I will give a much more detailed report later. Here are some pictures. Parting note, the breech seal is very, pecuilar (sp). It looks like someone molded super glue into an 'O' shape and stuck it on the breech. And the trigger pull is terrible. And a picture of the gunrack I built a few days ago.
