Hey, pal, welcome home. I get the sticky back tape and the blowtorch, but what do you do with the cheese grater :-)?
Actually, if I can't get at least a little more snap out of this, you might just end up scratching another one off your short list. It's frustrating because it wants to shoot, with the combo of the rear sight I got from you and the 753 front sight, I have no problem hitting the bull off a rest. Oddly enough, even the heavy trigger isn't a detriment to shooting well, because it's consistently heavy. Feels the same, breaks the same, despite being 2/3 plastic. It's VERY sensitive to pellet weight, going from a 7.9 to an 8.4 gr. pellet will cause the POI to drop more than an inch at 10M. As to pellets, I got in an order of various match pellets last week, problem is, I went to the heavy side, 7.9 to 8.4 gr. R 10's were one I ordered, but I got the 8.2 gr. instead of the 7. The S200 likes them, so not a waste.
BTW, have you ever tried the Avanti match pellets? Got a tin of those as well, what a shock when I opened it! The damn things look like they're made of silver, nice and shiny instead of that dull lead gray. Very clean and consistent, too, guess I need to find some tiny werewolves to shoot ;-)!
Checked the pump linkage per your suggestion, there is NO slop in it, if anything, maybe it's too stiff. I don't know, maybe I'm just expecting too much out of it, but for a gun that's supposed to be a premier paper puncher, this one isn't punching very well. Later.
Dave