I never meant to buy a Gamo, nothing against them except they are springers and perhaps one hears of a "gamos are crap" post but they do seem well offset by "I love my Gamo" posts. A year ago I tried a Gamo 1000 (Shadow right?) with an aftermarket trigger and it was okay except it was a springer. Well my squirrel huntng partner always uses an RWS48 and I really liked his, the I had the chance to purchase a used RWS48/52 at a very good price and figured as I would only fire it a time or two per hunting day and only neede minute of squirrel groups I should go for it. Well the darn thing benchrests excelent groups, then the factory spring broke (I AM getting to the Gamo, really) so we installed the full JMkit, nice! Fixed the T01 trigger, wow, removed to barrel droop, darn fine airgun springer or not.
Then, at a FT match a fellow had a Gamo 1000 w/BKL253 and hard case for $40.00, why not? It sure has some twang/BUZZZZ but "seemed" to group well. The trigger set a personal all time extreme example of C R E E P . So I looked around here, found the GRT III link, spent the $32.00 for the trigger blade and golly gee what a great little rifle! Twang/BUZZZZ and all with a good trigger it DOES group well. That trigger blade is money well spent and Tammy agreed that with the instruction supplied anyone should be able to install it in a few minutes.
So the 48/52 is out getting some proper wood installed and there was an Inigural shoot for a new FT club and I wanted to shoot piston class with the little Gamo and scope(2-7 Tasco) my friend had sold me and all things considered that Gamo rocked. Cinsidering the conditions and my shooting ability (or lack there of) I dont think I could have scored any better with the AA410.
Link to the shoot:
http://www.airgunadvice.net/viewtopic.php?t=10706and a pictre of Tammy testing the new trigger out:
John
