Welcome Jim, I am kinda new here also. The 1377 is a great pistol, easy to afford with LOTS of 'hot rod' modifications available. Put a steel breech on mine and that made it easy to mount a red dot scope. I split a short length of plastic tubing and glued it to the trigger blade. Also played with smoothing out the trigger (light polishing). I have yet to hit squrriels at 40 yards (great shooting!) Very neat airgun and a classic -- Like us ( born in 1955).