i've got ten air rifles, 3-.22's,7-.177's. i was skepticle at first and found it to be annoying how after cocking it, i had to open up the breech to load. i was use to under levers with breeches that opened when you cocked it and break barrels are the easiest to operate when comparing different styles of air rfles. no filling up tanks, no multple pumping, and magazines to reload. still, i like to shoot the cfx the most even though it was my second to last rifle that i purchased. if you don't like it, just send it back, you can get a really nice break barrel with the amount of money that you paid for the gas ram version.