As an aside on my above post. As Fix said, I also found that the Walmart Sierra 's to be of poorer QC than CrosmanG-1's . It has a nice look, and the stock they supply makes the gun handle better than ,say the Storm, and a better scope and mount, but that's it. In fact I bought mine just to get the scope, as they had them on clearance. I originally shortened the barrel as a learning experiment, and in hopes of improving hold sensitifity. Got a suprise when I removed the front sight though. I found that the end of the barrel was slightly distorted from the knurling, they put on the end to mount the sight. Also the bushing in the barrel pivot was to long by four or five thou. among other things. It was a sucessful operation though as mentioned. The gun became more consistant in grouping and much less hold sensitive after alteration , and I learned some more things. Still like my G-1's better.