Straw merchants.
While you on the salesman topic would you give me your expert review of the new caddy van .
Here it is. You can just about see the lip of the shim sticking out of the back of the saddle and turned towards you. It in moves the from of the scope to the right by a mm or two at most.
I have found Teifi Valley Shooting Supplies in Llechryd to be very good, even if it does seem like you are going into someone's front room!
The scope was supplied complete with mounts in the original unopened box. Unfortunately they were too low. In the picture there is obviously plenty of room under the front reticle but this is with a shim under the front but not the back. As far as I can tell the saddle size matches the tube size.
Last year I bought a Gamo Phox though in .22 calibre. A bit like you, @Cowabunga , I hadn't owned an air rifle for several decades (and the one I had back then was an ASI Statical so not a very famous brand, for a reason....!) and I, too, was blown away by how good the Gamo was. Very accurate, pneumatic with a 10 shot cartridge and enough gas in the cylinder to fire at least 50-60 shots before needing recharging. I'd highly recommend it (and the scope fitted with very little bother...!)
I think I would have bought a Gamo SX40 [I think it is called] if the shop dealt with them, had one in stock and I liked its feel. It was at the top of my shortlist of mid-budget rifles because it is made in Birmingham [UK].
Haven't got a clue because the mounts I now have are off another scope and I ain't about to unmount this one any time soon, for obvious reasons.
They aren't the wrong mounts. They are Weaver type high mounts for the size of tube I've got. They actually fit perfectly without the shims, apart from the scope still not being high enough on this particular gun and the front being slightly too low and to the left without being shimmed.
Fred was just about retiring when I worked there - I'd open the Aberystwyth shop in winter so Jeff could be in Aberaeron. I haven't got a bad word to say about Jeff, lovely bloke - in fact I got the job when I collared him in Morrisons, I think
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I never used the shop during the whole period Fred had the shop in Aberaeron on either side of the street. I remember Freddie and his wife running a clothes shop when I was young. A big shop with ladies on the ground floor and gents upstairs. Mrs Moulton, Fred's mother and a young Elizabeth Ffosdeicin, who was a bit slow but 'all there' [if you know what I mean] also worked there. That's the place where Tanyfron doctor's surgery as been now for years, on the corner of Pwll Cam between the Cadwgan and Prince of Wales pubs. Elizabeth was a real character about town until two years ago when her health failed and she passed away last year. She was always in the Celtic for supper and never paid on the day as she had an account there.Fred was just about retiring when I worked there - I'd open the Aberystwyth shop in winter so Jeff could be in Aberaeron. I haven't got a bad word to say about Jeff, lovely bloke - in fact I got the job when I collared him in Morrisons, I think
Plenty of students at the start of term back then with pockets full of student loan.
I think the other part time guy was Cacs, but we didn't work together, I think he preferred to be in Aberaeron. We also had a Saturday boy who came in all the way from Tregaron, I think.
Nearest new VW main dealer is at Swansea. Otherwise Shrewsbury I think. No idea about Caddy vans of any age and never had the slightest interest in them. Last VW I had was in the late 1980's, although I had an Audi Q7 for about six years from 2005 to 2013. No problem with the used dealer up the road. It's just that I think their products are very over-rated. They have always disappointed me from a driver's and owner's perspective in one or more quite significant ways. Every time.
Mine has mil dots. I appreciate what you are saying about pellet drop and will learn some more about different ranges to target over the next few weeks if I have time. I'm sure to find some.