Hi from Christchurch

 cheers mike

 cheers mike

 when BSA/GAMO were independant stand alone companys their guns were much better than they are today,there was nothing wrong with early GAMO guns,ans BSA had allways produced top quality guns,but its not like that today thats for sure,the damage to your rifle is very likely due to poor machining and quality control,but may have been allso caused by oil in the tube from manufacturing etc,its allways a good idea to degrease new guns then lube them properly before firing particually with spring guns,i like to strip them these days as have found bitz metal left over from machining inside several brand name spring and pcp guns in recent years so i never assume any more things are as they should be with new guns,as for remachining and polishing your tube,proberly dosnt need remachining,just removing the junk will proberly sort it,then lube it again with the right lube and new seals is proberly all it needs,as there is lot heat produced inside the tube the gunk inside maybe hard and difficult to remove,sugest blocking the hole with wooden plug and trying petrol or brake cleaner to soften the gunk,this should get it out so you can check for any roughness or damage to tube,

 hope that helps,if any machining needs be done that can be fun as it will be right at front of the tube where you cant see what is being machined and would likely require a long boring bar that will need to be well supported to prevent the tool chattering etc but hopefully wont need that.

 cheers mike

I have the .22 CFX and it is a firm favourite.

I will post a review of my .30 Hatsan, hard work but it does reward and is surprisingly accurate.

Love my CFX well worn in and since i upgraded seals and spring to a gas piston its been a very nice gun runs a 3-12-40 AO Artic fox scope Recently brought the BSA seems to have good power and not bad accuracy but already had to fix the loading mechanism as it wasnt seating the pellets correctly easy fix tho put about 300 pellets through it unfortunately things went down hill and lost all power so decided it was a good reason to upgrade to gas piston and better seals from Custom Air seals opened the gun up and sure enough seal was toast and gun was full of oil makes sense why it was dieseling so much found something in the compression chamber tho which id like some advise on looks like metal perhaps the cylinder was not machined properly i have some pictures i can post used a bore scope.