I have heard so many opinions myself, that I just have to give it a go. I often hear opinions about airguns that I know are total bs, or perhaps true, but a simple little fix or mod makes them great shooters, so I always consider the source. If people are tinkerers or experiment and are mechanically competent and like to work on their guns, and solve problems, but say something is junk, I listen. If someone believes that opening their wallet once, should solve any and all problems, and don't want to do any servicing of their guns at all, or even tune it, then I really don't want to hear too much from them, and just discount it anyway. I like all kinds of airguns. I do tend to gravitate towards airguns like my Paradigm, or TalonP, that are simple and tough and reliable, the most, and that is a hunting guns job. However my favorite activity is long range plinking off of my tripod and I don't need, or even want, the same thing for doing that. If a gun is delicate but otherwise is an easily tunable accurate beast, then I can be pretty darn careful with it. I'm keeping an open mind on it. The only thing I'm sure of is that I will be doing some kind of wild distressed paint job on this thing. The more accurate it is, the rougher I'm going to make it look. lol