5.5mm 22 Caliber Pistol Air Pellet Gun with Safety Lock 350-450FPS New Break Barrel

Note: Not a Vine Voice related review. This listing is for a redesigned version of this air pistol. The earlier version was wood stocked and all steel, now discontinued. This is an un-marked .22 version (except for a serial number) of the Snow Peak SP500 (aka the Artemis SP500 or Diana P five in some markets). It is mixture of several different proven designs (internally very much like the old HW 70 from the1970s) made with modern styling and materials, and seems to have been influenced by the Umerex Browning Buckmark. The barrel, springs, screws and some internal parts are steel. The grip housing is black polymer with a grey soft rubber like insert. The trigger and front sight are also black polymer. The trigger is stiff, but like most springers it should burnish itself in with use. The trigger face has an allen screw adjustment to shorten travel (which will block the manual safety if run in too far). Alloy is used for the breech block which holds the barrel, the receiver/compression chamber, as well as for the piston. There is a steel insert where the piston is held by the sear, and the sear istself is metal. Seals are synthetic. Several non-critical parts are shared with other designs produced by this maker. I find the grip to be comfortable and well balanced. The reciever sits lower in the hand than many higher powered spring piston air pistols.. There are both a manual cross bolt trigger safety and an automatic trigger block that prevents the trigger from moving as the spring is compressed. In power and accuracy it seems to be designed for close range indoor shooting. The box the pistols ship in have the date of manufacture. I purchased two pistols that were produced on the same date. The first pistol I recieved was pleasantly accurate out of the box and only needed minor sight adjustment. The second pistol had loose sight screws out of the box, and nut that retains the screw that the barrel pivots on was not attached. Fortunately there was a video showing disassembly on Youtube, and I was able to dissassemble the stock and attach and install the nut properly prior to firing. The second example was also quite accurate once the screws were tightened.