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quote ElmerFudd:

It has potential but I’ll be brutally honest here. The way the bottle is attached looks too weak and is a problem waiting to happen. An aluminum bottle is definitely not as light as a CF one however reduces cost but the way it’s threaded into the trigger guard looks poorly designed. At least on the FX Impact it looks more secure and being a lighter bottle means less stress on those threads. I also get the idea of being able to tether the bottle with a foster fitting but I don’t know why more manufacturers can’t implement the fill probe concept.

The buttpad or lack of one needs to be addressed.

I can’t tell if the magazine is the spring loaded type or not but more manufacturers need to get away from the spring loaded type. And if it’s not spring loaded, I don’t see the need for the extra casing? It just makes it harder to load pellets.

Sorry but I’ll have to disagree on all those things. I have a Sniper X2 which shares all those features and I have no problems with them. That is a PB bottle and they work in PB guns so why not in this application? It would be better if the shoulder met the breech actually but that can be fixed with a washer – although that should be fixed in the design. A straight buttpad, again no problem for me – works fine at 270 fpe. Spring loaded magazines, with lever operated ones there has been roughly equal amount of issues with the claw getting worn or bent or slipping. It has more to do with the actual design and implementation of the magazine rather than the principle of operation.

What I find negative is the non-standard thread on the barrel and the shroud is rather small in diameter. It would be easy to drop the bottle down a bit more and fit a fat 30+mm fully functional shroud in there.

The pullback bolt on the left side is nice, something that Colibri owners seem to love.