BSA Supersport XL Air Rifle

Such a shame: new rifle, customer is unhappy...really a total shame. This has to be one or two things:1) OndreJ's using .25-Cal pellets in a 22-Cal rifle, or doing insertion with the wrong end of the pellet on a 22-Cal rifle, or some other anomaly with loading that we'd have to watch to spot2)The rifle is defective, perhaps built with a 22-Cal breech while the rifle is supposed to be a 25-Cal. I'd like to think that Gamo has their act together with QC however, and would catch such a fiasco in the rye and stop it before such a rifle would reach the customer.On the $10 test for speed and shooting action: You just can't go wrong with it, and a bad experience with the test is virtually unheard of in my reading here. I have had each and every purchase at Pyramyd Air tested for the paltry $10 fee, and all my rifles are solid 5-Star pieces. Recently I bought a new Benjamin-Sheridan 22-Cal rifle that tested better than advertised speeds of that rifle--on the chronograph of course.Also last year bought a Marauder 22-Cal pistol by Benjamin, with some extras like a red/green 4-reticle (switch chooses which one you're using) Bushnell electro-scope, BKL stand-offs to mount the scope properly on the Marauder pistol, and a range bag to tote around all my pistol's gear, including a Simmons 2X x 7X x 32mm glass etched reticle, and assorted goods.The Marauder tested especially strong @ 748 FPS to 764 FPS on the chronograph: how else to tell about such things unless you get the piece tested? Pyramyd Air is a quality operation, with astonishing QC and great staff overall, top to bottom, and I cannot imagine the company looking the other way when such a thing happened, if it did in fact happen. If OndreJ hasn't *TALKED* to Pyramyd about his issues with the rifle by Gamo/BSA, then therein lies the issue that is really at hand. I like to think that the place I do business often has customer satisfaction at the top of their checklist on any given deal or transaction...and so far that has been my personal experience buying items, often expensive items at that, here at Pyramyd Air.

Ondrej, You say you bought this in 25 cal if in fact it is there are easy steps that can be taken to make the pellets fit proerly but I have to wonder if it is in fact a 22 cal that you have. If you have a 22 cal and you are trying to feed it 25 cal pellets they are not gonna fit because of the diameter, 22 cal's run between .220 to .224 a 25 cal goes between .249 to .251. I think what your problem is, is you have a 22 cal and are using 25 cal pellets.

On the BSA, the pellet should seat easily because force will deform the soft pellet and affect accuracy. My BSA Superstar take pellets easily and accurate. The pellet seat tool is no longer used because it affects the accuracy by pushing on the pellet.

I love BSA airguns. Very well built. I am not sure the $10-for-10 is worth the money. I purchased a Gamo Stutzen and specifically asked them for one with unblemished stock. I got one with a bad stock, multiple scrapes and a big dent. I was told by one person there's 5 in stock and no problem to select one for me. When I placed the order another person said they don't select for looks. Can't exchange it because they are sold out and no longer made.

Some guns require the shooter to seat the pellet with a tool. Pellet-seating tools have been around for a while. B.B. Pelletier writes Pyramyd Air's daily blog, and he has used a Bic ballpoint pen as a seating tool for some guns that are fussy or require deeply seated pellets.