I got a few that had 4 shots close and a bad flyer. Then I started shooting groups at 10m from a rest with this same pellet. I started with 7.87 JSB Exact Express and clocked around 410-415fps for the first 5 shots. With my readers I see the sights well but the target is far too blurry to shoot. With just my glasses I see 3 blurry front sight posts. I used my distance glasses, taped an aperture to the lens and put a pair of 1X magnifiers on top. My old eyes are not great with iron sights but I did my best to shoot some 10m groups. metal barrel screw (Daisy had a pin at muzzle end to secure bbl) sheet metal hammer spring guide (Daisy got rid of this part) one piece hammer (Daisy had 2-pc for safety reasons) metal transfer port (Daisy had plastic sleeve) metal power adjuster parts (Daisy had cheaper version with some plastic) My pistol has the following S&W features: I read a detailed online review of the differences and this one is more like a later year S&W than a Daisy. It seems to have some S&W leftover parts. This Daisy pistol appears to be from their early days when they took over production from S&W. Even eliminating half the creep would make an improvement. I might try to shim out some of the creep but the trigger is a cast non-iron metal so I won’t risk a knife edge contact. It’s a long dragging pull (creepy) but the weight is acceptable for a plinker. The trigger on these non-adjustable models is far from a Crosman Mk1. A few seals needed replacing but I have the pistol holding gas. The barrel crowd was dented in a couple of spots so I lapped in a fresh crown and polished the bore. I disassembled everything on the newly acquired Daisy 790 and managed to carefully tap the pellets out of the barrel. The adjustable trigger was eliminated during the S&W production. The early S&W 78G with the adjustable trigger seems to be the most desirable version. Daisy bought the rights and produced the pistols as the Daisy 780 and 790 from 1980 to 1983 & 1988, respectively. According to 45Bravo on the Pyramyd Air blog and also the famous Blue Book, S&W made the 78G and 79G CO2 pistols (.22 &. or Daisy may have continued numbers where S&W left off. Serial number is 0916XXX so I guess a lot of these were made. At the back of the frame there is a “Umarex” stamp and the fake slide says “Daisy Powerline 790”. The paint on this pistol looks excellent and the grips had no cracks. All parts seemed intact so I politely accepted the generous donation. It leaked badly, the hammer was seized in the sawdust covered frame, and the barrel was jammed up with 7 pellets. A friend recently gave me an old Daisy 790 that was non-functioning.
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