U{DATE: In the last 24 hours i have been in contact with both Utah Air Guns and the Pellet shop. Perry at Utah was able to contact the Pellet Shop in my behalf. I had a detailed conversation with them regarding the problem of parts. I found that AEA recently changed the design of the forward o ring area and the parts are not the same. During our discussion of the guns problem the Pellet shop guy concluded that it is probably not the O ring at all. He believes the regulator failed and rather than him send me o rings he asked me to go ahead and send him the gun and he will fix whatever it needs. I would like to mention that the people who work at Utah, and the Pellet shop, have always seemed to seriously want to get mhy gun repaired, This whole design change obviously created confusion.
I have shot much more than the average shooter over the years. I have several guns and shoot hundreds of rounds each week. Shooting is just my thing. But, as I initially mentioned I am fairly new to PCP guns. I bought my first one last fall. It is an Umerx Notos which I promptly ran 2 or 3 thousand rounds through. I loved it, so in Jan. of this year bought the AEA Challenger Pro. as advertised it has massive power, a pretty good trigger, and smooth operation. At 8 lbs. I do find it a bit heavy. Last month I purchased a FX Dream and run just short of 1000 rounds through it so far. This gun is really impressive in accuracy and function and is for sure a keeper. The shortcoming of it for my use is that it does not nearly have the power of the AEA gun but up to 50 to 60 yards is amazing. I tell you all of this to say that the $250 notos is the most accurate gun I own or ever shot. I shoot with several friends and uniformly they amazed after firing my guns and agree the little notos is amazing. You get what you pay for is generally true, but, there are some jems out there that you can run across from time to time.