@cannonball and @legionair One of the first things I did was look at the specs to see if they made any major changes. It’s odd that there are companies like Pitbull Airguns and Veradium Air out there designing some nice parts and performing outstanding modifications to the Bulldog platform and Crossman didn’t seem to collaborate with them to incorporate anything new that customers see to be drawn towards. To release a different version of a gun knowing it has documented flaws is a bit confusing to me. I’m sure it would cost money to redesign, but I’d think the money would comeback in the form of reinvigorating their existing consumer base prompting them to upgrade, as well as attracting new airgun enthusiasts to the brand.
As a hunting rifle, the safety is loud when disengaging and re-engaging. In fact they would ditch the cheap plastic safety.The plastic clamshell lower components are squeaky. The fill port cover is cumbersome where you have to squeeze the tabs to remove it. This sucks to deal with wearing medium to thick gloves. The cover also feels cheaply made around the tabs. It feels as if breaking them is imminent every other time I remove it. The overall design works for me, but it would be nice if the Bulldog was more well balanced as far as weight distribution. I like the look, but it seems to be a “love it” or “hate it” thing for most others. And as y’all stated, the side lever should be replaced - with steel. If you replace the stock spring with something stiffer, bye bye cocking lever. I haven’t held a .457 nor have I shot one, but I would have been seriously motivated to expedite getting my hands on one if these sort of improvements had been made.
