Gamo CF-30 Review

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Gamo CF-30
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feralflatna's Review of Gamo CF-30

12th May 2004

Overall Rating

3.5 stars
  • Value for money
    4.5 stars
  • Handling
    3.5 stars
  • Accuracy
    3.5 stars
Good Points

Well priced. Handy scope stop. Great fibre optics.


Bad Points

Fiddly breach. Trigger. Needs a guard on the front sight. Recoil (bruised shoulder!). Noisy.


General Comments

Every time I shoot with the Gamo CF-30 I get a different group pattern, it takes a lot of concentration to get consistent tight groups. I seem to pull to the right when squeezing the trigger. I can never tell exactly when its going to fire. The trigger has a really long travel with a vague feel. If I squeeze and then let go of the trigger before it fires, and squeeze again the trigger resistance is less up to the point where I travelled the first time. I'm usually taken a little by surprise when it fires when squeezing the trigger really slowly. Would anyone have any tips on adjusting the trigger?

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Members' Comments onferalflatna's Review

  • jorg Rank: Staff Sergeant on 7th Mar 2005

    You can put a longer trigger adjustment screw in 8mm long

  • feralflatna Rank: Staff Sergeant on 29th Mar 2005

    Thanks, but I sold the gun about 6 months ago - got fed up with trying to get a decent group with various pellet combinations, etc. Anyway, I suppose I got the "gotta have an airgun" bug out of my system. Could have been different though if I'd spent my dosh on a decent piece of kit to start with rather than a cheapo.

  • kenney Rank: Corporal on 13th Apr 2005

    Personally I put it down to the shooter not the gun, groups will be erratic for the first 500 to 1000 rounds in springers before they bed in this is even so with the top quality beemans.

  • feralflatna Rank: Staff Sergeant on 22nd Apr 2005

    The shooter was shooting at a range of 10 meters, sitting on a chair with the gun on a dead rest on a table in front of him, using a 4x GAMO scope which had been corrected for parallax at that distance. Under those conditions the best group achieved shooting 5 shots with various pellet combinations was 20mm. Perhaps this springer needs about 5000 shots to bed in, or the scope was no good?

  • mariuscheek Rank: Corporal on 5th Aug 2005

    Spring airguns should never be fired off a solid rest, or even with a very tight grip. The recoil of the spring/piston is happening while the pellet is still in the barrel. It is impossible to control this by resting on a hard surface or gripping more tightly - all you will do is create huge inconsistency in the way the rifle moves as the shot goes off. Hence much reduced accuracy.

  • feralflatna Rank: Staff Sergeant on 24th Jul 2006

    I'm convinced now that I had a bad one, either that or I was using poor pellets. I used Gamo Match and Pro Match and Gamo Magnum, the results may have been different. For the record, my "solid" rest was a pillow on a table, with my hand snuggled in the pillow beneath the stock.

    I used the same type of grip that I use now on my HW97K, but at 10m my 97K can shoot 1 hole groups with JSB Exacts.

    The single stage trigger on the CF30 has a very long pull, and any efforts to reduce this pull will only result in the gun being unsafe as the sears will be set right on the edge.

    The sears do not reset when releasing the trigger, meaning that if you get part way through a trigger pull you need to re-cock the gun to make the trigger safe again.

  • Colster Rank: Corporal on 20th May 2009

    Same advice for any Gamo, buy a GRT III Trigger for it, it solves the thing that lets most Gamo's down - the trigger (or more specifically the mushy second stage