I want to say about 30 years ago, I tried to do something involving the mainspring, and quickly decided it was beyond my level of expertise, especially not having a good way to compress the spring, so sent it off that time.

65BR, I agree about accuracy and smoothness for a springer. Sometime near the time my son was born, making it late 1976 or early 77 when we were up at the in laws in Ga, I knocked a crow out of a hickory tree at what we estimated at about 60 yards, At the time I had a receiver sight on it and my eyes were a lot better.

Where in La. are you, I grew up and went to school in W. Monroe/Monroe.