Well I received a replacement barrel and it has the same divot in it.... Crosman responded with “ all barrels of that length now have that divot so they can be used on multiple models” Buyer beware I guess. If anyone has bought a Custom shop gun with a 14.6 inch barrel lately that does not have the divot please post a pic. Regards,James
well you can live with it or cover it up, you can get stainless thin walled tubing, K&S precision metal makes some that would work 87123 it is 1/2 inch with 22 gauge walls 1/32 would need put a tape spacer on the top of the barrel I use 1/4 inch pin strip tape for such spacing
tape the barrel and grease it up slip on the cover, but you have to take it apart to do that
so is it worth all the trouble, that is something you would have to decide
and for the Crosman side of things, that is as lame as it gets, I can't really type what I'm thinking