Benjamin air rifle forums
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Recently I bought a Benjamin old style multipump and am fairly pleased with it. What I got has been adequate for dispatching uncountable numbers of squirrels in the backyard but I'm scared to shoot it "just for fun"īecause I don't want to replace another scope. Even the high dollar PCP guns you'd want to keep a pellet at 900 fps or less. If you got one that could shoot pellets at 1000 fps, you'd find accuracy to be horrible. You really don't need that much power with an airgun shooting pellets. The "magnum" springer are VERY hard on scopes.
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I've broken two airgun rated scopes since I got it. Accuracy is right about one inch at 25 yards and beyond that if there is ANY wind you need to be very good at judging your windage. That id the RWS meisterkugeln wadcutterĪt an average of 714 fps. It gives best accuracy with the lightest pellet tried so far and so of course highest velocity as well. It is right up there in power with the strongest spring piston guns. I bought a Benjamin "Nitro-Piston" a few years ago. A under lever or side cocker is probably best where the barrel stays stationary. The break barrel guns aren't the best, they require a particular, ''artillery hold'' or even the really good ones tend to spray. There are other under lever and side lever cocking guns that probably shoot as well as the HW97K blue laminant stock, but I just like the features and stock. I did no tuning, just broke em in normally and shot them, but for what I spent on the guns and scopes I should have just went first class to begin with and got a Weihrauch HW97K Blue to begin with, $740.00 and I would have saved money. More power, but dismal accuracy as far as I'm concerned, 2.5-3'' groups at 25yds. Also a Hatsen 95 gas piston I got on sale at around $150.00 also. I tried a Crosman Vortex I think it was, (around $150.00) I gave it to my grandson to plink with. Better with good European pellets, about 1'' groups at 25yds and it will kill squirrel, bunny, rat size critters at that range. is always at least minute of rat/squirrel head with decent pellets, (wally-world Crosman hp). I have one that's about worth what I paid for it, and that's almost 3X what you want to spend, an RWS 34 accuracy at 25yds. 22 springer that will do 1,000fps at any price, 700-750fps is more realistic.177, yes but not a. Hope this gets you started on the right track !!!. Look at Weihrauch, RWS, Feinwerkbau, Air Arms TX2000, and look at threads on this forum by Idaho Ron and others showing the game taken with their Quality Airguns. Hint: The Germans and English make the best ones. It is one of my most cherished possessions, and if you value certain things, a quality Airgun will quickly become one of those cherished things as well. It has been responsible for the death of countless pests, as well as countless hours of target shooting. I bought the gun in the second picture in 1978 and it still looks like new and shoots just as hard as it ever did. This is a place where paying a little more will get you alot more and that "Lots More" will last over a longer period of time. Don't buy anything from China because that is where the JUNK is made!!! They make Virus' there as well, so anything you buy from China probably has Covid 19 attached to it somehow!!!. If you are serious about this you need to adjust your budget and start looking at more advanced Air Guns. Still had enough beans to knock over the Rams and so it should kill a Ground Squirrel if you hit it in the head. I have hit Rimfire Silhouettes at 100 yards with it but the trajectory is like a Rainbow. This gun is a solid 50 yard gun, and you could maybe stretch that out to 75 yards if you got lucky.
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The gun is worth $600 and the Leupold Scope is worth another $200. It does around 600 fps with 18 gr pellets. Here's a pic of one of the most powerful Spring Powered. Good Air Rifles start at about $400 and go up, they are made like real firearms, and will last lifetimes. 22 Springers that will do 1000 fps at any price.Īnd also there is no $125 Air Rifle that is NOT JUNK!