I,m thinking of getting a Benjamin Marauder PCP air rifle. .25 cal .Your thoughts please.
Fly
I,m thinking of getting a Benjamin Marauder PCP air rifle. .25 cal .Your thoughts please.
Fly
Will it shoot .25 caliber cast boolits flat enough and accurately enough to obtain your goals? Subsonic projectile trajectory and wind drift can be extreme past 40-50 yards.
MJ
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Good entry level PCP, the .25s were made in China, good hunter, lousy wood and trigger, good candidate for re-stock including bullpup...certainly enough power for small game.
the 25's have (or had) Green MT Barrels.My buddies will shoot good JSB pellets near 1" at 100 yards in calm wind.
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I have a .25 Marauder and like it. It's very good to 75 yards, which is about where I draw the line for shooting at critters. I plink at stuff out to 100. If the wind is 10 mph or less, I do ok. I'm gonna be 70 next b'day, so I wobble a bit. The gun does as well as I can, for sure.
So what size target can you consistently hit at 75 yards? I'm thinking about purchasing a Marauder to save my fruit from the marauding feathered varmints and rodents. It doesn't count if I hit a branch or heaven forbid, a piece of fruit! Are the .25 caliber pellets significantly more money than .22 caliber pellets? I think accuracy is more important than velocity because I'm in a situation where range can be judged accurately. Just for fun, (inanimate objects) can the .25 caliber Marauder handle something like this:
http://www.midwayusa.com/product/443...ProductFinding
MJ
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MJ,
That looks awful heavy for airgun...
Jon
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That RCBS is a .257 boolit...the pellet barel is more like a 25 Auto. Add to that it is way heavy unless you do a significant amount of work( aside from a new .25-20 liner/barrel ). It can be done, but not with the OE valve. A 252435, or 25-050-RN would be a better choice, but they are still marginal for even modified stock bits.
cheers,
Douglas
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She wasn't built to travel at the speed a rumour flies
I have a .22 Discovery that I bought a few years ago and that thing is very accurate short range (20 yards) with the right pellet (Crossman HP or Discovery HP is what my gun likes).
I know the Marauder is a little cheaper but I love my Airforce Condor SS. Especially with the adjustability. And, for what pellets cost and the accuracy (prefer the JSB Exact kings) its cheaper to buy. You are on the right track...goin with the .25
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If a starling lands within 75 yards on a calm day, he's taking considerable risk. I shoot off a bipod and plink at empty shotgun shells out to 80 yards with good success. I'm able to take any small game with regular pellets and the shorter range of pellets vs boolits works in my favor as farms around here are generally small and have subdivisions nearby.
have one and love it.. 100 yd 2" groups are easy without much wind.. 75yd shots are simple for most small game..Syn stock version is about a lb lighter and I really don't find it heavy but hey I'm 6'4" too.. its fits me very well
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Accuracy is very dependant on the pellet used. Finding a good pellet that shoots verygood at 100yards can be difficult.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |