Air rifle discussions

[Heredoggydoggy]

Got my first Starling with the new Benjamin Marauder PCP gun this morning! 

[Roundhead]

Got my first Starling with the new Benjamin Marauder PCP gun this morning! 

Pics please. 

[Heredoggydoggy]

Got my first Starling with the new Benjamin Marauder PCP gun this morning! 

Pics please. 

   Used to be easy to post pictures on this site.  Now it's "click on this, and click on that"... too much for an old guy like me to figure out.  No pictures of the dead Starling anyway! 

[Mtn.Ghost]

Here is a pic of my new 2400KT from the Crosman Custom Shop. I ordered it in .22 cal. with the steel breech and 24" barrel with a silver muzzle brake and trigger shoe along with the custom camo stock. All I have to do now is mount my optics, Bi-pod and convert via adapter to bulk Co2, a 12 to 20oz paint ball cylinder. I may also install a power adjuster. Will see how the vermin handle it lol One problem, I no vermin around my house.   

What are the specs of this rifle? She looks very light and elegant.
What is the stock price if you don't mind telling.
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It's .22 cal. I order the 24" barrel with 10 lands and grooves (1 in 16 twist) it's Co2 powered and shoots between 630-725 fps depending on ammo and can be higher with further customization. There is a plethora of custom parts avail for this line of rifles/pistols and they are reasonably priced. For what I have in the pic it ran me $175.00 to the door, custom build/parts from base model 2400kt, life time warranty, shipping ect. I love it....rodents/vermin hate it the .22 cal packs some punch and its sniper rifle accurate with the long barrel. Check out the site and also google custom parts.

www.crosman.com/custom-shop       

[Heredoggydoggy]

Here is a pic of my new 2400KT from the Crosman Custom Shop. I ordered it in .22 cal. with the steel breech and 24" barrel with a silver muzzle brake and trigger shoe along with the custom camo stock. All I have to do now is mount my optics, Bi-pod and convert via adapter to bulk Co2, a 12 to 20oz paint ball cylinder. I may also install a power adjuster. Will see how the vermin handle it lol One problem, I no vermin around my house.   

What are the specs of this rifle? She looks very light and elegant.
What is the stock price if you don't mind telling.
[/quote

It's .22 cal. I order the 24" barrel with 10 lands and grooves (1 in 16 twist) it's Co2 powered and shoots between 630-725 fps depending on ammo and can be higher with further customization. There is a plethora of custom parts avail for this line of rifles/pistols and they are reasonably priced. For what I have in the pic it ran me $175.00 to the door, custom build/parts from base model 2400kt, life time warranty, shipping ect. I love it....rodents/vermin hate it the .22 cal packs some punch and its sniper rifle accurate with the long barrel. Check out the site and also google custom parts.

www.crosman.com/custom-shop       

That looks very similar to my Benjamin Marauder .22 cal. air pistol.  Same shoulder stock, but shorter shrouded barrel and PCP.  Mine has an 8 round magazine, and is really quiet.  I put a Barska 3 to 12 Airgun scope on it, and it's deadly.  Benjamin is owned by Crosman now, so the guns are similar.  I see now that the gun is available in black or camo, (a $10 option.)  At the time I got mine, it was only available in black, so I wrapped it in camo tape.  I ordered it with an extra magazine, which is really handy, and I get about 30 shots before it gets down near the 1,000 psi mark, and needs refilling.

[Roundhead]

Where is the Benjamin Marauder made?

[Mtn.Ghost]

I was thinking about getting one of the receiver upgrades that they offer for my 2400kt that will allow me to use a 10 round mag. I think Discovery is the brand. The muzzle break on mine actually make a big diff in the loudness, I took it off and it was a pretty loud pop!!! I went with the long barrel thinking great accuracy and it is really a tight shooter at 25-30 yrds. They have 10-18-24" options in Crosman or a 10-18" Lothar-Walther barrel. I have put a Leupold VX-R 4x12 on it for now .....a little over kill but that's what I had lay'n around         

[Heredoggydoggy]

I was thinking about getting one of the receiver upgrades that they offer for my 2400kt that will allow me to use a 10 round mag. I think Discovery is the brand. The muzzle break on mine actually make a big diff in the loudness, I took it off and it was a pretty loud pop!!! I went with the long barrel thinking great accuracy and it is really a tight shooter at 25-30 yrds. They have 10-18-24" options in Crosman or a 10-18" Lothar-Walther barrel. I have put a Leupold VX-R 4x12 on it for now .....a little over kill but that's what I had lay'n around         

Yes, I noticed in the catalog listing for my new Marauder air rifle, it says the .177 and .22 magazines are 10 round, and the .25 magazine is 8 rounds,  I got an extra 10 round magazine for my rifle, and it looks just like the magazine for my .22 pistol. (except for the caliber difference, of course.)    I was amazed at how accurate these pellet guns are, as I never had one until a few years ago.  When I was a kid, I went from a BB gun to a 22 Rimfire, and skipped the pellet step entirely.  In every issue of Predator Xtreme magazine there is a chapter written by a guy that tests the latest airguns and hunts with them. (Coyotes, especially.)  Quite interesting.  I don't think it's really necessary to have an airgun scope on a PCP gun, but I don't think it hurts.  Besides, airgun scopes focus down to shorter distances than their high-power cousins.

[Heredoggydoggy]

Where is the Benjamin Marauder made?

Yesterday I shipped my Benjamin Marauder back to the maker, Crosman, in New York State because the air reservoir would leak down 2000 psi overnight.  Probably just a bad O-ring, but being a brand new gun, I figured they would check it out.  The representative who replied to my email sent me a UPS shipping ticket to send it back with a note about the problem.  So, even though I already got a Starling with it, the gun is on its way back for repair.  I call this good service and am very happy with them.  Fortunately, I still have my other 2 Benjamin PCP guns to fall back on. 

[Gringo31]

I'm told the Marauder burns a lot more air then the Talon.  Any truth to this?  Shots per fill on a pcp tank?

[Heredoggydoggy]

I'm told the Marauder burns a lot more air then the Talon.  Any truth to this?  Shots per fill on a pcp tank?

The one thing I don't like about the Talon, is that it's a single-shot gun.  I don't know about the Marauder rifle, but I get about 30 shots out of my .22 cal. Marauder pistol, and it has a much smaller air tank than the rifle I just shipped back. (177 cal.)  I just read on the reviews of the Benjamin Marauder Composite-stocked rifle, and one guy says he gets 40 shots out of his .177 cal. gun, and the guy with the 25 cal. gun gets 5 shots.  Evidently, leaks in the tank are a common problem with this new series of gun, as a couple of guys said they returned their gun to Pyramyd Air, and got a new one.  I emailed Crosman, the manufacturer directly, and got a prepaid UPS label to send it in.  The thing I like about the Marauder is it has a 10 round magazine, and I got an extra one to swap out once the first one was empty.  The .177 & .22 Mags are 10 round, and the .25 mags are 8 round.  One thing I found out after filling my guns with the "Tire Pump" type filler is that the SCUBA tank method is the only way to go, especially with the bigger capacity of the new Marauders.

[jdb]

Anyone have. Qb78?

[Heredoggydoggy]

Anyone have. Qb78?

Might help to know what it is!    I'm fairly new to pellet gunning.  I like them, but Starlings and Eurasian Doves don't! 

[Fl0und3rz]

http://www.pyramydair.com/blog/2006/11/qb78-copy-of-crosman-160167.html

That's my guess.

[Heredoggydoggy]

http://www.pyramydair.com/blog/2006/11/qb78-copy-of-crosman-160167.html

That's my guess.

Ah--another Chinese copy.  Where do you send it if something goes bad? China?  You think something is made in the USA?  Try to find it!  A food store that operated here for years closed and moved out.  Hobby Lobby remodeled the building and opened a store there.  I went into the new store mainly to see how they managed to fill a huge building with goods, and with the help of China, they did!  A while back I went into Office Depot to get something, and had some time to kill, so I toured the store to look at where the merchandise was made.  If they took out all the items that were made in China, there would be nothing on the shelves!  Wake up, people--We have sent all our jobs to China because that's the only way a company can stay in business!

This is not aimed at you, flound3rz--you were just trying to help, and got caught up in my rant!