Page 5 - Benjamin Discovery Air Reviews

Nice looking.Light weight and accurate with five different types of pellets.Need calm air to get best and most consistent accuracy.I get about 35 shots per fill on air and about 55 on CO2.The trigger is my only complaint,stiff with a diffucult to judge letoff.

Trigger

Great air gun for all to enjoy.Light weight for kids and a plus for those who venture out into the field.CO2 is the best bet for hunting.Get a 20oz. bottle and it will be more than enough for a day long hunt.

Real hardwood stock, metal parts.

Plastic trigger, and trigger guard. Shrouded barrel, and easier to remove sights.

See if Kodiak pellets work as well for you as they do for me.

This is a nice PCP for the money. Fills easily, and holds air well. Trigger and bolt actions are smooth. Iron sights are easily adjustable, but it came pretty well sighted in any way. With a scope that will dial 3-9 power it can be a tack driver. I am currently using a 4 power scope, and am grouping about 1.5 in. at 60 yds. 22 hits hard, will blow thru 2 steel cans at 60 yds. This can easily be used as a very effective small game hunting rifle to about 50 yds. Larger stuff like groundhogs, opossum and raccoon should be easily taken with well placed shots. Walnut stock is a nice touch, nothing like the feel of real wood. Crosman/Benjamin will see huge sales in this I feel.

I would like to see a production brass/metal trigger. I am sure the modders will go crazy with this thing, so perhaps I will change more as performance mods are put forth.

This gun is an excellent value for beginners in the sense that it provides good performance, yet the cost will help to offset other beginning costs associated with getting started. An excellent value for veterans, as the performance is exceptional for the cost, and will be improved upon with mods. Please take a safety course if you are just beginning to shoot. Take a child shooting, it is a wonderful bonding experience.

The CO2 power is better than I expected. It do better than my qb78 by looking at the penetration into the 2x4.. I was testing it at 19 degree C. Should be even better on hot days. Other reviewers already mentioned the accuracy so I would not repeat it.

Need hardware to put a sling on .

I thought the plastic trigger cheapen the looks on this gun and will wears out soon. But after using it for a while, I actually like the feel of it. Hope this is made of high grade plastic, then it should last.

Very accurate,2000fill and easy with pump,light to carry and gauge is very nice,stock is beafy in front for bipod.

Front bbl band added at muzzle ,longer stock for better trigger pull-to short for me and a little larger pistol grip .. Not complaining it is a real nice rifle.

I like the light weight, the easy fill, the way it shoulders, and the eye relief is perfect for me with the 4-16x50 leapers, (get the high two piece mounts so you have room to put the pellets in, also choose long pointed pellets because the short ones are much harder to get in the right position. rws super point are best so far). I like the looks, the walnut stock is nice, but mine is a little unfinished, I'm going to add some wax finish. I like not having to release a safety each time I shoot. I am getting about 30 shots of real power, my 2x6 test shows the pellets coming out the back after 25 shots on the same 3/4" dot @ 60' indoors, (did I mention great accuracy?) I find no flyers like my springers have every 10 shots or so. But this is with heavy pellets like barrucuda match or rws super or beeman crow mags etc. the hobbies are hard to load and fly off now and then. After the first 30 shots on a fill you have to start aiming high if you want to keep shooting instead of filling. (you can still kill a starling @ 25 yds. up to 40 shots.) Again, the light weight allows me to hold steady without a rest, so this is by far my favorite hunting rifle. I can get shot off quicker than my springers, (if i am loading a pointed pellet.) It is not as loud as I feared, I can still shoot it in my pool room without the family yelling too much. It is about as loud as a .22 short cartridge, shot in a long barrel rifle, and the power seems similar up to 30 yards.

Mine came with the screw that holds the stock to the barrel stripped, so the stock was loose. Pyramyd is going to change it for me, but I am not going to ship it back until I get the second one I ordered, because I love it too much to give it up. (I just took a thin rubber glove and wrapped it around the barrel and stock and then wrapped plastic tape on top and stretched it tight, looks like crap, but works fine.) I would like a power adjuster so I could tune it down for indoor shooting. I would like the gauge to be larger so my old eyes could see it with out changing from my shooting glasses. I would have like it if they had the pump combo out first, so I did not have to wait or buy the scuba tanks. But now that I have them I don't need the pump.

I got two scuba tanks for $150 each at the local "Rouge Scuba" store. and they filled them for free the first time, $5 there after. I have got over 1,000 shots on the first tank and still filling up real quick. I have heard not to over fill, and it is very easy to do with the tanks, just barely crack the tank open, and watch the gauge. I have gone into the edge of the yellow and it is fine. I don't want to have to buy the degassing tool, to let out too much air pressure.