Page 11 - Benjamin Marauder Pistol Reviews

Well built, solid quality. Not very loud, perfect for indoor plinking and outdoor it will not disturb the neighbourhood. Very accurate. I've equipped it with a BSA RGB Dot Sight which works great for this gun.

Approve balance and bigger air reservoir, set as default; bolt on left side, approve pistol grip for right or lefthanded shooters. The pistol is not very well balanced and requires two hand operation. Air reservoir sufficient only for approx 30 shots. Bolt on right side means you have to switch hands in order to reload, (as most people I'm righthanded). Grip should be "molded type" for better hold, right or left hand.

The manual that came with my gun lacks some basic information and seems to be aimed at customers that already have thorough knowledge of this or similar PCP guns, (but they dont need it anyway...). Example: some say the bolt can be changed left or right. Well, how do I go about to do that? I've tried to look in the manual..

I didn't intend to buy it for a long range shooter just wanted a good gun to bring down pigeons at 30yards but got much much more then I expected, Just love the gun !! had a great time bringing down crows at 70 yards.

Would love if Benjamin put a more effective shroud on it ,and an adjustable cheek piece as the current stock does not offer sufficient eye relief and lining up. The trigger on mine has a little play but other then that its alright just put some shims in the trigger and its good

great gun for the price. A must buy for any airgunner

Love the clip with the option of quick follow ups. Light weight and easy to carry. Pumps up VERY easily, only takes a few minutes to refill from 1800psi with the hand pump. Also the bolt can be left or right hand.

Would love to see some open sights, and it is a bit loud in its stock form. (louder than my .25 M-Rod) QUALITY CONTROL FROM CROSSMAN, AND BARRELS THAT ARE ALL ACCURATE NOT HIT AND MISS. For the 400 bucks it should shoot straight. PERIOD!

My first one was a tack driver, one ragged hole @25yrds with lots of different ammo.Sadly it leaked, so I sent it back to PA who sent me a shipping voucher so I did not even have to pay return shipping. The replacement that they sent me(VERY quickly by the way) does hold air but will not group any of the six or seven different pellets I have tried worth crap!! 2in groups @20yrds and it opens up to about 5inches at 35yrds. AWFUL!! Crossman needs to outsource the barrels or something because they cant seem to make a reliably accurate barrel!! PA rocks tho and they will take good care of you. May send this one back too but I feel like I should send it to Crossman as its not PAs fault that Crossman cant make a good barrel. If you buy one keep your fingers crossed.

Small light wieght .22 pistol,, actually it's big for a pistol, but, for the power and accuracy, it's not big for a pellet gun. Tried several scopes, all work well. Usinging a red dot today.

Would like alittle bigger air reserve for more shots.

Very modifiable. A good straight shooter with a lot of available adjustments.

But stock needs work.

Aftermarket mods are plentiful.

Small but good size pistol. It's my second PCP mynfirst was a Airforce Talon SS. Not loud but can't compair it, have just used these two guns. I just shoot about 33' gun they say good for 30 yards mught be true, putting good dents in all my traps, took all the paint off my steel silouetts.

Have an power adjustment without allen wrenches needed like they have for 22xx crosman guns easier fine tunning , some people don't have cynographs or are mechanicly inclinded.

My gun shoots about the same from 3000# till 1000# like I said 30' about 8 mags and sometimes trigger locks up I just bolt back and remove mag bolt it without mag and shoots.??. Still working out stock to cheek to eye to scope but it shoots great..

Light. Nice trigger. Relatively quiet until you boost the velocity. Fun to shoot because of the repeater magazine. Very easy to work on and modify.

Works better as a carbine than a pistol, but it includes the carbine stock. I made my carbine stock fit snug by super-gluing a thin washer to the carbine stock where it contacts the metal at the rear of the pistol to remove the wobble. It is louder than my Marauder rifle, but Jim Gaska makes a low-priced aftermarket shroud extension that really quiets it down.

Keep it mostly stock. If anything, the only mod I recommend is to drill the blue air transfer port out to about .119 inches (from .080) if you want maximum velocity while keeping reasonably high shot count. My first one had problems, but Crosman replaced it with one that works great. Max fill for stock gun was really about 2700 psi, not the advertised 3000 psi. If you want to fill to 3000 psi, you must increase the hammer spring tension and do some chrony testing. Not really powerful enough to kill squirrels reliably unless you boost the pellet velocity. I really did not get great 30 yard accuracy until I polished the inside of the barrel using a 3/16" wood dowel and Mother's metal polish.

accuracy is great with crosman premier pellets there easy to find and cost less. The trigger is adjustable and the hammer is tunable as well. The shoulder stock makes it versatile for all around use.

Grips and shoulder stock have a little loss fitting

This gun dosn't shoot beeman silver arrow well at all

Great air gun, not that hard to fill with the pump. Very accurate even at 50 yards. Upgraded at time of purchase with a Leapers scope. This air rifle is VERY quite. Everyone at the Gun Club gets a kick out of it.

I would have made the safety out of harder material. I would have added optional open sights or ability to mount open sights.

Best Ammo so far is the Benjamin 14,3, Polymag 16G and Beeman Crow 18.21G Must pull the bolt back all the way or you will load a pellet without cocking the gun and then load a second pellet in the chamber if you don't remove the magazine before re-cocking.

Best air gun I have ever purchased. Called Pyramyd Air and they helped with a scope upgrade. Gun is very accurate, well balanced and real enjoyable to shoot. Ordered with the Benjamin pump and was very easy to charge the air cylinder. Pistol range at 50' was able to drill it through the same hole.

Add adjustable check rest and shoulder pad.

Kept it charged between 500 and 2800. Don't exceed 2900 when filling. Store this air gun with a charge and when filling fill it slowly and enjoy!

I had just returned one of the IZH46M pistols when I received this piece. It is everything that I was looking for in an air pistol and at a very reasonable price. PCP, repeater - 8-shot magazine, light weight but heavy enough to be a stable shooter. Fit, finish, mechanics are all excellent. The accuracy is better than I expected from a non-competition pistol and it makes very nice one-hole groups (with a rest) consistently with several different ammos. I have a pistol scope and a rifle scope with quick dismount bases so that I can use the rifle stock configuration that came with it. It takes about 2 minutes to change over. As a rifle, it is like a cool spec-ops piece, like a compact carbine.

Plastic grip is minimal and needs finger groves. Maybe a Hogue Hand-all grip is in order. Would love optional wood "furniture" for it.

Buy many magazines - keep on shooting, uninterrupted. I figure that my scuba tank will be good for 25-30 recharges. Marauder shoots 32-40 (4-5 mags) b4 dropping to 100 bar (half charge) but still shoots very well.

I like that I can fill the air reservoir with the pump I already have, for my .177 Discovery gun. I was surprised that it is actually easier to pump the Marauder to 2900 lbs. pressure than it is to pump the .177 to 2000 lbs. I like the shoulder stock option provided with the gun.

after a few months I found my pistol not holding air more than 2 days. sent it back to crosman,and they sent me a brand new gun!!! I never found out what was leaking but am very happy with the new gun and the excellent service from crosman!!!

excellent light little plinker

make the stock fit so you can see through the scope it was a lot louder than I expected.

after shooting approx. 400 rounds [which grouped great at 20 and 25 yards],I had to send it back to crosman because it would not hold air more than 3 days.

excellent light little plinker

make the stock fit so you can see through the scope it was a lot louder than I expected.

after shooting approx. 400 rounds [which grouped great at 20 and 25 yards],I had to send it back to crosman because it would not hold air more than 3 days.

Compact,light weight. Very easy to charge with a pump. Comes with a shoulder stock. With a 3000 lb fill I got six magazines worth of shooting with no change in POI. Starting fill 3000 lbs ending charge 2300lbs. Target is at 25 yards. Ammo used, Beeman Kodiak. Accuracy, six shots in a group just under a quarter at 25 yards shooting free hand. The gun will group better than this. Fault is with the shooter.

Nothing

I'm using a Leapers 3-12 compact scope. Use the UTG 30mm MEDIUM mounts. Not the high mounts that was supplied to Tom from Crosman. The MEDIUM mounts will clear the barrel by 1/8 inch and will clear the magazine by a 1/16. Just perfect.

Dear friends! I like Benjamin Marauder PCP Air Pistol $389.99 because this best device which I know in Crosman company. He ccurate, powerful, compact, high-quality PCP pistol

PLEASE, I DON'T CHANGE HIM!!!

I really like the Marauder pistol overall. The rotary magazine feeds any pellet I have used perfectly. The trigger is as good as any of my 1911 race guns. I have never used my Marauder in the pistol configuration. I attached the included shoulder stock before I fired the first shot. The Marauder is very manageable as a carbine. It is massive as a pistol.

I would make the shoulder stock with a two inch shorter pull, the pull was entirely too long for me. I cut two inches off the stock and added a sticky rubber butt pad, now it is close to perfection for me. Last, please make the Marauder pistol in .17 caliber, I would much rather have a 900fps .17 caliber than a 700fps .22 caliber. I also like the .17 caliber when its time to buy pellets.

The Benjamin Marauder is a thinking mans pistol. If you do not pay attention, you can load the pellets backwards in the magazine it will not feed, you can double feed a pellet very easily, spoiling an important shot. This is not a beginners airgun. I rairly use my scuba tank, buy a good high pressure pump. Its good exercise. Thanks, Sparky

Very accurate, well made, holds around 80 shots on a fill, not too hard to fill with a hand pump. The rifle stock that comes with it is excellent and very useful. For those of you that are interested in tweaking the gun its actually really easy to do. You can tweak 2 different settings on the gun (hammer throw length and something else). I've never done it, but if I found someone to go airsofting with I would definitely play around with it so I could convert it into a beastly little airsoft gun!

Its hard to call this gun a pistol. While technically yes it is, in actuality it really isn't. Its way too long to be used as a real pistol. You can't really conceal it easily and when trying to fire it like a pistol its really hard to fire accurately because its so long. But I suppose if they were to make it shorter it would lose a lot of its accuracy.

I use it with the rifle stock attachment on it all the time. When I first bought the gun I bought it with a package that included a pistol scope. I didn't realize that the eye relief on pistol scopes is so large! I ended up having to buy a rifle scope. Why would you ever buy a pistol scope when you can just buy iron sights!? Who is actually sniping with a pistol scope!? My gun, as a result, is actually a carbine since I always keep the stock on and I have a mounted, sighted rifle scope on it. Sure I COULD go to the trouble of taking all my attachments off but why? Also I would then have to resight my scope. Without any attachments I think it looks a lot closer to a shotgun then a pistol.

Beautiful, accurate, solidly constructed, and powerful. Beeman Kodiak's transform into little lead parachutes after striking cinder blocks at 25 yards. Quiet, too.

Add a second to every order -- for free. I'm not going to get much time with this gun once my friends get their hands on it.

Hammer spring was not adjusted for a full 3,000 psi fill when mine arrived; I experienced a partial valve lock when I initially filled to 3,000 psi, and (at the advice of the excellent Pyramyd service desk) had to dry-fire it down to 2,600 psi and try again. Worked perfectly at that fill level, and I can always adjust the hammer spring for higher fills. Also, one of the two magazines was defective -- stops feeding at pellet #6. Pyramyd will take care of this, of course, but order the single shot tray ... good to have as back-up.