Page 2 - Benjamin Marauder Pistol Reviews

Powerful, comes pre-charged, love the feel of this pistol. The fact that it comes with a rifle stock is a big plus. Price was excellent. Excellent value. Best of all for me is that there are aftermarket parts you can add to customize it.

Wouldn't change anything

No sights whatsoever. Plan ahead and order a red dot or scope along with the purchase of the pistol. Also consider ordering extra magazines.

Accurate out of the box added a Hawke red dot and at 15 yds it only took 4 shots to be able to put down 5 shots groups the size of a dime. Love this gun.

Nothing

The cost is a bit high but it's worth every penny.

Just a fun gun to shoot as a carbine. Grouping great at thirty yards. Easy to tune, happy with an unmodified version for pest control and plinking.

Accessories to modify carbine stock with cheek piece and picatinny rail for scopes.

Great gun to get into pcp shooting without needing a large air tank or compressor. Hand pump friendly!

Great compact little PCP. This is my first so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Very accurate so far with the testing I have done.

It's loud, the description says it's quiet but I disagree. It's fairly loud versus something like a 1377. The magazine that came with it was not functional. It was assembled incorrectly and it could not be fixed without taking out the center screw and realigning the spring. Not too hard but unacceptable for something brand new that costs as much as this does IMHO. This seems to be a benjamin/crosman problem though. I ordered two additional magazines from a different site and one of them came improperly assembled as well. The tiny springs inside are a bit of a pain but overall it wasn't that hard to fix.

I was finally able to shoot my Marauder pistol with the UTG Micro Red Dot, ( UTG red dot not available at PA). Awesome, lightweight, accurate, and very repeatable! I had originally wanted a pistol with iron sights, the Diana Bandit. But the order was taking too long so I cancelled that order and changed to the Marauder pistol. This change required additional purchases. Big Thanks to BB's blog, I chose the UTG Micro Red dot with the side loading battery. This is the only reason why I lowered the value to 4 stars. All in all, I am glad I switched to the Marauder!

When I installed the supplied stock is was a little loose, even with both grip screws as tight as I dared. I ended up folding some heavy duty Aluminum foil to take up some of the gap between the stock and the grip frame. This took several attempts to get the thickness correct. I had originally wanted a pistol with iron sights but the Diana Bandit that I wanted was taking too long so I cancelled that order and changed to the Marauder pistol. This change required additional purchases. Big Thanks to BB's blog, I chose the UTG Micro Red dot with the side loading battery. This is the only reason why I lowered the value to 4 stars.

When the pistol arrived "THE SAFETY WAS OFF" !? Be sure to check the safety each and every time you pick up your airgun!

This airgun is extremely accurate.

Picatinny rail instead of 11mm Dovetail. Most Red dot scopes are the former and I don't care for adapters.

Tasco makes a cheap red dot from walmart that fits the 11mm dovetail. I've been shooting 20 yards with tight groups with this setup.

It took me a long time to spend the money for a PCP. Could kick myself for not doing it sooner. This Marauder Pistol is amazing. Light weight and superb accuracy. The trigger is the best I have experienced out of the box. No need to make any adjustments. I would recommend this gun to be the first move into the PCP world.

Nothing needed in my opinion.

Not from my experience.

Powerful for this pistol Red dot and glass is good Reaches out there

Weight

Hole in hole at 30 yards with Air Arms 18's. Takes out squirrels with no problem.

This gun has been out long enough that Crosman should have reconfigured the stock. Hard to find an optic that works. Have tried 7 still not satisfied. 2 magazines please.

Waited 2 years to purchase. Just couldn't justify the money for a 30 yard pistol. Don't be cheap like I was, get this gun it is worth every penny. I shoot this almost every day and enjoy it more than ANY gun I've owned. I had PA switch the bolt to the left for me. Excellent job guys bolt is like silk.

Build quality and feel is good. I like the carbine option and it works well with a good reflex sight.

OPEN SIGHTS! CMON! Its a pistol! I realize it will shoot great farther than I can see with open sights but I want to plink cans and targets from 5yds to 30yds. With that said, I have a reflex sight on it and it does work well. Still would like an open sight kit or option to keep it lighter, sleeker and have less to break or be fed batteries. I have the Marauder rifle as well but just know its got a little more bark in its stock form than the rifle.

Worth the hard earned $. Very happy with it. With a dot sight on and a rest I can consistently group well at 20-30yds enough to hit golf balls each time which is all I want out of this one. I have no doubt it will do much better if you scope it. The trigger was much lighter than I expected but good. I adjusted it to my liking easily via the instructions. Using the carbine stock and reflex sight it is a really nice quick and light squirrel gun.

Compact size, designed bundle suited to the Benjamin Marauders abilities. Setting up included scope easy enough to do. Found the Marauder with included scope to be accurate and repeatable to 150 feet (furthest target).

Nothing comes to mind as something that needs to be changed.

Marauder is easy to pump to 3k. Understand that a lower pressure is recommended. Was concerned that it was difficult to pump up the pistol but found that using included hand pump to pressurize the Benjamin Marauder pistol was not an issue. Read that stock was loose maybe this might have been from older reviews. The stock is solid. No issues with holding pressure or variance between pressure gauges on included hand pump or pistol. The Marauder is quieter than my Beeman P1 but not as quiet as my friends Benjamin Marauder rifle. All suited to backyard or field shooting.

This has a very solid feel, and you can tell immediately that it is very well built. Right out of the box with Crosman 14.3 grain hollow point pellets it shot one hole 5 shot groups at 25 yards. The action is very smooth and the magazine feeds perfectly. I have read or heard many times that the stock wiggles slightly, but mine is solid with no movement. I don't know if Crosman fixed this problem, or if I just got a good one. The trigger is excellent with no adjustment needed for me.

The comb on the stock would be much better if it were higher. I cut a section out of a pool noodle, sliced it lengthwise, zip tied it to the stock, and it fits me perfectly now.

I mounted a Hawke 2x7 scope, which seems perfect on this gun. Pyramid Air as always, made ordering easy and had very fast shipping. It is very quiet, which makes it backyard friendly.

JSB 15.89 stack pellet on pellet at 17 yards. Will try further distances later, but this is the distance to the rat trail that goes to my bird feeder, lol. I also like how deep the mag is, Polymags fit! Wish that were the case for my $2050 Impact.... If you're wondering if it's backyard friendly, I uploaded a pic of 2 deer that came to watch me sight in. Momma deer interrupted the shooting to stand directly inline behind my target (box of duct clay - awesome for sound absorption btw)

Pic/weaver rail but hey, it's like the only thing I could imagine making it better. I have far more expensive PCP's, but this little plinker is by far, the best bang for the buck in a small package.

Anyone who says this gun isn't accurate for it's size needs to stop buying Crosman pellets. JSB's stack at 17 yards, Crosmans have a one inch group. Out of my Marauder rifle, Crosman's are every bit as good as JSB's, but only to 30 yards, then they open up. I hear you can make the Crosman's better by cleaning, lubing, etc... But JSB's work right out of the tin.

The power it has and it looks cool.

It needs a P Rail for mounting optics. A better secured Butt Stock, It wobbles.

N/A

The accuracy of this pistol was great, and it was very easy to fill with a hand pump; however, it would not hold air, losing 500-600 psi overnight. Have returned it to Pyramyd, waiting on a replacement now. If it had been ok, I certainly would have given 5 stars in all categories. Had to give it only 1 star in the other 2 categories because it was faulty out of the box.

As a lot of buyers have said, the shoulder stock.

All I can say at this point is that the thing was shockingly accurate and easy to manually pump. I have a Nomad II compressor which I use for filling my Condor, but the Marauder pistol was so easy to fill with a hand pump that I just used it for charging. If this gun hadn't had the leaking problem, I would say that it is a great value for the money. Hopefully the next one will be better.

Accurate Light Fun Quiet Shot count Out of the box ready to go Fantastic trigger

Only thing woul be to design it to use the standard Marauder Mrod magazines.

Fun factor and power for all your backyard needs. You will not be disappointed at this price point.

Nice little gun. Good trigger and magazine. With the butt stock on it shoots very well and if I could I would give 4 1/2 stars. Nice and light to carry.

The safety could be metal but the plastic one seems durable.

It's a fun little air gun and easy to fill using a manual pump.

The 8 shot clip, the accuracy, the trigger, the sound

nothing

This is my first and certainly not my last PCP airgun! I ordered this pistol because I was wanted a harder hitting unit than my Crosman pump pistol. This certainly provided that! I was also very pleased with the rotary magazine. I thought it would just be a gimmick, since I have been shooting air rifles for over 25 years and never had an issue with hand loading the pellet. The magazine is just so much more convenient, especially with the gun being able to fire right away after the last shot. The trigger pull is sublime - I thought that there would not be anything better than my old Diana model 35 but I was wrong. I am now looking at the Benjamin Marauder 22 rifle real hard!

The pistol isn't as heavy as I thought it would be.

Put a sight on it.

Its rather powerful

Very accurate and handles well

The stock is a little loose but easy fix if unbearable

It would appear the magazines are extremely hard to find and you cant use the same degassing tool that the rifle used