 | Pellet Holster - AGR Episode #63 2.0(1 reviews)Tired of fumbling with your pellet tin? The Pellet Holster holds pellets securely and stops the rattling when you're stalking prey. |
 | Pyramyd Air Insyder: 7 Tips About Airgun Ammo 0.0(0 reviews)***TRANSCRIPT*** Welcome to the Pyramyd Insyder. I'm Tyler... |
| Pellet Holster - AGR Episode #632.0(1 reviews)Tired of fumbling with your pellet tin? The Pellet Holster holds pellets securely and stops the rattling when you're stalking prey. |
| Pyramyd Air Insyder: 7 Tips About Airgun Ammo0.0(0 reviews)***TRANSCRIPT*** Welcome to the Pyramyd Insyder. I'm Tyler Patner. And today we're going to be covering seven things that you need to know about air gun Ammo. Now, if you're new to air guns, this video is for you, we're going to be deep diving a little bit into the various calibors, the different types of Ammo options that are out there, what they're good for, what they're not. If you're an experienced air Gunner, maybe this video isn't for you, but if you stick around, you might learn something. Let's do this. Now, a lot of folks ask, how many different calibers of Ammo does Pyramid Air sell? Well, the short answer is eight. We have 177, 20, 22, 25, 30, 35, 45, and 50. The long answer is a bit more complicated than that. We also have 308. You have a couple of different sizes of 45 Ammo, so it's actually a little more than eight. But eight is what we're going to focus on today. And one of the common questions we get, especially with the growing popularity of air gun hunting, is what is a big bore round? What calibers does that reference? So basically, folks, anything from 177 up to 25 is considered small bore. Now, personally, I consider 30 and most 35 calibers in a mid bore category, but really, anything that is a big bore. We're talking about 35 and larger. And right now, your predominant guns are going to be 35, 45 and 50 caliber in that big bore category. Now, the third thing you need to know are the different pellet shapes that are out there. Now, this is kind of excluding round balls or BB's. Your first one is going to be your domed pellet. Now, this is also referenced as a round nose pellet. These are great for target shooting, also good for hunting as well. You have hollow points up next, like this JSB Hades here. And these are going to be best suited for hunting. Good expansion, usually out of most of your hollow point designs. You also have pointed pellets, which are probably the least common pellet, but a nice point there obviously made for penetration. And then, of course, you have your flat pellets, flat nose or wad cutter. Now, these are really purpose for target shooting and punching clean holes in paper. And number four, we're going to talk about BBS. Now, most folks think BB's are strictly 177 caliber little steel ball bearings. That's not quite right. We have a couple of other materials out there that are typically used for BB's. On top of your steel and zinc, you have the HNN Excite Smart Shot BB's. Now, this is actually a lead core, copper coated BB, so much like a copper jacketed bullet. This is going to deform quite nicely and flatten, mostly when you shoot a hard target. So this is what we would consider a low ricochet BB. And you also have these Dust Devils right here from Air Venturi made in the USA that actually are frangible. And what that means is that they break apart when they hit a hard target. And these are really cool because it's a very safe training tool for those BB guns out there. You can shoot your steel, you get the nice ring, but you don't have to worry about shooting your eye out like Ralphy, ricochet is not a concern with these guys. So BB's have definitely developed over the last couple of years. This is relatively recent, despite them being around for so long and one other tidbit about BB's, they are a little bit smaller than their 177 caliber counterparts in the Pellet world. So just something to know if you're trying to use BB's and a Pellet gun, pellets and a BB gun doesn't always work. So keep that in mind as well. At the five spot lead free pellets. Now, most pellets out there these days are lead based pellets, almost pure lead for the most part. But you do have your non lead option, like the Predator GTO line of Pellets, the H&N Green line of pellets as well. And there are a handful of others. And these are great for those of you that are trying to be a little bit eco conscious. Or maybe if you're worried about a young shooter having lead exposure, things like that, these are what those lead free pellets are going to be great for. They're usually made out of tin, zinc, a couple of other materials as well. They can be a little barrel particular, so something to keep in mind, you do want to test them, especially for those of you that are going to be using them for small game hunting, and they are usually a bit lighter. So I don't tend to recommend them in use in spring piston and gas piston guns, although there are some exceptions to that rule. But for CO2 guns for your PCPs, they are absolutely phenomenal. Your multi pumps as well. They're a great option for those of you that are looking to get the lead out. Now at number six, we're going to talk about slugs. Historically, in the air gun world, slugs are really referring to big boar ammo like this. 45 Cal here, and they come in different shapes, of course, but in the recent past the last couple of years or so, small bore slugs have become a real thing in the air gun world. This is a. 25 caliber H&N HP slug here and really great option. But H&N JSB and a bunch of other manufacturers have come to the plate with small bore slugs in 177 all the way up to 30 caliber that offer you a higher ballistic coefficient than your Pellet counterparts. And these are really great for PCPs. That higher BC means you're going to get more retained energy and velocity down range. And they're really phenomenal for reaching out and touching things at those long distances. Whether it's pest control or just general target shooting as well. They buck the wind really well. And if you have a gun that shoots them, they can be a real advantage of distance. Now. Last but certainly not least, one of my favorite things in the air gun ammo world are arrows. Yes, you heard me, right. Arrows from air guns. It's a thing, and it's a thing you need to be aware of now. This is a Seneca air Bolt. This is a. 45 caliber. These guys will fit in most of your 35, 45 and 50 caliber PCP air guns and shoot very fast. I'm talking over 500ft/second. They are awesome. There are also a host of other air guns from companies like FX, Hatsan, Umarex, Benjamin, where they have Arrow systems that slide over a barrel. So a little bit different than this AirBolt here, but shoot just as fast. Awesome. Awesome use of air gun technology to fling an arrow. Really cool something you need to check out, especially if you're into big game hunting. Thanks for joining us today. As we covered seven things that you should know about air gun Ammo. Hopefully, you learned something. If you're new to air guns, I'm sure this was a lot to take in. There's even more stuff that we could go in depth on, but wanted to keep it relatively high level overview for you guys. So like I said, hopefully you learned something. Hopefully you enjoyed the video. We appreciate you a ton for watching. Don't forget. As always to like comment and subscribe. Go follow us on Facebook and Instagram and for the Insider, I'm Tyler Patner. We'll see you at the next one.
|
 | SIG Sauer MCX CO2 Air Rifle0.0(0 reviews)When it comes to semi-auto pellet airguns, does it get any better than a SIG Sauer MCX? Rossi converts the MCX to a PCP with the Air Venturi HPA Tank and gets some serious trigger time in this episode of the Pyramyd Outsyder.
Video Transcript Below: "I got a Sig MCX, I got thirty rounds, I got a bunch of targets, oh here we go. Let's roll. Ah, that was like 40 targets! There's only three standing. Welcome to the Pyramyd Outsyder, this is the Sig MCX. Hey, what's up guys? Welcome to the Pyramyd Outsyder. Now this is a cool, cool very cool, very intimidating, very bad mama jama looking rifle. The only thing that's disappointing in this rifle is it's not as big it as bad as it looks to be honest. It's a .177, nothing wrong with .177 other than the fact that it's just a .177 small caliber, but a lot of fun. This is a very fun rifle to shoot, but first of all, let's take a look at it. It’s co2 powered. It is semi-auto. There's a 30 round rotary mag so it's like it's like a little magazine, I'll show you as we move through it, but first of all, let's take a look at the gun itself. Obviously, it's very tactical looking as you would expect from Sig Sauer. Sig Sauer recently gotten into the airgun market and they're putting out guns that are just, they're just awesome looking, so I mean these are the kind of guns I wish I had when I was a kid to go out and play with and, you know, hunt small game and shoot target stuff because they just look awesome. It has a metal housing so everything in here in the component side is metal. It's tough and it's built right. You've got your safety right here. It's kind of got that AR look to it if you will. It's got the pistol grip. It's got the magazine here. I'm over on the back side, push, it pops open and as you can see this is the the magazine, let me just pull it out and show you, so it holds thirty thirty pellets, like I said, it's slightly, you load it up it's already loaded, but you slide it in to rotor, it just moves like this and you fires, you know, as fast as fast as fierce as you can you got the thirty rounds. It's got, it's got the the handle up here, a little grip you can move this around, you can also remove it if you just want to hold it, up here on the on the front of stock it's got the Weaver row back here for the optics. It's got the Picatinny rail up here where you can put all kinds of stuff. It's got a look at the rear and front sights pop up and down so you can use those. It also comes with the Sig Sauer airguns red dot sight that goes on the top there to make it even cooler. On the other side, I mean, it's got all the I'm not everything works, you know, like normal all this stuff doesn't flap open, you can't push this stuff view, but it's it's there when you when you load it, you rack it just like you normally would with a with a semi-auto rifle. Other than that's it, you know, the basic rundown of this gun is you pop this off the battery little you know just release it there and then you plug an 88 or 90 gram co2 capsule in there. The bigger capsules in this slides over the top of it and gives it that look. I don't have those because I don't love those. Those 88 grams co2 cartridges are expensive and you don't get near as many shots as you should so what I am going to do with this gun, because it's what I try to do with all co2 rifles that I can, is it doesn't look as cool so I want you to take it in this is the Sig MCX we're gonna change it a little bit now. We're going to pop this up and Air Ventura has come out with this 13 cubic inch tank that you can replace co2 cartridges with this and put 3000 psi into this gun. This thing is regulated in to 1,100 psi so from 3000 to 1100 you're getting a regulated shot you're gonna get a tremendous amount of more shots from this than you are from a co2 cartridge. You'll always know exactly how much air you have, comes with this little adapter. It's pretty simple. So, you want to screw this in and then so from what I've learned it's best to kind of screw in what is the adapter and then you should over screw this guy in. Okay, and then it comes with this little butt pad you can just throw on so you can have the same effect of the rifle, so, you know, it's a little bit longer than this, it's obviously not near as cool, but I mean I just turned the co2 gun into a pcp now I've got this male quick disconnect I'll just plug her in fill her up and then we can start doing some testing on the Sig MCX. Here we go. Let's do this. Rack it, locked and loaded. 425 feet per second. 405 feet per second. 423 feet per second. Oh, 384, dropped a little bit shooter air, but 431, 400, I mean, are you kidding me? There's six nice little group. Let's see what we can do. When you're done, it goes into safe, can't shoot anymore. 376 all those, pretty good group at 25 yards. Guys, for a 177 gun like this, looks like this semi-auto, it doesn't get any cooler. I mean, it's got, you know, pretty good speed. You're looking at high 300s for the most part, mmm mid to low 400s which is good enough for this is a good planking gun. I mean, I don't, I would not recommend going and doing any hunting with this personally. I mean very, very small game, you know, I say like like like cockroaches, maybe ants, but for the most part, this is a gun for fun, for plinking, for knocking down targets. Let's take it to the gun range and see what we can do with it shall we? We shall. I want to see it has the power to blow the hundred and thirty psi bottle we've got down there, the two-liter. Oh no, that's a big negatory, but let's see what we can do to a can of soda. Oh, there you go! See, got some power for the can. Let's see how good of aim I have with the rocket shot, hit it up, shoot the can in the air, hit the can. I'm gonna go ahead and say I probably missed that, you know, I'm not gonna miss King Kong's giant face. Reload. Alright, so looking at the the kind of the magazine here, there's a flat side and then this side has like a little it's just like the little part you put it in the thicker part, the thicker part you put that pellet down, so I'm finishing up here, but what so once you get like that and then you look at this, you'll notice that these little pegs fit right in there and then it just slides in like so pellets your face now. Now you gotta drop the chalk buddy, just drop it, yep, King Kong, I said drop it, drop the chalk. Ah-hah, King Kong, get gummy, you're the toughest monkey in the world I get it, but just fall down. Guys, look, this is a great fun, plinking, a target gun. It's great if, you throw, this adapter on there from Air Ventura, you know, it's not gonna have the most power, it's not gonna pop off. Some of the big things we've got to here, but you talk about knockdown targets, hit little things at different distances all the way up to 35 40 yards, this is it the Sig MCX. You can get it for a hundred and eighty bucks. It's a repeater. It's 30 shots. It's semi-auto .177. It's as fun as you want to make it then we make it fun. Thanks for watching The Outsyder, see you next time. " |
 | Insyder Insyght: Breakbarrel Air Rifles vs Underlever Air Rifles0.0(0 reviews)We are always combing through the comment section for questions and YouTube user TacticalToast wanted to see what happened when you put breakbarrel airguns up against underlever airguns. Video Transcript Below: Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Pyramyd Insyder Insights, today we're gonna be talking about break barrels versus under levers. Our question today comes from Tactical Toast Two - great handle by the way, his question is you should compare break barrels to under levers. PCPs just aren't an option for me, so I'd love to see some good Springer videos. Well, Tactical Toast, we got you covered. |
 | Diana 350 N-TEC Magnum Premium Air Rifle0.0(0 reviews)This model is ambidextrous and delivers stunning power along with notable accuracy. The handsome stock has checkering on the grip and forearm for added shooting comfort.
Diana 350 N-TEC Magnum Premium Air Rifle Video Transcript: Welcome to the Pyramyd Insyder, I'm Tyler Patner, today we’re going to be taking a look at the Diana 350 N-TEC. So as the name suggests this is the N-TEC gas RAM version of the 350. One of Diana's latest offerings. They came out with the 340 year or two ago and now they have the 350 version, so the more powerful gas RAM. This one here is in .177 so this is gonna be a super Magnum by all definitions. It also is available in .22 so definitely check that out. Personally that would be my choice in a gun because it's going to give you really the most the power that the gun the platform itself can provide. But a .177 is what we have here to test today, so we'll see how she does. So go over some features for you guys. Starting here at the muzzle we do have a hooded front sight that does look like it accepts some inserts, although the gun didn't come with multiple inserts, it's just got a standard post in there and that matches up really nicely with your rear notch sight there. So the open sight’s certainly usable if you want to go that route, although again to see your best accuracy like we always tell you guys, the scope’s going to be the way to go. But the rear sight here does have micro click adjustments and they are very audible actually, you'll probably hear them now. So the open sight’s a very nice unit if that's the way you want to go. Nice pairing with the gun overall and there's no fiber optics, and I know a lot of folks like that and you got that thin post in there it's, it's actually really quite nice and actually how I broke the gun in first hundred shots or so I took with the open sights. The 350 N-TEC has the T zero six trigger unit which means you also have the T zero six base rail on it as well which is an 11-millimeter dovetail rail. Now we found that our gun had some barrel droop, I would imagine that's probably fairly consistent seeing as most of the spring versions do. Just you know it'd be a fair assumption to say that the gas RAM versions are probably going to have a little bit of barrel droop as well so we went ahead and mounted the DNT zero six base from Leapers. It's a very nice unit, goes from a dovetail to a weaver setup. Nicest thing about it though, it has two stop pin holes one in the front one in the back that match up with the stop pin holes on the rail so you are good to go, it's gonna lock you in nice and tight. Also, four screws on the side here make it very sturdy. And then on top we went ahead and mounted a Hawk Air Max 34 to 16, it's one of my favorite scopes so we use it for a lot of the reviews here, and obviously it's held up very well so far on this rifle so nothing but good things to say in that regard. So as I said, gun has the T zero six trigger, probably the latest iteration of the T zero six that I've ever felt, and a lot of these Diana's that we're getting these new N-TEC versions seem to have very very light triggers from the factory. Personally I'm a fan. You may not be. I gotta figure this is between a pound, pound and a half, somewhere in that range but it's really nice to know that the T zero six can go down that low safely as well as be set up higher in that three-pound range like a lot of the Artemis branded guns come. A same trigger unit but you know a lot of adjustability in that, so you can fine-tune it for yourself which I like a lot. And of course, we do have the automatic safety which is a hallmark of the break barrels and piston guns in general from Diana. And always you can manually set it but it does automatically set itself on safe every time you cock the barrel, so that is a nice feature as well in this particular rifle. Easy to flick off with the thumb there when you're ready to go. So for those of you guys that are familiar with the 350, the spring version, probably the biggest departure you're gonna notice right away is this stock. So this is the premium version and you can already tell it's got some different lines to it. Obviously with the raised cheekpiece, which is totally ambidextrous on both sides, really like that, and then it rounds out at a nice rubber butt pad here to mitigate some of the recoil and this one does jump pretty good being a Magnum spring gun. But we also have checkering here on the grip and the forearm. Overall, I actually really like the shape of this you know the way it kind of thins out and comes up a little bit so you can get more of a comfortable hold on it out further away from the base of the rifle, which you know rifle that balance is somewhere about middle of the four stock. This is actually quite nice in my opinion, just the overall feel of it, you know it's got a very comfortable feel to it but solid. So 350 N-TEC comes in around seven pounds unscoped. Once you add the scope, the rail up there, obviously you're gonna be right around nine pounds or so at least in this case, there are certainly lighter scopes out there if that's the route you want to go. But various options that's all going to vary on your setup, but this one's coming in right around 9. Overall nice feel, got a very solid recoil to it, comes straight back into the shoulder. But you know what let's head out to the range. Let's go see how she shoots. All right so we tested about 15-16 pellets for this. The H&N Barracudas, and I assume the Barracuda matches, well I just didn't have them on hand to test, and the JSB heavies were my two best pellets. So at 20 yards starting off with those JSBs open up a little bit but about 3/4 of an inch here. Not a bad group at all, 5/8 ¾. But a half inch out of the H&N certainly much better, and yes in case you're wondering that was all me. At 45 yards the groups actually were not too bad. I had this one that first shot fly on me there with the JSBs, you know what are you gonna do. Magnum spring down like this, really hold sensitive, so that's probably part of it and then again you know there's always the human error in there. But a 5/8 group out of those H&N. This is, I, you can't ask for better than that to be quite honest with you. So 45 yards, I am very impressed. All right guys we're gonna take our most accurate pellet the H&N Barracudas, I imagine the Barracuda matches will work just as well for those of you that are wondering, and run them across the sound pressure meter here. We got it all set up, we'll take five shots and see what our highest reading is. Alright guys you've seen it for yourself, the Diana 350 N-TEC even in this fast shooting .177 is quite a rifle. A really solid trigger, accuracy out to 45 yards more than enough for small game hunting, and certainly plenty of power to do it, upwards of 20 foot-pounds in the .177. I'm actually itching to get my hands on a .22 to see what kind of energy that's gonna put out. But overall I am very pleased with this rifle. It's really nice to see another manufacturer coming into the gas RAM market with a higher end gas RAM gun and I think the 350 N-TEC certainly hits all those marks. So definitely one that you guys should check out. But for the Pyramyd Insyder, I am Tyler Patner, we'll see you guys at the next one.
|
 | Beeman QB Chief PCP Air Rifle0.0(0 reviews)A balance of performance, quality features, and price point, the Chief is Beeman's first foray into budget-friendly, entry-level PCP guns. Beeman QB Chief PCP Air Rifle Transcript: Red 22. Blue 177. Gunslinger hut! Come on! What? What? Whoo, guys, it was tough but we won the game. So today we are looking at the Beeman QB, which I looked online I couldn't find what it stands for so I decided instead for quarterback and then I realized that's not what it stands for, and it's out of the Beeman QB series. This is the Beeman QB Chief. Now this is Beeman's intro to the PCP airgun. It's a $180 airgun. It is very simple. It's for beginners, it's for people who want to just get in the PCP world without spending a fortune. So taking a look at this gun it's pretty simple, first of all, a very classic Woodstock, very nice, and like a typical rifle, I would say. Rubber buttstock nothing really adjustable on here, but you know as you look at it's a single-shot bolt-action 177, also comes in 22, you've got the rear adjustable sights here, the fiber optics, and the front side up there. Safety, safety is pretty simple, it's it's right here on the backside, so you know when you get ready to shoot you just flip it like that. It's not automatic at all, so when you cock it and load it, it's ready to go. And here's your dial, so you can see how many psi. It only takes 2,000 psi because like I said it's a small reservoir. You do get about 50 shots per fill. Up front, you've got that you snap that off. You got the male quick disconnect there, so works with any female hose, you just snap it on. Very simple we're seeing more and more that in the airgun world which I love because I hate fill probes. We've got it filled up to 2,000, so let's take some shots, check some accuracy, see what kind of feet per second we're getting. They say at the 177 you're gonna get maximum a thousand feet per second. I'm gonna shoot a couple different size pellets here and see what we do alright, see how accurate it is. All right so here we go I've got the Meisterkugeln in the seven-grain, I've got H&N Sport at the 8.1 grain and I'm gonna have the Kodiaks at the 10.6 grain, I think it's gonna be too much for this gun but you'll see what it does, and I'm gonna shoot it through the the open sights. It does have an 11mm dovetail here that you can mount a scope on, which you can get at Pyramyd. So here we go, let's take a look-see and see what we got starting with the seven grain. 1,214! Now this says this says that they give you get a max velocity of 1,000 fps on the 177. All right 989 ah that's interesting went from 1200, to 989 that's quite a jump. It's putting together a nice little group down there, didn't get a read on that one. There we go 970, 600 there you okay so maybe that 1200 was a random one, it looks like it's 9 at high 900, it possibly over 1000. Let's move on and check out the 8 grain see what kind of group we can do there. Pretty impressive group again, like I said, for this gun. 9 54, again pretty nice group. A very nice group, come on Chrony, now that was shooter error, a little bit to the right. Ah there we got 954.1, so mid 900s with the 9 grain. Let's just take a look at the at the 10 grain, that's gonna drop it out about quite a bit but let's see what we've got. Very accurate. So so you're getting is like it's you're getting the 700s with the 10 grain. Now here's the one thing we shot about 20 shots now, and I'm getting close to out of the green, so as far as you know consistently get like, it says up to like, get 50 shots, I don't know if you're gonna get 50 shots on one fill you may get it if you take it down to zero but I got imagine after a thousand, you're gonna you're gonna get quite a bit of drop-off you know. I just want to reach out and see let's just check it out at 50 yards see what this thing can do. I'm impressed, I mean 2,000 psi you expect not a whole lot of power, small reservoir, but this gun has some good power so I think you can, you and you would be able to put to get a group together 50 yards. So let's check it out and see what it can do alright. 50 yards. Golly a 1030. Yeah 837 that's how that makes a little bit more sense I'm getting kind of low, lower on air but again 993, so this is one interesting thing. I feel like the power's a little all over the place, the guns still pretty consistent 816. So you know I'd say your shot string from what I'm seeing, is about 20-22-25 shots that are gonna be pretty consistent and then it kind of gets a little weird from there. Um that's enough paper for me, I mean the fact this thing that I've got it, I've got a nice enough group at 50 yards with open sights, like I feel pretty good about it. Let's shoot some targets, have some fun, and see what this thing is really all about. -Alright yeah. Let's see, let's see, let's get some skeet up there. -Bang, there you go that's what I'm talking about. Can! Apple! Apple. The slow roll of Apple death. I really want to hit this chalk, this purple chalk right here. There! The air is getting low want to see if this has the power to pop a over 100 psi bottle. Boom! Yes it does Beeman QB Chief. There it is guys I mean that's all kinds of target up to 50 yards, this is an intro PCP gun 180 bucks. I don't know what else you want out of it, I mean it's a great little gun, like I said it's only takes 2000 psi, which you can pump up with a hand pump in like less than 100 pumps. That's it for this Pyramyd Outsyder I'm Rossi Morealle, thanks for watching. |
 | Gamo Swarm Magnum Multi-Shot Air Rifle0.0(0 reviews)Gamo broke the mold when it released the original Swarm Maxxim, the first successful multi-shot breakbarrel in over a decade. Now comes the Gamo Swarm Magnum the most powerful Swarm yet. Gamo Swarm Magnum Multi-Shot Air Rifle Video Transcript: Welcome to the Pyramyd Insyder, I'm Tyler Patner. Today we're going to be taking a look at the latest offering from Gamo, the Swarm Magnum in 22 caliber. So, the Swarm Magnum announced at SHOT Show 2018, of course, is Gamo's latest entry into the multishop break barrel world with the 10x system here on top. It's only offered in 22 caliber at this point time. Don't know if they have plans for 25 but certainly with that Magnum gas ram you know in there that IGT Mach 1 piston at 22 caliber is definitely going to make better use of it than a 177 would. But let's check out the gun here starting at the front. So the Swarm Maxim had the maximum shroud technology on it. The Swarm Magnum has the Whisper Fusion kind of suppressor on the end of it which obviously we're gonna find out if that does a good job of keeping things nice and quiet for you guys--for those of you that are backyard conscious of course. And sliding on back here we get to that 10x system which you guys if you've seen the Swarm Maxim video we did you'll kind of have an idea how that works, but basically you depress this little button on top, you pull the magazine out, you have some numbers on top there, so you load them right into the face of the magazine one at a time all the way up to ten rounds. And you actually have a nice little cutout window there that displays which number or how many pellets you have left, in excluding the one that is loaded in the barrel, so it definitely is a nice way to keep track and then when you're empty you hit that little exclamation point and you also have a little white dot that pops through on this window, so you can even see that and we'll show you guys when we get out to the range, you can see that from a shoulder position so you don't have to worry about, you know, dry firing in this gun. If you dry fire this, cock it and then reload it without a pellet, you must have missed something all right, that's just me being straightforward with you guys, it would be pretty hard to do in my opinion. So moving back from this 10x quick shot system we do have inside of the compression chamber here the IGT Mach 1 piston that's Gamo's biggest and baddest piston. It says they're capable of shooting up to 1,300 feet per second that's pretty screaming, I'm assuming that's with the lead-free pellet, obviously we'll see what it does with a real-world pellet you know seeing what it likes after and then chronographing it of course. Up on top of the compression tube we do have their recoil reducing rail, so this is supposed to cut felt recoil to the scope by 99.9%, therefore extending the life of your optic. Now, the Gamo scope that it comes with, in the one piece mount, haven't had any issues with it yet, probably will try a different scope on it just to make sure that it is holding zero and showing me exactly what it can show me in terms of its best capabilities. But no fixed parallax so right around 30-35 yards is where this has a parallax adjusted to so that's gonna be your clearest point where you can use that 9x without problems, but I would prefer a parallax adjustable optic every time guys, so keep that in mind if you are looking upgrade that is what I would go to, whether it's a 4X 3-9 whatever you guys want. Dropping down we do have the CAT custom action trigger fully adjustable, Gamo says, I haven't adjusted this one out of the box, it's not breaking very heavy probably around 3 pounds, not the most defined first second stage but you can certainly feel it and knowing it is adjustable we'd be able to get that better if we so desired, but I want to give you guys an out-of-the-box look at the gun. And really the biggest change other than the aforementioned power level, you're talking about a thumbhole stock as opposed to a more straight wristed stock and the cheek piece, while it does look adjustable is not, I'm sorry to say. But the gun's still coming in right around 7.5-8 pounds with the scope mount, it's so a pretty light Magnum gun. I'm sure that's gonna impact our hold sensitivity of this, I've always found that lighter weight guns are a bit more hold sensitive, and obviously somewhere just over 49 inches, you do have a pretty long rifle here so definitely something to keep in mind and I'm sure with that increased powerplant capability our cocking effort is going to go up as well so when we head out to the range we're gonna test all of those things for you guys and give you guys a straight dope on what the Gamo Swarm Magnum can do. So let's get out there and check it out. Alright guys, so before we get started on the accuracy in the chronograph testing I wanted to show you guys quickly how this loads and note that we are only doing five shot groups today, it's like 45 to 50 pounds of cocking effort. I'm not even sorry about not doing touch shot groups for you guys. Five shots are gonna tell us exactly what we need to know about this guy, but this is the way the 10x system works if you haven't seen our Swarm Maxim video. So you go ahead you have your magazine loaded up with pellets you can see I have two rounds in here, it's gonna tell you how many rounds are still in the mag. So we go ahead, insert the mag into the 10x system, snaps in very audibly, very positively, you're gonna go ahead at that point break the barrel back up, and now you see it's displaying one alright, so one pellet is loaded it has one remaining in the magazine. So we're gonna go ahead, aim downrange, take our shot, and then I'm gonna do it again and this is where you get that quick follow-up now. Now you can see that I have that exclamation point telling me that I have no rounds left, we'll go ahead take our second shot and you'll also notice guys on the back of the magazine here, where you can actually see it as the shooter, you have that little white dot right there showing you that this mag is empty and that you need to refill it. If you are gonna go ahead and break that barrel again you will dry fire the gun so definitely not a good thing, don't do that. Let's get to some accuracy testing. Alright guys, so that was one of the more trying range sessions we've had with a gun that I can remember. Went through about 16 different pellets and found one that shot better than all of the others and pretty darned, like a lot better, all right. So that's the Predator GTOs which ironically were the best pellet I think in the regular Swarm Maxim when we tested that in 22. So a 3/4 inch group here at 30 yards so certainly you know minute of squirrels' head every time so very good there. And then moving it out to 45 at the very end of our range here you have 5 shots within an inch, a couple going in the same hole probably could have been a little bit better. Honestly guys I'm finding the gun pretty darn hold sensitive which is making it kind of tricky to get good groups and be as consistent as possible with. Just to give you an idea of what some other pellets did, so this is the Barracudas at 45 yards a two-and-a-half-inch group. They group a hell of a lot better at 30 but still when you can't have that good transitional accuracy from distance to distance, you know, this takes that one off the table right away. And then probably the second-best group that we had are these Crosman premier domed pellets, so 14.3 grains and you have basically five shots within an inch and a quarter so. Which is not bad, but again, really that one-inch mark is what I'm looking for when I want to get an accuracy standard for a gun, and at 45 yards we've seen plenty of spring and gas piston guns that do that so. The Gamo Swarm Magnum very pellet picky, hold sensitive, but still shoots fairly well out to 45 yards. Alright guys so the Gamo Swarm Magnum certainly didn't perform poorly, it was a definitely a more difficult one for us here to do. A pretty hold sensitive gun because of that lightweight but a lot of power. 29 foot-pounds with the predator GTOs which are an alloy pellet, was very surprising, you know over a thousand feet per second is just screaming. Definitely in that 30 to 35-yard range with that kind of power you are gonna be deadly, I mean just devastating, on game that you're going after, and having that multi-shot capability is a great add-on, although for me 45 to 50 pounds of cocking effort really negates a lot of that upgrade of having those multiple shots right and being able to just quickly do it. It's certainly faster than if you were single loading but really makes it more trying with that heavier cocking effort. Very surprised the scope held up on this one, we didn't have good luck with that with the Swarm Maxim but on the Magnum it held up just fine. Don't know if Gamo's changed something on the scope, but personally and my recommendation to you guys, swap this out for something with an adjustable objective, it's just gonna be more favorable in the long run if you guys want to shoot at longer distances or really close distances as well. But, overall, the Gamo Swarm Magnum if you are looking for a high-powered gas piston or spring piston airgun, this is definitely one you guys are gonna want to check out in 2018. For the Insyder, I'm Tyler Patner, as always guys don't forget to subscribe, like, and comment down below. We'll see you at the next one. |
 | Gamo Swarm Maxxim Multi-shot Air Rifle0.0(0 reviews)Get the "buzz" on an airgun that breaks the mold. Watch as Rossi tests out one of the most anticipated innovations in breakbarrel tech!
Gamo Swarm Maxxim Video Transcript:
Killer bees on the Swarm today on the Pyramyd Outsyder. All right now it's time for some trigger time. I'm not gonna lie the bee thing is probably more exciting moving around. Anyway, here we go. Gamo Swarm, it is a ten shot repeating break barrel. Time to blow some stuff up, see how quick we can do it around these ten shots off. Ready? Time starts when I touch the barrel. Boom Oh let's go take a look at the new Gamo Swarm. Shall we. Now I know what you’re thinking, it looked like I missed one of those cans. Tomato tomahto. After the dust settled and got all over me and the gun, there were no more cans so I don't know what to tell you. All I know, 10 shots in 24 seconds with a break barrel so let's take a look at the Gamo Swarm Maxxim. Ambidextrous. All-weather, you know pretty indestructible, but you know got some little texture up here to hold on to it just that little bit, it's your basic synthetic stock. The cat right here is the custom action trigger. Two-stage you can customize it. Get the safety right here, I like to safety, pull it back it's in safe, you gotta push it forward for it to shoot so it's right there by your, you don’t have to like reach we're doing weird, it's like right there. I like that comes with the scope 3-9 by 40 scope. It's got the 11-millimeter rail system, the RRR the rail reduction reconnaissance, or some I mean I it's a it's an 11-millimeter rail, it's supposed to take some of the absorb some of the shock. Suppression sound suppression technology. If there's a steel barrel in there it's surrounded and shrouded. I mean as far as airguns go it's not that quiet, but what it does do is it makes for a thick barrel which is cool as you saw how quick I make you smack that thing down and load it which is great. This is the magic I mean this is the, it's a 10-round repeating shot barrel gun. It's got a little magazine here very easy to load. It literally similarly shows you, it's like turn this way, and put the pellet in here. So you turn it there's an empty hole you put the pellet in and it shows you how many punch you got left. 10 counts all the way down to one, and there's actually an exclamation point which means don't shoot anymore. Put it in, you stick it in. It's actually impossible to put it in wrong, don't go in, so the only way to put it in with the pellet face now out now. Let's check the accuracy you know, they say 1,300 feet per second 1 7 7 9 75 on the .22. To that's with air pellets basically. So I mean we're gonna see, we're gonna get I'm using the H&M and I've got the exact the heavy Diablos, let's take a look see what it chrony’s and see how accurate it is. Alright so we're gonna go with the exact heavy diablos 10.4 grain .177 25 yards, let's see what happens. 806. I mean I'm sure some of you guys can do tighter groups than I can, never claim to be the most accurate shooter but it's got a ten shot repeating break barrel magazine which is awesome. We're just getting started let's go really have some fun. All right we got the Pyramyd Outsyder range set up here. Time to have some fun and see the Gamo Swarm Maxxim. Just cock and then BAM you're ready to go again. How much fun is that with a break barrel. I could sit here all day and do this. Before I get out of here I gotta try one more time, 10 cans, 10 pellets, 10 shots. How fast can I do it. You guys ready? Can I beat 24 seconds? I think I can let's do it. You ready to see you surrender, see record-breaking shooting, record-breaking shooting here it goes. Tommy ready? Done! 3.7 seconds yeah and that's how you do it. A ten cans at one target shot repeater all cans knocked down in 3.7 seconds. Give it up for your boy. Guys that is it. The Gamo Swarm Maxxim, this gun let me tell you something, this is a good-looking gun, it's got all the things that you want, all the little bells and whistles. Let me tell you why you want this gun. Right here it's the only ten shot repeater break barrel gun. You've seen how much fun we've had, you see how quickly we've been firing off shots, and and it's got some power, 25 yard, 60 yards. That's it you guys can get this at Pyramyd Air. This has been the Outsyder, see you next time. |
 | Benjamin Trail NP2 SBD Air Rifle0.0(0 reviews)The quiet NP2 is now even quieter as the Benjamin Trail Nitro Piston 2 SBD. The SBD (Silencing Barrel Device) adds an improved barrel shroud that makes the NP2 SBD 3x quieter than other breakbarrels in its class.
Benjamin Trail NP2 SBD Video Transcript: Welcome to the Pyramyd Insyder, I'm Tyler Patner. Today we're going to be taking a look at the Benjamin Trail NP2 SBD in .177 caliber.
|
 | Air Arms S510 TDR PCP Air Rifle0.0(0 reviews)Built on the tried and true S510 action, the TDR (Take-Down Rifle) packs all of the features that small game hunters want into a highly maneuverable and transportable package. Able to break down in seconds, the S510 TDR is built to go anywhere you can. Air Arms S510 TDR PCP Air Rifle Video Transcript: Welcome to the Pyramyd Insyder, I'm Tyler Patner. Today we have a little bit of a different review for you guys. We're taking a look at a brand new line of cases. I'm totally kidding, the Air Arms S510 TDR in 22 caliber. So the 510 TDR came out very late last year in 2017. We got our first look at it at SHOT Show 2018 and they're finally here ready to shoot. 22 calibers are what we have here to test today and let's run it down. As far as what's in the case here, you do have your manual, of course, you got some Allen keys it looks like they're your traditional Phil probe which is threaded to 1/8 psp so you're gonna want to make sure you get a quick disconnect adapter if your fill setup requires it. Let's see, looking through, so we have our buttstock which is a walnut variety and looks like it has one of our magazines in there, it comes with two and it does have this slotting here that you can put both magazines or a third spare if you want to pick one up into that rear buttstock so that you can keep it on you at all times which is really nice. Got a cutout here for the pellets, and of course, then there we go the meat and potatoes of this, the 510 TDR action. So basically, in a pistol form, I guess if you wanted to call it that. Let's get it all set up here for you guys and go into some detail. So as we go ahead and get this put together here guys one of the things you obviously notice the TDR, the 410 TDR which is a bolt-action, the 510's a side lever action used to come in like kind of a carrying case so now they put it in this hard case. I prefer the hard case, I know a lot of folks out there preferred the softer case that had the backpack straps. Putting the buttstock on here, really simple, you're just gonna go ahead line it up with these holes here in the back. You have a three-prong system, you'll line that up nice and easy, you go ahead push it in and then we're just gonna simply screw it in right at the back here. And you can see that gap closing, it's really easy to do this, takes under a minute to put it all together, actually, I'd say probably 30 seconds. And we are all set, you make sure that's hand tight and you are good to go. You got a 40 roughly 40-inch six-pound hunting package that is a really easy very light very convenient to use. Let's run down some of the specs here starting at the front, so one of the big updates, the 410 version of this gun was unshrouded unsuppressed, we now have a full shroud with the Qtek moderator on the end should keep things very very quiet having shot like - 510 Ultimate Sporter that has the Qtec already on it this is should be a very quiet setup and hopefully putting out about around 30 foot-pounds with some heavy pellets in this 22 caliber. Down below we do have about a 150 CC cylinder here with a screw off endcap that exposes your fill port and this is the standard Air Arms fill system. Again, that little fill adapter comes with it, you do need to get your quick disconnect, but just so you can see how it works, you go ahead slide that on, you'll line up the hole in the end of the fill cap there with that tee fitting, and then you turn it like that. Keeps it locked on, it's never gonna fly off or come off or come out like a fill probe might on you, so that is a really really nice feature, and again, you got that dust cap there to keep things safe and secure when you don't have it out and ready to fill. On the bottom of the stock here, you'll notice we do have a forend accessory rail. We have a Harris bipod adapter that comes with a little swivel stud, you can throw that in there and then hook up your like UTG bipod or something like that and then you, of course, have a fill pressure gauge on the bottom that reads in bar. This is a 200 bar so 2900 psi fill rifle and again should yield about 30 shots, roughly a thirty foot-pounds on high power. And speaking of the power, we do have a power adjuster transfer port adjuster here which, yep they sure did, they updated it to that five setting system so you have those five discernible clicks as you go ahead and adjust it and you can see you got the plus back towards you right there, and then you got one, two, three, four, so five total settings but that's going to give us probably the ability to do everything from shooting in the basement during the winter all the way to going up to that thirty foot pound mark and going after some small game. So talking a little bit more about the furniture on this gun we do have some walnut wood here both for the four stock and the cheek piece. You got some nice stippling on the grip. The gun looks fantastic, in my opinion, especially with the shroud setup, I really like the look of that fixed suppressor on the end there. And again, I mentioned it earlier, you do have the slots that will hold your magazines, I have one in the breach here but the second one just fits nice and snug up in there under spring tension. Very easy to work with, it just sits right like that so it's ready to go when you need it. At the back we do have an adjusted butt plate, you got a screw right in the back there that you go ahead loosen, you can slide that up and down. It is not adjustable for length of pull through, so that is something to keep in mind. Probably not the best choice for junior shooters, it does have a very full length of pull and again, you have your tightening screw here at the back that tightens the whole system together. Bear in mind that you can't run this as a pistol because you do need this three prong adapter in the back to keep tension on your hammer spring setup so that when you cock it it has something to push against. And speaking of cocking it, we do have a side lever system as I alluded to earlier. It used to be a bolt, now it's a side lever so a lot smoother, they're probably gonna be a lot faster for you guys at home that need to get that quick follow-up shot. So we just pull it back nice and easy to cock it, pull out our magazine, of course 10-round magazines, which are standard for Air Arms, and to decock it if we do want to, you go ahead and you pull the trigger as you hold the bolt. All good to go, very easy to do, and of course we have our standard safety that is on the trigger. I'm not a huge fan of this but Air Arms does it on all their guns and it certainly does work. You put it on safe and it's not going anywhere I would just prefer it to be anywhere but the trigger for myself. But other than that this gun has all the hallmarks of the rest of the Air Arms line just with some updates from the 410 version that we used to see. Got an 11 millimeter dovetail rail on top. We have a Hawk Vantage 4 to 12 by 40 scope on it and we are gonna head out to the range, get some chrony numbers, throw some lead downrange, see how accurate it is and then we'll come back to wrap it up. Let's head out Alright guys so looking at these accuracy results, of course we tested you know the full battery of pellets, and it was like 12 pellets or something that went through this gun and the two best by far the 18 grain JSPs and the Air Arm 16 grains, basically the JSP 15.8 9s, they're a little bit different but they also shot pretty well; not quite as good as the Air Arms did but a 0.45 inch group and a 0.43 inch group 10 shots half inch accuracy at 45 yards absolutely fantastic out of the S510 TDR. With both the 18s and the 16-grain pellets doing so well at 45 yards from an accuracy perspective we decided to go ahead and chronograph both. What you're seeing with those Air Arms 16 grain pellets is a pretty decent spread overall, you know 71 feet per second is a pretty big extreme spread but the standard deviation from shot to shot isn't too bad. What you're really looking for though right around 170 bar down to about a 130 or so is really your sweet spot of shots where we're getting a good velocity and nice consistent results from shot to shot, and we see the same thing with the JSP jumbo 18 grains as well. A little bit bigger spread overall but you get that extra foot-pound out of it you know 29 and 30 foot-pounds respectively certainly nothing to sneeze at from the power perspective. So, on high-power, this gun is going to deliver plenty of shots at a high power to do whatever you guys want to do from a small game hunting perspective. All right guys obviously the 510 TDR takedown rifle has a lot of accuracy sub half-inch groups at 45 yards, nothing to mess around with at thirty foot-pounds, absolutely fantastic. Like two things I didn't hit on actually. Obviously it's a low throw Walther barrel as all the Air Arms stuff is and actually looking at the gun and thinking about it, this is fully ambidextrous so if you're a lefty you can get down on this no problem, obviously the side lever can't be swapped but that's not really a big deal, I don't think for most lefties out there, but you got a lot of nice upgrades on this over the 410 TDR. Obviously, the quiet factor is huge on this one as well as that five-step power gesture from the free-form power adjuster that was there before and the side lever of course as well. And then coming with a hard case that's something I like you know I throw it in the back of a truck and you're good to go. This gun takes down or gets put back together in like 30 seconds so it's right there at your fingertips. Overall, very very nice offering from Air Arms here to start 2018 off. Two things I would like to see change going forward. I would love to see a quick disconnect fitting here instead of the T-bar style fitting that they use, and I would love to see that safety mechanism get taken off of the trigger blade. That's just me though, other than that these obviously perform fantastically and definitely one if you are a small game hunter this is one you're gonna want to look at in 2018 and going forward. For the Insyder, guys, I'm Tyler Patner don't forget to subscribe, like, and comment down below, we'll see you guys at the next one. Thanks! |
 | Hatsan Barrage Semi-Auto PCP Air Rifle0.0(0 reviews)The Barrage is Hatsan's answer to airgunners who want semi-automatic PCP airguns that combine fast shots, with high maneuverability and penetrating power.
Hatsan Barrage PCP Air Rifle Video Transcript Try this guy. Now that my friends is an airgun. Gee willikers, thanks mister. The Hatsan Barrage will in fact turn you from a boy into a man. This thing has it all. First of all, comes in .177 and .22. It literally is built to be accessorized. Let's take a look at it. You can adjust everything, just every single thing on this gun. You can adjust the butt pad back here. We've got a rubber butt pad, you can adjust it not only in and out, but also you can adjust it out this way if you've got longer arms. The raised cheekpiece right there can go up and down. As you can see right here, this one my favorite things about Hatsans and that has on both sides where that holds your extra pellet magazine. This thing comes with three magazines. Three magazines. In the .22 they hold 12 shots, in the .177 they hold 14 shots, so once you’re locked and loaded, boom that's 36 shots without even blinking an eye. These guys are getting so smart, what looks like kind of a Picatinny Weaver rail is both. It's 11 millimeter and a weaver rail all in one so no matter what mount you have for your scope they work. I actually tried a weaver it was too short to go over the magazine. I grabbed another scope that happened to have 11 millimeters on it and bam now I've got a scope. Now it doesn't come with a scope, but it does come with a couple attachments so this would be your, your rear sights which are adjustable for windage and elevation. And then the front side here, which just kinda locks right on like so. Slides on, screw right there, you tighten on and then you're good to go. So it's got a two-stage just books trigger, the safety’s right here. I'm not gonna lie to you, I don't love the safety, it's in the place where I like it the most but it's very thin, and it's metal so when you try to flip it like that it kind of hurts your finger now. Yeah I'm kind of a sissy I guess but I don't love it. Other than that, this gun has everything. Shrouded barrel, super quiet. It also has this new technology that keeps the extra air from leaking so you get maximum amount of shots with the air you have in your cylinder. 500 cc tank right here, up front the bottles, bottle shape, and it's a semi-auto. Let's take a look, we'll check some accuracy at 25, 50, and I'm gonna go ahead and reach out to 75 and see what I can do. All right so real quick, I'm going to show you how to load these magazines. They're a little tricky so I just want to make sure you get it. When you have your magazine and it's empty, you rotate it down and the wheel will move with you. If you go up, the wheel won't move and you can go up, see in the wheel doesn't move, so that's not good, you want the wheel to move with you. It goes all the way until it stops. I could be wrong here, but this is how I figured it out. Then you drop a pellet in the bottom, you can't drop on the top, if you drop on the bottom skirt first, and then when you move to the next space it now holds the wheel from moving anymore and then you just drop them in normal. For some reason you've got to do that first one backwards to stop the wheel from turning so you put the rest under there. if I'm wrong somebody let me know, that's what we figured out, that's what worked for me, and I've tried everything under the sun. So 856, I'm using a 15-grain pellet. What's amazing to me is all you can hear is the mechanical noise of the gun. Like the barrel literally gets rid of all of the psh that comes out of a lot of PCPs. Let's take another five shots, maybe a little quicker. Now the cool thing right there. I know I'm empty. When I'm empty, the breech opens up and it stays back. Just like that, pop it out. Pull one of my other rotary magazines out like so, pop it in, and away we go. Let's try some, let's try out a 50-yard shall we, see what it does. Obviously at 25 yards very accurate. So there's a pretty, your five-shot group of 50 yards I mean, not bad, my some of my pellets, it's windy out there. Clearly some of them moving around. You know I'm consistently getting right around 850 and change feet per second and a .22. Let me take a couple more shots of that target and see what if we put a whole magazine there what happens. I mean that is that's fun. There are not many semi-auto PCPs with this kind of accuracy. All right got it refilled, she takes 250 bar max which is about 3,600, a little bit more than 3600 psi. 75 yards and let's roll. 75 yards with a .22 or using a 15 grain pellet and there's some flyers out there, I'm not gonna lie, that may be shooter error. I've shot enough paper, you've seen what the gun can do, you know about it. Let's totally see what you can do with the semi-auto intended. I don't know, all blacked out, super tactical, sweet looking sexy rifle, and an all blacked out, tactical looking, sweet sexy truck. You thinking what I'm thinking? Oh Roger! That my friends is the Hatsan Barrage semi-auto .22 and .177. Comes with three mag clips, comes with a carrying case, comes with every opportunity to make this gun be and look exactly how you wanted to. It's awesome, it's fun. Do me a favor, keep shooting safe, go to Pyramyd Air, get this gun. This has been the Pyramyd Outsyder. I'm Rossi Morreale from American Airgunner, we'll see you next time. |
 | Pyramyd Air Pellet Packaging0.0(0 reviews)Pyramyd Air Pellet Packaging Video Transcript: At Pyramyd Air we've built a state-of-the-art pellet packing and research facility that utilizes the latest technologies. In our class 100 clean room, we first inspect every single pellet for foreign contaminants and irregularities. We then carefully measure and weigh the pellets, and sort them to within 1/100 of the grade. The pellets are then packed in a special nano-gel that can withstand extreme G-forces and temperatures. Each container of pellets is then taken to our state-of-the-art shipping and receiving department. Nah we're just messing with you, while Pyramyd Air has developed a way to ship pellets to your door in the best condition possible, here come and check it out. What they've done is create these pieces of die-cut foam. They hold every size pellet tin, here check it out. Pop that out, you can put it in your big old tin of JSB Jumbo's, then it's just a matter of stacking ‘em and packing ‘em. Now that's the best way I've seen to get pellets to your door in the best condition possible. For Airgun Reporter my name is Paul Capello, shoot safe and have fun. |
 | Pyramyd Insyder at SHOT Show 2018 - Part 10.0(0 reviews)The Pyramyd Insyder was all over SHOT Show 2018 scouring the floor for the latest air rifles and air pistols from cutting-edge manufactures like Air Arms, SIG Sauer, American Tactical, and Anschutz. Pyramyd Insyder: SHOT Show 2018 - Part 1 Video Transcript Welcome to SHOT Show 2018 guys. Checking out some brand new product here with the Pyramyd Insyder. This is the Air Arms S510 TDR FAC. So that means it's the same TDR package you know and love with the brand new side lever breech, as well as a fixed suppressor on the end to keep things nice and quiet. Looks like the gun also does come with a soft touch cheek piece now. And, of course, as you guys probably have seen if you're a fan of this TDR rifle. Just unscrews at the back here and you can see that separation starting with the stock there and you can actually put this up in the case, in a backpack, whatever you want, before you go hunting. You leave your scope on it, all you got to do is mount the buttstock and you're good to go. You have the hallmark features like the adjustable power here with the transfer port adjustment, ten round magazine in 177, 22, and 25, and again updated to that sidelever breech with the walnut stock. This gun, for those of you guys that are looking to get out and do some hunting with something that's super lightweight, check out the S510 TDR in 2018. That this is going to be a regulated S510. We've been waiting for this one for quite a while guys, very cool. And a new update on the .25s in particular, this is going to be a bit more powerful than our standard S510s have been in the past. They're saying 44 foot-pounds of energy, which puts it right up there with your .25 cal Marauders, your Atamans, a lot of those nicer higher power .25 cal guns. The gun is going to feature your fixed suppressor up at the muzzle end, which is of course connected to a full-length shroud system, and we're sitting it into a beautiful Minnelli Ultimate Sporter stock. This one's going to be the black soft touch, so you know you get the adjustable cheek piece, you get the rail underneath, and that just awesome soft touch feel guys. Also going to be available in laminate, probably a walnut maybe a beech, who knows we'll see, but this one I have to get my hands on in 2018 guys. Stay tuned with the Insyder you'll be seeing this one at some point down the road. Here at the Sig Sauer booth the SHOT Show 2018. Brand new breakbarrel the ASP20 now this guy's got a lot of cool new features. It does have a pretty high price point on it for a break barrel. but I do think it's going to command that price point. So starting at the front guys we got a fixed suppressor on the end of the barrel here, so that's going to keep your shots quiet. The first real key point here we're gonna touch on is this lock-up system, now this is all machine together, so when they make this, this is not going to move. Barrel droop, any side-to-side wiggle, that should be things of the past as far as this gun is concerned, which are going to make it a very appealing option for those of you looking for the most precision out of a breakbarrel. Of course, we have a Picatinny rail system and it is a gas piston inside of here. Cocking effort is going to be around 35 pounds, very very smooth cocking stroke. And the trigger, guys the trigger they are touting. They did let me try it out here. It breaking at about two and a half pounds, feels very nice to find first second stage, and an ambidextrous safety. I was really surprised to see this, you have access to it from both the left hand and on the right-hand side there, which is a neat little feature we don't see on very many break barrels, if any, and of course rounding it out at the back of kind of a target ish style stock here. And it handles really nicely, feels good. Price point on the synthetic version, this is the wood here, price point for the synthetic's going to be 399 and this scope actually is designed purposefully for air rifles, so you know it's going to stand up. Lifetime warranty on this from Sig. With a really nice reticle, you guys are definitely gonna want to check this out. This is a 4 to 12 by 44 beautiful reticle and this one is also going to be available probably around the $350 price point, so very very exciting stuff from Sig here. We've just showed you the ASP20. Now that gun, made in America, let's show you something that's made in Italy but I'm very very excited about. We don't see a lot of kind of match pistols or even any kind of well single stroke pneumatics anymore these days but Sig's bringing one to market guys. This is the ASP Super Target, now this is modeled after one of their firearms, it's got a very 1911's look to it. Beautiful, what look to be walnut grips on it, and this is an over lever single stroke pneumatic airgun. This is awesome, check this out, so you pull back on the hammer that's going to release your over lever here, and as you can see here guys, we load it right in there, right into the barrel, this is a 177 of course. You have your piston assembly here. Let me go ahead and close it back up and then we're good to go try that trigger out. Pretty nice and lightweight, a little more travel than I'd like, but I expect that's going to be fully adjustable guys. You don't have a price point on this one quite yet but looks very very intriguing for those of you target shooters out there, so stay tuned for this one, probably third quarter of 2018. Hey guys Tyler here with the Pyramyd Insyder. We're here at American Tactical on the SHOT Show floor 2018 checking out some brand new guns. Now, this is the Nova Freedom, there's not a lot known about this gun, we saw it in a one Germany last year. This is basically a multi-pump PCP so you're gonna be able to pump this, they're saying 40 times and get up to a 1000 feet per second in 177. 40 times over 17 shots, so you have a pressure gauge on the side and here's the kicker guys, adjustable power. You got a high power setting and a low power setting, side lever action, 11-millimeter dovetail, it's coming with open sights and again the multi-pump that's gonna be capable of doing multiple shots. Really cool, we're gonna be looking to hear a lot more about this one later in the year. We're here at the Anschutz booth taking a look at their brand new field target rifle. This is the 9015 HP and as you can see this thing has more features than I've ever seen in any gun ever. If you're a field target shooter like me, this is a gun you are going to want to have to get to the top of the competition. This gun, obviously precision barrel, that's a no-brainer, you have an adjustable four end hamster here for putting on your knee. Side lever action, super smooth, and a dry fire mechanism here, and just set that, you can try that trigger. The 5065 4k trigger, one of the best on the market if not the best. I've been testing this gun for roughly the last six months and I have got to say it is phenomenal. You're definitely gonna want to check this one out. The adjustability in this gun is crazy. You can swivel the buttstock, you can move everything up and down, left and right, every which way to make this gun fit you like a glove. Check this one out on pyramydair.com right now. |
 | Insyder Insyght: Airgun Pellets vs. Slugs Tutorial - Which is right for you?0.0(0 reviews)In this Insyder video, we'll break down the differences between pellets and airgun slugs, the newest craze to be introduced to the shooting world. We'll explore the pros and cons of each in a variety of different factors - such as expansion, price point, ballistic coefficient, penetration, and more. And, we'll discuss where each fits into your airgun arsenal whether you are a hunter, long-range shooter, or simply want to do some target practice. Products Mentioned in Video:
|
 | Diana Stormrider PCP Air Rifle0.0(0 reviews)If you've wanted your own PCP airgun but the price has held you back, the Stormrider gives you a budget-friendly PCP that lives up to Diana's name.
Diana Stormrider PCP Air Rifle Video Transcript: Welcome to the Pyramyd Insyder, I'm Tyler Patner, today we're gonna be taking a look at a brand new rifle from Diana, the Stormrider. The Stormrider’s the first PCP from Diana in a couple of years and it represents an entry into the lower side of the market price-wise, so right around $200 should fit in really well into the market down in that price range. A lot of features packed into this gun, it's available in .177 or .22. We have the .22 here and this is an exclusive first look at this PCP gun from Diana. Let's check out some of the features. Starting at the front of the Stormrider we do have a muzzle break style suppressor, it is baffled inside, will obviously get it on the sound meter and see how quiet it is. It also features a removable front sight as well, so you can remove the front sight and the rear also if you so choose. In terms of filling the Stormrider, it fills to 200 bar, about 2,900 psi, and it is a relatively small cylinder, so that's gonna make this really friendly for hand pumpers out there, and it does come with a fill probe that has a quick disconnect fitting machined in which I love, got to have this on there. Means you don't have to buy any extra fittings to fill this gun. Just slides right into the fill port hole right there, you go ahead attach your hose up and you are good to fill this thing up to 200 bar, really easy. On the underside of the gun we have a very simple color-coded gauge, real easy to see what your fill pressures to. Again 200 bar max fill. So move them back, we do have a cross bolt style safety here, just punch it on through, you see that red ring real nice and easy to use, can flip it forward, works in the hand really nicely, just flip it off safe. It's not automatic as well, it's a totally manual safety and the trigger is not adjustable as far as I can tell, there are no screws on it or anything like that so it is what it is. It feels like it's about three pounds out of the box and not the greatest thing in the world, but you know in this price point I don't expect a match-grade trigger. The Stormrider is a nice hardwood stock, you do some light checkering here on the forearm, as well as on the pistol grip. In the configuration with the scope that we have on it, it's about 6 and 1/2 pounds, so very lightweight rifle, although it does have a full-length length of pull, so something to keep in mind if you're a younger shooter that's going to be shooting the Stormrider, it does have a full length of pull about 14 inches on it and a raised cheek piece on the right side only. That doesn't mean that a left-handed shooter’s not going to be able to use it, but there is a raised cheek piece on the right specifically. And the stock rounds out a rubber butt pad. Overall got a really nice lightweight feel to it. This is gonna be very easy for anybody to get behind. As you guys can see here it is a standard side bolt action. Now the cool thing about the Stormrider is that it comes with both a single shot tray and in .22 seven round magazine. Does also come with the magazine and .177, believe it holds nine rounds. So you can slide that single shot tray in and if you can see it from here it actually slides in a little magnet on the tray itself, and a little magnet in the breech slides and locks into place. This is going to keep your magazine or your single-shot tray in place regardless of which one you want to use, and you can see that magazine here. Goes ahead slides in just the same way, locks into place, good to go. If you do want to go ahead and mount a scope and keep the rear sight on the gun, it is gonna limit the length of the scope that you use now. We have this three to twelve Leaper's compact SWAT scope on here, which is just barely short enough to not come into contact with that rear sight, so if I wanted to use a longer scope it's just one screw here. You go ahead, unscrew that, and the whole sight unit slides off the dovetail, super easy to do, and if you're gonna put a scope on it to see your best accuracy, those open sights aren't gonna be essential for you anyway. Alright so now that we know about the features on the Stormrider, let's head out to the range and see how it shoots. Before we go ahead and get to some shooting here, we're gonna show you how to load the mag. You're just gonna take the face of the magazine and rotate it counterclockwise. That's gonna bring it around, you're gonna notice that that hole there doesn't allow you to load a pellet so we're gonna flip the magazine around to the back and we're gonna load our first pellet skirt first. So skirt of the pellet right into the hole there, let it drop in. And then our we are secured under spring tension, so I don't have to actually hold the magazine anymore, I can go ahead and load each pellet head first now. One by one until we are ready to go. So now that we have our magazine fully loaded, we're gonna find the magnet on the bottom of the magazine. You see it right there, there is also a magnet in the breech so we're just going to take it, slide it across there, and it will click into place. Load it up, we're ready to go. Alright guys, so the Diana Stormrider at 25 yards, pretty good results. The Crosman Premieres were the surprise, we tested about 8 pellets but you know 5 Crosman Premieres into about a half inch here 9/16 a really nice group there might uphold that fifth shot. And on the JSBs obviously, a little bit better here, 7/16 under half an inch, very good grouping here at 25 yards. This gun certainly gonna be able to bust pests all day long at that distance no problem. Moving out to 45 yards things were kind of interesting. The Crosman Premieres under an inch at about 7/8, not a bad group by any means, you know anytime you got a gun that shooting under an inch, especially in this price range, it's gonna be hunting capable, which is great. But the big surprise one is this 3/8 inch group out of the JSB fifteen point eight nines which is actually smaller than our 25-yard group, and because it was so absurdly small we had to shoot another one, which wound up at about five-eighths, still super respectable about 0.6 inches. Awesome grouping here five shots under a dime of 45 yards, $200 PCP, you can't beat that. So awesome results out of the Diana Stormrider. Taking a look at the shot string out of the Stormrider with those JSB 15.89 exact Jumbo's. You're looking at a 200 bar filled down to about a 115 bar, and you'll notice it's obviously a very pronounced curve as we are used to seeing out of unregulated PCPs, but bear in mind this is only a 100 cc cylinder. So really small air capacity but still producing 24 foot-pounds with a basically a 16 grain pellet averaging 830 feet per seconds not too bad, and what I want you guys to focus on is about shot 9 to about shot 19, that's a 25 foot per second spread right there between 170 and 145 bar and that's gonna be where you want to shoot to give it your best accuracy potential. Alright guys really impressed with this Diana Stormrider. Very cool new offering in that lower end price point on the PCP side of the market. Obviously, this guns got accuracy for days, you know 3/8 inch group at 45 yards is nothing to bat an eye at, that is phenomenal accuracy. You've got multi-shot capability with a single shot tray that comes with it. The little things like the quick disconnect machined onto the fill probe, I love that. Good shot count, right around 25 shots out of this gun on a fill and 24 foot-pounds of energy means you're gonna be able to take out small game in the backyard with no problem at all. I like the fact that it comes with open sights, but I'm not thrilled with the fact that you have to remove the rear sight to get a decent length scope on the gun, but certainly something to consider when you're purchasing the rifle. And it's not the most backyard friendly thing out there but it's six and a half pounds with a scope on it. Obviously, the Stormrider’s got a little bit everything going for it. So definitely check it out on pyramydair.com. For the Insyder, I'm Tyler Patner, we'll see you guys at the next one. Hey guys thanks for tuning into today's video. If you want to see more Insyder videos, go ahead hit the subscribe button. If you liked the video you saw, hit the like button, and if you want to talk more about the video or another video you'd like to see, comment down below. Thanks for watching.
|
 | Air Arms S510 XS TDR In-Depth Review0.0(0 reviews)Tyler Patner is here to show you why adding the compact Air Arms S510 XS PCP rifle into your arsenal is a great idea. In this in-depth product review, he'll explain why it's called the Take-Down or TDR, how simple it can be for even beginners, and go over all those awesome features which make these rifles so popular worldwide! Welcome to the Pyramid Insider. My name is Tyler Patner, and today we're going to give you seven reasons why you need the Air Arms S510 XS TDR. Now, reason number one that you need to check out the TDR is because of what TDR stands for take-down rifle. And as you can see, it comes in two separate pieces. So it's meant to be easily and quickly broken down. And we're going to show you just how quick and easy that is here. So you take your butt stock section, you align it with the back end of the front half, go ahead and press them together, and then you're going to just spin this dial here at the back clockwise until you set yourself down. The great part about this is it goes together or comes apart in right about 20 or 30 seconds. So in the field, it's really easy to throw these parts into a bag or carry them in this case, you can get it assembled right there. There's even a cutout in the case for your scope, so the guns ready to go all the time whenever you need it. Now reason number two, you're going to want to check out the S510 TDR. Is this Q Tech moderator? The barrel is fully shrouded, and that does help for sure. But the addition of this Q Tech moderator on the end from Air Arms has made this gun silent. Previous versions just came shrouded. The addition of that Q tech is huge guys, this gun puts out about 30 foot pounds or so in 22. It is also available in 177. But the Q tech edition is a beauty if you're a backyard shooter going after pets or you just want the quietest gun possible. Really phenomenal moderator there now reason number three is the adjustable power of the S510 series as a whole button specific the TDR. Now you have a transfer Port style power adjustment, which has five positions and you get a nice positive click detent when you drop into each position. At the most, you're looking at about 30 foot pounds of energy. But when you do choke that off, you're going to be able to get this gun in a. 22 down into the 4500 foot per second range. So you can really do just about anything whether you want to go after rats or pigeons in an enclosed space and you don't want to over penetrate or if you're looking to stretch this guns legs and shoot long range. Now, Reason number four to check this out is that XS model now in the US here those XS guns. That means it's regulated. Now, this is the first iteration of the TDR that has a regulator in it. And let me tell you guys, it's going to offer you a ton of consistency and a few more shots than TDRs of years past. Regulators really a long time coming for Air Arms. We talked about it in past reviews of their guns, but to see it in addition to the TDR in the smaller platform is really fantastic. And I think a lot of you guys were asking for it all along. Air Arms has delivered and we now have a regulated TDR. Reason number five is the side lever action. Now, Air Arms was really one of the first PCP manufacturers to move everything over to a side lever and they do a fantastic job of it. It is just so smooth and easy to operate. I mean, you guys can see it there. It's just so easy and really a phenomenal system. One, they have really stuck two and done a great job with over the years. It's so good, they really haven't needed to change it and super easy to get that quick follow up and you don't even have to move your cheek. Well, when you're on target, which is really phenomenal, they've done a great job with this system. It's going to make your shooting a little bit smoother, a little bit easier. Love the side lever. Now, Reason number six is the stock itself. Now, this is a two piece stock system. You do have an adjustable butt plate for elevation, which is rubber at the back here. One of my favorite features of the stock is the kind of magazine holders here you have two of them. The gun comes with two. So if you want to purchase an extra, you have two Mags. There one in the gun. You're ready to go. That's 30 rounds on deck at any point in time. You got a nice pistol grip, which doesn't have any features to it in terms of finger grooves or stippling or anything. So you don't have to worry if you have larger hands, this is going to fit you just fine. There's not going to be anything getting in your way like those finger grooves might. You have your gauge underneath inset and then you have a on shoot style UIT rail. Now, if you want to throw a bipod on this gun, it's actually really simple to do. We sell a Harris Bipod adapter, which is going to slide right into this rail, gives you a swivel stud and you can go ahead and Mount most of your bipods right onto that. Super simple. Not a whole lot to this stock. It's very lightweight, very minimalist and really feels great. Now, if the tactical black soft touch look is not for you, the gun is also offered in a beautiful Walnut as well. So that's something to check out if this black soft touch, like I said, isn't your cup of tea, but either way, tons of features built into the stock. And Reason Number Seven, in my opinion, the most important is accuracy. Air Arms uses Lother Walter barrels in all of their guns, and they are fantastic. Typically with JSB 16 or 18 grain pellets, you are gonna be able to shoot roughly half inch groups. If you can do the part at 50 yards without a problem with this gun, 177 is just as good. I'm kind of preferential to 22 because it offers you a lot of different things that you can do well, especially once you integrate that power adjuster. But not only does this guy have a phenomenal barrel, but it also has a phenomenal trigger, and that's going to help you in terms of accuracy down range really makes this kind of pleasure to shoot. And obviously the whole package as it comes together, is just really a smooth and flawless system and works phenomenally well. The addition of that regulator is only going to help your downrange potential as well. So overall, the S510 XS TDR is just a fantastic choice and one you should check out if you're looking for a more compact PCP to add to your Arsenal. I hope you guys enjoyed the video today. We appreciate you joining us for seven reasons why you need to check out the Air Arms S510 XS TDR next time you're on the website. Hopefully you guys enjoyed it. If you did throw us a like down below. If you disagree or thought there was anything we left out, shoot us down in the comments below. Let us know what you thought of the video as a whole. And as always, don't forget to subscribe. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for more air gun content. I'm Tyler Patner. We'll see you guys at the next one. |
 | Hatsan Flash QE PCP Air Rifle0.0(0 reviews)If you've wanted to enter the world of PCP airguns but price has held you back, make a bolt for the buy button and make the Flash yours! Hatsan Flash QE PCP Air Rifle Video Transcript: Welcome to the Pyramyd Insyder, I'm Tyler Patner. Today we're gonna be taking a look at a brand new one just announced to SHOT Show 2018--the Hatsan Flash in 22 caliber. So because this gun's called the Flash, we're gonna do the world's fastest review today. All right, lets start at the muzzle(*Sped up Speech*) Just kidding so the Flash was announced at the 2018 SHOT show. Basically Hatsan's answer to the Umarex Gauntlet and the Diana Storm Rider, a $300 pcp. Quite frankly, this was one of the guns that I was most excited to see because Hatsan is gonna bring you a powerful $300 gun as opposed to most of these 22s that are like 22,23,24 foot-pounds. This is gonna be a full-bodied 22, I guess you're talking about having 30-plus foot-pounds at your disposal, what that's going to do to the shot count of course we're gonna find out, but let's go over some of the features of this Flash. So starting at the front of the gun we do have the QE system, so you have this kind of integral suppressor as well as a full shroud system. Should keep things pretty quiet, pretty backyard friendly for all you guys looking to do some backyard pesting or just general target shooting in the backyard. Dropping down, we do have a, I believe, it's about 165 CC air cylinder here so a little bit smaller than most of their cylinders on the Hatsan guns, and it is fixed you can't screw it off and replace it with a new bottle. Not a big deal to me, you do have your standard fill probe here that comes with all of the Hatsan guns and it is threaded on the end of 1/8 BSPP, so you are going to need a quick disconnect fitting if that is what your fill system needs. And that just slides right into the fill port. Doesn't come with a dust cover Hatsan's usually really good about that, I'd like to see them include one, you know just something to put in there when your fill probe isn't in the gun, but not the end of the world for me. Gun fills to 200 bar which you can see on a gauge on the underside of the stock you got some nice color coating there. So 200 bar about 2,900 psi and talking about the stock here, it is full synthetic, it has a pretty good feel to it but it is going to keep things very, very lightweight. This gun's coming in at six pounds. This is exactly what I've personally, we been wanting to see from Hatsan for many years now. Their guns, in my opinion, needed to go on a diet and the Flash has been put on a diet. They introduced this guy to Jenny Craig and he is a pleasure to deal with at six pounds. Very nice, pointable, the thumbhole skeletonized stock here is just really easy to get along with in my opinion, it's gonna fit most hand sizes without a problem, and just feels really good like it's a nice solid feeling gun that's not too heavy and not too bulky, and at 42 inches long you're not gonna have a problem carrying this around with you. So another thing that is featured in this stock is a little Picatinny rail section here if you did want to mount a bipod or something like that. I love that you know just the ability to quickly mount a bipod is always nice in my opinion. On top of the breech, we have Hatsan standard weaver, 11-millimeter dovetail scope rail, which at this point is kind of you know, it's their standard and it works. I prefer to use dovetail mounts on these rails just because sometimes the Picatinny weaver sections are a little weird, so we went ahead and mounted a UTG 4 - 16 by 50 scope here on top. On the side of the action here we do have a side bolt operated system very similar to what we've seen on the Gauntlet but it kind of pops back on its own, not too hard to pull back and does go down into that slot. You got two 12 round magazines with these, is the same as the mags on the BullMaster and the Barrage, so you can just slide them in there and you're good to go. 12 pellets will do all 12 shot groups when we're out on the range for you guys and the gun does also come with a single shot tray which again, little value-added features that are always nice. So when you go ahead, you cock that back, you're gonna go ahead, you don't have to drop it down when you're just loading the gun but you do when you're gonna take the mag in and out, and you're just gonna rock it forward and you're good to go. If you do want to de-cock the rifle, you just hold it back there pull the trigger, you hear it kind of pop and you're good to go and you're all safe. Another big upgrade, kind of an upgrade I guess in my opinion, that Hatsan has been long needing is a non-automatic safety. So we do have a manual safety that's really conveniently placed for the right-handed shooters out there, you just flip that back it's on, safe, flip it forward, you're hot and ready to go, and the Quattro trigger, so this should be a very very good trigger, may need a little adjusting out of the box for you but it is very adjustable. The Quattro is really nice, think this one is breaking about three pounds doesn't have too much take-up which I like, and comes to a fairly clean wall so it's a nice little trigger that you're going to be able to get along with whether you're a hunter or a target shooter without a problem. So let's head out to the range and see what this Flash can do. Alright, guys, we tested pretty much every pellet we had at our disposal, probably somewhere in the 15-16 amount of pellets. That said, we narrowed it down to three in our pre-testing that did quite well. The results were okay you know for most, so you got the Crosman Premiere domes which is a pretty affordable pellet. All twelve shots and these are twelve shot groups inch and a quarter for all twelve you cut out that shot right there, which was my first shot so probably a me problem there, and you got 11 shots in a one inch group which is certainly not too bad out at 45 yards. Moving it in the Barracuda Powers, which is a very heavy pellet, you got a 21 grain pellet, they're gonna give you a lot of energy, puts all 12 in about an inch and an eighth and again 11 of those 12 are gonna be in a one inch group there, which is again pretty solid. But definitely the best, those JSB 15 point eight nine five-eighths group 12 shots out of a $300 gun, high praise in the accuracy department for the Hatsan Flash. So looking over these chronograph results with the Hatsan Flash, it's kind of what I expected, especially with the 16-grain pellet. About 30 foot-pounds of energy and that 20 shot average at 925 feet per second is definitely cruising along with a 16-grain pellet. It's producing good accuracy but really if we're looking at the tightness of these velocities you're talking about getting one mag so 12 shots maybe 15 shots in a kind of a usable velocity range. If you're shooting out 250 yards or more, if you're using this gun for tighter ranges than that, not going to see so much of a change. But really guys you're buying a Hatsan Flash because you want to do some serious hunting with it, not because you want to be shooting all day in the backyard. This is going to be the 300 dollar gun that the serious hunter is going to be able to get behind and use effectively. Alright guys so I got to say very impressed with the Hatsan Flash, it's really everything I expected it to be. It's quiet, you got a solid trigger, it's not gonna require too much fiddling out of the box, and if it does it's relatively easy to do. 12 round magazine so you get a few more shots per mag for those of you guys that are hunting with this gun. Reliable bolt-action system and it's got good power, pushing a 16 grain pellet basically at 925 feet per second averaged over about 20 shots, this is gonna be really good for you hunters out there, 30 foot-pounds of energy a 5/8 group at 45 yards absolutely phenomenal over 12 shots. Got to see a dust cover in that I'd really like Hatsan to put that out there, but overall I really can't find too many gripes with this gun if any at all. It's lightweight, which is a godsend from Hatsan, thank you very much. Quiet, accurate, you got the multi-shot system, they did everything right with this $300 PCP and if you're looking for more power, you got a 25 caliber option. If you're looking to do some target shooting exclusively, you got a 177 option as well. Whether you're just getting into PCPs or if you're looking for a gun to knock around with in the woods, the Hatsan Flash is gonna be a really good choice for you, so definitely check it out next time you're on Pyramyd Air. Don't forget to click that subscribe button, stick with us through 2018. There are a lot of cool new products we're gonna be taking a look at, I am very excited for all of the things that we're gonna be seeing in the 2018. Lots of cool new stuff coming your guys' way. Don't forget to like and comment down below tell us what you thought of the video, and what you guys want to see next. For the Insyder, I'm Tyler Patner, we'll see you guys at the next one. |
 | Hatsan Nova QE Air Rifle0.0(0 reviews)Hatsan Nova QE Air Rifle Video Transcript: Welcome to the Pyramyd Insyder, I’m Tyler Patner, today we're gonna be taking a look at the Hatsan Nova in .25 caliber. So the Nova is one of the newer offerings from Hatsan here in the US. This is the .25 caliber also available .177 and .22. In the .25, they're claiming about 46 foot-pounds of energy and about 88 shots per fill. Now this is a 500cc air cylinder. A lot of air capacity and it does fill the 250 bar. But 88 shots is quite a lot, so I obviously we're gonna get this on the chronograph, because I'm very eager to see if it's gonna hit that mark. One way to find out though guys. But let's check out some of the specs on the gun. Up front is Hatsan’s QE technology, that's quiet energy, see it on pretty much all of their guns now. 23 inch barrel under here and then you have the moderator suppressor, if you will, setting off the rest of the gun and it is baffled inside of this chamber here. A very quiet gun for the type of energy we're talking about, you know 40 plus 50 almost foot-pounds. It is pretty darn quiet, I'd say you know 1-2 area in terms of loudness, we'll put it on the sound meter for you guys as well. Moving back, we do have a 500cc aluminum cylinder on this gun. Not removable, you don't need to remove it. Fills via the hole right here and does come with a probe that is threaded to 1/8 pspp which is pretty standard, all the Hatsan guns use the same probe here. We got ours with a quick disconnect so we can just hook it right up to our hose and fill. And as I said, this does fill the 250 bar, so it is a little bit higher than most of the other Hatsan guns as well. And you notice we have a bipod on this gun as well. The gun does come standard with a weaver Picatinny rail on the bottom. It is plastic so any metal bipod you're gonna mount on it, it's probably gonna have a little bit of give in that rail so just make sure you got it tight down very securely, and obviously this one flips forward. Just got to here for the stand, we'll put it on the bags though when we test it. And you also do have some swivel studs as well in the front and the back of the rifle. That allows for a sling as well so you don't have to pick between a sling or a bipod, you can do both with this gun. Also on the underside of the stock, we do have our gauge here so you got the colors displayed there. It's a 250 bar fill gun so about 3600 PSI. Most guns are going to go to about 3000 in the Hatsan, this is one of the ones that goes higher and with that bottle that's why you're getting that higher shot count there, so obviously we're gonna put it to the test, but 250 bar make note of that. And real quick just to show you. The gun actually does come with a fill port protector, which I think is a real real nice feature here from Hatsan. I'm just gonna take the probe and push it on through, but you can see it comes with this little protector so that when your fill probe is not in the gun you're not getting any dust or debris into that probe area, which is a very nice add-on from Hatsan. So on top of the breech block here, we do have what is very common on the Hatsan guns. It's a split rail and what I mean by that is that you have an 11 millimeter mounting option for the dovetail and then a weaver mounting option. Because it's not standard Weaver spacing though, I would recommend going with the dovetail setup, it's gonna give you more freedom to set the scope to the proper eye relief for you. So the Nova, like a lot of the other Hatsan PCPs, is a side lever. I like it a lot, it's not very fancy or anything it doesn't look very sleek but it works, it's very functional. Side lever just comes back like that, straight back into the cockpit and you will know you also have an automatic safety as you find out with most the Hatsan guns. Not a huge fan of the automatic safeties on PCPs. That said it's located in a place that when you do shoulder it, you just flick it off, it's not very difficult. And our magazines are the standard Hatsan mags, now these are 9 round magazines and the gun comes with three of them, so that's a lot of shots right out of the box, and Hatsan knew you know with the extended shot count of the large bottle on here and higher fill pressure you're gonna need a bunch of mags, so they just went ahead and gave them to you. Now to load these magazines, very simple, you see you have this little catch lever here, you're just gonna pull it back and lock it into that upward position. Throw your mag in there and then you just flip it down, and once it's positioned right, this will snap back into place holding it. You may have to rotate the mag just a little bit to cycle it to that next position so you can get that bolt back through, but very easy to load, simple mechanism once you do it once you'll never forget it. The Nova does feature Hatsan’s Quatro trigger, very crisp clean let off on this trigger and it is adjustable so I mean you can you know work with it to get it set up for you. I think as a hunting trigger this is actually one of the better triggers on the PCP market, so picking the gun up here, you'll notice obviously Turkish walnut stock. You do have some nice checkering on the grip and the forend of the stock. It's very fine though, it's not giving you too much feedback tactile-wise, and a raised cheekpiece, adjustable butt pad, it's got all the hallmarks of a comfortable gun here. Let's get out to the range, see how she does. Let's go shoot. Alright guys, so we went through about six, seven different pellets in .25 here. Ended up going through all JSBs just purely because they shot the best. The King's the 25.4s, they did pretty well, not great, you know six of those nine shots are in within about three-quarters of an inch, so I think it's gonna be gun to gun in terms of which King it likes best. But obviously the Mark two heavies, whoa, half inch, I mean this is by far the pellet to go with in the Nova, and this Nova in particular. I think you get a lot of reasonable groups, and obviously the big surprise I think for myself and probably most of you guys as well are these Predator GTOs. I've been trying these than a lot of guns lately, and they did quite well in the Nova, about an inch group there for nine shots, it's pretty damn good, you don't get a whole lot better than that. Obviously the King heavy just blew everything else out of the water, so we're gonna use those for the chronograph testing, see how many shots we get, and then we’ll do it for the sound testing as well. So looking over our chronograph numbers here, now you notice we started shot 30 and 220 bar here on this graph. That's because when we filled it to 250 bar, the velocity was right around 650 feet per second or so and it actually came up into that 700 range. So really those first 30 shots are pretty useless in my opinion, but as you go that's when you start to see things even out, and as you guys can see we got a 92 shot sweet spot, pretty much between 725 and 750. Those 92 shots are super consistent now Hatsan obviously rates this with 88 shots, but we're getting 92 in the sweet spot, 140 total from 220 down to 100 bar and that's within 50 feet per second. For an unregulated gun, super impressive. Only 93.7 decibels, 93-94 decibels, that's pretty darn quiet. This gun is definitely backyard-friendly. |
 | Ataman AP16 Regulated Compact Air Pistol0.0(0 reviews)Fine craftsmanship and excellence are evident in every aspect of this compact pistol from its Lothar Walther barrel, to the adjustable trigger, lightweight versatility, and power.
Ataman AP16 Regulated Compact Air Pistol Video Transcript: Welcome to the Pyramyd Insyder, I'm Tyler Patner, and this is the Ataman AP16 pistol in .22 caliber.
With the JSB 18 1 heavies we're getting just under 14 foot-pounds of energy and immediately looking at the shot string here you can tell it's a regulated gun. You have a super flat string. 23 of those shots within 8 foot per second spread is about as good as you're gonna get on any regulated gun I don't care what it is. And a standard deviation of only 2.09 feet per second means that each shot is going to be your fault if you're not putting it on target. So very very good numbers and more than the manufacturer even stated out of the AP16 compact.
|
 | RWS Pellets - AGR Episode #420.0(0 reviews)RWS pellets are some of the top pellets airgunners use when accuracy is important. Paul reviews the line and shows you how well they perform. If you've never used this line, maybe it's time you did! |
 | Crosman M4-177 - Airgun Reporter Episode #830.0(0 reviews)Crosman M4-177 took the airgun world by surprise back in late 2011. A perfect execution by Crosman team! |
 | Crosman MAR .177 - Airgun Reporter Episode #920.0(0 reviews)Paul finally takes a look at the Crosman MAR .177 AR-15 upper. |
 | Pyramyd Insyder at SHOT Show 2018 - Part 30.0(0 reviews)The Pyramyd Insyder was all over SHOT Show 2018 scouring the floor for the latest air rifles and air pistols from cutting-edge airgun manufactures like Air Venturi, Seneca, Umarex, RWS and Springfield Armory. Pyramyd Insyder: SHOT Show 2018 - Part 3 Video Transcript: Hey guys we're here at the Air Venture booth SHOT Show 2018. This is the Double Shot. Alright why do they call it the Double Shot? Two barrels of ultimate badassery right here. This is of course first and foremost an air shotgun. Basically you can call this the big brother of the Wing shot if you want to, I am just calling it awesome. We have an air distributor system here this is going to allow you to quickly flip between the left and the right barrel, it is absolutely fantastic, it works super smooth and all you have to do, you cock the gun, you turn it, and you are good to go. Of course if you're going to shoot something maybe like these guys, these air bolts out of this, you're going to have to take off these chokes. They did let me play around with this before we came out to SHOT. This is, of course, like one of two prototypes right now, but guys this is super awesome, 18 inch pattern at 20 yards with both barrels. And you're able to put four of these, you know one after the other, with one reload in between into about a three-inch group at 35 yards. This thing is going to be a hunter's dream. You got a quick follow up shot with these air bolts. What more could you ask for guys? So really cool, brand-new, this is going to be under the Seneca line the Double Shot, one you're gonna want to check out in 2018. Alright guys we are back at the Air Venturi booth. This is a cool little rifle that caught my eye here at the booth. They're calling this the TR 5, now this guy is a youth target rifle, very reminiscent of the IZH 61 that we can no longer get here in the states so. You got a five-round repeating system, of course, this is a spring piston side lever gun. You can see that side lever right here, you simply lift up on it and go to the side and you're able to go ahead, pull that back, and you can actually you just saw that index right there. So this is all gonna work really really simply and smoothly for those junior shooters out there. You got a rail underneath for mounting a sling accessory and, of course, we're going to put target sights on this. So I would imagine you're gonna probably see some sort of aperture sights, you know probably similar to what we used to see on that IZH model, but some updates. They made a little update to the design as far as I can see here. You have a quick adjusting buttstock and it feels like it's got about six positions in it, as well as an up-and-down adjustable butt pad here via this thumb screw on the back, so you loosen it you can actually move that rubber butt pad up and down. You know this one's going to be a great option to get the kids into some target shooting with or if you're just looking to plink in the backyard, probably going to be a really really good choice, and one to keep an eye on as the year goes forward. Back at the Air Venturi booth. Guys these guys keep coming out with new products it's crazy. This is the Hellboy alright, this is in their Hellraiser line they're calling it. This is basically your AR M4 replica and this feels pretty damn real to me guys. You can see you got the flip opened dust port there, the ejection port. Here's all the features this thing has packed in guys. You have the fully adjustable six-point buttstock here and it this castle nut actually can come loose so it does seem like at least you can change out your buffer tube and your buttstock if you so choose. We do have a selector switch over here on this side. Now you'll notice it does say auto, they are telling me this does not function in full auto, only semi-automatic even when you do have it on that auto selector, eh but that's alright. They're telling me they're hitting good targets with this thing you know a 12 by 12 target I'd bet 240 yards with bb's, alright, that's pretty awesome. You got a drop free mag that's going to house 18 bb's in one co2 cartridge, they're saying fifty to sixty shots. Guys it looks like honestly you could replace all of these accessories with just about anything you want on here, and for those of you that want a little bit more precision you can even unscrew this and you got a flat top rail on top. This is actually really awesome if you're looking to do some action shooting or practice for what you're going to be doing out in the field maybe in the range with your real AR, the Hellboy's going to be one to check out, stay tuned. Hey guys we're back at SHOT Show 2018 still at the Air Venturi booth. We are taking a look at the brand new Seneca Dragonfly. This actually looks a lot like the Diana Stormrider except that it is a multi-pump, alright, so check that out. You're able to get eight pumps with this in 177, you're looking at about 800 feet per second they're telling me and about 622. Coolest thing about this though,.multi-pump multishot you slide, just like the Stormrider you slide the single shot tray out and a magazine fits right in here. Nine rounds into 177 and 7 and 22. Same magazines as a Storm Rider so those are already readily available, so a little solid 5-pound gun multi-pump gun, it's going to be perfect for you preppers out there. Open sights of course, and you're gonna be able to mount a scope on the 11 millimeter dovetail guys. Again if you've been looking for a multi-pump rifle whether you're looking to get a youth shooter into it or you are looking to do some hunting yourself without having to worry about a spring or a piston breaking on you or having to fill up a gun with a PCP multi-pump pneumatic, the Dragonfly's coming your way. Check it out in 2018. Hey guys back here at the Air Venturi booth, last thing we're going to show you here today and probably the most significant. I'm watching this display here, it's got me a little mesmerized so I apologize if I zone out. These are the Dust Devil BB's, this is the world's first and only frangible BB. Frangible means it breaks apart when it hits a hard target, guys. That means you could shoot your steel targets, your plinking stuff, we got a gong target, you know on the website, there you can shoot any of these hard targets and these BB's break apart. He's working almost every BB gun you got out there, I think they don't work in the MP40 which was I was really bummed to hear that, but any of your single-stack magazine BB pistols or rifles, these are gonna work great in. They're a little bit lighter than your traditional 5.1-grain steel BB, so they are gonna go a bit faster as well, but this is a way safer option than your traditional steel BB and even then your smart shot BB's, which are low ricochet. If those are low ricochet these are no ricochets, what I'm being told, so that's really cool. 1500 counts probably going to be around ten bucks. Guys, these are gonna make shooting BB guns a lot more fun. We're going to be using these quite a bit here on the Insyder in 2018 so stay tuned. Alright guys so I was about to leave the Air Venturi booth and they told me they got us a licensing deal with Springfield Armory. Pretty cool. Actually, the first pistol I ever bought, real steel 9-millimeter pistol, was an XDM, and this is the exact replica of that gun. Now this is an airsoft version, they're also going to have BB versions. Pull blowback, drop three mag. Guys this feels just like the real thing, they even have the texturing down, and I'm told it comes with the interchangeable backstraps, as well functional grip safety, come on this is awesome. This is going to make training at home if you have a Springfield pistol, there's gonna be some 1911's out there as well, awesome stuff here guys, this is really gonna open it up. I can't think of many brands now that aren't represented with an air gun replica. Springfield Armory was one of the last ones that wasn't, and Air Venturi is gonna take care of that for us, but not only do they have pistols, guys, that are coming, but they're doing rifles too. Parking them back, just a little bit of an older time here. We have the M1 Carbine replica, this is actually, this is full metal and if this is a wood stock. I'm told there's going to be a synthetic stock option available for a little bit less probably around $199 or so but this wood stock option is definitely going to be available. They're telling me this is a cold blowback gun in the airsoft version. Co2 cartridge looks like a drop free mag again here, yep CO2 right in the bottom, so I'm expecting the BB versions probably going to be very similar. And, of course, the venerable M1A. Now this is a Springer airsoft version that they have here for show, but they tell me they're working on a bunch of other versions which includes CO2 as well so if you are an M1A fan and looking for something not only in airsoft but also in steel BB to replicate the field, maybe your real M1A or an M14, definitely one to check out. Guys this is a huge deal for the guys at Air Venturi. Really cool, looking forward to seeing what they put out in 2018. We're gonna check out the rest of the show now guys. Stay tuned here with the Insyder at SHOT Show. Hey guys we're here at the Umarex booth, obviously Umarex did big big things in the PCP world in 2017, and in 2018 they are not going to disappoint. The Hammer is here guys. Very very impressive changes and upgrades in my opinion to this gun here. Now they're saying made in America, I don't know what exactly all qualifies is made in America, that's not really the important part, let's talk about some of the performance specs they're talking about here. You have a 4,500 psi carbon-fiber cylinder on this gun which is regulated at 3,000 psi. Gun has a two-round magazine in it and that's going to give you, you should be able to get two to three good shots on a fill at this at up to 700 foot-pounds, seven zero zero guys. That is a ton of power, this will be the world's most powerful production big bore and man I can't wait to get my hands on this, guys. I know it looks like a pretty big gun, obviously fully shrouded barrel but this thing doesn't handle that heavy guys, and quite frankly, the balance throwing it up to the DI there is really really nice. Talking about a brand new valve design there, light speed valve in this gun which should be able to deliver not only that big power, but also a very quick jolt shock shot cycle that should be really really shooter friendly, and a 2-pound cocking effort you just pull it back like that, push it forward, let's try the trigger here real quick. For a big bore guys, that's pretty good, overall the Umarex Hammer is a fan, only one you're gonna want to check out. 50 caliber 700 foot-pounds, 2018 big things coming, stay tuned. Hey, guys, we're back at the Umarex booth checking out some new RWS guns, now these are going to be made in Germany and America, so this is gonna be an interesting kind of mash-up between Umarex Germany and Umarex USA to deliver what is going to hopefully be a very high-quality spring piston gun. This is the 3400 and we have the 3500 right behind me. Obviously you can tell some really nice stocks on here, you got some nice checkering in there, it looks like we do have an adjustable trigger as well, and you can definitely tell this is taking departure from the traditional RWS line, as we have a fiber-optic front sight up there and even as far as the safety goes, this looks very similar to what they're doing with the Walther guns. So we have a lot of new updated features kind of a mashup gun here between the historically significant Art of US line and what Umarex is wanting to do with updating some of these features. So definitely one we're going to be checking out on the Insyder here in 2018. Looking forward to this one a lot, stay tuned. Alright guys back into Umarex checking out some Glock stuff. Umarex got the Glock license earlier in 2017 and looking at these I got to tell you, these feel pretty realistic. Now these are some early samples here, and it looks like we got a drop free BB mag here so pretty nice, co2 is gonna be housed in the grip, you could see that piercing screw there at the bottom, but we don't have blowback on this particular version so this is probably going to be a lower price point gun right here, but definitely some cool stuff going to be coming out of this Umarex Glock relationship, we're looking forward to hearing more about it in 2018. Guys check this out. I saw a video of this gun just before SHOT show. Lit up the Internet, this is the Umarex Legends cowboy rifle. You see that in there, you know what that's gonna be doing? That's ejecting shells. You guys remember those shells that come with the John Wayne pistols, the Colt single-action pistols, those are exactly what we're talking about. You load those shells up right into here, one BB of course in each of those shells, and you are good to go. Blasting with lever action fun, two co2 cartridges I believe in the back of this thing. Guys this is the real deal, this is exactly what we've been looking for add that realism factor with that shell ejection. I could do this all day, guys, Umarex is gonna nail this one. Very excited to get it on the Insyder in 2018. |
 | Weihrauch HW44 Air Pistol0.0(0 reviews)The HW44 is a PCP pistol destined for greatness in your backyard range. Based on the action of their prized HW110, the HW44 gives airgunners the power they want and the accuracy they need for plinking and small game hunting. Weihrauch HW44 Air Pistol Video Transcript: Welcome to the Pyramyd Insyder. I'm Tyler Patner. Today we got a brand-new air pistol from Weihrauch in Germany, the HW 44. So, the HW 44, guys, was announced at IWA Germany this year in 2017 and we wanted to get it in before the end of the year as kind of the final new offering that's come in in 2017 here at Pyramyd Air. The gun is a little bit different than what we saw at IWE but very interesting nonetheless. This is a high-powered pre-charge pneumatic hunting pistol that's got a lot of really nice features. Let's take a look at them. Now starting at the front of the gun, this is probably the only departure that you'll see if you looked at pictures of this gun from IWE, is the fixed suppressor on the end of the gun here, it's about a six-inch suppressor, gonna keep things nice and quiet because without it the gun barks quite a bit. The gun's putting out about 17 foot-pounds of energy in .22 caliber, obviously a little bit less in 177, and those are the two calibers it's available in. So, the suppressor is a really nice addition, and while it does make the gun fairly long at just over 19 inches, it doesn't make it unwieldy, and we'll show you that here on the range a little bit later. It still shoots very well. Just back at the suppressor we do have a fixed front sight and that matches up very nicely with your rear adjustable sight unit, and it is fully adjustable windage and elevation all in one comes very nicely into the sight line very low-profile sight there. Although we do have a Picatinny rail up top and then on the underside of the gun for any optics, you're gonna want to mount, we're probably going to go ahead and mount a pistol scope for the accuracy portion of this review because we were expecting very good accuracy out of this gun and it certainly deserves it but you could also mount a red dot if you didn't want to go with the open sight setup and of course the rail underneath is gonna be good for your lasers, flashlights, things like that, heck, you can even mount a bipod on it if you really wanted to. As far as air capacity goes, we do have a very small cylinder on this gun, important to note. We should be getting very good consistency, although I'm not expecting a heck of a lot of shots out of this gun, probably about 15, that said you do have a colorful pressure gauge on the front, 200 bar max fill pressure, about 2900 psi, and the gun does come with a fill port cover which I love, it's little things that get me, guys, and the fill probe itself. We have it decked out here with a quick disconnect fitting. It does not come with this quick disconnect fitting so note that you will need to get one if you're running a QD setup on your hose to fill it, but just goes right in the end there, you hook it up and you are good to go, very easy to use. Moving on back to the trigger, this is a two-stage, definitely a match grade trigger and it is adjustable as well so important to note there, but the trigger right out of the box guys this is probably breaking right about a pound, maybe a hair under. This trigger is awesome, alright breaks like glass first stage, second stage, you can perfectly define them with your finger and it just breaks super clean, a very nice trigger. Now, the safety unit on this gun you do actually have to cock the gun to engage the safety and it is ambidextrous. One thing you'll notice about this gun is that it is fully ambidextrous so the grip you can actually switch the cocking lever over the loading lever. You can switch everything over, but the safety is the one thing you do not need to switch. It's fully ambidextrous so we're just gonna flip that down, that puts it on safe. We can go ahead and try and pull the trigger, nothing happens, really easy to operate system, and then when you're ready and you want to go shoot it, you just flip it back up. It's very easy to use. So, the HW 44 is built on the same frame as the HW 110 basically so your actions gonna function and feel the same and it uses the same 10-round magazines. So, magazines look just like this, ten rounds in 177 and 22. Obviously, we have the 22 here. There is a bit of a trick to loading it though. So, on the side of the gun we do have this kind of loading lever here which actually keeps a pin that retains the magazine in place, so to go ahead and load it you just kind of flip this into the upward position and then slide your magazine in till it seats, and you'll know it's seated properly when this guy flips back forward, and you're all set to go. You push this forward you're loaded hot and ready to go. The gun does come with two magazines, really like that. Overall the gun feels pretty good, yes, it's a little bit long, but it's not too heavy. I want to say it's right around 2 pounds or so but ambidextrous grip so whether you're a right-handed or a left-handed shooter this is going to fit into your hand nicely. I don't have the biggest hands but there's still room for me to get to that palm shelf there, but a very nice feel putting it out there, points well, and again other than being a little bit long, this gun doesn't handle too poorly for such a long pistol and the fully ambidextrous nature of everything, whether it's the safety that I can get too easily or the mag release or the lever itself, everything on this gun can be swapped to the other side so that feature in and of itself has me won over right there. So, whether you're righty or a lefty this HW 44 should perform very well for you guys. There's one other thing I want to mention before we head out to the range. There is actually a way to D gas this pistol which is very neat. There's actually a little cutout here in the molded plastic here and you can actually fit an Allen key right into there. You twist it and you go ahead and degassed the cylinder, whether you need to do so for travel or maintenance, whatever you may need to do that for, you do have the ability to do that without having to just fire off a bunch of shots, so I do like that feature as well. Again, wire rack nails the little details here, guys, which is really cool. We're gonna head out to the range. Now, I have a Leapers 1.25 to 4 pistol scope here so it's going to give you that longer IRA leave, so we can fully extend out away from the gun, got some Picatinny mounts here to go ahead get this mounted up. We'll see you out at the range. Alright guys, just real quick wanted to show you a couple things before we get to the accuracy. To be able to get our best accuracy and see what this pistol can do, we're gonna go ahead and bench it just like you're seeing it here so got a bit of a front rest that's about all we're doing here, nothing too extensive, but one thing I did want to show you guys was the muzzle flip on this this gun seems to pop quite a bit when you pull the trigger on it, and I wanted to show you guys that right here, so check this out, so two-handed grip off the bag and you can see that gun jump as you fire it. There's a fair bit of muzzle flip so that is something to consider. It's not seeming to affect my accuracy at all, but definitely an interesting feel out of this HW 44 when you pull the trigger. Alright, guys, it's starting out with our groupings here. At 25 yards, our Predator GTOs did very very well, under a half inch group of 0.45 7/16s or so, very accurate pellet. This is again ten shot groups here, the JSB 15.89s also pretty impressive about 0.6 inches or 5/8 so a nice little grouping there so you definitely got some pellet options. It seems to be favoring the JSP although these Crosman premier 14.3 domes did very well. I was quite surprised by this as a lower cost alternative pellet 3/4 of an inch at 25 yards, you know this is going to be a squirrel's head all day. Moving out to 45 yards, really testing the accuracy at long distance of this HW 44 pistol the GTOs, I was a little disappointed after that grouping at 25 yards, just barely under an inch here for 10 shots decent spread. You're still going to be able to hunt with this at that distance with those GTOs. The Crosman premiers put down a very nice group except for two little Flyers up top there 8 out of 10 in about 11/16s inch group, but overall 1-inch for 10 shots and probably our best pellet out there 45 to JSB 15.89 7/8s inch group right here for 10 shots, very accurate pistol, very impressed out of this gun. At 45 yards, you're definitely gonna have both the power and the accuracy to go after small game with this guy, with the JSB 15.89 zero looking at an average feet per second of about 690 or so which is pretty good. It's about 17 foot-pounds with those JSB 15.89 and again very, very consistent on that regulator. You're gonna get about 15 or 16 shots from 200 bar with a very tight extreme spread and obviously a very good standard deviation. The HW 44 is making very good use of a very small air capacity with that regulator. Alright, guys, pretty impressed here with the HW 44, very accurate, very consistent chronograph numbers, super smooth operation, and obviously the fact that it's very quiet is a big plus in my world. The ambidextrous grips and the fact that you can swap everything over it is very nice in my opinion as well. A couple gripes though I'm not a huge fan of this kind of magazine retention lever system. It just makes getting mags in and out a little bit clunky almost, but other than that the gun really functions well. Again, I'd like to see a quick disconnect, you know, fitting on these guns, but I get it. You know, fill probe is whatever it is and at least they give you that fill port cover there to keep dust and debris out of the gun, but overall, I mean, those are very small gripes when a gun's doing sub half-inch groups at 25 yards and under 1-inch groups at 45 yards. This is a pistol remember that guys so off the bench of very impressive results here for the HW 44 and one you guys are definitely going to want to check out. The high price point is well justified in my opinion if you are looking for something that is going to be able to hunt or target shoot accurately in a pistol format so check it out on PyramydAir.com. For the Insyder, I'm Tyler Patner. As always, guys, don't forget to comment, like, and subscribe. We'll see you at the next one. |
 | Diana Bandit .177 PCP Air Pistol0.0(0 reviews)A streamlined PCP Pistol that offers quiet, single shot or magazine fed operation, AND is affordable? The Diana Bandit .177 PCP Air Pistol is so great it should be outlawed! |
 | Umarex Glock 17 Gen3 CO2 Blow Back .177 BB Gun0.0(0 reviews)Hey airgunners, the Glock 17 is finally here! Grab a .177 BB replica of this iconic pistol, and find out for yourself what "Glock Perfection" really means! |
 | Umarex Gauntlet PCP Air Rifle0.0(0 reviews)PCP airgunners long for affordable guns that are consistent as well as powerful, and Umarex has answered the call! Video Transcript Below: Welcome to the Pyramyd Insyder. I’m Tyler Patner. Today, we have probably the most highly anticipated product of 2017, the Umarex Gauntlet in .22 caliber. Let's get to it. Alright guys, I'm really excited we're bringing you the Gauntlet here in .22 caliber, and this is a production gun. We've seen a lot of other content out there on pre-production models. I've had the opportunity to shoot a couple iterations of the pre-production guns, and they've all been phenomenal. They set a very high standard and we had the opportunity to put one of those guns on video for you guys, but we chose not to release that content because, quite frankly, I don't care about what a pre-production gun can do. It all matters if the production gun that's going to get into your guys' hands can do it too so that's what we're doing today. We're gonna take a look at the Gauntlet in .22 caliber here and see if it lives up to the high standard that the pre-production models have set. Alright guys, starting at the front of the Gauntlet, of course, one of the hallmark features of the gun, fully shrouded barrel, it's a 23 and a half inch barrel. Underneath this full-length shroud, it's about a 28-inch shroud unit and we do have kind of a mono course style baffle system, so it's not like some guns we've seen where their individual baffles are inside. There it's actually a two-piece unit that comes together which means you really shouldn't have any problems with clipping or anything like that. So, overall that should be a very good design and the gun is very quiet. We're gonna, of course, sound test it for you guys, and see how performs there, moving back under the barrel, we do have a 13 cubic inch bottle. Now, this bottle translates to about 200 plus CC's, just a little over that actually 200 CC mark of air capacity, and it's a 3,000 psi fill, so a standard fill in a very similar air size to what you have on like your Benjamin Marauders and guns in that kind of range. You do have your gauge on the right-hand side of the gun and then we do have a male quick disconnect fitting on the left-hand side of the gun. This is really nice, really convenient. You have plenty of space to fit your female QD in there on the end of your hose. Whether you're pumping or filling with a tank, this is going to be super easy to connect to. This cage portion actually does remove so you can remove the bottle and you remove it via the swivel stud. So, you take this full stud completely out and then you just kind of squeeze the cage portion and bring it off, the bottle is actually integral to the regulator, so you can actually purchase regulated bottles for this gun to fit right on here, and our Air Venturi 13 cubic inch bottle does fit right onto this gun. You can purchase it right now if you wanted to have a spare cylinder going with you. One thing I do want to note though is that it does come with this degassing tool and you do have to degas as the cylinder to go ahead and remove it. So, to do that you would just insert the degassing key right here and then twist all the way around. You'll hear it go, it vents out the barrel, so make sure your unloaded with the magazine removed when you go ahead and degas that cylinder, and of course, you guys will note that I did say it is a regulated bottle which does mean the Gauntlet should have regulated performance. What that means is that we should get very consistent shot-to-shot velocities as well as a lot of shots. They're claiming about 60 shots on a 3000 psi filled down to that 1150 psi regulator pressure. We're gonna obviously put it over the chronograph and see if that holds true. We'll find out the pre-production guns that we've shot all hold up to that claim so we'll find out if the production guns do as well. Taking a closer look at the breech, guys, we do have a repeater action, so you do have a 10-round magazine in .22, same in .177. I have confirmed that the Marauder magazines will work in these, very nice magazine. We know it's a reliable system. They've been used for a long time and overall I've had no problems around in this magazine, no jams, anything like that. The guns do also come with a single shot tray which is nice if you want to get just, milk a little bit more, accuracy out of the gun and the way you load those is via a side bolt action so a nice big bolt here to go ahead and grab onto, simply goes up and back and then you're gonna slide it down into that rear position to go ahead and insert your magazine or your single-shot tray. They have a nice audible snap in when you go ahead and put them in and then when you're ready to go you just simply push the bolt forward and you're all set, really easy to operate system. The gun decocks like just about any other PCP does. You simply hold the bolt back, go ahead pull the trigger, you hear that click and then you can slowly slide it forward, you're all good to go. The safety dropping down here is a flip style safety so that is your safe position right there and when you're ready to go hot, you just simply flip that forward and you're set to go. We do have a metal trigger blade as well and Umarex says that via the manual that it is adjustable. We didn't adjust it for this video here. I can tell you guys it has a pretty long take-up, but it comes to that consistent stop for that supposed second stage wall, if you want to say it that way, although, again, with that long take-up, calling it a two-stage trigger out-of-the-box maybe not so true, but it doesn't break that heavy. It's right around three pounds and again very consistent when you get to that second stage wall so I don't have any problems with this trigger as it's set up. I do know it can go lighter as well as have a more defined first second stage, so that's good to know. It's capable of that and coming up to the top of the breech. We do have an 11 millimeter dovetail and it is a split breech design so you do have a dovetail section in front of and behind your magazine, all depends on the length of scope you're gonna be using because we're using a 3 to 12 compact swat-style leaper scope today, you really don't need to go ahead and mount it both forward and backwards to get that proper eye relief, and you'll note that we have plenty of room. I'll show you here to go ahead and get our magazine in without causing any contact between the gun and the scope, but that is something to consider. You're probably going to want to go with high rings with most optics on this gun just to make sure you can clear that magazine, and of course, we do have a fully synthetic stock on this gun with an adjustable cheek piece, which is an awesome feature to see, especially for a gun in this 300 dollar price range. Rubber butt pad on the back really cool, note by the way you simply loosen the swivel stud here on the bottom to go ahead and adjust this via the thumb wheel and this is actually your vertical up-and-down adjustment of the cheek piece and then when you get it locked in and in that position that's best for you in your scope height, you're going to want to go ahead and then crank this clockwise to tighten it down and that's going to lock you in place, really nice feature. Overall guys, the Gauntlet feels pretty nice and balanced, is quite well out there, I find that this kind of swooped out section is where balance is best for me. Offhand, you are talking about roughly eight, eight and a half pound gun without a scope and a 46 inch overall length which is on the long side, but it is very quiet and we do need that extra shroud length to keep it that way. Overall, really like the feel though it does have that kind of cheap plasticy feel that a lot of synthetic stock guns do, but so overall pretty impressed, but I'm really excited to get this out to the range guys and see what it can do on paper and over the chronograph so let's head out and check out those results. Alright guys, we decided to take the Gauntlet straight out to 45 yards. There's really no point in testing really any PCP closer than that for the most part and the results are pretty good. We tested about 10 pellets in the Gauntlet and we found that 3 did better than most so we're talking about 1-inch groups is what my personal wanting was in this gun, you know, if we could do a 1 inch 10 shot group at 45 yards, I consider that a pretty solid grouping, not great but pretty solid, and the predator GTO is delivered right at about an inch for 10 shots, not too bad, but we definitely can do better. The JSP 15.89s you got a 3/4 inch group. They're very tight, little spread there, the regulator is certainly doing its job keeping those shots consistent and the H&N field target trophy is also coming in right at about 3/4 of an inch so pretty good groups, again 10 shot groups. So, they're gonna be a little bit bigger than they would be if they were 5, but the Gauntlet could certainly deliver out a distance 45 yards sub 1-inch groups, pretty impressed with the Gauntlet. So, with our most accurate pellet the JSB exact jumbo 15.89 grain, we're looking at an average feet per second of about 790 789, which is right about 22 foot-pounds. Now, the important part here, Umarex claims 60 shots per fill and they hit that number on the money from a 3,000 psi fill down to that 1100 psi regulated mark with an extreme spread at 18 feet per second and a standard deviation of only 3.3 feet per second. The numbers are pretty impressive here, guys, it's a little on the large spread side for a regulated gun, but still anything under that 25 foot per second mark really isn't going to impact your accuracy downrange, out to about 50-60 yards so gotta say, these numbers are looking very impressive and exactly what Umarex is touting. Alright guys, there's not a lot I can say for the Gauntlet that it doesn't say for itself on paper, very impressive offering in a three hundred dollar package. Quite frankly, this is mind blowing a little bit to see where the airgun industries come to in such a short time and for Umarex is first offering into the PCP market. This is definitely one you're gonna want to have an eye on, again 300 bucks, you really can't go wrong here. You're talking about three-quarter-inch 10-shot group accuracy at forty-five yards. You got decent power. It's a little underpowered in my opinion for a .22 right about 22 foot-pounds with those 15.89s, but you're getting sixty shots on a fill, guys, that's unreal, okay, and of course, the fact that it's regulated means you're gonna have very consistent results as well which is why we have such good accuracy out of this gun. It's quiet. It's accurate multi-shot capability. The trigger can be adjusted. The stock's adjustable. There's a lot of features packed into this gun. Guys, definitely check this one out on pyramydair.com guys, when you have a chance to. You know, as always, comment down below, tell us what you think about the Gauntlet, what else you'd like to see going forward in the future, hit us with that like button, and don't forget to subscribe. As always, Tyler Patner for the Insyder, we'll see you guys at the next one. |
 | BSA R10 SE Precharged Pneumatic Airgun0.0(0 reviews)An improved version of an already impressive airgun, the BSA R-10 SE brings you everything that worked with the BSA R-10 MK2 and adds an improved regulator and updated shroud system that moves the R-10 SE into a class of its own. BSA R10 SE PCP Air Rifle Video Transcript Below: Welcome to the Pyramyd Insyder, I’m Tyler Patner, today we're going to be taking a look at the BSA R10 SE in .22 caliber. So we have the .22 R10 SE here today, is also available in .177 caliber for those you looking as well. But just a little bit about me real quick. I'm a big BSA fanboy, like you're just gonna be upfront with you guys, there may be a little bit of bias in this review. Largely because I've owned an R10 before, so I've owned actually most of the guns in the modern BSA line, and I'm just a huge fan of their designs, the looks of the guns, so please understand that going in. But let's take a look at some of the features of the gun. So starting at the front of the gun probably the biggest change on the R10 SE from the R10 MK2 is the new shroud system. Now this is a fixed route and suppressor on the end here. Big change, it was just a full shroud system, just one piece unit the length of the gun, but this new moderator, they're claiming it's half the noise level of the MK2. And I just tell you guys from the initial testing, I would agree with that statement, I don't know exactly what half is but I can tell you it's definitely quieter than the MK2. And, of course, under the shroud is the BSA cold hammer-forged barrel. These barrels are world renowned as being some of the most accurate out there. They will stand up to Lothar, Walther, Green Mountain, I mean any of the big barrel manufacturers. BSA’s cold hammer-forged set a very very high standard so I'm expecting this gun to be very accurate. And under the barrel and shroud setup, we have a 200 cc bottle, nice, small profile doesn't add too much weight to the gun overall, really like the size of the bottle. And that connects right to our regulator. Now the R10 has always been a regulated platform but the SE has a new regulator design that BSA is claiming boasts 25% more shots. Now whether they mean more shots in general in terms of the whole fill or if they mean more regulated shots. I would assume that's what they mean, obviously we're gonna chronograph the gun and see just how efficient and how many shots that's gonna give you guys. And underneath to track that, we do have a gauge here and there's also a fill port here. Now it does come with a standard 1/8 pspp threaded probe. Important to note that if you are gonna have a quick disconnect setup on the end of your hose, you're gonna want to get that quick disconnect adapter. And that just plugs right into the end of the hole here. Now one of the things that BSA is done on the SE version that they didn't do in the past is provide a little fill port plug so you can keep dust and debris out. And I really like this upgrade. It's a small little thing that is a value added, in my opinion, on any gun, and one I would like to see from pretty much any manufacturer that uses a fill probe. You'll also notice we have front and rear swivel studs, so if you want them on a bipod on that front one or you can go ahead and mount a sling up to that. Up to you of course, you don't have to use them at all. And you'll notice immediately, nice walnut stock. I mean this is just...it's a sexy gun, I think it's a sexy gun at least. You got the Rosewood cap here, on the end at the bottle you got the Rosewood grip, you know on the on the bottom of the grip there. It's just the Minelli makes the stock for BSA. It's a gorgeous stock and really, I mean this is what you're looking for when you're looking into that thousand dollar plus price range. You know it's got to have some good looks and I really really like it. Some people might say this is a like an aggressive looking stock, you know the lines on it, the checkering, all that but I love it, I'd it's just me again, but your mileage is gonna vary. But really nice walnut stock on this gun. And moving up to the breech block we, do you notice we have our breech opening there for our magazine. Now the gun does come with two magazines, that's a first for BSA. And one thing I do want to point out on these mags you'll see this little white dot in the hole right here. Now that's actually gonna let you know that you're out of rounds in empty. That's important. The magazine is also numbered on top to tell you how many shots you have left but that white dot is what lets you know that it's empty after you load that last round and that's really helpful in the field. So loading the magazine in is quite simple. Just go ahead and slide it into the open breech and obviously you have to pull the bolt back. You'll feel it lock into place because there's a little hole on the other side that it protrudes through and it just locks in nicely. Now to keep that secured, BSA makes you flip this little lever guy back and really lock that mag in place, so now even with the bolt open you can't pull it out, and that's going to keep it nice and secure, make sure you don't lose it when you're hunting, target shooting, whatever you might be doing. So wanted to show you guys also real quick this trigger. Really nice trigger unit, now it's a little heavy for my liking, we're going to flip the hunter-style safety off and I'll just decock it for you guys so you can see. But a very long take-up, that's all first stage there and it is that's a lot, I was not expecting that so personally if it were me I'm gonna adjust that out, but very clean break right there. So I I really like the way it breaks, the way it feels, it's maybe a little on the heavy side for what a gun like this in my opinion should be, but of course it's fully adjustable, and this is just out of the box to give you guys an idea of how it's going to come to you. And on top of the breech we have an 11mm dovetail for mounting your optics. And we've gone ahead and mounted a Hawk AirMax 30 here the 4 to 16 to be exact, we've used it a lot here on The Insyder, it's a scope I'm a big fan of which is why I mounted it up here. And overall gun comes into the shoulder really nicely. One thing I want to point out though is that they did also upgrade the butt pad on this one, it was formerly just vertically adjustable, now you have that horizontal adjustment as well so really nice feature. I found that I didn't really have to adjust it for myself, you know you got this raised cheekpiece that brings you right into the line and line of sight with the scope, it's a really nice feeling rifle in my opinion, just about seven and a half pounds or so. And you even got a nice little cut out here on the grip for a more thumb up position which I'm a big fan of as well, as opposed to wrapping it around, so overall really like the way this gun feels. We're gonna go get it gassed up to the fill pressure 232 bar, go put some rounds downrange at 45 yards, see how she does. Alright guys so we opted to do all the testing just straight at 45 yards. With a gun like this, you know in that thousand dollar price range, there's no reason to go any closer. And we went with ten shot groups, so they're a little bit bigger than usual but you know you got the JSB 18s right about an inch for ten shots at 45, not bad I expected a little bit better as a lot of the BSA that I've owned in the past usually like those JSP 18s, but this gun didn't happen to. Surprise one for me. The Crosman Ultra Mags, 10 shots at about an inch as well. Quite good for a relatively inexpensive pellet. And then when we got into the better shooting stuff, the Predator GTOs, again another gun that's just super surprising. You know at under 12 grains this guy's flying pretty quick, and a 5/8 ton shot group, I mean this this gun laces them in there nicely. And very impressive but if I was gonna pick a pellet the Beeman Kodiaks, that's still a 5/8 group for 10 shots but give you that little bit of extra knockdown power and a little bit heavier weight. Now with those then the GTOs, we're gonna take both of them, throw them over the chronograph, and also do sound testing with both. See how much of a difference there is. Let's check it out. Looking over our shot strings here you can see immediately that we're doing a fair number of shots right around 45 or 50, and I can tell you guys just from experience that the MK2 version of the R10 was only doing about 35 good shots. So you know looking this over we do some pretty flat strings here, a little bit wider standard deviation on the Kodiaks, as well as a larger extreme spread but not by much. Certainly good enough to give me pinpoint accuracy out to about 50 yards and probably further than that. So definitely some nice tight shot strings out of the R10 SE. Well guys I'd like to think you can see why I'm a BSA fanboy. You got the supreme accuracy you know five eights groups of 45 yards with a couple different pellets. Really phenomenal shooting, you know, nice trigger breaks, super clean, and obviously fully adjustable, take out some of that take-up or at least I would. The new regulator seems to be doing its job right around 45 good shots, 45-50 depending on the pellet used there. So you're getting quite a few more shots, about eight to ten more than you were on the previous version on the MK2, so the SE's definitely got a lot going for it, and obviously the new shroud system is much quieter and super backyard friendly. I definitely recommend checking this one out guys, if you're looking for a new high-end addition to your airgun collection the R10 SE should be at the top of that list. So give it a look on pyramydair.com. For the Insyder, I’m Tyler Patner. We'll see you guys at the next one.
|
 | Review of the Air Venturi Avenger Bullpup PCP Air Rifle0.0(0 reviews)** TRANSCRIPT ** Welcome to the Pyramid Insider. I'm Tyler Pattner. And today we've got a brand new one for you. The Air Venturi Avenger Bull Pup in. 22 caliber. Now, as I'm sure all of you know, the Avenger, obviously the original the synthetic stock rifle came out 2020. Extremely popular gun, followed up by a wood stock. And now we have a Bull Pup version now pretty much the same action. You've got a lot of the same features. There are some changes, differences on this in particular that we're going to go over for you.
But as many of you know and have experienced for yourselves, the Avenger is a highly adjustable gun and also a very good performer. It has done really incredibly well out in the market and shoots very well. We've shown you all this stuff in our original review. You've seen a ton of others as well that have sung the praises of this gun. And I think the Bull Pup will be no different.
But let's dive into the details and check this thing out, tip to tail, and then we'll get it out to the range and shoot. Now, running down the features of the Avenger. Obviously, we have our quick disconnect fill fitting here at the front with that protective fill cap on there to keep your dust and debris out. One change that we've seen so far on this Bull Pup and on the other Avengers as well is actually a new baffle system that is threaded onto this end cap. Here, let me get this out and I'll show you.
There you go. You can see that baffle stack there. This does not contact the barrel. So keep that in mind. You might still want to consider that.
Donny foxtender that we sell, which is a really great upgrade, but this is going to keep things just a hair quieter than the original Avengers. That just have the end cap. No baffles. So that's a nice upgrade. I know a lot of folks were asking for a way to quiet this down and Air Venturi seems to have answered the call on that one.
Now, as we're moving our way back on the gun, you still have the same 180 CCS of air capacity. We do still have that air cylinder hidden in the stock here on that bottom portion fills the 43. 50 PSI that is unchanged. Spec wise. All of this is going to be the same from a performance perspective as that original Avenger and your enhancements are really going to come in the stock for the most part.
Here at the front of the stock, you have a kind of Tri rail picatini set up here. So we have picatini rails on both sides and then one on the bottom. The nice thing about this one on the bottom compared to the original rifles is that this is not connected to a barrel band or anything like that. So if you do Mount a bipod on here, it shouldn't have an influence on your point of impact. Now, moving back.
We do have a relatively tall Picatinny scope rail. Now, this is Picatinny only, not the dovetail picatini setup that we saw on the original Avengers. Personally, no problems for me. It is on the long side. So if you do want to Mount a more compact optic, you have room to get that back closer to your eye.
Or if you want to Mount something a little bit bigger or longer like I have with this UTG four to 16, you have plenty of room to do so and use really, whatever Mount setup you want. Of course, that is accompanied by two separate barrel bands here and again, nothing on the stock is influencing those barrel bands, so it shouldn't have any point of impact shift issues, rather or anything like that to speak of, which is nice. And again, you have some nice texturing on the stock.
As I mentioned before, completely different material moving back to our breach. We do still have our regulator gauge on the right hand side of the rifle and your fill pressure gauge on that left hand side.
Now, as far as your adjustments go, when you flip the stock over, you are going to find this little rubber cap here. You Peel that back and you are going to find your regulator adjustment and your degassing screw all unchanged. So again, if you do want to make adjustments to this rifle, remember, if you want to adjust that pressure down, you do need to Degass the rifle. First, go ahead, reset that regulator and then you're good to fill it back up and you can adjust it up at will to 200 bar right around 3000 PSI rather.
Now another cool little feature that's been built into the stock here is some extra magazine storage.
The Avenger comes with two Mags. There are ten shots here in 22 and 177 as well. Of course, 25 is an eight round Mag, but these fit right into this little stock section and have a nice positive snap when they lock in so you can carry extra Mags ready to go whenever you need them right on board. You do still have your swivel stud attachment points, your sling mounting points here on the front and the back of the rifle, although it's very compact, so I'm not sure you guys are going to need them.
Another little bit of a different enhancement feature here that's built into this butt pad is a tool free adjustment.
So basically you're just going to pull back and you can slide it up. There are little individualized slots that's about as high as it goes. This is about as low as it goes, but you can set it for really almost anywhere in between there or right back at the center. Nice textured rubber butt pad. And like I said, all you got to do, pull it back, move it up or down wherever you want and adjust it.
You do still have your hammer spring adjustment point at the back of the action there. And the only other real change here is that cheek piece. You take a pen or something like that, you grab a hold of this cheek piece on top, you'll see those four holes in there, you're just going to slide that detect down and then you can actually move your cheek piece backwards. Or if it's in one of those slots, you can move it forwards. So you do have that adjustability in tandem with this long rail to really get this gun set up to be most comfortable for you to give you the best results and rounding things out here, of course.
Still side lever action. Personally, I'm not a fan of Bull Pups when they have that action back at your face, it's not difficult to work at all, but it is a bit of an inconvenience to have to reach back there to operate that each time. Not a huge deal. A personal gripe of mind you guys, your mileage will vary as it always does. But really, everything else is standard.
Avenger here. So we're going to get this thing out on the range, shoot it, see how it does. One other thing I will mention before we head out the trigger system because you are adding a linkage in now for this Bull Pup trigger to move everything forward. The trigger definitely is not the same nice, crisp feel that the original Avenger had. Now, I'm not saying you can't adjust it to that, but out of the box, as we test all things, this one is not quite as nice as I was expecting it to be, but it's still pretty good.
It's relatively light and predictable. Easy to shoot for sure. Just different. So I'm letting you guys know up front, but let's get this thing out to the range. We'll go ahead, shoot it for accuracy.
I'm sure it's going to be good there as the Avengers of past have been, we'll get it over the chronograph, see what shot counts. Like at our current settings. I'll let you know what those settings are. Also sound testing. We'll see how that new Baffle system is working, and then we'll put that trigger to the test and see how it performs before we recap the accuracy that this Avenger Bull Pup put out.
I wanted to show you guys, since you can't see it while I'm over there at the bench. Just how this thing operates without having to really move out of the way so you can talk. It just like that.
So at least for me, pretty easy to operate without having to move my body. Not a huge fan of a side lever at the back of the action, but certainly workable. Not too cumbersome. Should be easy enough for you folks out there to get behind. All right, 45 yard accuracy results.
Ten rounds for each of these groups all fired out of the magazine. No single shots. Right. And again, this is no tuning. This is out of the box, so maybe not ideal velocities for all of these pellets.
But looking it over, H and N. Barracuda matches 21 grains. These are five point 51 mm, just under an inch at .9 inches. Solid ten shot group. Not the best.
Jsb 1589 jumbo is a point 85 inch group, so we're getting a little bit better there. Our FX hybrids were the only slug. They grouped under an inch at 45 yards and probably shooting them a little slower than they want to go. But zero point 85 inches for all ten there as well. Certainly not bad.
Crossman Premier Dome is a little bit of a surprise at three quarters of an inch. A very good ten shot group there for a relatively inexpensive pellet. But our two best, the H and N. Barracuda 18s and the JSB 18. One three exact heavies both of these at 0.6 inches.
Absolutely phenomenal accuracy for all ten shots at 45 yards. The Avenger Bull pumps got the goods. Let's take these 18s and get them over the chronograph. So taking our JSB 18, one three Jumbo heavies to the chronograph with a regression of 2200 PSI and just one turn in clockwise on that hammer spring one out of five turns, you are looking at an average velocity of 856ft/second. That's just under 30 foot pounds and over 88 shots within an 18 foot per second spread.
Those are absolutely fantastic numbers out of 180 CC cylinder from a 43. 50 PSI fill. And you can see we dropped off the rag pretty quick after that. Of course, as you tweak and tune this gun to your liking, you're going to see some variants in that shock count. But really, this is great right out of the box for me, for a backyard pester.
Nice baseline numbers. If you wanted to go with a power tune, you certainly can. You could certainly drop that rag pressure down a little bit and get yourself even more shots if you want to shoot a lighter pellet, the possibilities are really endless. One of the great things about the Avenger, but right out of the box some awesome numbers.
So I'm sure most of you will remember when we originally reviewed the. 25 caliber Avenger when it first came out. Obviously very impressive results. And with a little bit of tuning, we got some very impressive shot count numbers out of that gun at good power. And the 22 we had never reviewed before.
Tons of other people have done it. So for tuning and all that stuff, you guys know where to go check out all that stuff. But from a straight out of the box performance perspective, this 22 has been nothing short of phenomenal. Obviously, the accuracy that we saw with that 25 when we originally reviewed it, the 22 is just as good. You have a lot of great pellet options out there that are performing well out of this gun and the ability to set it up wherever you want for whatever your application is is really a huge benefit.
And one reason why the Avengers been so successful in the market and so well received because it gives you kind of the ability to set it up the way you want to do whatever you want to do. And the gun performs at pretty much all of those places in terms of how you're going to set it up. It's been really nice to see air Venturi answer some of the calls that folks have had as far as like adding these baffles, changing up some of the attachment points for your bipods and things like that so that they're not changing the performance of the gun out of the box while adding some of these enhancements like this adjustable butt pad as well as your Mag storage.
These are all nice things to see in my opinion. And overall, this gun is a real value in that $400 price point range for a Bull pump.
There's not many affordable Bull pups out there, so for air Venturi to throw the Avenger into a Bull pump stock and have this out for you pretty much just a year or so after the original rifle came out is really great to see. And one I think you guys are going to enjoy a lot. So next time you're on pyramidaire. Com, don't forget to check this one out. As always, we appreciate you watching.
Thank you a ton for joining us today. Don't forget to like comment subscribe here to the channel on YouTube. Click that notification Bell. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. We'd love to see you guys over there as well.
For the Insider, I'm Tyler Patner. We'll see you next time.
|
 | H&N Baracuda Extreme pellets - specs, and promo0.0(0 reviews)H&N Baracuda Extreme pellets - specs, and promo |
 | H&N Hornet airgun pellets0.0(0 reviews)H&N Hornet airgun pellets |
 | H&N Finale Match pellets 5.0mm hole - AGR Episode #370.0(0 reviews)German engineering - not just for cars! H&N pellets come in all sizes and shapes, but the Finale Match are unbeatable if you want to create small groups! Accurate, accurate, accurate! |
 | Gamo RedFire pellets at PyramydAir.com0.0(0 reviews)Gamo RedFire pellets at PyramydAir.com |
 | H&N Piledriver pellets0.0(0 reviews)H&N Piledriver pellets |
 | Gamo Match pellets from Pyramyd Air0.0(0 reviews)Gamo Match pellets from Pyramyd Air |
 | H&N Pellets - AGR Episode #300.0(0 reviews)You'll be amazed by the extreme accuracy of H&N pellets. Haendler & Natermann is one of the oldest pellet makers in the world, and they've set the world standard for pellet quality. |
 | H&N Baracuda Match pellets - specs, and promo0.0(0 reviews)H&N Baracuda Match pellets - specs, and promo |
 | Baracuda Green pellets - specs, and promo0.0(0 reviews)Baracuda Green pellets - specs, and promo |
 | Gamo PBA Platinum pellets0.0(0 reviews)Gamo PBA Platinum pellets |
 | Gamo Bone Collector USA pellets - new for 20120.0(0 reviews)Gamo Bone Collector USA pellets - new for 2012 |
 | H&N Baracuda Hunter Extreme hunting airgun pellets0.0(0 reviews)H&N Baracuda Hunter Extreme hunting airgun pellets |
| Pyramyd Air has some fun with their unique pellet packaging0.0(0 reviews)Pellets are fragile! A small ding or bent skirt throws off accuracy by a noticeable amount. Paul Capello (Airgun Reporter) shows you how Pyramyd Air packages their pellets to avoid damaging them. |
 | Gamo Tomahawk pellets at PyramydAir.com0.0(0 reviews)Gamo Tomahawk pellets at PyramydAir.com |
 | H&N Grizzly pellets0.0(0 reviews)H&N Grizzly pellets |
 | Air Venturi Pellet Pen and Pellet Seater - Airgun Reporter Episode #800.0(0 reviews)Learn the new way to load your breakbarrel air rifle! No more rattling pellet tins, spilled pellets because the tin lid fell off or fumbling with pellets as you try to load them. Click...the pellet is loaded into your gun. Plus, the PellSet pellet seater lets you get the most accuracy from your airgun. |
 | Gamo PBA Bullet pellets at PyramydAir.com0.0(0 reviews)Gamo PBA Bullet pellets at PyramydAir.com |
 | Springfield Armory M1 Carbine BB Rifle0.0(0 reviews)In U.S. Military service from WWII through the 1970s, the legendary M1 Carbine is now available as a CO2 powered .177 caliber BB replica. |
 | Pyramyd Insyder at SHOT Show 2018 - Part 20.0(0 reviews)The Pyramyd Insyder was all over SHOT Show 2018 scouring the floor for the latest air rifles and air pistols from cutting-edge airgun manufacturers like AirForce, Benjamin, Diana, Hatsan and RAW. Pyramyd Insyder: SHOT Show 2018 -Part 2 Video Transcript Hey guys we're here at the Air Force booth SHOT Show 2018 looking at the new Texan Carbine. This guy's going to be available in 308, 357, and 457. 24 and three-quarter inch barrel, I'm very excited to try some air bolts in this. You know we put together our own little Texan carbine on the Insyder a few months ago, but this is gonna be from the factory ready to go. Another new announcement on the Texan line, you got the SS coming in 308 and 357 as well, in addition to the 457 that we've already looked at. So very cool new stuff from Air Force but there's more, let's check it out. Hey guys, so still at the Air Force booth, here's the new big announcement. Rapid air weapons out of Tennessee so that means we are going to be seeing American-made, and these are currently American-made, but American-made rapid air weapons guns through Air Force. On top of that, they are also offering the rapid line which harkens back to the old Theobin days in England. These are available in 177 all the way through 35 caliber. These are some of the finest built guns you will find anywhere in the world. Powerful, accurate, they do just about whatever you want to do, they got a ton of features. You got carbon shrouds, electric shrouds, carbon bottles, different stock configurations. This is going to be one to watch for in 2018. Very excited about this one. We're gonna head out onto the floor and see what else we can find. That's about it from the Air Force booth, we'll catch you in a few minutes. Alright guys we're here at the Crosman booth 2018 Shot Show. One of the big new things they got coming out here, this is the Benjamin Traveler Compressor. This is going to be able to fill your guns from 0 to 4,500 psi, it is capable of that. For those of you guys with the higher fill pressure guns, they're telling me this does a Marauder from zero to full in about eight minutes or Discovery in like three and a half. So you have the compressor itself we can see, got a filter, a gauge here, you obviously got your quick disconnect on the end of the hose, looks like we got fan cooling. Guys this looks pretty simple, this is going to be plug and go. So definitely one we're gonna keep an eye on here in 2018, the Benjamin Traveler Compressor. We got a couple other things here at the Crosman booth to check out, stay with us. Got the Benjamin Fortitude here. This one has sent a few waves through the industry when it got announced. A very exciting new gun from Crosman Benjamin here. So basically what we're looking at guys, you're looking at a Maximus stock, looks like a Maximus Discovery trigger and air cylinder, except there's a regulator inside, so you're talking about getting very consistent and also a ton of shots. They're saying up to 70 or 80 and 22 caliber which is really impressive, and then it looks like we have basically a Marauder top portion of the gun here so. Breach in shroud assembly as well and they're talking about a retail price point of $300 on this guy, so this is definitely going to be out there to contend with the Stormriders and the Gauntlets of the world, and obviously bearing that Crossman Benjamin name, we're expecting it that it's going to be very very good, very reliable. 3,000 psi fill, so a little bit different than our Discovery or our Maximus here, but featuring that same trigger. We know what we're gonna get out of this guys, but I can't wait to test it. This one's gonna be one to watch. Very lightweight gonna be really durable. This gun may very well take that $300 price range by storm here. Very excited to see what this gun can do. Alright guys last thing we're gonna check out here at the Crosman booth, this is the new mag Fire. This is a multi-shot break barrel so Crosman's coming to that party as well now. This is actually really interesting. So you have a kind of pistol grip in traditional almost AR M4 style buttstock here with a deep forend which is kind of interesting as well, make offhand shooting a little bit easier, but really the meat and potatoes of this gun guys, is this multi-shot mechanism. So you're gonna break the barrel down, and then when you get it back up, you are actually going to work this bolt-action system here on a ten round magazine, looks like a Marauder mag to me. So that's gonna be very interesting, certainly a lot quicker follow-up shots than you're gonna get out of a traditional break barrel. We're very excited to see this one come through. This one we didn't even know about beforehand, so it should be a very exciting product in 2018. We're gonna definitely test this one out for you on the Insyder guys, stay tuned. So sadly we did not make it to the Hatsan booth with enough time in the day to spare. That said Hatsan's got a bunch of new products that we definitely need to take a look at. So on top of three new guns that we're gonna cover here, they also had a compressor, as well as a couple hand pumps. They really come out with a full line of HPA equipment here which is really exciting to see from Hatsan. That said, the three guns are gonna want to look at here, the Hercules Bully, the Flash, and the FlashPup. Now the Flash that you're seeing right now very impressive little guns, six pounds they're saying up to 40-foot pounds in 25 caliber and somewhere in the mid to high 30s and 22. We're gonna have one of those on the Insyder to review for you guys soon which we're really excited about, but they also came out with that FlashPup that you're seeing now so basically same action just set in to a bullpup stock, and then you got the Bully that is a bottle version of the Hercules in a bullpup stock. This thing is going all the way up to 45 caliber, tons of shot count, and they even told us that they're gonna make the cocking effort easier on it, which was a big complaint on the original Hercules, so we're really excited to see these new guns from Hatsan in 2018. Hey guys SHOT Show 2018, we're back with Pyramyd Insyder. We are at the Diana booth, some very cool new stuff from Diana and Germany. This is the Skyhawk, their bullpup gun. Now it's a little interesting, I know this might look familiar to some of you guys, this gun is actually going to be fully assembled in Germany with a lot of upgraded features, obviously, you can already tell this is a Manelli stock. They're gonna have a couple different stock styles, a couple different action finishes, but I can tell you this is regulated, should be very powerful, very quiet. I'm really looking forward to checking this one out. Nice new bullpup offering from Diana and also for those of you that are hardcore about getting a fully German made gun, we have the P1000 Evo 2. Now this is going to come in a couple different stock configurations, should be very very accurate, I believe it's like a twelve or fourteen round magazine. Beautiful looking wood on these guns here and of course they're gonna be very accurate, regulated, very excited to see these in 2018. Hey guys back at the Diana booth, the Bandit pistol. This is going to be one to watch for in 2018. You have a PCP pistol, this is totally very comfortable, ambidextrous, so left-handed right-handed shooters, not gonna have a problem with this, this is going to have a magazine, as well as a single shot tray that you see here. We got the target site option here but with an 11 millimeter dovetail, looks like this comes off no problem, so you're going to be able to mount an optic on it, and I'm hearing that they're gonna have a lot of updates for this as well going forward, including a suppressor, and probably, maybe, some stock options too, so we'll definitely be on the lookout to see more from the Diana Bandit in 2018. Guys back at the Diana booth. Now this is a new, updated version of the Stormrider obviously you've seen our review of it, it was a great gun then, Diana's making it better, they are committed to making their products better. We're gonna have a fixed suppressor on the end of it here as well, and this is the most exciting part for me, an updated trigger guys. This is going to be a two-stage adjustable trigger and I will just show you here, I cock the gun back. So very very light, first stage travel comes to a clean wall, solid break. That's feeling like pound and a half to me, maybe two, a very very nice trigger on this model here. We're very excited to get these in, but very cool. They're also working on a regulator and a 25 caliber version. So the Storm Rider's going places stay tuned in 2018. We were about to leave the Diana booth and then they told me there was one other thing I had to see. This is the Diana Chaser, this is going to be a co2 gun suppressor. Looks like you got open sights here with the ability to mount an optic on an 11-millimeter dovetail rail, single shot tray with a magazine option, and of course, this nice little lightweight carbine stock. Guys this comes into the shoulder really nice, very lightweight, this is going to be a great backpacking gun and, again, 112 grams co2 cartridge, so you're gonna be looking at, you know that summer pesting season, this is exactly what you're going to want to have. They're talking about a pretty low retail price point here $50-$60 bucks, this could be a very very hot item coming in 2018. Check it out soon. |
 | Episode 1 - PCP Airguns 101: What are PCP Airguns?0.0(0 reviews)Not sure where to start? Tyler discusses the basics of Pre-Charged Pneumatic airguns. If you want to shoot 10 meter, field target, or hunt with airguns, PCPs are the next generation.
Episode 1 - PCP Airguns 101:What are PCP Airguns? Video Transcript: Welcome to the Pyramyd Insyder PCP 101 series. Today we're going to be helping you guys get a little bit more familiar with PCP airguns. PCP stands for pre-charge pneumatic. And what pre-charge pneumatic means is that the gun is pre-charged from an external source. So a hand pump, a tank, even a compressor. With high-pressure air, or nitrogen is also usable, to a specified pressure for each individual gun into a cylinder like this or a bottle on some guns. One of the reasons PCP air guns are so attractive to folks today is because there's a wide variety of things you can do with them. They come in calibers available from .177 all the way up to .50 cal, which means you can use them for 10-meter target shooting, plinking in the backyard, you can go all the way up to big bore hunting with them with a 45 in the .50 caliber. And their prices range too. Anywhere from a hundred and fifty dollars all the way up to four thousand dollars, so there's a gun to fit just about everybody's budget. Now let's take a look at some of the features you're gonna be finding on PCP airguns. There are many common features you'll find on airguns in general, not just PCPs. The stock, the barrel, the breech, your safety, the trigger mechanism, and of course a mounting rail for optics. But there are unique features to PCP airguns that you'll find as well. Probably the most notable features that are going to set PCP airguns apart from other types of airguns are the air cylinder and your fill port or your fill connection. Other features you might be seeing on PCP airguns are magazines, side levers or rear bolt actions for cocking the gun, shrouds to keep the noise levels low, and a lot of people like that on their airguns, you know it's one of the reasons why people buy them, because they're nice and quiet, and backyard friendly. This should give you a general idea of what some of the more common features on PCP airguns are. One of the most significant features that PCPs have over most of the rest of the market aside from their power capabilities, is the fact that there are many options to go multi-shot. So this you'll notice is a side lever breech, which we would consider more of a standard bolt-action style. But this is a 12-round magazine on this gun in particular, and they'll range anywhere from six or eight shots all the way up to 18. Magazine gives you the ability for quick follow-up shots and that's what's making the difference for those guys doing pest control or hunting. That's what they're really looking for and it's a huge advantage over your traditional break barrel or even some of your multi pumper or co2 guns as well. Now, of course, there are many other features we could talk about here, but this is going to give you a basic understanding of what a PCP rifle is. So when you're going ahead and looking at them on pyramydair.com, you have a better idea of what you're looking at and that's really important. On our next episode, we're going to be talking to you guys about fill methods. So stay tuned for that one and we'll see you guys then. |
 | HellBoy .177 CO2 BB Tactical Air Rifle0.0(0 reviews)Based on one of the greatest weapons platforms ever created--the M4 Carbine--heat up the range with blistering semi-auto shots and unparalleled realism for a tactical experience like nothing on Earth! |
 | Hatsan Proxima Multishot Underlever Air Rifle0.0(0 reviews)From the powerhouse of Turkish air arms comes the Hatsan Proxima air rifle. Powered by a Vortex gas-piston powerplant, the Proxima is ready for hours of backyard target shooting and small game hunting. This air rifle’s greatest asset is its ability to quickly fire repeating shots, thanks to the 2 included spring-loaded rotary magazines. With a cock of the underlever, you’re ready to fire again and again. Video Transcript Below: Welcome to the Pyramyd Insyder, I’m Tyler Patner, today we're going to be taking a look at the Hatsan Proxima .22-caliber. The Proxima is Hatsan's latest offering and it's available in .177 and .22-caliber. Now the big thing here is the fact that it is a repeating underlever gas piston rifle. A lot of features packed in there but that repeater’s gonna be the big one. Obviously we saw Gamo come out with the Swarm earlier this year and Hatsan has followed suit here with an underlever which means we should be getting really good accuracy out of it. Let's check out some of the up-close features of the Proxima. Starting at the front of the gun we do have a really tall front sight here with the red fiber optic in there. Now I can tell you that this isn't going to come into into you know your view if you're using a scope with high rings, which I had to on this rifle, also we went with a mini SWAT scope here purely because the front sight comes into play in terms of the length the scope. Overall you're gonna have a lot of options here but we just went with the SWAT to make sure there were no clearance issues and obviously that front sight not coming into view on that highest magnification setting of 12 power, I did mount a three to nine on it as well to try that out even on nine couldn't see anything, on three you do catch it a little bit, but it's not going to impact your shooting. And you guys will notice on this kind of plastic molded piece here that also houses the underlever you do have your release for that underlever, so you just slide this brass piece forward and kind of pull down on the lever itself at the same time to go ahead and release it which is gonna allow you to cock the rifle, and then once you're done and ready to go ahead and close it up, it just snaps forward and back into place. Really easy to do. Sliding back a little bit further we do have our rear fiber optics site which is micro-click adjustable and you have the green fiber optics here to match up with the red up front. Very stout unit, you can remove it if you want to, just a couple screws no problem, so you can mount a longer scope if that's the way you want to go, although like I said you're gonna have a couple scope options in terms of length that you can go for that aren't gonna come into contact with that rear sight. And going on to scope mounting, you have Hatsan standard 11 millimeter and weaver style rail so you do get the best of both worlds there, and you can mount whatever you want. I went for a dovetail setup, just what we happen to have, but the weaver style mounting is no problem as long as your scope has enough tube space to accommodate the non-standardized spacing between those mounting brackets. And just on the right hand side of this rifle you will notice this anti-beartrap release lever. So what this is gonna do is when you go ahead and cock that rifle, this is gonna engage and actually not allow you to bring that cocking arm back up forward until you depress this. We'll show you guys how this works once we get the mags loaded and everything and show you guys the whole process of how that works. It's fairly easy to do and as long as your hands aren't too small to get around the stock it's not really going to be a problem in terms of being able to depress it and fold that cocking arm back up quickly. The trigger is Hatsan’s Quatro triggers so fully adjustable you're gonna be able to get this to a very nice feeling place for yourself. Right out of the box it's a little on the heavy side and there’s definitely some creep there but knowing that you can adjust that out more than enough to keep up you know my mind at ease there and I've used the Quattro triggers many times, it's a very solid trigger especially for those hunters out there you know what you're gonna get and it's going to break clean, which is always very important. And up top at the very back of the action we do have an automatic safety here that is going to engage every time you cock the gun, so keep that in mind there as well. And you will notice here we have a gorgeous walnut stock, Turkish walnut of course, just beautiful detail work on this stock. It's got a very dry oil finish, it's not, you know, doesn't have a gloss finish or anything like that on it, but it works really well with the rifle I think, you know with the kind of matte finish they have on the metal, it's a very good-looking gun. That thumbhole style pistol grip with the finger grooves on there fits my hands really nicely. You got the adjustable cheek piece here which is also a great feature, just two screws to adjust it up and down to get the height perfect for you. Rubber butt pad, of course, and even a storage slot for your second magazine, which is awesome, and the gun does come with two as I mentioned before, so really nice feature there, and you also have swivel studs here, one on the back and one in the front on the side there to mount the sling that does come with the rifle as well. So a lot of features packed in here to this Hatsan Proxima, but without further ado guys, we're gonna head out to the range and show you just how well this gun works. So loading the magazines up here for the Proxima, you're gonna take the face, rotate it with the cassette ,you see everything moving counterclockwise around there till it gets that stop, and you flip it over, now we see that hole there, we're gonna go ahead and load the first pellet skirt first, so we simply take it and put it in skirt first until it drops in then we can let everything go. It's retained under spring tension, we don't have to worry about it anymore. Now we can go through and load each one of these with the pellet head first and just rotate on to the next one until you are all loaded up with 12 rounds. First step to loading the Proxima, we're going to go ahead push this brass pivot forward and then release our cocking arm. Now we're gonna go ahead, cock the rifle, forty-five pounds of cocking effort is pretty stout and you guys will notice that, that frees up the breech. The probe is out of the breech now and we actually are retained by this bear trap. We're gonna take our fully loaded magazine, go ahead you see the indent here on the back, we're gonna line it up right there, slide it in, it is good to go now. Once you have your magazine in, you're gonna depress the anti-beartrap lock here, go ahead and close the cocking arm up, and you are good to go. So this next part is really important guys, Hatsan nailed this next part and this is what a lot of companies in the past that have done underlever repeaters in spring or gas piston have failed at. This magazine will actually not allow you to dry fire the rifle with the magazine in place once it's empty. So you notice this is an empty mag and it's actually covered there in the hole that the probe goes through, so that means you're actually not gonna be able to close that cocking handle when you actually have this rifle cocked with an empty magazine. That's huge. So that means you're gonna know exactly when you need to go to the next magazine to continue shooting. Alright guys, so with everything shooting basically three-quarter-inch groups at 25 yards, we're just gonna skip ahead to the 45-yard results here. Two-inch group out of the H&M barracudas, not very good. You got an inch and a quarter group for all five shots out of the H&N field target trophies with four of those actually going into basically a half inch groups about 45 yards, that's pretty solid, but still I'm gonna have to give the nod to those JSB 18.1 three heavies. Three-quarters of an inch basically a very similar group to what we saw at 25 yards. The Proxima’s definitely got accuracy all the way out at 45 yards, plenty for a small game, so good marks on accuracy. Alright guys, let's give the final thoughts here in the wrap-up on the Hatsan Proxima in .22-caliber. Overall obviously group wise very good shooter and very consistent chronograph numbers as well. Sub 1-inch groups at 45 yards out of just about any springer gas piston rifle is on the money for me. About 20 foot-pounds of energy not too bad in terms of power so small game hunting is gonna be no problem with this. A couple of gripes I have, obviously the gun is very heavy. Over 11 pounds with the scope that we have on it and it is a bear to cock as well for a multi-shot gun. You're talking about 45 maybe 50 pounds of cocking effort here for that vortex gas piston, so it is not an easy one to cock by any stretch so know that going in. And that does really make getting those repeating shots off quickly a big challenge in my opinion. I do love the fact that they have an adjustable cheek piece on the rifle, and the stock ergonomics here are spot-on, even though it does have a little bit of a long length of pole, it's very comfortable once you get used to it, get that scope mounted properly for yourself and that cheek piece set up, and you're gonna have no problems getting along with this gun, assuming you can hit that 45 to 50 pound cocking mark. So that's a Hatsan Proxima in a nutshell guys. Thanks for joining us today here on the Insyder, I'm Tyler Patner, we'll see you guys at the next one. Hey guys thanks for tuning into today's video. If you want to see more insider videos, go ahead hit the subscribe button. If you liked the video you saw, hit the like button. And if you want to talk more about the video or another video you'd like to see, comment down below. Thanks for watching.
|
 | Umarex Legends MP40 CO2 BB Submachine Gun0.0(0 reviews)This .177 caliber BB rifle promises hours of fun with a 60 round magazine and full auto capability! Powered by two 12 gram CO2 cartridges, simply select full or semi-automatic firing, and mow down tin cans like never before.
Umarex Legends MP40 Video Transcript: Welcome to the Pyramyd Insyder, I'm Tyler Patner. Today we're gonna be taking a look at one of the legends of World War II, the Umarex Legends MP40 BB Submachine Gun. Alright guys it's finally here the famous World War II replica the MP40 from Umarex. This is the latest offering in their Legends line. As you guys are probably aware, they come out with some kind of new replica every year in that Legends line, and this year with the MP40 a very very exciting offering. Semi-automatic, fully automatic, you got sixty round magazine, I mean this gun has full blowback, it's a real steel feel and a gun that is obviously not made anymore and is very famous from the World War II era, so a very interesting offering, let's check out some of the features. Starting at the front of the gun we have a hooded front post sight, not adjustable, but at the back, we do have a flip-up elevation adjustable rear sight. So you can run it either with the rear tab up or down, whatever's working best for you is obviously gonna be the way you want to go. So also at the front of the gun, you'll notice that we have a front sling mount as well as a rear sling mount here if you did want to go ahead and add a very traditional looking sling and make this gun look a little bit more authentic. I'm moving on down the gun, we do have our mag release here, this guy right there, you just press in on it. Now you notice the mag doesn't drop free, which with a magazine that heavy I actually like. You don't want this to get damaged if it falls out as you press this. The magazine itself is very stout, obviously, we're gonna fit two CO2 cartridges in here with the included wrench. You simply remove this. We will show you guys how to actually load that up with CO2 later, the magazine holds 60 BB's and it is a double stack magazine, to the reliability or anything like that obviously we're gonna test it here for you and make sure it can get all sixty rounds off on two CO2 cartridges without any jams, so that's gonna be an interesting one to see. And as well there is a little magnet up here at the top so I want to know if it feeds Smart Shot BB's reliably or not, I don't know if that magnet is integral to the function or in feeding of the magazine, but obviously we'll get it on the range and find out. And just behind our magazine housing you do have your functional bolt so this is actually gonna come back every time. It's a blowback gun so you are gonna get that blowback sensation which does give you a little bit of an authentic kind of muzzle rise feel to the gun. And you'll notice on the other side or what would be an ejection port on a real firearm does actually cycle with that as well, so it's the whole housing that's moving inside the gun, which gives you that real steel feel. And flipping the gun over on the underside here you'll notice we have our safety and select fire system. The white dot in the tab in the forward position means the gun is safe, flip it back once for semi-automatic, one shot per trigger pull, and then flip it all the way back for full auto, you can dump the whole mag with one trigger pull if you want to. Pretty interesting feature but very easy to use and go between safe, semi, and full-auto. And at the rear of the gun we have a folding stock which functions off this quick depressed tab here, so you just push it in, go ahead fold that up, you're gonna want to fold this part forward, and it just goes in right like that, now you can actually shoot the gun with the folding stock, fold it up like this so you can just kind of run it like that or you simply flip it out, and that does require you to hit the button again, flip it into the position there, and you're good to go from the shoulder. Very easy. Now before we head out to the range and go shoot this bad boy, we're gonna show you how to load the magazine up. First thing you're gonna do is go ahead, take the included Allen key and remove the screw at the very bottom of the magazine. You simply pull that out set it aside. Next, we're gonna take two CO2 cartridges, go ahead and little drop a Pellgun Oil on each of them. Just enough to keep everything lubricated inside the gun. And then we load the first one in face-up like that, and then the next one in we go ahead and load it back in first, right like that, and then we go ahead and put our end cap back in. Screw it all the way in and we can hear it pressurize there. You just want to make sure that this is all the way tight so that both of the CO2 cartridges are pierced. And just heard the second one go there, so we're good. It will pierce both, there's a piercing cap from this end and at the top end here that's gonna pierce both. So now that we have our CO2 loaded into the gun, we're gonna go ahead and load up some BBs. Now, this is probably the hardest process in operating this gun in general. When you go ahead and pull this follower back here, now you can see I'm using the end cap from a pen, you can also use the included Allen key or a smaller one if you want. But you're simply gonna go ahead and press this all the way back. It does not lock in place, this is one of my biggest gripes, not just with this gun but CO2 guns in general. When they don't lock back it makes everything very difficult, so you have to keep tension on it there and then you're gonna go ahead and drop some BBs in. A speedloader is gonna be very helpful here as you can see you just get the BB's dropped in there. Kind of rock it forward so you're only gonna be able to load it a couple at a time here as you go, and then you're gonna have to kind of tilt things forward to get it all moving. And when you're done just so you guys know and you can see it, you simply release the spring tension on the magazine and it's going to go ahead and apply pressure up into the mag which will feed the BBs properly. So it's going to work hopefully very well and you can see them kind of double stacking, it's not always consistent in terms of which sides they fall on, although we'll find out if that matters as well when we go out to the range. So let's get this loaded up into the gun, head out to the range, and see what happens. Alright guys so looking over our accuracy results here, we used five or six different BBs and we settled on the Air Venturi steels and the Umarex steels. Both performed about the same as their most of the other stuff. About two and a half inches here with the Umarex steels and about two inches on the Air Venturis at 10 yards. And again, these are ten shots and semi-automatic so not too bad. I was expecting honestly a little bit worse, so this is really not bad especially considering I was shooting the gun unsupported and just with the buttstock flipped out. So looking at our full auto groupings, went for 20 shots instead of 10 here, still at 10 yards, of course, and unsupported. The Air Venturi BB’s pretty good about two and a half inches, and the Umarex one's a little bit tighter at about two inches, so things stay very consistent, you know in that in that two to two-and-a-half inch range it's gonna give you the ability to plink all day I mean. In terms of accuracy, for a BB gun this is quite good. We use the Umarex steel BB's for a full auto shot count test, and obviously two fresh CO2 cartridges, and at 65 degrees we've got about 140 shots before things seriously drop off. 140 at 10 yards before dropping off is way more than I thought it was going to do, so really good performance out of the MP40. Alright guys, so before we get to my final thoughts here, I wanted to show you guys what we did, we showed you guys the full auto shot count, about 140 shots. What we did off-camera though, we did semi auto shot count as well. We got 196 shots off two CO2 cartridges before the bolt stops cycling. Now obviously your velocities are gonna come down quite a bit, but you know at their peak, you're looking at about 450 feet per second you know off of fresh CO2 when you go ahead and get this guy loaded up. So pretty fast shooting CO2 gun, especially for a blowback gun, and as well a lot of shot count here, especially on semi-auto and 140 shots on full, that's a ton of shooting. So guys for my final thoughts on this MP40. Obviously, it's a ton of fun to shoot, it gets a lot of shots, reasonable velocity, and a full auto replica like this, I mean there's, you're gonna have fun alright. And that's really what this gun is about. I do have a couple gripes though, you know the fact that you can't shoot Smart Shot in this gun, we did try it and was not able to get it to feed, whether it's that magnet or something else internally going on, I'm not sure but the fact that doesn't shoot Smart Shot, I would have liked that to be a possibility with this gun. And also when we did test the capacity in terms of feeding and everything, on full auto in particular, we're only getting about 40-45 rounds before we start experiencing jams. So something to consider you're only going to want to put 40-45 BB's into the magazine if you're gonna run this gun on full-auto. Other than that guys, really impressive new offering from Umarex into that Legends line, a super badass gun that I think you guys will enjoy a lot. So check it out on pyramydair.com, for the Insyder, I'm Tyler Patner, we'll see you guys at the next one. Hey guys thanks for tuning into today's video. If you want to see more Insyder videos, go ahead hit the subscribe button. If you liked the video you saw, hit the like button. And if you want to talk more about the video or another video you'd like to see, comment down below. Thanks for watching.
|
 | Benjamin Marauder Field And Target Air Rifle0.0(0 reviews)The Marauder Field and Target, the first fully-regulated Marauder, an airgun that gives shooters everything they loved about the Marauder with more shots than ever before. Benjamin Marauder Field and Target Air Rifle Video Transcript: Welcome to the Pyramyd Insyder, I'm Tyler Patner. Today we're gonna take a look at a new twist on an old classic, the Benjamin Marauder Field and Target in 22 caliber. Alright guys, quite frankly I don't think I need to go over the Marauder in too much detail other than three significant points on the Field and Target edition, one of those is actually on the regular Marauder as well. There's everything on this gun is basically standard with the exception of the fact that you have a Picatinny breach here, so when you're choosing your mounts obviously know that going in, I like that a lot because you could just take the scope off and put it back on very quickly without having a rezero or do too much work. The second significant change here is the regulator, of course that's going to be the big one, and that's not found obviously in any of the other Marauders or anything like that. Don't know exactly where what pressure it's set at, but I'm assuming we're gonna find that out when we shoot over the chronograph, so we'll have to stay tuned for that. And last but not least, is something that's been in place on the regular Marauders for about the last five or six months, and that's a new barrel design that Crosman's employed, and the barrels that I've shot out of the regular Marauders in that time frame have done very very well and they're very consistent as well. You know one of the things back many many years ago, the Marauder 22 barrels were kind of questionable and I'll be honest with you guys, I think those questions can be answered right here right now. This new barrel design seems to be doing a lot better, so obviously we'll get it on the range and find out just how good it's doing but I'm expecting very good accuracy results. Other than that guys, the features are consistent. 3,000 psi fill, male quick disconnect fitting, shrouded barrels so it's very quiet, bolt action, 10 rounds in 177, and 22 highly adjustable matched trigger. You have adjustable cheek piece, rubber butt pad, wood stock that's slightly redesigned a little bit heavier, I'm gonna be right about ten and a half pounds or so as you see it here, but other than that guys let's just get out to the range and shoot, because I know you guys want to see what this gun can do, so do I. Let's check it out. Alright guys as I said in the studio, Crosman it's got some new barrels. Now these aren't the Lothar Walther barrels that they're gonna be offering through the custom shop, this is a Crosman made barrel but they're going about it a new way. So these barrels should be much much better and I think the accuracy showed that certainly. Predator GTO is right around one inch, that is actually an inch on the dot for this group, and that's ten shots. You know, certainly hunting capable for those of you that want an on lead option. The Crosman premier domes actually did pretty well right about an inch too. So certainly a hunting-friendly pellet. The JSB 18's pretty good, about three-quarters of an inch. But definitely our best, that JSB 15 point eight nine point six inches, 5/8 of an inch guys, this is a dime right here. You're not gonna get a whole heck of a lot better than that and you know, a gun in this price point to be able to put down a group like that forty-five yards, very good. From a 3,000 psi fill, with the regulated Marauder Field and Target, and those JSB 15.89s, you're looking at about 50 good shots down to 1500 psi where we fell off of that regulator. Now with the standard deviation of 2.1 feet per second this is obviously very very consistent from shot to shot and we're certainly getting more shots than we would have with a unregulated Marauder. A little bit of a downer in the Energy Department, they'll run in there about 24 foot-pounds on that eight hundred and twenty-two foot per second average, but you can crank it up you have all the normal adjustments to the hammer spring and the transfer port that you would on a normal Marauder. So you can really tweak this gun to get exactly the performance you want, but that regulator is certainly doing its job, and very very consistent performance out of this Marauder Field and Target. Alright guys pretty good results out of the Marauder Field and Target here in 22 caliber. Very quiet, obviously, triggers very clean break, and I know it can go a lot lighter than what it's set at now, so keep that in mind if the trigger is a big factor for you, but a very nice hunting trigger right out of the box. The magazines obviously work well and a 10 shot group at 45 yards that's covered by a dime. Very impressive accuracy out of these new barrels from Crosman. There's not a lot that this gun doesn't have in terms of features especially for the price point. Hitting on that regulator, about 50 shots in this particular version. Now here's one of the things that that's gonna vary from gun to gun. Just because of the features here within the gun, to be able to adjust the hammer spring, being able to adjust the transfer port sizing, and all that stuff that you can do with the Marauder platform, you're actually going to be able to tune this gun kind of how you want it in terms of if you want more power, less power and more shots, or you know more power and less shots, there's a lot of things that you can play with this gun to get it set up just the way you want it, so definitely keep that one in mind, and it's a very easy platform to work with. Tried and true, through and through, and made right here in the USA, you can't really beat that in my opinion. The Marauder Field and Target, two thumbs up for sure, and we're very excited to be able to offer it here at Pyramyd Air so definitely check it out if you're cruising online looking for a brand new PCP in 2018. For the Insyder, I'm Tyler Patner. as always don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe. See you guys at the next one. |
 | Ataman M2R Tact Carbine Type 1 Air Rifle0.0(0 reviews)A combination of state-of-the-art production, superior materials, and the legendary expertise of Russian gunsmiths stand behind this Ataman rifle. Ataman M2R Tact Carbine Type 1 Air Rifle Video Transcript: Welcome to the Pyramyd Insyder, I am your comrade Tyler Patner. Today we have special surprise all the way from the motherland, the Ataman M2R tactical Carbine Type 1 in .25 caliber. Alright guys, so we have the tactical carbine here from Ataman today. Now obviously I think we discussed this when we reviewed an Ataman before. Carbine is just what they use for the word rifle basically because this is definitely not a carbine gun somewhere a little bit over 40 inches I believe total length, so it definitely doesn't qualify as a carbine. But that said, a lot of cool features here. It's available in .22, .25, and .357 and some of the other models are even available in .30 caliber now as well, so depending on if you want the type 1 stock, the type 2 stock, there are a lot of different variations but they're all the same basic action. So let's check out some of the features of the type 1. So up at the front of the gun you'll notice that we do have a bit of an air stripper here. Now this is an option that comes with the Ataman and you don't have to use it, you can just run the gun with the standard shroud ending, it's not threaded on or anything like that, secures with two set screws and it's really meant to just strip away some of the turbulent air from the pellet as it exits the bore. And of course, as you guys can see, we do have a fully shrouded low through Walther barrel so again we do expect very good accuracy out of these Atamans and certainly in the past they performed. We’ll see how the .25 does. Now underneath our shrouded barrel we do have our 250 cc air reservoir with our gauge up at the front. Now this does read in bar 300 bar fill gun just like all the other Atamans. And talked about filling we do have two fill probes which is standard for the admin. Obviously we're gonna use the quick disconnect, we’ll leave the threaded one off to the side and to fill this guy. It's very simple, you just take your probe, slide it in just like that, you go ahead and hook up your quick disconnect fitting on your hose and you go ahead and fill the 300 bar. This particular type one is obviously the black stock, as you can see, but you guys can't see is that it is that soft touch rubberized coating on the stock, which I really like and it seems to hold up well in terms of being scuff resistant and all that. But very very nice ergonomics here, it's got a very you know tactical look and feel to it, and obviously with the adjustable cheek piece you're gonna have a great opportunity to make this gun fit you properly, and make sure that every time you go ahead and put your cheek on that cheek piece you are aligned with the scope right away. And at the back of the stock we do have a vertically adjustable butt pad, rubberized of course, and one other note that I like to hit on about the stock in general, is I really like the vertical pistol grip, it just for me I like the feel of a vertical pistol grip better than more that sporterised length in stock feel, so I think Ataman really hit it out of the park with this stock design. Now talking about the action on the M2R Series, it is the same as all of the M2R series, so you're not going to get a whole lot of variance in the Ataman in terms of how things function, but you do have a side lever, and this one's black anodized a very nice finish here, and you can hear it, go ahead cock it back like that. Pull the magazine out for you guys and you can see that there's a nice bolt probe in there. The magazine is one of the stouter magazines that I've seen, it is self-indexing which is a nice feature, and one of my favorites is that you can load it while it's on the gun, so now you don't have to take it out and load it this way, you can actually just keep it right in there, load a pellet here, load a pellet on the other side, and then rotate it. It's very easy to do and something that I've gotten accustomed to not even taking it out of the gun. I really like that feature from Ataman, whether it was intentional or not, I don't know but it's a great feature. And while I do have the gun in the cock position here I want to show you guys how the safety works. So the safety can only be engaged when the rifle is cocked so now that it is cocked, we can go ahead and take our safety from the hot and fire position and push it on through, cross bolt style safety, and now the gun is safe, go ahead and close the bolt and you'll see nothing happens, I'm not able to pull the trigger. If you do want to decock the rifle also a very easy process, you just go ahead and make the rifle hot and ready to fire, open your bolt, hold it back, and then pull the trigger, you hear it release, let it slide forward, you're all good to go. And of course we have Ataman’s two-way adjustable trigger, it is a little bit of an odd feel for those of you that are used to a true traditional two-stage trigger where you take up and then you hit that wall and then you release. You don't really hit that wall with the trigger as it comes out of the box, so you can adjust it to get that feel if you want it, but very lightweight out of the box probably under a pound if I had to take a wild guess at it. And overall once you get used to it the the two-way adjustable trigger system that they have is not bad to use it all really easy. And another shared feature among the M2R line is that Picatinny mounting rail on top of the breech directly machined in. Love that feature, makes putting scopes on and taking them off quickly a cinch, no problem at all. And on top we do have the Athlon Argos BTR eight to thirty four, this is a first focal plane scope so our reticle spacing is never going to change, it's a beautiful thing. Does add a fair bit of weight though, the gun’s probably with the scope on it, coming in a little over ten pounds, maybe ten and a half. The gun on its own is about a nine and a half pound gun, so probably not something you're gonna be takin walking through the woods, but definitely a gun that if you're a rested shooter or you know you're gonna be in one spot, this is gonna do wonders for you. So let's head out to the range, check out what it does over the chronograph, see what pellets are most accurate, and do some sound testing for you guys. We'll see you out there. Alright guys, we did all 8 shot groups, figure 8 shot mag no point and just holding it back to 5, you guys want to see what a full mag does. So right here 25.4 grain JSB Kings, a half inch group it doesn't get a whole lot better than that, and honestly I think it could have been just a little bit tighter, cuz that last shot I think I pulled it just a little bit so. But a half inch group is really impressive and honestly what I would expect. The King heavies, the 33.9 grains, a little bit bigger at about 5/8 but certainly you know 45-50 yards, either of these are gonna do exactly what you want them to. So the Ataman has certainly got accuracy for days. Let's head over to the chronograph and see what those 25.4 Kings do. With the 25.4 grain JSB Kings off of a 300 bar fill we're getting about 46 good shots on that regulator to 125 bar before it falls off. And you can see super consistent an extreme spread of just 12 feet per second so that's not going to impact your accuracy at 50-60 yards at all, and a standard deviation of just 2.5 feet per second means everything is nice, tight, and consistent from shot to shot, and at 53 foot pounds this guns got plenty of smackdown with those Kings.
Thank you for tuning in to today's video my friends, we always appreciate great viewership and I tell you this is very necessary because if you do not watch video or click like button and subscribe, then they do not pay me, I do not get my food rations for a week and this is bad situation. I do not work well with no food and no water okay, so please like, comment if you have anything to say, and subscribe down below. We appreciate you watching, have a nice day my friends. |
 | Walther PPQ/P99 Q CO2 pistol - AGR Episode #670.0(0 reviews)Shoot pellets or BBs in the Walther PPQ/P99Q CO2 pistol from Umarex. Paul shows you the ins and outs and what this gun can do. |
 | Diana Mauser K98 Air Rifle0.0(0 reviews)Rossi Morreale gets into character to command and control this famed historic replica for Pyramyd Outsyder!
Diana Mauser K-98 Air Rifle Video Transcript: Can't see them now because they’re this big but the little plastic green army men are coming to get us.
|
 | Review of the Ataman AP160.0(0 reviews)Join Tyler Patner for this Pyramyd Air Insyder video where he gets you up to date on the latest news about the Russian made Ataman AP16 PCP Air Pistol. Learn about the new add ons like the P2C Conversion Kits and how to customize your very own with Pyramyd Airs exclusive Build Your Own Airgun feature! |
 | Insyder Insyght: Airgun Scope Questions from Coinhound0.0(0 reviews)Tyler is always combing through the comment section for questions and YouTube user Coinhound had several good questions about scopes. Keep those questions coming. You never know when we will make a video answer!
Video Transcript Below: Welcome to the Pyramyd Insyder, I’m Tyler Patner. Today's video is gonna be on a viewer comment. Today's comment comes from Coin Hound 4, let's check it out. Coin Hound says, “I would like to see an in-depth video on zeroing scopes. What is the best distance to 0? What happens out past that distance and before the set 0 distance? Can you use a rifle scope on a PCP? How long will the scope last on the springer? Should the scope you mount it as close to the gun as possible? How about scopes with bells and whistles, when are they needed and when are they a waste of money? A lot of questions in there. Let's get into it. Short answer here, yes, you can use a rifle scope on a PCP. We're probably talking about centerfire rifle scopes here so the thing to consider is that a centerfire scope doesn't have a parallax adjustment in some cases, and if it does oftentimes they only go down to 25 or 50 yards, so you have to be concerned about what the minimum distance requirement you need to get a clearer image of your target is, so make sure that you get a scope that has a parallax adjustment that accommodates that. It's going to depend on so many factors that it's going to make it impossible to answer a hundred percent of the time. That said, there are some things to consider when you are buying a scope for a spring piston or gas piston gun. So, the first thing to consider here is the warranty. You want to make sure that the manufacturer warranties the scope if it does break or have a problem when used on a spring piston or gas piston rifle too. You want to make sure that it's a scope that is obviously rated for use on a spring piston or gas piston rifle. Most scopes are. They say airgun rated or spring rated or something like that on the manufacturers website. Just to give you guys an idea, Leapers, Athlon, Hawk, and Mantas scopes that Pyramyd Air sells are all going to be spring piston and gas piston rated. The last thing to consider is the amount of money you're spending. Okay, you get what you pay for, you spend a little bit more money, you're gonna get a better quality scope built on a better chassis that's hopefully going to last longer. Is that a guarantee? Of course not. Any spring piston or gas piston gun has the capability to break just about any scope you put on it, but spending a little bit more money means better quality which means you're going to have a better life expectancy. So, this is another very opinionated question here. So, for a bell and whistle, what I consider a bell or a whistle might not be what you consider one. That's okay. For me, I'm gonna take this a little bit different direction. Let's talk about the things that I think are absolutely necessary on an air rifle scope. So, number one is going to be a parallax adjustment of some sort. Now we have an adjustable objective here on this Leapers UTG. You also have side parallax adjustment where it's on that little side turret which is a bit more convenient in my opinion, but you're gonna spend a little bit more money to get it. Either way, I want a scope that has an adjustable parallax down to 10 yards so I can resolve an image, make it nice and clear from 10 yards and out. Another thing that I consider an essential feature is a mil dot or some other type of holdover reticle. So, I really prefer it, some people may not, but for me a mil dot or something with hash marks, something is going to be really essential for a lot of what I do with air guns, because I want to be able to shoot at various distances without having to actually click adjust my point of impact. If I had to think about some bell and whistle type features that really aren't essential to me something like a turret locking mechanism like we have on this Leapers UTG scope right here, that actually stops your turrets from adjusting so they don't get bumped or something like that. It's a nice feature. Is it an essential? Not for me, might be for you though. The other one is an illuminated reticle feature. A lot of people like them, but it's also very underutilized so really depends on what you're doing with your gun and scope combo, you know, whether you're using it in low light or some situation where you might need that, but again something that could be considered a bell and whistle, but it's also found commonly on a lot of scopes, but is it essential, I don't know, that's up to you. So, I'm gonna split this into two parts here in terms of what the best distance to zero at. It's a hundred percent dependent on what you're doing with your gun in your scope so if you know that you got a bird feeder in the backyard that you got some pests they keep attacking or something like that at 20 yards zero your gun at 20 yards. Guys, it's really simple in that kind of scenario, but if you know that you're shooting at multiple distances, what I often recommend is that people zero the gun for the apex of their trajectory. Now that's also a factor of not just your pellet and your velocity and things like that, but your scope height as well so before we head out to the range and show you what your trajectory looks like passed and before your zero point, we also want to show you guys what the impact of having your scope mounted either closer or further away from the centerline of the boar means which is Coin Hound’s last question. So, to do that before we head out to the range, I'm going to introduce you to my Walther LG 300. Now this is a 10-meter gun. It's only shooting about 580 feet per second with an 8.4 gram pellet so very, very slow, but we're gonna go ahead, I just mounted this Hawk Air Max 34 216 scope on it, we're gonna go out and get it zeroed on camera for you guys, show you that process, and then we'll go ahead and shoot it closer and further than our zero point, and show you what kind of impact that this two-inch scope height has on the trajectory. First thing we're gonna do without touching our scope adjustments, let's go ahead take a shot here. Now you want to hold dead center on the bolt, okay, so you can see we won't weigh the heck off to the right and just a touch high, so we're gonna go ahead and dial in our up adjustment here, and that looks about right, and now we're gonna go ahead and crank it all the way over now. We'll see if we have enough adjustment to compensate in laymen's terms. Sighting in your scope is just matching your point of aim to your point of impact. Almost there. Alright, so you'll notice how we are now dead on our last shot which is exactly what you want to do and we don't even have to use our target. We can actually use that point if we want to because theoretically we should be able to put it through the same hole. What do you know? Perfect. Alright, so now that we've made our adjustment here, over to our original point of impact, we're gonna go ahead and recenter everything and take another shot, and we should be very, very close, if not dead center, pretty much dead on, maybe a tad left. We can always adjust out for that. We'll take another one just to verify and right through the same hole, pretty satisfied with that zero. Alright, so now we're gonna see what our pellet does at our closest distance of 10 yards. Let's take a look. Alright, so about two mil dots low there and again just off to the left right about that second mil dot so we know that if we want to hit dead center on the target, we need to be two mil dots below the sign. Alright, so now we've got our target out at forty yards here, so just to give you an idea of what the trajectory looks like all the way out at 40, take a shot and see. So, you can see that's about three mil dots down, just off to the left. I'm not very concerned with the right left, but you can see that's a much more pronounced trajectory out at distance than we had at that 10 yard target. Let's take another one just to see what happens here and again just a little bit lower there, but still right around that third mil dot, so again you can see how much more pronounced the trajectory is here out of distance as opposed to 10 yards. 40 yards is quite a blaze further for a gun that's only shooting about 600 feet per second. So, with our Hawk Air Max 30 mounted, it's got a 15 millimeter bail, so we have to use high rings to make sure it clears the barrel. That puts us at about a two-inch scope height so that's what we're gonna use here. The red line at zero represents the centerline of your scope so because of that two-inch scope height, we do create an apparent rise as we shoot so with our 25-yard zero and our two inch bore height, we're hitting about a half inch low at ten yards and you'll notice as we start to get further out in our trajectory, we're right around fifteen yards. We hit what we call our flat spot or the apex of our trajectory. That's that top end of the pellets path and it produces a very flat area so if we were gonna translate this to a target, we're basically going to be zeroed from about 15 all the way out to the back end of our flat spot at around 25 yards before we start to experience any drop. Now you guys can see that once we get to that 25-yard point in the back end of our zero distance the pellet drops pretty dramatically. After this at 40 yards, we're experiencing about two and three-quarter inches of drop which is pretty significant. That's a lot of compensation you're gonna have to do and as you guys saw about three mil dots in our scope. So, to illustrate what increasing the scope height would do to our setup here, you can see with a 4-inch scope height we would actually hit our apex around the same 20-25 yard point, but it's a much shorter distance that we're zeroed at now, so we're with a two inch scope height we had a nice flat spot from about 15 to 25 yards now we only had that flat spot from about 21 out to 25-26 yards so it's a much shorter area that our guns going to be zeroed at. You can see how much more compensation we have to do on the short end leading up to the apex of our trajectory. The benefit of that higher mounted scope though is that we have a much less pronounced drop-off past our zero distance, so if you're doing a lot more long-range shooting, a higher mounted scope may actually benefit you where you're going to have to compensate a lot less where it counts at further distances. Alright, guys that about wraps it up for this look at scopes today. Hopefully, it answered some questions you guys might have had. Coin Hound, thank you for submitting the question. We had a lot of fun doing this video here and putting everything together. For the Insyder, I’m Tyler Patner, we'll see you guys at the next one. Thanks for tuning in to today's video. Hit us with the like and subscribe down below, feel free to leave a comment if you so desire, and tune in for the next one. We'll see you guys then.
|
 | Beeman Kodiak pellets - AGR Episode #480.0(0 reviews)There's a reason the Beeman Kodiak pellet has been a mainstay for most airgunners. It just might be THE perfect pellet! It's accurate in most guns, plus the shape and weight deliver repeatably good performance. If you like accuracy, add the Kodiak to your pellet stash! |
| Sort by: | Price Lowest to Highest Highest to Lowest | Featured | ProductName From A to Z From Z to A | 1-20 of 602 Items |
|---|
5.0 (1 review)Crosman Icon PCP Air Rifle Magazine, .177 Cal, 12rd$20.99
Only 2 left in stock
$59.99
Out of Stock
$18.99
In-stock
$14.99
Only 4 left in stock
$89.99
In-stock
$29.99
Out of Stock
$29.99
Out of Stock
$29.99
Out of Stock
$324.99
Only 2 left in stock
$299.99
Out of Stock
$299.99
In-stock
5.0 (1 review)Benjamin Craftsman Series PCP Air Rifle Magazine, .177 Cal, 14rds$19.95
Only 4 left in stock
4.5 (3 reviews)Crosman MAG-Fire Magazine, .177 Cal, 12rd$14.99
Out of Stock
5.0 (2 reviews)Springfield Armory XDE .177 cal. CO2 BB Magazine, 18 rounds$19.99
In-stock
$299.99
Out of Stock
$39.99
In-stock
2.5 (3 reviews)Umarex Glock 19X .177 cal Magazine, 18 rds.$35.99
Out of Stock
3.5 (2 reviews)Beeman 10-Shot Auto-Indexing Magazine, .177 Cal.$22.99
In-stock
$299.99
Out of Stock
1.5 (2 reviews)Hatsan Hydra Receiver & Barrel Assembly .177$149.99
In-stock
Buy With Confidence
Get FREE shipping on qualifying orders! Any order $150+ with a shipping address in the contiguous US will receive the option for free ground shipping on items sold & shipped by Pyramyd AIR during checkout. Certain restrictions apply.
Free shipping may not be combined with a coupon unless stated otherwise.
View Shipping Info
We work hard to get all orders placed by 12 pm EST out the door within 24 hours on weekdays
because we know how excited you are to receive your order.
Weekends and holiday shipping times will vary.
During busy holidays, we step our efforts to ship all orders as fast as possible,
but you may experience an additional 1-2 day delay before your order ships.
This may also happen if you change your order during processing.
View Shipping Times
It's important to know that due to state and local laws, there are certain restrictions for various products.
It's up to you to research and comply with the laws in your state, county, and city.
If you live in a state or city where air guns are treated as firearms you may be able to take advantage of our FFL special program.
U.S. federal law requires that all airsoft guns are sold with a 1/4-inch blaze orange muzzle
or an orange flash hider to avoid the guns being mistaken for firearms.
View Shipping Restrictions
Get the most out of your equipment when you work with the expert technicians at Pyramyd AIR. With over 25 years of combined experience, we offer a range of comprehensive in-house services tailored to kickstart your next adventure.
If you're picking up a new air gun, our team can test and tune the equipment before it leaves the warehouse. We can even set up an optic or other equipment so you can get out shooting without the hassle. For bowhunters, our certified master bow technicians provide services such as assembly, optics zeroing, and full equipment setup, which can maximize the potential of your purchase.
By leveraging our expertise and precision, we ensure that your equipment is finely tuned to meet your specific needs and get you ready for your outdoor pursuits. So look out for our services when shopping for something new, and let our experts help you get the most from your outdoor adventures.
View Service Info
Shop and purchase with confidence knowing that all of our air guns (except airsoft) are protected
by a minimum 1-year manufacturer's warranty from the date of purchase unless otherwise noted on the product page.
A warranty is provided by each manufacturer to ensure that your product is free of defect in both materials and workmanship.
View Warranty Details
Didn't get what you wanted or have a problem? We understand that sometimes things aren't right and our team is serious about resolving these issues quickly. We can often help you fix small to medium issues over the phone or email.
If you need to return an item please read our return policy.
Learn About Returns
Get FREE shipping on qualifying orders! Any order $150+ with a shipping address in the contiguous US will receive the option for free ground shipping on items sold & shipped by Pyramyd AIR during checkout. Certain restrictions apply.
Free shipping may not be combined with a coupon unless stated otherwise.
View Shipping Info
Want More?
Join Our Email List for News and Deals!
Join the Pyramyd AIR mailing list: Our e-mails are filled with new products, deals, sneak peeks, tips and tricks, contests and more - sign up today!
Text JOIN to 91256 and get $10 OFF Your Next $50+ Order!
* By providing your number above, you agree to receive recurring autodialed marketing text msgs (e.g. cart reminders) to the mobile number used at opt-in from Pyramyd AIR on 91256. Reply with birthday MM/DD/YYYY to verify legal age of 18+ in order to receive texts. Consent is not a condition of purchase. Msg frequency may vary. Msg & data rates may apply. Reply HELP for help and STOP to cancel. See Terms and Conditions & Privacy Policy.
Customer Support
PyramydAir.com uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can find out more about how we use them in the privacy policy. All other designated trademarks, copyrights, and brands are the property of their respective owners.
Copyright © 1999-2024 Pyramyd AIR. All Rights Reserved.
Customer Support
Copyright © 1999-2024 Pyramyd AIR. All Rights Reserved.