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Review of the Air Venturi Avenger Bullpup PCP Air Rifle

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Falcon Prairie PCP Carbine - AGR Episode #51

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Review of the Air Venturi Avenger Bullpup PCP Air Rifle

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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.

Falcon Prairie PCP Carbine - AGR Episode #51

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Falcon is a premier British airgun manufacturer. Their guns have an undisputed reputation for remarkable accuracy. We're not sure there's anything in the sporting airgun world that can beat a Falcon...unless it's another Falcon!

Weihrauch HW44 Air Pistol

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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.

Benjamin Marauder Field And Target Air Rifle

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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.

2017 Pyramyd Air Cup Overview

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The 2017 Pyramyd Air Cup was a raging success, WITH over 100 competitors fighting FOR top honors! 2018, the 5th anniversary of the Cup, promises to raise the bar yet again with more excitement, great competition, and more prizes than ever before!

2017 Pyramyd Air Cup Overview Video Transcript:

Hey guys we're here at the 2017 Pyramyd Air cup in Midvale, Ohio. This is probably going to be the largest field target and air gun competition in the country this year, we have a hundred competitors for the field target, we got a bunch more for the gunslinger. It's gonna be a lot of fun this weekend, we have national champions and world champions, we got everything across the board, lots of shooters. Let's go check it out.

Tom Holland- This is probably one of the premier events in my opinion, in the country. I've been to national championships and some other Grand Prix's, it's the most impressive. What Pyramyd does for the average shooter is amazing, you get to see people you haven't seen in a year or two or even longer, and it's just a great event.

Hector Medina- You have a lot of nice people here, it's all the Pyramyd Air people, and you have the vendors, and you have the shooters, and it's it's a lot of good vibes, it's a great place to be.

Ray Apelles- I keep coming back to the match because it's just a whole bunch of great people, there's the potential for some winning some really great prizes. That's not the big thing though. The thing is the good camaraderie and the great competition.

Bruce Scott- I am finding the event incredibly fun and well run. The course here is beautiful, the competitors are all extremely nice. I'm having a great time.

Eric Brewer- Overall the event I love it, cover this, that's yeah there's prizes, the benefit of coming here and seeing the people in field target being that the field target community is really supportive and this location and venue is great, it really is. I enjoy it.

Shooters ready in three, two, one, go!

Bill Rabbitt- The biggest challenge of gunslinger is staying focused. Trying to avoid what you're hearing your opponent is doing. you're hearing their shots you're hearing the crowd behind them going ooh and ahh, and you just got to stay focused and keep your rhythm up.

You got to get a gun that loads pretty easily, and then practice your technique, and dropping it in there, and going back to shooting and try to keep your eye on the scope. And keep your eye on the scope and lower and they say that's the difference.

Bill Rabbitt- My favorite part of the gun sling is when it's all done, when that last chicken falls over and you can walk away from the lane and calm down.

Alright guys, that about wraps it up for the 2017 Pyramid Air Cup here in Midvale, Ohio. It's been an absolutely awesome weekend of air gunning, we've seen a lot of great gunslinger matchups, gave away some big cash prizes, those winners also saw some great field target shooting with absolutely phenomenal talent and introduced a lot of people to the sport of air gunning. It's been a phenomenal weekend, I want to say thank you to all of our sponsors and all of our staff that helped out over the course of the weekend, give us some incredible prizes. It's an absolutely phenomenal time guys, you definitely need to check it out in 2018. For the full results go to PyramydAircup.com. For the Insyder guys, I'm Tyler Patner, we'll see you next year.

Gamo Swarm Magnum Multi-Shot Air Rifle

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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.