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.
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.
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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.
All right guys, let's break this one down. So I wanted to get my hands on one of these .25 caliber Atamans because I hadn't seen a lot out there on them yet and I hadn't gotten the opportunity to play with one. So the .25 caliber tactical carbine that we have here, obviously super good shooter 1/2 inch at 45 yards. Honestly it's what I would expect out of a gun in this price range and with the Ataman name, you know obviously super accurate low through Walther barrels, you know good shot count, more than we expected right around 45-46 good shots on that regulator before it dropped off, and a 300 bar fill I know makes it a little bit of a scary thing for some folks out there, but you don't have to fill it that high, you can still get a good shot count off of a 250 fill or something like that. But obviously this guns got pretty much everything going for it outside of being a little bit heavy and a little on the loud side. If those are deal-breakers for you, I understand but for those of you that are looking for extreme accuracy, over 50 foot-pounds of energy, good shot count, good trigger, smooth side lever, good magazine system, adjustable stock, I mean I can keep going alright. The Ataman M2R tactical carbine in .25 is definitely on my short list of rifles to own especially in that high-end PCP price point so check it out on PyramydAir.com. For the Insyder, I’m Tyler Patner, we'll see you guys at the next one.
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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.
So this new SPD version of the Trail NP2 was announced at SHOT Show 2017 back in January. Basically the same internals as the existing Trail NP2 series, just with a new suppressor update on it. So this is their SBD silencing barrel device and it is basically a baffle system encased inside of a shroud unit that sits on the front of the barrel. So the unit has a very unique look to it and there's something I want to point out to you guys that you'll notice, that the barrel sits up pretty high on the unit so this is actually an eccentric or offset shroud system where most of your volume is actually below the line of the barrel, which is a good thing because it doesn't come it into your line of sight, and the other good point about this is that it does have a molded in front sight. Now the one problem with that in this particular instance is that Benjamin doesn't include a rear sight. So for those of you wanting to use open sights on this particular model I don't know if one's gonna become available, I would certainly hope so and I know there are other SBD models that do have the rear sight that comes with them but it's not standard with the hardwood and the synthetic models in particular. So something to be cognizant of but you do have the ability to mount that rear sight if one becomes available. Benjamin's claiming that the SPD unit is three times quieter than any rifle in its class so you're comparing it to other guns rated at 1,400 feet per second with alloy in the .177 caliber, and obviously we'll find out what that number is for you guys with lead because I certainly am NOT gonna shoot alloy in this and hurt the internals so. That being said you know inside of this unit here. It's an aluminum case shroud surrounded by plastic so you do get a little bit of flex with it but it's a very large exit diameter hole so you're not gonna have to worry about clipping or anything like that. And because all of the baffling is made integral to the barrel you really should never experience clipping of a baffle or anything that's going to throw off your accuracy from the shroud unit itself. And another cool thing about the SBD is that the aluminum shroud is actually removable so you can clean the internals of it. Just a screw here on the top, screw here on the bottom, you pull that end cap off and then slide the shroud right off. Very easy to do. Like the original Trail NP2 series, of course, the SPD is a break barrel. It's right around 30-45 pounds of cocking effort, not too bad that NP2 unit that's inside of it's been out for a little while now and we know not too bad to cock for the power that it's putting out, so a tried and true unit inside the gun.
And as you guys can tell we have the hardwood version here for you today. About 8 pounds overall maybe a little bit over that with the scope. And one nice thing that I think Benjamin really hits a home run with on most of their rifles is they incorporate sling swivels and a sling swivel stud at the back of the gun. So you do have the option amount of sling for those of you guys that are gonna be carrying this in the field. And while we're mentioning the stock, it is of course the thumbhole and I really like the feel of the thumbhole, it's got that raised cheekpiece brings you right into the scope. Overall it feels very nice although one thing I will mention is that it's a very short reach to the trigger, so you'll notice that you know most of my finger goes to the front of the trigger guard almost immediately, so if I take it off safe you know it, my finger sticks out a little bit alright when I go to get that proper trigger pole placement on the trigger shoe here. It's a little bit of a different feel, I would expect a gun like this to be a little bit longer, have a slightly longer length of pull but the good thing about that is that shorter shooters, taller shooters, nobody's gonna have a problem pulling the trigger on this gun. And of course, capping off the back of the stock, we do have a rubber recoil pad which is going to keep things nice and comfortable in the shoulder. And on top of the gun, as far as an optics rail goes, we do have a Picatinny rail on top here, and the gun does come with a 3-9 non parallax adjustable scope. Obviously, it's not on the gun, it did have some problems with it holding 0, which is kind of par for the course for you know, an included scope in these packages. One thing I would really like to see a lot of these manufacturers do a little bit better is pay a little bit more attention to these scopes, but for this review today, for the purposes of what we're doing, I went ahead and mounted a Mantis 4 to 12 by 40 with the adjustable objective. Makes my life a little bit easier downrange. Just so you guys do know if you do use this factory scope, it's set at about 25-30 yards in terms of its parallax correction, so if you wanted to shoot at 10 yards you're gonna have to bump that magnification down into the 3/4 range but if you want to use it on full 9 power you know anything really 30-35 yards in that range is gonna be more than clear through this scope. So now that we've run down the features of the NP2 SBD, let's head out to the range, see how she does.
Alright guys so looking over our groupings at 25 yards here, not too bad. We went with the H&N Baracuda matches and the JSB heavies 10.65 and 10.34 grains respectively. The heavier stuff simply shot better, we tried a bunch of light stuff about 12-15 pellets somewhere in that range, and these two pellets perform better than all the others. So the H&N Baracuda matches the 25 yards a 7/8 inch group so under an inch there for five shots. Certainly going to be more than accurate enough for squirrels another small game. And the JSBs did, in my opinion, just a little bit better because you got that tight three-shot cluster there, again 7/8 of an inch though total measurement. So overall a little bit better, but about the same grouping. So certainly small game friendly at 25 yards, let's stretch things out to 45 to see what happens.
Alright guys so looking over our groupings here at 45 yards, not too bad, not great, but not too bad out of a gun in the price range. You're looking at about an inch and a quarter group out of the JSB heavies. You know I had two go in there and two go in there. It's certainly not bad and shows some promise. You know if I get a little bit better, more time with the gun, you know if the trigger was a little bit better, that would make grouping a heck of a lot easier, especially at that distance. And then moving on to the Barracudas. A little bit better, about an inch an eighth, I did have that flyer go up high on me, but for five shots you know it's certainly very very good. And quite frankly, you could probably shrink that down a bit with a little bit more time with the gun. So it shows promise guys, but again, for me, a little bit hard to shoot.
Alright guys so that about wraps it up for the NP2 SBD here in the hardwood stock in .177 caliber. Here's the breakdown ok. Good things, it's a 25-30 yard gun, we know that it's certainly quiet enough with that SBD unit on it for the backyard. The gun feels good, it handles well. Tall shooters, short shooters, young shooters can get with this gun no problem because of that shorter length of pull and reach to trigger. The bad points for me. Of course I'd like to see better optics okay, when you anytime you have an optic go on a gun I would like to see a better quality optic included, that's a given. I do like the Picatinny rail though. If you're gonna put a front sight on the gun why doesn't it come with a rear sight, big question mark in my head. And probably the biggest gripe I have here guys, that clean break trigger, if they call this clean I want to know what dirty feels like because I'm not getting a clean break on this one. At over 6 pounds and in a kind of creepy feel, you know that made getting good accuracy out of this gun very difficult for me. I would like to see them improve that trigger, that's going to improve the performance greatly, because the gun certainly has potential with sub 1-inch groups at 30 yards. So you know 18-19 foot-pounds, this gun’s got the capability and obviously in .22 a bit more, but really could use just a little bit more polishing on that trigger to make it a little bit better. So that about wraps it up for the NP2 SBD guys. Hope you enjoyed the video. We'll see you guys at the next one. I'm out.
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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.
So at 106.3 3 decibels, probably a little bit too loud for most backyards. That's gonna, your mileage is gonna vary, obviously you know if you have neighbors really close by this is probably gonna be a bit too loud, but you have a little bit of property to play with, I think this will do just fine in the yard.
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.
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.
This is the new Mauser K98 inspired by the World War II German K98 from back in the day. This is not an exact replica of the old Mauser K98 but it's inspired by. The original count Mauser K98, it was a bolt-action single-shot rifle. This is not that, this is an underlever airgun single-shot .22. It's a great-looking gun, it's balanced, it's a little heavy, and apparently it's got quite a bit of power because it's set up on the Diana, you know, spring system, spring piston system like the RWS 460 that we know and love. So here it is it. Looks legit. I look Legit. Let’s take a look at it.
Alright, you know there's two things I know for a fact about World War II. Number one, those guys back then were real men, no doubt about it. Number two, their clothes were super super itchy. I'd say this is great for for plinking for small game hunting. I think max was like 850 feet per second, I’ll have to check. I've got the exact jumbo Diablos the JSB's. The 15 grain and the 18 grain. I actually don't know which one I prefer so I'm gonna shoot five of each see what they see how they come out through the chrony, check the accuracy on the sucker. I've got no scope on it, now it does have a micrometer rear set right here that's adjustable for windage and elevation, and of course, it's got the hooded front sight which is pretty cool you can also adjust it. It does have this 11-millimeter dovetail for a scope if you want to put one on, but I like to do my reviews on what comes in the box and when you open the box this is what you get. It does have an adjustable two-stage trigger and the safety’s back here. You know other than that, it's just like the Dianas we’re used to, it just looks really cool like a World War II gun.
Alright so to cock it, just pulled down, it's about 36 pounds to break it. It's a little it's a little shorter lever so it feels a little out of it, all about 36 pounds. We’re gonna start with the 15.89, great pellets. Pop it in there, sit in there and then this gets you every time. You got to push this button. No matter how much I know it's there it always gets me. Now you know it’s there. Safety baby. Going with no glasses cuz it’s overcast and I can't see. I didn’t have sights up so.
All right so without sighting them, straight out of the box. Five shots right there around 729 feet per second all of them and all within about three-quarters of an inch to each other, not bad open sights. Let's move up to the 18 grain just to see what the differences in speed, and I'll just aim for the bottom of that target. 683 I don't know if it's worth it. I think I'd go to the 53.
Take a look at my group a group shot that's kind of a flyer. Not bad I think I'm gonna be better at 50. All right here we go, time to make my grandpa proud.
Whoa ah! Not too bad. Open sights, 50 yards, a little flier here. Let’s go have some fun.
All right we moved over here to the Outsyder range, and we've got bogies 12 o'clock. Little green army man on top of the coffee mug. About 60 yards. He's wearing a green shirt in a black helmet. Oh you know this is uh this is a really cool gun. It's about a $450 gun. Great gun, obviously great accuracy. I shot targets 25,15, 30, 35, 50, and now 60, very accurate, has good power. Great little gun for target practice and you know small game hunting. So you can get this at Pyramyd Air. You know I got to tell you, my only complaint, if anything, is that it doesn't come with a full uniform. There you. Thanks for watching the Pyramyd Outsyder. I'm Rossi Morreale, see you next time.
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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.
802, that makes sense.
806.
There you go. And see now, you look, it's got the exclamation point kind of a warning sign like don't cock and shoot. Not bad 25 yards .177 I gotta say, man this thing is sweet. Let's try it out at 50 yards, see I mean which I know that's a big stretch for .177 but let's see what it can do. 50 yards this is gonna be interesting in the wind.
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.
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.
The AP16 is Atamans latest offering and this is the black compact version. It's also available in a silver compact as well as their black standard version, which has a barrel that's about 2 inches longer, as well as about double the air capacity of the compact here. Now the cool thing about the AP16 as a platform is that you can actually interchange all of those parts. So if I own a compact already and I want to go ahead and put on a standard length barrel or a standard length air cylinder or both, I can do that and basically convert my gun into a standard as opposed to the compact. So really neat and a lot of forethought from Ataman there in terms of utilizing the same parts to give the end user the ability to interchange them. Now starting with the barrel on top here, we do a low through Walther barrel which is shrouded. Now you'll notice there are some vent holes cut in the sides of the shroud and that is present on both sides there. The gun is quite loud, this is not a shroud that's going to suppress the noise, those vent holes are purely there to mitigate a little bit of the muzzle flip. And it is fairly stout since you're talking about a six and a half inch barrel roughly and a lot of air passing through it so it does kick a little bit when you do shoot it. Now on top of the shroud unit here we do have our front sight unit as well as an 11-millimeter dovetail for mounting optics, so whether you have a red dot or you want to put a pistol scope on it, this 11-millimeter dovetail is gonna accommodate that.
And just below the barrel in the shroud is the 60 CC air cylinder. Now you do have your gauge on the end here and it does read and bar. This is a 300 bar fill gun like all the rest of the Ataman rifles, and as we've seen before it actually comes with two fill probes. So you have your eighth inch PSP probe and your quick disconnect probe. Both of them. Now we're gonna use the quick disconnect here but just to show you guys how this fills. You do have your fill port in the back of the air cylinder so you don't have to remove your cylinder if you don't want to. All you need to do is just take your fill probe, slide it on in, and you're good to go. You fill it up to 300 bar and you're all set to go. Now Ataman rates this for 15 good shots. We're gonna see obviously what pellets gonna work best and what kind of energy it's going to give us as well as the shot count, but I would expect around that 15-16 mark, maybe two to two-and-a-half magazines before we're gonna run out of air. Now the cylinder does attach directly to the regulator here and that's one of the nice features of the Ataman line, in general, is that they are all regulated and it is one of the reasons you're gonna get a lot of shots out of such little air is because you know for a 14 foot-pound gun and 60 cc's of air capacity A. you need that higher 300 bar fill pressure, you don't have to fill that high but to maximize that shot count you need that higher pressure to get up there and that regulator is gonna save you some air, you're not gonna be wasting anything as you go through your shot string. There's also going to create very consistent shot to shot velocities which are going to give you obviously good accuracy downrange, as long as the barrel’s up to it and you are. And aside from the barrel one of the other big contributing factors to accuracy, especially in pistols in my experience, is the trigger. Now the AP16 does have Ataman’s two-way adjustable trigger and it is a very light trigger.
We do have a side lever action now it's a very sleek side lever you can see at the top here that there is a recess for your finger. Now this is not going to be something that's unusable for a left-handed shooter but definitely purposed for the right-handed shooter to operate with the left hand. Let me show you how that works. So we're gonna go ahead and point it downrange so we would take our shot and then we would just come up here in cycle, take our shot, come back up, and cycle, it's very easy, very intuitive as well, and puts you right back in the right position to go ahead and reestablish a good grip on the pistol. And of course you guys will also notice that there's a seven round magazine with the AP16, now extras are available, it only comes with one and I would definitely recommend picking up an extra or two because you're gonna need it because this pistol is a ton of fun to shoot, and just slides right into the side of the gun, snaps in, and then you go ahead and you close your breech. Decocking is very simple just pull the trigger, let the lever come forward and you are good to go. And the other thing I should point out about the AP16 is that you can only turn the safety on and we do that by pushing this in here. It's a cross bolt style safety. The only way you can turn that safety on is when the gun is cocked. So I'm gonna decock it here and you'll notice I can't push that through okay. So the gun can only be put on safe when the gun is cocked. And rounding it out on the back here we do have our rear site, now it's just a notch and BladeSystem, very easy to use if you're not familiar. With a nice six o'clock hold I found that I didn't need to adjust the sights at all, although they are windage and elevation adjustable so something to keep in mind depending on what pellets you use, you know you may have to change or what distance you go ahead and cite it in that you're gonna obviously have to tweak those sites a little bit.
And one other thing I want to point out to you guys as far as features goes, right in the back here you'll notice a little recess. Now this is actually a hammer spring tension adjustment. Now what that gives us the ability to do is by either decreasing or increasing the hammer spring tension, we can actually influence how hard the hammer hits the valve, therefore determining how much energy we're able to develop, so this is basically you know push the pellet faster or slower depending on your setting. Now they say it's about a 14 foot-pound gun I'm not sure how high you can go and we didn't adjust it here, but my experience with the Ataman guns is that you have a little bit up that you can adjust, you know you can get it a little bit hotter but really most of your adjustments gonna be coming back, so if you wanted to get more shots or maybe you were working in really close ranges and you wanted to get you know more shots out of the gun without having to worry about maybe overpenetration, something you might want to think about. But definitely a nice feature and easily accessible as well. And last but not least, before we head out to the range, you'll notice that this has a very 1911s grip frame here and it is very comfortable. Reminds me of the 1911 I have at home and I like it a lot. Even down to the beaver tail that comes over the over the hand here. It just with the finger grooves for my hand you know they're perfect, I don't have very big hands but I don't see this being an issue for someone that does, and honestly just it doesn't feel too wide here at no point does this feel like a non-conventional air pistol, I mean this feels just as real as some of the replica 1911s that we have here on Pyramyd Air. And even a real 1911 you know it's got a lot of weight to it but about just under two pounds. But a very realistic feel at the end of the day and I think that's what a lot of people are gonna like about this gun. It's the first pcp air pistol that I've seen in a really long time that has a very traditional feel and isn't too big and bulky. So on that note, we're gonna go out to the range see how it does on paper as well. We're gonna shoot with the open sights ten yards probably mount an optic on for further distance testing, see how much energy it's doing, and obviously checked that shock out and see what this AP16 can do. Let's head out.
We're gonna start at ten yards. Got all JSB's, we tested about eight pellets and JSBs definitely are doing the best. We’ll start at 10 yards and then take it out to 25 yards with whatever our best pellet at 10 is and see how it goes. Let's get to it.
Alright guys so 10-yard results here. The JSB 1589 is not very good. I'm not the greatest pistol shot in the world, full disclosure if I'm just being honest with you guys, but but these 1589s didn't do very well. The Predator GTOs did a little bit better, but still not great. And then the JSB heavies 1813 s which are going to give us a little bit more knockdown power anyway did probably the best, so we're gonna go ahead and mount a red dot here, I got a Hawk red dot we're gonna throw on this gun on the 11-millimeter dovetail. Take it out to 25 yards and see how we do.
Alright guys so you could see just by the group here a big difference, and obviously the red dot had a lot to do with that. I was using it on the lowest setting so I was just getting a nice faint dot that I was just placing in the middle of a black here at 25 yards. Definitely gonna need an optic if you want to push out the distance on this unless you're a crack pistol shot, which fully admitting I am not. So but about an inch group out of the JSB heavies pretty damn good guys.
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.
Alright guys so that about wraps it up for the AP16 here today. I'm pretty impressed with this little pistol. I'm doing 20-plus shots when the only claim 15 is nice. Obviously would definitely get some extra magazine so you can quick change out during that. We found the JSB 18s did the best at 10 yards you know with the regular open sights not a bad group, that's going to be a squirrels head all day. And then when you put an optic on it I think it just gets a ton easier, and these are obviously all 7 shot groups at 25 yards here you know the AP16 can still deliver at least off bags. Definitely go ahead and get yourself an optic though if you want to stretch things out. I did find the open sights a little tough to use on these black background targets because you have the black on black with the front and the rear sight. So if I was gonna buy this pistol you know I'd probably take a little touch of red nail polish or white nail polish or something just to that front sight, just to give me a little bit of contrast make it easier to see my target. Very very loud though that would be the only other consideration there. Outside you're probably gonna be okay but just be cognizant, definitely not a backyard friendly gun so keep that in mind. But overall you know plenty of accuracy, good power, right around 14 foot-pounds. You know for something that is an actual pistol sized gun, the AP16 I think is a really really solid offering and the AP16 is getting a definite thumbs up from me here, so check it out on pyramydair.com. For the Insyder, Tyler Patner. We'll see you guys at the next one.
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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.
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