Page 2 - Avenger 1100 Reviews

very accurate, power,the trigger works great!

add a scope stop! mine i use leapers works great!

i have Mendoza RM-600 .22 & Avenger 1100 .22, Some said both rifle are desame, i dont know about that coz mine is different in some way. Both air rifle's are made in Mexico, they even have desame box. The Mendoza Rm-600 .22 is a very good air rifle. But my Avenger 1100 .22 works better in many ways, this air rifle shoot's desame in all the pellet's i have( 10 diff. pellet's) . In this price range, this is a really good buy. Hope this review help's you guy's in some way.

Accurate, powerful and nice looking.

Nothing really.

The gun has a lot of oil in it, so it always diesels and would detonate every so often. Also, accuracy suffered after about 100 shots. This was remedied by cleaning the barrel which was very, very dirty. I used my .22 rimfire cleaning kit, but I was told to not use any petroleum based solvents or oil. I'm told to only use slicone chamber oil on spring piston airguns. The cleaning brought back the accuracy and the detonations have stopped. All is good for now.

The open sight config. is excellent. The very slight recoil is straight back and that is good. Were this weapon a repeater, it would be awesome and deadly. This weapon is superior to a GAMO, which I own.

Cocks a bit too hard. Keep firing tension but reduce cocking effort. Change the safety from its current config. to a flip switch type, either on or off. this will speed up repeated firing, much like most other conventional pistons and rifles

A good, I mean GOOD, scope on this rifle with easy adjustiblity built in would be spectacular, unlike the GAMO scope which is a total looser.

Pyramid Air's service is better than amazing! Power is more than adequate for plinking or small game,complety shoots through 3/8 inch particle board and puts a hole through 1/2 inch particle board. I have not checked accuracy with scope yet but open sights seem to be pretty good on this gun. Price is very low for quality of gun. Only plastic that I see on it is part of the front sight, the spacer between the stock and the rubber pad, and lastly the washer thing at the rear of the piston.

Put a sixth star choice in the "Value for money" slot, make it available with synthetic stock.

Bought it in .22 and the Crosman Premier hollow points are what I used for my tests for penetration and accuracy.Treat it like a rimfire. Right hand stock only.

Trigger, wood, rifle is very powerful and accurate. I do have the 22 cal. I really like that once the rifle is cocked, you will notice a red dot in the oiling hole indicating that the rifle has been cocked. Price is good for the quality you get. This rifle has exceeded my expectations.

Don`t like that it does not have a scope stop hole and that the 11mm dovetail are not long enough. I have a BSA 3-9x50mm scope and a Gamo scope stop which i had to throw away the yellow rubber and cut the out about 1/4 of an inch from the actual stop to make it fit. The plastic cover over the safety should be metal.

It is one of the best 22 cal. air rifles i have ever bought , I love it, i highly recommend buying one of them!!

This is a very nice air rifle. Good looking, well made and the stock is finished very nicely. I read the reviews prior to buying this rifle ans I have to say that some have it wrong when they say it's easy to cock. Not so. Although I'm 69 years old I'm far from weak. I am used to it now but my son who is 30 says it's a hard pull. He has a Gamo Whisper which is really easy to pull. The trigger on the Avenger is absolutely great. I like the fact that it's a double trigger so you know exactly where yo are. Very easy. The Gamo's have a terrible trigger for such a nice rifle. Accuracy is about average, maybe better than some. Too soon to tell since I've only had it for a month. Good at short distances and I can usually put a few on top of each other. The breach is very tight and as some said, lighter weight pellets fall out if you're not careful. Not terribly loud. Sometimes it sounds like a 22.

Nothing as long as you know that it's not easy to break the barrel.

Regarding pellets, I have found that most are fairly accurate. I prefer the Crossman heavy's and the pointed lights work fine but tend to fall out unless you point the barrel down. But the heavy Crossman are very consistent. I wish I had bought the 22 caliber but as they say, hindsight is great. I can't say enough about Pyramyd Air. They are great to work with. I may update this as time goes on.

am very pleased with the rifle so far. The trigger is one of the best I've ever used on an air gun. It makes it easy to shoot it well. I did an informal test with cheap .22 pellets on a 3/4" pine board and the pellet went completely trough it. This will make a fine small game rifle. Excellent value.

I would put on some better sights. They're okay but I'm not a fan of the fragile plastic fiber optic sights and would prefer something more solid and precise.

The sights are great! The rear sight is green dots and the front is red. Hardly any plastic. (love that) showes great quality! I think only two plastic parts on the whole gun. I was hitting things like coke cans and glass bottles (braking them) from at least 35-40 yards EASY! (no scope) It has great power, goes through the fence like butter. I got the .22 cal and I use Predator pellets w/ the polymer tip and Predator Ultra Shock.

Maybe the two plastic parts! Other than that, nothing!

I also have a Gamo Hunter Sport 1200 fps that I spent $200 on and a Benjamin Sheridan silver streak .20 cal (witch is a great gun also) the Avenger 1100 puts them to shame!

The wood to metal fit and finish is excellent. This gun looks, feels, and handles like a much more expensive rifle. The low price is no indication of the quality that you are getting. The fiber optic sights are excellent and the accuracy has been surprising. Cocking effort is quite easy and the double sided safety makes operation so smooth that my wife (who the gun was purchased for) was shooting like an old pro rather quickly.

The chamber is loose compared to my RWS 460. You have to point the barrel down in order to close the barrel to the receiver or the pellet's skirt will be crushed. I woiuld like to see a mount that allows the use of the Leaper's base that compensates for barrel droop.

I used the UTG 11mm to Weaver mount and UTG 1" high see-thru rings to place my Center Point 3X9X40 scope on this pellet rifle. I could not see the excellent open sights because the bell on the scope blocked the view through the rings. This rifle dieseled and burned off the oils in the air chamber for about 200 pellets. It can be disconcerting to have an excellent group going and then a loud pop and the pellet hits much lower... caused by the burning oils. That kinda eases off after several hundered pellets. This rifle shoots right with my RWS 460 at 10 meters...frequently giving one hole groups. Both the Beeman FTS double gold pellets and the RWS pointed tip pellets gave the best accuracy. I have an excellent selection of pellets and I tried them all and those two were the best. You might want to get a pellet seater to make loading in the loose chamber a bit easier.

wow! the trigger is great ! powerful! ,looks great .shoots great! about 150 shots and its shooting dime size groups at 15yds already and its not all the way broke yet.i can't wait to see what this thing can do. shots through a 3/4 pine broad with no problem.my other rifles will not do that

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read the reviews of all the rifle you think you may like before you buy. i did a lot of reading of reviews on a lot of air rifles to see which one i wanted. well mendoza is the one.this is the real thing .small and med. game dose not have a chance with this rifle.it will do it part you just have to do yours.i have a crossman 2260 in 22,and crossman storm xt in 177.they do not hold a candle to this thing.

Balance, trigger, accuracy, power, stock and sights.

Muzzle break is little too small, I wish it was bigger.

Totally blown away by the way this rifle shoots. Yes, the spring vibration has a kick, but this is a springer so you learn to adjust to it. I love this rifle and would recommend it to anyone looking for an inexpensive but high quality air rifle. Also, my gun did not come with the sling swivel stud that appears in the photo. I confirmed it with PA that it "does not" come with it.

Excellent sights, good power, especially with heavy match pellets. I like the size and balance. Accuracy great, using the heavy pellets. I bought one of these for my Son in Law, six weeks ago and liked it so much I had to purchase one for myself as well!

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Trigger guard and stock mounting screws were all loose, as received. Be sure to check for tightness before use! Owner of RWS Diana .177, Webley Hurricane .177.

Nice quality construction. Good balance. Nice low trigger pull.Optic sights are great.

Accuracy could be better.

Good gun for price.

Wacky Wayne again, just got my second (Avenger 1100 in .177 or Mendoza rm-600 .177, they are the same, and I guess it's only $13 less). I added the $44 leapers 3-9x32 scope and $38 case & free mount again. I only got about 200 rounds thru my first one before my brother-in-law "Randy" tried it and I never got it back, but now that I have tried about 750 rounds thru my new one, and almost all the pellets Pyramyd recommends for this gun, here is more info: After reading the review on the rm-600 in .22 by the guy who has over 70 air rifles, I tried the sitting with a towel rest and all the different pellets. After finding out that the H & N extra heavy 10.6 gr Baracuda Match are by far the best for this gun, they fit the barrel best and I found that they drop less at 100 yards than the Beemans 8.8 or jbs 8.2 . ( I guess because they fit better. ) So with this pellet I tuned in the scope at 60' indoors on the black 1" dots that change color when you hit them. After tuning, I started hitting the center fairly often buring pellet after pellet, so I changed the game to, " try and remove all the black without going out side the circle". It took 34 shots on the first one with only 1 shot 1/4" out side the circle and 32 shots on the next one with 2 shots less than 1/4 " out side. (it was me not the gun) You might think that the pellets would bounce off the 2x6 after 3 in the same spot, but the mendoza kept pounding them in. ( the first ones going in at least 3/4"). As the dot shrunk I was shooting at little specks of black. I also am a 58 year old man who has not shot a pellet gun since I was 8 years old. ( I have shot my old .22 semi-auto rim fire a few times in the last 30 years.) I compared the rim fire long rifle to the rm-600 in .177 H&N 10.6 gr. The drop at 100 yards is almost the same. So I promptly ordered the rm-600 in .22 with the non-wood stock, (much lighter, and that is important for me being only 5-10" & 150 lbs) and a centerpoint 3-9x40 (made by leapers and recommended by the sales rep over the leapers) with case and free mounting. Can't wait. I wonder how long it will take my friends and I to get to 70 air rifles? When will Tom review this gun? I can't believe there is something better for the money.

Again I want the rear sight on the rm-2000. That is all.

Be sure to cock the barrel all the way back, or the safety will not re-set all the way and you will have to take a shot with about 10 lbs of trigger pull on the first safety trigger.

Everything; accurate, accurate, accurate, size, weight, balance, finish, design, quality and PRICE. This is my second mendoza, (this is just like the mendoza 600, a little cheaper) I got the 2000 7 pellet magazine model and loved it but my friend loved it also, so i sold it to him and got this one with a leapers 3-9x32. This is a super nice combo, Tom's articles on the mendoza 2000 and 200 sold me. This scope is so good in poor light, super crisp, the best adjustments maybe at any price, and on top of this rifle, with the RIGHT pellets, my friends and I are getting 3/4" groups at 60 feet time after time, and often dead center on first shot on a 1/4" black dot, (cool when they turn green) The scope is so sharp that you can see when you double pellets also. We shot at 2x6 dry port orford cedar (as hard as doug fir) and the jbs or h&n match went in 3/4 inch to the back of the pellet. Long distance test was great, 2" drop at about 200' the 2000 dropped more than twice that. It was pretty easy to hit bear cans at 200' . With a jbs hollow point or preadator 8.2 gr you get less drop and great know down power. Last night my shaky brother in law (a novice to guns) said can i try your new gun, I said sure and never got it back. He was knocking off bottle caps at 60' and complaining that he kept hitting the top, till finally he nailed the center and was happy. He really liked the weight and balance it settled him down, and when I told him to just shoot when the hairs come across the target, instead of trying to hold the target, he got real good, so good that he started the same groupings standing up with no rest, BLEW MY MIND. That is when I had to say "hey man that has got to be your gun"

Too nice of guns, I can't keep my friends from buying them from me and I have to keep re-ordering.

You can't shoot a light pellet in this gun. It has to be fat and at least 8.2 or forget accuracy. Don't let any one else shoot it if you want it back.