Benjamin Marauder Air Rifle Stock, Synthetic

It's much lighter than the wood stock that came with the Field and Target model. I feel better about loading it on my UTV /ATV racks and hiking through brush. It's balance is more barrel heavy now. The wood looks and feels better.

Keep both pressure gauge locations closed so you can choose which one you need to knock out without leaving one hole open to collect dust. Also, pressure gauge sits flush with stock as opposed to being recessed like with wood. Wish it was set back to protect the lens cover of the pressure dial.

I have a F&T with an adjustable comb. For some reason the pressure gauge hole doesn't line up with my gun. The stock is manufactured with a reinforced port in the right place, it's just not open. A 1" forstner bit makes a perfect clean hole and the channel that's molded in the stock acts as a guide. Only problem is that the other location is open to collect dust. It's underneath so you can't see it. Just know you might need to modify this stock with some kind of hole saw or bit. I contacted PA and they seemed clueless about this issue and advised me not to modify the stock and contact Crossman... useless advise.

Easy to install

I got this stock so I could set it up with a different length of pull (LOP) and cheek rest height for my wife and daughter and share the use of my wood-stocked Semi-Auto Marauder with them. With the single screw takedown and reasonable price, this stock was a no-brainer ergonomic solution.

It would be nice if it also had an adjustable butt pad for LOP adjustments but, at this price point, I didn't deduct stars for its absence. I'll have to get a shorter butt pad for my wife and daughter to use it, as I planned. However, I did deduct a star for the unexpected and surprisingly sharp edges on the cheek rest. It's the same plastic cheek rest that came with my wood stock Semi-Auto Marauder (SAM), but Crosman "de-horned" the edges nicely on my SAM cheek rest. This cheek pad will cut your hand if it brushes against a sharp plastic edge of an extended cheek rest. The solution is to sand the sharp edges a bit.

I used a 1" center cutting end mill to open up the second pressure gauge 1" diameter view port to fit the stock to my SAM. Some users use a Dremel tool but the end mill worked very precisely and cleanly with my milling machine. This stock is cleverly designed to reduce Crosman manufacturing mold costs and parts inventory; it can be adapted fit to various Marauder SKUs. It comes configured with the hole for the regular Marauder already opened-up so you'll have an extra hole in it if you need to adapt it for a SAM by opening the SAM-compatible hole (only a cosmetic issue and not a bad one, in my opinion). I weighed my beech wood stock and this plastic stock and they weighed 2.974 and 2.244 lb, respectively so nearly a 3/4 lb. weight savings with this plastic stock. That gets my SAM down to a sub-Garand weight of under 9 lbs from its 9.6 lb wood stock weight (including its small-ish 2-7x32 scope and rings). My wife and daughter will appreciate the weight loss.