Benjamin Marauder Air Rifle Stock, Synthetic

Super easy install..replaced a wood stock (cracked at pistol grip) ..the plastic stock is much lighter and a much better option for me .

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Was shipped quickly.

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Better quality. Looked like it was poorly manufactured.

Save your money and buy a wood stock.

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.

Very happy with this synthetic stock. It can be modified to fit the field target marauder by simply using a Dremel tool to relocate the one inch diameter hole for the pressure gauge. This stock will reduce the weight of the rifle by about one pound and make it idea for hunting or the addition of a picatinny rail, light,laser, or bipod

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BE SAFE.....shoot air guns with the same respect as firearms....

Lightens the gun a bit and comes with studs for sling or bipod .

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No damage from the elements. Add an aluminum air cylinder when they become readily available and you've taken around 3 lbs off of an excellent and very accurate rifle.

Everything! No mess; no challenges. Unscrew ONE socket head, lift off action; place action under replacement stock; tighten screw -- and you're ready to go! Note that, as the scope mount and all lifts off together as one unit -- all adjustments stay the same, regardless of which stock is on it.

Nothing, really, I'd change. However, I do not think a small pill-bottle sized storage container built right in this plastic stock -- e.g., for pellets, or better yet, for a spare magazine -- would not be too difficult to either engineer of implement. Having even but one spare magazine right in/on rifle surely would be a "bonus plus".

For inclement weather shooting, soooo easy -- one socket-head screw -- to seamlessly take the gorgeous wood stock off (keeping it pristine) and put on the plastic one. Another "plus" is, as a result of this stock swap, the unit now weighs a pound or two less :)!

fits perfect . lighter than the wood stock fast shipping

Great product. Lighter than the wood stock. I bought as a switch out option since it's one screw to move. This stock has strap to carry. Wood has bipod for bench shooting.

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Not a bad price if you want to have the option to switch.