Benjamin Wildfire PCP Air Rifle

FUN while it lasted. Accurate for a $150 PCP at short distances. Extra mags are cheap and easy to come buy. Semi-auto / 12 shot. It sounds a lot more powerful than it is (let's face it, if you bought this gun, you got it to plink with or let your kids plink with it, you didn't get it with the hopes of hitting dime size shots at 50 yards). Hand pump friendly. I could get about 3 mags (36 usable shots) before I had to pump a about 55 to 60 pumps. Takes about as long to load the mags as it does pump up the gun

Quality Control is Lacking.......LEAKING IS REAL. I knew this was a risk going into. I think I got about 150 or so shots in before it started leaking near the mag. It is slow, but as soon as it happens your accuracy is goes from pretty good to terrible. When it works well, my 10 year can put 5 shots in a quarter at 15 yards no problem. When it starts leaking the best I can do is about 5 shots inside a circle the size of a DVD. CROSMAN should be ashamed of themselves. If you grab the gun tight near gauge you can slow (not stop the leak). I am beside myself how Crosman did not test this more. Clearly they just thought they could lift and shift from the 1077. What a complete letdown from Crosman. Search the web for "Benjamin Wildfire PCP Air Rifle LEAK / LEAKING" and you can see a video with sound.

Trigger pull is pretty tough, I am not overly picky was not expecting much in the trigger, but some people are way more concerned about the trigger even in a budget PCP.

The price. For the price, it is a very nice "semi-auto" rifle. It is light weight. It is a lot of fun to shoot. It can shoot very well, after you get used to the heavy trigger pull. The trigger alone is why I gave the rifle a Overall rating of 4 stars out of 5 stars.

I'd ask Crosman/Benjamin to put in a lighter trigger pull. Include a small tube of silicone grease/oil to lube the Foster air input nipple. Really, nothing else needs to change for the price. It is a fun pellet gun over all.

I used the Crosman Premier Domed .177 Caliber 10.5 Grain Pellet. It seems to work very well in this PCP. If you fill the Foster air intake nipple with silicone grease/oil BEFORE you fill the air tube, starting with the very first and second fill, and then like every 50 fills afterwards, the grease will help the O-rings seal up perfectly. That will also help the metal plunger in the Foster nipple to seal up 100%. Also, after the air fill, release the fill like pressure as fast as you can. This will cause the grease to vaporize some getting into the tiny nooks and crannies, assisting with an air tight pressure tank on the rifle. For me, this works 100% of the time. Oh, one more thing, refill the tank when it gets to 1000 PSI. Otherwise the accuracy suffers badly after that. Remember, it is a fun PCP rifle, able to do plinking, and pest control. Don't expect it to act like a $600 to $1600 PCP target rifle. Remember that, and go have some fun.

Looks, feels and handles like my Crossman 1077, but using PCP air supply. Reasonable accuracy, Very light weight. Rapid firing double action. Great backyard shooter. Iron sights are great. 12 shot magazine. Delivers 24 to 36 shots before needing a refill to preserve consistency.

Trigger mechanism has very heavy pull. Very Loud: Measured 99.0 db average. Accuracy now always consistent. Managed to keep shots inside a 3/4 inch grouping at 10 yards. Not quite as accurate as my Crossman 1077.

This is NOT you 1077 with a PCP tank, but it is pretty nice for the money. I had best results using Crossman 7.4 grain Wadcutters.
Max velocity I acheived with 7.4 gr was 718.8 fps, but I am sure you could do better with lighter pellets. Velocity with 7.9 and 8.18 was 710.3 and 697.6 fps respectively. I love the iron sights but installed a Hawk 50mm scope for better accuracy. I was pleased to find that Crossman/Benjamin seem to have fixed the leaking problem. Out of the box, I have not experienced pressure loss. After filling to 200 Bar and letting the airgun stand unused for one full week while I was out of town, I could see no discernable pressure loss on the meter. Lots of fun shooting but don't expect long range accuracy. This is a backyard shooter and it delivers very well at short range.

It is a total blast to shoot. Plenty accurate as long as you stage the trigger; it is a revolver trigger after all. Mine developed a leak near the mag-well. I tried to repair it but could not, sent it to Crosman for repair even though it was a month out of warranty. They sent me a new one! Excellent customer service!

Make the air system similar to the Marauder or Disco's so it can be repaired on a DIY basis. Make a .22 version.

As I said above, fantastic customer service from Crosman. If only the rifle was not prone to leak.

By the way, I sent the rife back to Crosman disassembled in a smaller-than-rifle-length box, even though I believe it is totally legal to send it back assembled via USPS. Postage was around $18. If you sent it Fedex or UPS, expect to pay around 2x as much.

It is a repeater that is fun to shoot I got over 850 on the front with Winchester max velocity pellets. They have the best accuracy but they are loud .the kids love it got over 80 shots.

Little bit more stable at the barrel for accuracy & the valve was made for 800psi not 2000psi needs to be addressed. I had to return the first one it leaked from the valve

It's fun to shoot pretty accurate

The price is right for sure. .... It is semiautomatic is correct! ..... the open sights work fine, and you can see what you are shooting at. the air gun is light enough for anyone to handle.

The trigger pull is tremendous! ... because you are doing two things when you pull the trigger! first you are rotating the magazine to bring the next pellet into place. Second you are now releasing the air to fire the pellet. And that takes more pressure to do. (it would be nice if there were a spring to assist the magazine to rotate as you applied pressure to the trigger, there by making the trigger pull less, from what it is now 5 or more pounds down to 2 or less pound per square inch.

I like what the air gun is (a PCP) and semiautomatic (but would give up the semiautomatic part for a lighter trigger pull!
If I had to do it all over... I would have gone with the DIANA STORMRIDER PCP in .177 cal. in stead! even though I can hit the target fast with more pellets with the BENJAMIN WILDFIRE in .177 cal.

The Crosman 1077 has a long history with me. I've gone through a bunch of them mostly because friends would borrow them and never bring them back. Once long ago I asked a Question..."Why couldn't I make one a bulk fill co2 or better yet a pcp gun?" I was told that it is impossible because the internal hammer that operates the valve couldn't handle the pressure to fire it. Now here we are and the gun I would have made is in my hands, and it is indeed quite a pcp gun. Not the most accurate but more so than the co2 version and does not care about how hot or cold it is. Fills very east with no problems and easy to rip out 12 rounds without having to muck about with co2, or a bolt action. If I were going to build a fun 1077, this is precisely what I would have built.

Maybe offer it with a 1077 wood stock that I've seen before. It would seem a bit more high end with a wood stock.

Seems a bit more noisy than a 1077 but also it's rocking more power than a 1077. So everything is awesome!

What's to like about a $150. gun that leaks air all the time ??

A gun that would work properly and NOT leak air !

Stay away from this one

Light weight, 30 plus shots with power, very accurate. Easy scope mount. Price.

Trigger

Trigger is tight at first, but it does smooth out to a two stage action. The first is half pull on trigger to rotate magazine. Trigger will stop and then just steady pull and it works great. It still is a heavy pull but it gets easy to shoot accurate with a little practice.
I use the H&N Field Target Trophy Power 8.8 gr. I am able to hit a shot gun shell at 30 yrds with a hard smack. This seems tp be the best pellet for distance and accuracy.