Page 7 of 7 - Beeman P3 Reviews

heavy and easy to aim with feels very steady in your hands

the price!!!!

get the p17 same exact thing but cheaper... WAY CHEAPER

Sights, accuracy and "feel". Trigger is very good and the metal construction should provide good durability.

Used it for a few days then gave it away. Not easy to load, not very powerful. The same "rant" I have concerning the P1. With Beeman's eagerness to make an air gun look like a firearm there are just too many compromises. Hard to cock, difficult to load, all as a result of trying to make an airgun look like something it is not. My Beeman Tempest is a much better design. Easy to cock, easy to load and it looks like what it is... an air pistol. I don't expect this to be published, as my review of the P1 was not, for the same reasons. Replicas should be limited to C02, this would not degrade the function. If you must have a Beeman, I'd buy the P1. Easier to load and more powerful, even if it looks like a Colt 1911 with some kind of serious bloating of the receiver.

I would pass on the P1 and P3 and buy the RWS P5. Great sights and trigger, more power and very easy to cock and load. There will be complaints that it looks like an air pistol....fine by me. Form should follow function. If I want a firearm I'll buy one, rather than a "replica" that looks like a mutant copy. One downside... the RWS P5 does not provide a rail to mount a scope. Hopefully, RWS will come out with a scope mountable version. I would buy it at once.

This is a great air pistol. For those of you that are firearms users I recommend you get one of these to help with your technique with shooting. Great accuracy

Has an odd way of loading the pellet and for right handers the safety isn't very convenient. It is on the left side of the frame.

It shoots and feels like the real thing. Accurate.

Nothing,but the loading probem I have..

MY p3 seems to only shoot daisy wadcutters. I'VE ORDERED A VARITY OF BRAND'S OF PELLETS. They aren't here yet. The two beeman brands I have for my rifle; have to be seat with a rod. I don't know if this is normal or not. Any other owners please respond to this review.

Quality, accuracy, fit & finish...a nice example of German quality.

nothing!...maybe more power!

I own the Weirauch HW 40, which I'm told is essentially the same gun. As stated a well-finished and designed air pistol. Feels like a .40 semi-auto in the hand- very comfortable. Been shooting this for about 2 yrs.,very impressed!

Excellent quality construction. Bad boy looks & excellent finish on the pistol. It looks good and feels good when your shooting it. Features nice adjustable sights and has good power. Accurate once you get used to the trigger.

The price. In this case, I'd say the Weihrauch model would be a better value for money.

The trigger on mine, came from the factory with about a 1.5 trigger pull. Set VERY light. Take extra care and precautions when first firing the pistol. You can easily discharge it when you did not intend to.

Good quality, accuracy and simple operation. Nice trigger as well. Overall fit and finish very good. Tough to really tell the difference between the HW40 and the P3. I have owned both. Not sure what value-add Beeman provides.

I would add a little weight to it and offer aftermarket grips or over grips for better in hand performance.

I have owned the HW40 in .22 which is cousin of the P3. I also own a HW75, HW80 and a P7 which are all excellent airguns. Also, excellent sales and support from Pryamyd Air - Thank you ! 'I will be back' for more great stuff.

Light weight, sharp sight picture, smooth, precision rifled barrel. High quality, well finished, no rough edges. No recoil allows me to see pellet path in bright sunshine. Lots of value for money when compared to other air pistols in this price range. Made in Germany.

Make grip a little wide and a bit longer. Add a little more power. Takes two direct hits on paddle to knock down a field target from 30 feet.

Serial number 656027 Beeman import. With about 1,000 through my P3, I've had no mechanical problems. Don't have a chronograph so I can't quote velocities. However gun is consistent and shoots with about same velocity as my Diana 6M, but not as hard as my BSA 240 in .177. The Weihrauch HW40CPA was not readily available when I bought my P3. I have found only cosmetic differences between a pure Weihrauch and a Beeman branded Weihrauch. A Beeman branded import is usually costlier. I shoot RWS
Miesterkuglen pistol pellets exclusively in my P3 with excellent results.
Should you buy the Chinese clone or the German original? I derived no
pleasure from owning inferior products, so I sold all my Chinese air guns.
I save a bit longer and buy the high quality guns, strictly my preference. The
Chinese guns are serviceable.

Not much, sent mine back to Beeman, and they gave me a real hard time.

Buy the HW40PCA instead. There is no point in trying to rescue the Beeman turd.

Mine was poorly put together, varied widely in MV (120-350 FPS over 100 shots, no pattern). Safety didn't want to disengage roughly 30% of time, edges of polymer pieces not trimmed and polished (lots of rough, sharp! edges...come on!)

Buy the Weihrauch (HW40PCA), it's orders of magnitude better than this.