Gamo Wildcat Whisper

Nice lightweight

I have one in .177. caliber with nitro piston. The trigger is nice, and is adjustable as well. The cocking effort is manageable. The stock is okay. Cannot comment for accuracy yet, as I am getting horrible grouping because of a junk factory scope. It is not the pellets, before you go down that route read my comments in what I would change below first. I have a decent scope ordered, and will see how good this rifle groups then.

The scope that came with mine is a complete piece of total junk. That sums it up quite well. Cheap eBay Chinese scopes are better quality, to be specific. The sight picture is blurry. The scope will not hold zero and wanders from shot to shot, and was this way out of the box. The turret covers are not even a good hard type plastic, which says a LOT about the scope itself. Advice, plan on getting a different scope.

I was hoping that this would be even half the rifle that my old Gamo Big Cat 1250 was, being as the specs are about identical. That Big Cat 1250 would stack pellets in the same hole at 15 yds out of the box, and it instantly sold me on the Gamo brand. I am not joking. If it weren't for one pellet slightly enlarging the hole, I would not have known to dig out the pellets -- I would have thought I only hit the target once. So far, I am now severely disappointed with the Wildcat Whisper. I bought mine from a local store though, so not the fault of Pyramyd Air. I wish now that I had bought from Pyramyd, as I could have possibly returned the junk scope that came with mine. Take this to heart people, $10 cheaper at the local store sometimes equals a "too bad so sad" warranty and no support at all. However, the problems are with Gamo concerning the scope. It would have looked better for them not to have provided any scope at all, instead of providing that scope shaped object.

Fantastic accuracy, low report, low price, solid lock up. The accuracy out of this .22 compares to that of my earlier Beeman R7 and R9's which cost much more.

The scope needs to be upgraded.

I have shot springers for 50 years and I never met one that shot this well out of the box. Now that I shoot mostly PCP, I am used to pellet over pellet accuracy and would never expect that from a springer. Guess what, within 100 shots, this rifle was making one small hole groups at 45 feet off the bench. At 25 yards, it was making 1 inch groups all with cheap Crosman Premier pellets. The trigger is what it is but dropping a Charlie Da Tuna GRT-4G trigger is easy to do and fixes this. The other big surprise is how quiet this rifle is. Not as quiet as my Donnyfl silencers but quiet enough to be neighborhood friendly. And it is powerfull to boot. It anchors squirrels at 35 yards with no problem. I checked penetration using a 2x6 and found that the CP pellets penetrate to 1/2 inch at 35 yards. 10 years ago I swore I would never own a Gamo, today I am shouting their praises. They sure have made some changes to their quality, that's for sure.