Stealth Hunter Attitude Performance Magazine

Yes. The Marauder is the new kid on the Precharged Pneumatic [PCP] Airgun block that can’t be punked. After being in the Airgun world for 35 years and establishing a business in the shooting sports industry over the past 6 plus years, I’ve produced an appetite for product quality, reasonable value and manufacturer integrity.

I received my .22 Benjamin Marauder mid July 2009. There are as a lot of posts out there as you would care to read from owners communicating a range of personal experiences. After reading a number of these posts you’ll realize that the reports are so almost consistent that they appear redundant.

The consistent reports with regards to the Marauder surely underpins the base-line performance that you may suppose ought to you choose to become a Marauder owner. My report will assert a heap of of the performance calibers you may have read with regards to and include firstborn observations to add to the ongoing Marauder experience.

I agree with a lot of of the favorable reports regarding the Marauder, such as:

o From the introductory opening of the box to getting acquainted with the Marauder you feel like you

got more than you salaried for. Not something we feel often times these days.

o Finish is classy and exudes visible quality.

o Stealth like quiet report. Really!

o Full Power shots per fill may be 35 – 45 and even more depending on your personal tune setting.

o The capacity to personally adjust the full range of tuning constituents of a PCP is a feature that the Marauder has and it appeals to an audience with a wide-range of experience levels.

o The choked barrel makes this rifle very exact and in all probability a better shooter than some of it is owners.

o The trigger is perceptibly friendly and match level adaptable to boot.

Here are a great deal of of my personal observations:

Rotary Magazine

During the new owner “getting acquainted” period, when you’re not very intimate with the Marauder’s handling techniques; a user error, not a product malfunction, may cause an accidental loading of more than one pellet into the breech. This may take place when not pulling the bolt back until it cocks. Then permitting the bolt to slide forward under spring pressure, which results in pushing a pellet partially or entirely into the breech. The natural thing to do when you discover that the gun is not cocked is to try cocking it again. When you pull the bolt back the second time it frees the rotary magazine to index to the next pellet, which gets pushed behind the existent breeched pellet when you close the bolt again.

Solution 1 – Point the muzzle in a safe direction and use a suitable backstop. Now fire the rifle thereby clearing the multiple pellets in the breech. This ought to not be a problem if you have 800psi (never tried less pressure) or higher in your on-board reservoir.

Solution 2 – to a complete degree depressurize your rifle using the degassing tool method (see owner’s manual). Then follow the procedure for removing a jammed pellet. Remember, you’ll be removing more than one pellet at the same time, which will cause increased bore-to-pellet friction. Take your time and be careful not to use a rod that will harm the rifling.

New Marauder users may likewise find themselves expending venture to dislodge what seems to be a “stuck” magazine. Truly the magazine extracts flawlessly when employed in the right way and you won’t have this problem once you become more intimate with the operation of and kinship among the bolt and rotary magazine. A mutual culprit for a “stuck” rotary magazine is that the bolt pin may be partly in the magazine. Simply pull the bolt back to the rear most position and the magazine may be removed. (Always fire the rifle in a safe direction to clear any breeched pellet.)

Another culprit is a partially inserted pellet. Closing the bolt completely, thereby pushing the pellet totally into the breech, and then pulling and keeping the bolt back to the rear most position will free the magazine for removal. (Always fire the rifle in a safe direction to clear any breeched pellet.) Most owners may never experience these problems, but if you do, know that it’s not the rotary magazine.

Protecting the Shroud

This caution applies to most PCPs and is meant to be helpful in avoiding unintentional user harm to the matte finish of the shroud. There is potential for surface harm to the shrouded barrel area above the fill probe. The quick disconnect fitting may scrape/scratch the bottom of the shrouded barrel when connecting and disconnecting to the fill probe. This may be solved by installing shrink wrap tubing or wrapping electrical or other lasting tape around the quick disconnect fitting element parts (note: assure that your shrink wrap tubing or tape does not interfere with the quick disconnect moving parts). If not one thing else, at least place a barrier (e.g. cloth, gun sock, etc.) over the division of the barrel that may be bumped by the quick disconnect hardware. Over time, you’ll be glad to have practiced careful handling for the duration of pressurizing.

One of My Optimal Tune Settings

One hundred Marauders may be fabricated and amongst them will be numerous level of singularity in performance characteristics. So, using my settings may not manufacture the same results in your rifle. You will have to take the time to experiment with your rifle to achieve the performance that you desire. Here are the settings I use to achieve a worthy of acceptance or satisfactory basic field distance (BFD): Hammer Tension 6, Hammer Stroke 4 and Velocity Adjustment 2.5. (The owner’s manual explains the adjustment parameters for the respective tuning components). This setting gives rise to an intermediate 915 feet per second [FPS] with 14.3gn Crosman Premiers (CP’s) amounting to just over 26 foot-pounds of energy [FPE]….. I get over 30 full power shots with this setting. When using Dynamic 14.5gn PCP2′s with the same setting I get 940 FPS resulting in 28 FPE.

Trajectory Report and Long Range Shooting

The Marauder performs particularly for the duration of long-range field shooting conditions. The Marauder can’t be punked by a great deal of well established PCP’s carrying a price tag ranging 2 – 3 times as much.

Mount a quality mil dot scope and take delight in the procedure of charting long-range hold-under / hold-over data.

Once you’ve done this for your pellet(s) of choice the data will without delay become invaluable. You’ll shoot with sheer selfconfidence at ranges out to 75 yards and beyond. My furthest distance shot string was for the duration of a 15mph left to right wind at 108 yards manufacturing a 4″ group. It was no question that the gun was out shooting me. I’ll be shooting at this distance again under better conditions. In addition to shooting groups at 108yds, I likewise performed one of my low-tech penetration test using a soup may (soda cans are too thin). Every shot entered and exited the can, then embedded in the tree backstop. At 108yds the CP 14.3gn pellet is traveling at 421 FPS and retains 6 FPE. My presently chosen greatest or most complete or best possible effective field range is 70 yards. At 70 yards the 14.3gn CPs are traveling at 549 fps, delivering 9.5 fpe at the point of affect (POI) and my point of intention [POA] to POI is amidst right on to ¾ inch.

Crosman Customer Service

I have had the pleasure and, on a heap of occasions, the displeasure of working with a number of client service teams in the shooting sports industry. My contact with the Crosman Customer Service staff has been one of the most satisfying, respectful and responsive client care experiences that I have had in any service industry. Crosman respectfully listened to my concerns, answered my questions and checked in with me to assure that I was satisfied with their resolutions. I am still floored when I think with regards to the time I received a check-in call from a Crosman representative who I knew was home sick for the day. Janet’s colleagues were very helpful for the duration of her absence. However, it was primary for Janet to know that I was a satisfied customer, even though she was not in the office that day. Crosman treated me like a valued customer. Kudos to Crosman Corporation for excellency in client care.

I’m presently placing the Marauder through further and added testing (e.g. hunting, silhouette, dissimilar pellets, charting more tune settings and more…). Certainly, an indispensable measure is the Marauder’s reliability over time. Unfortunately, my time machine is under-going a five-year maintenance service. Therefore, the Marauder has to be time tested the old fashion way.

The Benjamin Marauder lives up to it is claims and is speedily establishing a respectful place in the quality PCP family of adult precision air rifles.

If you have found the MAGPRO Marauder Report helpful and would like me to test and review your Airgun industry products, I welcome the chance to work with your business.

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