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My son has an addiction. He is absolutely addicted to airguns. I don't even know how many he has at this point, but I'm willing to bet it's close to ten. Over the last year or so he has been watching "Ted's Holdover" on youtube religiously. This kid is now well versed in trajectory and widage...like a well-trained sniper! At any rate, his self-education has taught him all about PCP air rifles. Most of which cost thousands of dollars, the exception being the Marauder. Ted highly endorsed it, so of course Mason started asking Santa for one last year. Santa tried to avoid it and bought him a different, really nice air rifle last year, but the boy persisted and Santa gave in this year.
I mounted a 3x9 on the thing, but I need to get him a scope with mil dots to stretch his range. I'll get to that at some point, but for right now he is thrilled with it as is. I helped him get it fairly close sighting in, and he has done the rest. Honestly, I have only shot the thing three or four times at paper, Mason has put hundreds of .25 cal pellets through the thing. (And of course they are expensive because he has to shoot the brand recommended by Ted!) He has told me how accurate it is, and has shown me on occasion, but today I was blown away when I shot it myself a couple of times.
Starlings have moved into our neighborhood in a big way today. I hate 'em. There was a bunch of them feeding along the woodline to the west of our house today. I had a few minutes so I went into Mason's room and got the Marauder, loaded two pellets into it's clip, checked that it was indeed charged to 3000psi and went out to the picnic table. A few minutes later a starling gave me a shot at 48 yds. Poof. Dead. Then another hopped up onto a limb just beyond the dead one. I worked the bolt. Poof. Dead. This thing is amazing! The biggest portion of the first one's heart was laying on the ground beside him...25 cal pellets are apparently wicked! I have fired two shots out of this thing at living critters at nearly 50 yds and folded 'em both up! Mason claims it's a "100 yard" gun, and from what I've seen at half that distance, I have no doubt!
If any of you have considered taking the PCP plunge for a little something different, consider this a recommendation for the Marauder. It impressed the heck out of me!
I mounted a 3x9 on the thing, but I need to get him a scope with mil dots to stretch his range. I'll get to that at some point, but for right now he is thrilled with it as is. I helped him get it fairly close sighting in, and he has done the rest. Honestly, I have only shot the thing three or four times at paper, Mason has put hundreds of .25 cal pellets through the thing. (And of course they are expensive because he has to shoot the brand recommended by Ted!) He has told me how accurate it is, and has shown me on occasion, but today I was blown away when I shot it myself a couple of times.
Starlings have moved into our neighborhood in a big way today. I hate 'em. There was a bunch of them feeding along the woodline to the west of our house today. I had a few minutes so I went into Mason's room and got the Marauder, loaded two pellets into it's clip, checked that it was indeed charged to 3000psi and went out to the picnic table. A few minutes later a starling gave me a shot at 48 yds. Poof. Dead. Then another hopped up onto a limb just beyond the dead one. I worked the bolt. Poof. Dead. This thing is amazing! The biggest portion of the first one's heart was laying on the ground beside him...25 cal pellets are apparently wicked! I have fired two shots out of this thing at living critters at nearly 50 yds and folded 'em both up! Mason claims it's a "100 yard" gun, and from what I've seen at half that distance, I have no doubt!
If any of you have considered taking the PCP plunge for a little something different, consider this a recommendation for the Marauder. It impressed the heck out of me!
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