My adventures with a Benjamin Trail Nitro Piston All Weather in .22 cal
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My adventures with a Benjamin Trail Nitro Piston All Weather in .22 cal
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May 25, 2013, 11:18:18 PM »
So I went into my local Wal-Mart looking for a belt for the holster on my Browning Buckmark 22 LR pistol and happened to notice a .22 caliber air rifle on the shelf for under $200 bucks with a scope. What a deal I though! I'd been looking for a new air rifle for some additional practice for my long range shooting game. I picked it up along with a package of 500 Crosman Premier Hollow Points and the Benjamin multi pack of hunting pellets as these were the only 22 cal pellets in stock. I brought it home and set it up with the scope that was included. I sited it and and found that it didn't shoot too bad.
First target with the stock scope and CPHP pellets. 3 in bulls eye after walking it in.
While shooting this I did notice that the trigger was REEEAALLY long and had no defined breaking point. Put the gun down for a few days and when came back to it so that I could get more pellets through the barrel for break in I noticed it was really stringing the shots vertically. With this knowledge I checked the scope out for loose bolts. I didn't find any loose ones but I did find a broken ring screw. Luckily the gun came with an extra ring screw. I backed the broken chunk out and put the new one in it's place. Tightened all for the ring screws to 28 inch pounds with my "Fat Wrench" out of my scope mounting and lapping kit and figured that I was good to go. Shot another 20 pellets through it and it started stringing vertically again. Yep, another broken screw. Seams that I must have flipped the ring and the holes weren't lining up just right when I did the scope install. Guess I have always used the really high quality scope rings on my powder burners and never had a real alignment problem. I was a machinist and mill wright for long enough that I should have know to mark the rings. I always mark the rings that I "lap-in" with punch marks to make sure that they are always mated up right.
This leaves me without anymore screws and a gun that I want to keep shooting! What to do....
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Butte, Montana
Kids that hunt, fish, shoot, and trap don't rob, steal, or do drugs.
2007 Gamo Varmint Hunter .177 w/ a CDT GRT-III trigger
2013 Benjamin Trail NP All Weather .22 w/ a CDT GRT-III trigger (Given away)
2013 Benjamin Marauder Woods Walker Pistol .22 cal
2013 Benjamin Discovery .22 cal with Mac1 tune
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Real Name: Jay
Re: My adventures with a Benjamin Trail Nitro Piston All Weather in .22 cal
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May 25, 2013, 11:57:21 PM »
I'll tell ya what I was going to do. Buy some good mounts. Went to the local sports shop to pick out rings. Was it a 1" or a 30 mm scope. Try to look it up on my phone. No go as it doesn't say what size the scope tube is on the Crosman website. Call Crosman. No go as they are closed already (mountain time vs eastern). Go back to WM to look as I didn't want to go home and measure it just to go back downtown. Nothing on the box. Great. Look around to see if they have any scope mounts so that if I have to go home and look I can pick them up since the sports shop could be closed. What do I find? A nice CP 4x16 with AO and illumination and rings for $70! Well the rings I wanted to buy cost that much so I picked that up instead.
I brought it home and put the Trail in the gun vice to do an uninstall/reinstall with special care taken to locktite all of the screws and nuts as well as make sure that I keep the rings matched and indexed. I had to leave her alone for overnight so that the thread locker would setup right. It was hard to do as I wanted to see what the new scope would do! One thing I did notice was that the P-rail does not seam to sit square on the rifle. With the scope level and the rail level, the cross hair were way out of alignment. I had to just hold the gun and level the cross hairs by eye because the "technical" way wasn't going to cut it.
The new scope came with flip open scope covers to that was a nice addition.
Now that I waited over night I could see how it shoots.
First 10 shot string after sight in. Shot at 10 yards.
Second 10 shot string after adjusting it up a little and to the right a little. Shot at 10 yards.
I had to quit shooting after these two targets as my littles wanted to go outside and play so the shooting range was shut down. I think the gun I have has some definite potential. I did notice that I had to me really sure to not torque the gun trying to get it on target. The pellet went where the cross hairs were pointing after the trigger broke. If I got sighted in and broke the trigger with out making sure I had no torque in the gun I got fliers. Released all torque (and didn't have my 2 year old trying to help me shoot) they were all cutting in a nice group.
More as I continue with the gun. Soon as I have this tin of CPHP's through it I will be trying some other types of pellets to see what the best pellet for this gun is.
Jay
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Butte, Montana
Kids that hunt, fish, shoot, and trap don't rob, steal, or do drugs.
2007 Gamo Varmint Hunter .177 w/ a CDT GRT-III trigger
2013 Benjamin Trail NP All Weather .22 w/ a CDT GRT-III trigger (Given away)
2013 Benjamin Marauder Woods Walker Pistol .22 cal
2013 Benjamin Discovery .22 cal with Mac1 tune
The Guide
Shooter
Posts: 69
Take kids outdoors.
Real Name: Jay
Re: My adventures with a Benjamin Trail Nitro Piston All Weather in .22 cal
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May 29, 2013, 03:10:31 PM »
Took the air guns out for some steel target shooting. I picked up a swinging steel self resetting spinner target made for air guns. The first thing I found out was that they don't put very good stickers on them! The Trail NP 22 knocked them off on each hit! I also found that at 15 yards it was hitting the spinners hard enough to reset one when I shot another. I'll have to put a florescent aiming dot on the black targets since the stickers won't stick any more. At 15 yards i was able to hit the 2" targets 8 out of 10 shots from a seated position and no rest. I'll have to see if I can find some shooting sticks that I like for this gun since there is no way to mount a bi-pod on it. I'll set my pellet trap up with a paper target in it to see what kind of accuracy I can get at a little longer range.
Jay
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Butte, Montana
Kids that hunt, fish, shoot, and trap don't rob, steal, or do drugs.
2007 Gamo Varmint Hunter .177 w/ a CDT GRT-III trigger
2013 Benjamin Trail NP All Weather .22 w/ a CDT GRT-III trigger (Given away)
2013 Benjamin Marauder Woods Walker Pistol .22 cal
2013 Benjamin Discovery .22 cal with Mac1 tune
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Re: My adventures with a Benjamin Trail Nitro Piston All Weather in .22 cal
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May 29, 2013, 08:11:04 PM »
Jay
Welcome to GTA and thanks for the details on your Trail.
john
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Benj Trail NP .22 HW, modified shroud, semi-floated Summit stock, home-tuned including deburing, honing, new Crosman piston seal, JM piston buttons, muzzle crowned, trigger group shimmed/deburred, padded cocking lever, w/ CP3-9x40AO (3500CPHPs, 500CPUMs, 175CP pointed hunting, 4500RWS superdomes, 250 JSBExpress, 1000 JSBExacts, 250 H&N FTTs, for a total of over 10K shots so far)
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Real Name: Jay
Re: My adventures with a Benjamin Trail Nitro Piston All Weather in .22 cal
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June 05, 2013, 12:53:35 PM »
I just got home from working a week in North Dakota. I had a package waiting for me, a pair of CDT triggers. One for the Trail and one for the Gamo. Super excited but Unfortunately.... I can't put them in right now as the weather is nice, my boat is lonely, the walleye are hungry, and I have my 2 little kids and my brothers stepson to take fishing. That's right I'm taking a 2 year old, a 4 year old, and a 5 year old fishing. Maybe tomorrow I can get the new triggers installed.
Jay
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Butte, Montana
Kids that hunt, fish, shoot, and trap don't rob, steal, or do drugs.
2007 Gamo Varmint Hunter .177 w/ a CDT GRT-III trigger
2013 Benjamin Trail NP All Weather .22 w/ a CDT GRT-III trigger (Given away)
2013 Benjamin Marauder Woods Walker Pistol .22 cal
2013 Benjamin Discovery .22 cal with Mac1 tune
Mr.Happy
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Re: My adventures with a Benjamin Trail Nitro Piston All Weather in .22 cal
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June 05, 2013, 03:51:13 PM »
Your Benji is shooting as good as mine when I first picked it up. Unfortunately mine got worse with use. I have already shout over 300 pellets. I think the scope is bad because it groups for a few shots and then moves several inches. I dont consider them flyers since I check the pellets for defects before I insert them into the breach. Glad to see your's is working out better than mine.
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Re: My adventures with a Benjamin Trail Nitro Piston All Weather in .22 cal
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June 05, 2013, 04:53:40 PM »
What ever you do, don't fiddle with the screw settings on the trigger before you install it. It will take a lot of adjusting, and wasted pellets (can't dry fire a springer) if you do to get it right. Ask me how I know..
The CDT trigger works great on my Trail.
Mr Happy, have you checked for loose screws on all rail and mounts?
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The Guide
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Real Name: Jay
Re: My adventures with a Benjamin Trail Nitro Piston All Weather in .22 cal
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June 06, 2013, 07:04:11 PM »
Got the trigger installed all easy as pie. I put the stock back on and to a few test shots. What a difference! Man it's just like one of my powder burner triggers now. Time to take the stock screws off again and loktite it all together and see if we can make some good holes on paper tomorrow after the 'tite sets up.
Jay
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Butte, Montana
Kids that hunt, fish, shoot, and trap don't rob, steal, or do drugs.
2007 Gamo Varmint Hunter .177 w/ a CDT GRT-III trigger
2013 Benjamin Trail NP All Weather .22 w/ a CDT GRT-III trigger (Given away)
2013 Benjamin Marauder Woods Walker Pistol .22 cal
2013 Benjamin Discovery .22 cal with Mac1 tune
The Guide
Shooter
Posts: 69
Take kids outdoors.
Real Name: Jay
Re: My adventures with a Benjamin Trail Nitro Piston All Weather in .22 cal
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June 08, 2013, 08:24:25 AM »
Went down to my brother's place yesterday. Took a walk down by the creek and jumped a nice sized cottontail rabbit. Stalked up on him and put a CPHP behind his ear at ~15 yards. First kill with the Trail. New trigger helps. You engage the trigger and it goes off clean.
Jay
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Butte, Montana
Kids that hunt, fish, shoot, and trap don't rob, steal, or do drugs.
2007 Gamo Varmint Hunter .177 w/ a CDT GRT-III trigger
2013 Benjamin Trail NP All Weather .22 w/ a CDT GRT-III trigger (Given away)
2013 Benjamin Marauder Woods Walker Pistol .22 cal
2013 Benjamin Discovery .22 cal with Mac1 tune
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