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Reply #20 on:
October 13, 2017, 11:47:49 AM »
Ethan, Congratulations on your decision to make the move to PCP. It's been quite a while since I made that move, and looking back I started out with the Benjamin Marauder and the hand pump. I had a .25 Gen II and a .177 Gen I and they were both fine guns. I have a friend who bought my .177 Marauder that I bought used and he still shoots it in FT matches to this day.
The Marauder will always be my recommendation to anyone starting out with a PCP. If I didn't have so many more expensive guns I would be tempted at times to get another one.
I had heard rumors many years ago about some of the .22 cal barrels on the Marauder having accuracy issues, so I stayed away from those. But as of late I believe they have remedied that problem?
That being said I have a friend who just bought a .22 Benjamin Armada and that dang thing is a laser! It's just as accurate as any of my Crickets! So, I'm a believer in the .22 cal Benjamin barrels again.
Later down the road I bought and sold .177 Disco just for curiosity's sake and there is no way I could recommend it over the Marauders. I don't have any experience with any other of the new fangled entry level guns, but the Marauder is tried and true. It was a great design when they first made it and still stands the test of time today.
As for the hand pump. That's a tough one? If I knew you were gonna stick with a hand pump, then I would say buy the Hill pump. But if I had any doubt you might move up the food chain and get tanks and/or a compressor, I would say go the cheaper hand pumps?
Didn't take me long to kick that hand pump to the curb!
Best of luck in your new found money hole. Hope it doesn't bite you as hard as some of the rest of us ;-)
Jimmy
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