Believe it or not the dragonfly 2 is the gun I'm most excited about

Im with you, its a gotta have on my list!

Shot show 22 and with some new pcp airguns, arrow launchers and big bores the gun I'm most excited about is the air venturi dragonfly2. I used to do mods of all kinds to make pumpers more powerful but if I heard correctly the dragonfly can pump to 15 times and make somewhere around 15fpe! Small light and much more powerful than the pumpers I had. Seems like a great truck gun for squirrel hunting. At 200 bucks I will definitely give it a try. It also has an extra fulcrum to help with pumping. If it's accurate it's a keeper.

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I look at the PCP guns they have never been my thing. The dragonfly is something I would consider buying . It's about time someone made a good pumper. The new JSB pellets and the dragonfly are the only things in 2022 shot show I'm even remotely interested in. 

I'm with you fellows. The thing that caught my attention was the pump effort vs. power output. According to the PA website it pumps all the way to 15 pumps but even pump number 15 will have the same effort to pump as pump stroke number 4. So it doesn't get harder to pump as you go up in pumps. That's a top selling point for me. 

Ray

Oh yeah! Not to mention the magazines and threaded muzzle! I definitely want one of those when they get released. I just ordered the new Crosman 362 because I have a bin full of compatible parts and have always wanted them to build that gun. We have a couple of AV guns now and really like them. I was disappointed when I narrowly missed my opportunity to get one of the last of the first gen dragonflies but this looks much better.

Looks like a very interesting pumper.

it looks like they borrowed the pump design from the seneca aspen/nova freedom which was notoriously EASY to pump at high pressures. this one looks like fun.



my pre order is in

It's the only gun to come out of the SHOT show so far that doesn't look like a folded and stored vacuum cleaner or lawn care equipment. 

So I have to say, I'm with you!

Same here Raden, i was looking forward to the 362 being released and now the dragonfly looks to be what I wanted to turn the 362 into.... so I guess I’m buying it too. Love my pumpers. 

Just got in my preorder for a Dragonfly 2 yesterday, predicted shipping for end of May. 

After owning a number of increasingly higher-powered PCPs I've finally started to return to the beginning by buying a break barrel rifle recently, and a Benjamin 397s and now this Dragonfly pump-up.

I'm quite skeptical about these proposed release dates for new products though. Had an order in for a new 2021 Ravin R18 crossbow (very unique design) for about a year before getting tired of waiting and cancelling the order. Not even sure now that it will be ready for release in 2023. 

The even pressure cocking mechanism on the Dragonfly 2 will be a big safety improvement. These pump up designs are all potential finger smashers. My age challenged brother struggles to pump up his airgun, the model he has gets much harder to pump with each cycle. By pump number 6 or 7 he's really struggling to snap the pump arm shut with the gun wobbling around in his lap. It was difficult to watch that I finally built him a slide-in clamp to securely hold the handle of the gun while it's being pumped up.

Once the width is adjusted with the C clamp the gun just slides snugly into the clamp with no adjustments needed. The entire gun is swung up and around to pump it. He clamps it to the side of his shooting table. I use something similar to hold the barrel of my break barrel rifles if I'm at a table. It allows me to use gravity as an assist while I swing the entire body of the rifle over to cock it. I'll make a different post eventually about DIY airgun cocking assist devices. 

While looking for these pictures though I noticed another old one of mine from maybe 30 years ago. I'd added a cocking arm extension (just a cut piece of copper tubing) to my old Benjamin pump up. Along with a knob to hold onto so that my fingers wouldn't wander into danger's way. Worked quite well.



JP