If the Avenger can remain reliable it will be the budget PCP to buy!

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bmr4life

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I'm almost 500 rounds into mine and its been a dream.

I haven't even made any adjustments yet. Mine came factory set at 2900psi on the reg and I pump it up to ~4300 psi with my compressor.

This last time shooting I shot until I was down to 600 psi (120 shots). I was just flinging lead out of my basement window into my dueling target (which got pretty bent out of shape).

I got 100 shots before I was around 1000 psi and after that the trajectory of my pellets changed for the 25 yards I was shooting at. I had to aim down because my pellets were going high and moving slower to the point that I could see them through the scope. Obviously this is based on the zero I've done. My scope is a $40 unit from Amazon with adjustable parallax and its perfect for my use.

I'm excited to start adjusting and tuning but every time I go to touch the gun I just pick it up and start shooting instead.

I was shooting at different targets when doing the chrono readings so don't blame the gun for the spread. 

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I have total faith the gun will be a real game changer. Much like the Marauder and even the Disco was back when they came out. 
Keep in mind, AV didn’t make this gun to sway someone away from the more costly euro guns, albeit they just might, they made it for those new to the sport and those that want but just can’t afford an accurate PCP. 
Reliability? One would think for $300 it will have its’ short comings. And maybe so. Time will tell. But I seriously doubt it.
But one would also hope and think if you spent $2000 for a gun it would be flawless for life. Sadly, I see post after post about problems with FX (and others too). 
Air Venturi is offering a one year warranty and Pyramyd is offering a 60 day return on the gun. Man, if problems are going to appear, they will do so well within that time frame if you shoot it with any regularity. And if you don’t try to wring out every little bit of performance the gun should long out last the warranty. The sponsored videos? They are actually suggesting to turn it DOWN a little for maximum performance.

Sure, the stock sucks being made with toy-like styrene plastic as well as other nit-picky idiosyncrasies.
BUT it is only $300!!

I’ve got more than that (unfortunately) in airgun crap I wish I’d never bought or don’t use anymore. 
I've ordered a .177 to set up as a loaner gun for HFT and will probably shoot it for the rest of the season Just to prove a point; you can be competitive with a $300 gun!! I also ordered a .25 that may cause me to sell my .25 Taipan and Cricket cause prairie dogs don’t know it’s a $300 gun.
@bmr4life.. smart man. Just shoot the gun. If it ain’t broke....yada yada yada. 




 
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I had the .25 that I shot over several weeks to review. Unfortunately I didn't get the same claimed performance but was still pleased with how the gun shot. The stock is indeed really thin and lacks enough weight in the rear. I think the .177 and .22 has much more room for tinkering. What people fail to realize is when you start turning up regulators, hammer springs etc, it puts extra stress on parts that may not function well over long term. For me I would rather keep things conservative and have some long term reliability. I'm sure when enough people get these the long term issues will be discovered. 
 
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I also think this gun is going spoil a lot of people and the put a lot of pressure on the high cost guns to offer at least all of the same features and higher performance and feel to justify the higher cost.

Personally I love the cheap plastic parts because it keeps the weight down. I can go through 10 mags of pellets in 10 minutes shooting without a rest so my arm gets tired. Pulling the lever back for going for a real quick next shot is tons of fun.

I just ordered several additional mags from PA. I wanted to wait until I shot the gun before I spent additional cash on the mags.
 
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Really looking forward to reviews by shooters that actually bought them “off the shelf”. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, but you don’t actually think those guns that were reviewed early by paid reviewers weren’t gone over and tested before shipping to them? If so I have some beautiful marsh land in central Florida to sell cheap. I really do hope they turn out to be as good as all the hype. Time will tell. ;)
 
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Really looking forward to reviews by shooters that actually bought them “off the shelf”. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, but you don’t actually think those guns that were reviewed early by paid reviewers weren’t gone over and tested before shipping to them? If so I have some beautiful marsh land in central Florida to sell cheap. I really do hope they turn out to be as good as all the hype. Time will tell. ;)
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They discussed that in the Friday Instagram broadcast. The only thing done with the reviewers weapons is that the guy from Air Venturi shot them once to make sure they worked. He made no adjustments. The guns the reviewers got came of the same production line as all the others but were air shipped versus boat.

One reviewer did get a leaky reg and the fix was to replace the o-rings. The reviewer did get a replacement gun though and the Air Venturi guy did the o ring replacement.

Since my gun has shot about 500 times without issue its passed the same tests the reviewer guns had to. It's already time to lube some stuff. I'll probably have shot a few thousand rounds a week from now.


 
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If your reg is set at 2,900psi and you keep shooting it down to 600-1,000psi, you are definitely going to find out if the gun has a quality poppet in it.
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I'll have to read up on what a poppet is. After the last shooting session I gassed the gun down and set the reg to the bare minimum. I did 10 shots with the hammer spring in the stock place and 10 more with it backed all the way out.

So for anyone interested I believe this is the weakest the gun can be set to shoot Crosman HPs. I don't think I did enough dry fires after reducing the hammer spring which is why there were two shots above 740.



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Really looking forward to reviews by shooters that actually bought them “off the shelf”. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, but you don’t actually think those guns that were reviewed early by paid reviewers weren’t gone over and tested before shipping to them? If so I have some beautiful marsh land in central Florida to sell cheap. I really do hope they turn out to be as good as all the hype. Time will tell. ;)
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Centercut, I just posted my results from shooting the .22cal Avenger I bought in the PCP forum, and it really does seem to be living up to what's been put out by the reviewers. I agree that it is good to have healthy skepticism about anything related to money/sales, and I only have about 150 rounds through mine right now. So far, the build quality seems good enough, but I will definitely put up more information as I get more rounds through it, or run into any problems.

I also have to say, even though the stock is plastic and hollow, it does it's job well, and a light rifle to take out pesting that is accurate is a lot more fun than dragging around an anchor that is accurate.

On the plus side, I won't cringe if I scratch or get cow flop on the plastic stock! 👍


 
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