EDIT#1: see my post further down about the leak that developed after this informal review.
EDIT#2: No longer leaking keep reading thread for details.
Well, just joined the forum and this is my first post. There are too few reviews of the pulsar so I thought I would throw in my 2 cents. I have had my .22 synthetic pulsar for a month now. I have put right at 2000 rounds through her. So far, my experience with this rifle has been 100% positive. I have tried the following pellets:
jsb 18.13gr 5.52 head size
jsb 15.89gr 5.52 head size
h&n barracuda match 21.14gr 5.52 head
size
jsb pred. polymags
h&n field target trophy 14.66gr Head size
5.53
AirArms Diablo Field heavy 18gr 5.52 head
size
AirArms Diabo Field 16gr 5.51 head size
Beeman Field Target Special 14.66 gr head
size???
Crosman Premiere 14.3gr domed brown
box.
Out of the above mentioned pellets, my pulsar clearly shoots the jsb 18.13gr the best........and high power yields the tightest groups with this pellet. On high power I chrono'd the 18.13 at a high of 925fps and a low of 915fps in an informal load and shoot off my back porch. This shot string was the first thing I did when I recieved the rifle. I lost count but that shot string was either 70 or 80 shots approximately. Didn't record or write anything down......just wanted to see if she was performing. She was.
I got my pulsar with a huggett moderator and I'm using an atlas bipod with excellent results. She's got a 3x12x50mm hawke airmax 30 sitting on top. I live in Louisiana about 100ft above sea level.....temperature in the 90s right now. Humidity is always high/above 80%. 920fps on the 18.13gr jsb shoots sub half inch groups........every bloody time off the bench/off the atlas. I shoot unsorted....unlubed....out of the magazine. Just a quick visual to discard any deformed skirts. I have a 100yrd shooting lane in my backyard cut through a dense pine forest......NO WIND. The bench was formed out of concrete 20 yrs ago and will never move from its location. I have several 5 shot groups that literally look like 2 shots touching at 50yrds. Yesterday I shot 6 groups 5 shots each. One group was .5 inch ctc, the other 5 groups all sub half inch averaging 5/16 to 3/8 inch ctc. Seriously, this is the first rifle I have ever shot that might be more accurate than me within its typical shooting range. I shoot .68 caliber paintballs off golf tees at varying unknown distances scattered all over my backyard....ranging out to 50 yards. They're 5/8 inch diameter. Couple of buddies come over and shoot too......fun way to practice sitting, kneeling, and prone. I shoot sitting most of the time at those paintballs from 10 to 50 yards. I can hit those paintballs sitting....at 50 yards with very very few misses. There is no change in zero from the bench on sandbags vs bench atlas vs sitting etc.
The rifle has yet to jam, cycles fast and smooth. Trigger is awesome. Rifle looks very short without moderator, but looks menacing and well proportioned with the moderator. Im a function over form guy. The moderator makes the whole gun look right, and everyone I shoot with agrees. The rifle is insanely silent with the huggett. Its backyard friendly without the huggett due to baffles within the barrel. But the combination of the 2 working together is ridiculously silent. All my above groups are shot with the huggett. The rifle balances well offhand. The weight of the rifle is in the back behind the pistol grip.
Lastly, I have been asked by my friends if the rifle was worth the money and whether or not I regret not getting the wolverine B hilite. My answer is this, as long as I have no problems out of the electronics........I have no regrets and prefer the pulsar over the wolverine b hilite. If the electeonics ever fail me, then I will regret not getting the wolverine. Right now.....I feel I made the right choice. The balance of the pulsar being rearward makes a very good offhand shooter. Being able to mount the bipod way out towards the end of the rifle has to improve accuracy as well.
I have shot precision powder guns my whole life. Im 36 and used to shoot competitions all over the country when I was a teenager. I had a Clark Custom built 10/22 that I won a national match with at the Whittington Center in Raton NM years ago. My pulsar shoots just as well at 50 yrds and on any given group could actually outshoot the Clark.
My 2 cents.
