Why hardly any love for the HW90/RX?

I love mine, too, lol. Looking back, I should’ve never bought that pump and gage, as back then it was a very high dollar accessory. Then I made the mistake of loaning it to some guy, and he somehow scored up the fill hose off of the pump. Really irked me at the time. Since then, before Beeman closed doors, I sent mine in to be converted to the RX1 from an RX, and to be honest it’s been so long I can’t remember what it involved. I know they put in the “super gas” and I’ve left the internals alone. It’s still running on the same seals thru out. 



That thing has a lot of rats and squirrels under it’s belt. So very accurate. I used to plug squirrels in flight as they jumped from tree to tree. My son when he was old enough to shoot, I would set up small rubber bouncy balls, the ones like 1 1/2” in diameter, hanging from a tree limb with fishing line. I would cock it for him, then he’d set up, take aim, and hit the ball. As it was swinging around sideways, I dared him to hit it while swinging, and he did! 

@ Franklink- So did you get that one from Soft tail something, or Don from GTA? If so, you got a beautiful rifle for a great price. I was hoping Don would hang on to it, just like marauders, lol. If I see someone selling a Marauder that’s out of the norm beautiful with an aftermarket stock, I do all I can to talk him out of selling the darn thing. Well, I’m sure that RX went to a good home.

@ Chuckhunter- a good friend, ex neighbor of mine, the one who got me into adult air rifles back in the late 80’s has that same theoben you’re picking up, in a 22 cal. That thing is a tough, hard shooting, but at the same time gorgeous rifle. My neighbor quit shooting his Airguns after I moved away, l believe, and not too long ago I hit him up with a how much would you sell it for? $1200 including the thousands of pellets he has for it, the beeman pell sizer, the scope, and all the beeman doo dad accessories on it. Don’t know if that’s a great price, but I get the feeling his numbers high enough so he doesn’t sell it, lol. I’m actually hoping he gets into PCP’s, so we can rekindle those Friday night rat hunts we did every Friday after work..

So, what’s funny is, he owned an R1, one of the originals, when I met him. It was a 177, and highly accurate. After seeing him hit acorn balls off of trees at 30 yards I had to have one, but instead bought a deluxe R10 in 177. Well, the rat hunts went fine, but I kept noticing over 50% of the ones we hit still were able to limp off about 5-10’ before falling into the creek. I wanted something that would stop them like a car hitting a large oak tree. Dead right there. Beeman just came out with the RX, and I went one size up in caliber to the 20, for a mix of high velocity and foot pound energy vs a 22. Back then we were all about FPS and could care less about energy, lol.

Sure enough, the first night out with that gun, the first rat I shot, he stopped immediately the minute I hit him, curled up, died, and became the midnight snack for his fellow buddy rats. My neighbor stood there with his mouth gapped open, and shortly after, he had the Theoben eliminator, topped off with a Bushnell 6-18 scope. His rats not only stopped instantly from the shot, but they also got thrown backwards a couple of feet and when they landed, no movement. Knowing what I know now, I should’ve gotten the RX in a 22. 

Currently, using H&N crow magnums, by RX1 in 20 caliber is getting 815-820 FPS. If a 22 would have gotten 775-800 FPS, I would have been okay with that, like I said, knowing what I know now.

So, correct me if I’m wrong, but the number 2 in RX2 is about the stock being laminated, correct? That’s all it means?

That’s awesome shooting right there ScottLeeman! I gotta pull mine out and shoot some groups with it. Will groups on a squirrels head count? 

All kidding aside, and I’m not saying this to say or try and boost up a gas ram vs a pcp, but it just dawned on me, as I made the joking comment about groups on a squirrels head, but thinking back this past year, I’ve had more squirrels run off wounded with my PCP guns(Marauder 25 and PRod in 22) than I’ve ever did with my RX 20 cal. Maybe it’s because shot for shot I’ve shot my PCP at more this past year at critters, but back in my RX days I had more squirrels around my property. I remember thumping a male from behind, when he was on my roof thumping a female, and he dropped right there on top of my solar panels. Didn’t even budge, as the female ran off. Even my 10 year old son at the time, would hoist that gun on my shoulder, use me as the shooting stick to balance that RX beast, and the squirrels he nailed fell down onto my German shepherds, who were clawing at the bottom of the tree, frothing at the mouth. 

Dont get me wrong PCP fans, as I am now one of those, but apples to apples, a Marauder pellet to the chest, at least 25% of the squirrels have run off to die somewhere else. My RX to the chest, 90% of them dropped, and either squirmed in place where I’d put them down with a second shot, dropped for dead, or fell to my waiting Shepard’s to be mince meat. I want all you RX owners to reflect on that, and tell me it was just coincidence that the 20 caliber RX thumped them harder than a standard 860 FPS 22 cal. Not a 30 cal or larger, just a 22 that’s in the 850-900 FPS range.



Give me a minute, to don my flame suit on, lol