Benjamin Marauder, Hunter Combo

Might consider the semi-auto version.

Pros
Very nice gun. Good power and over 50 shots per pressurize. Nice scope.

Cons
A bit on the heavy side. Scope needs to be sighted in for different distances. Needs front support.

I’ve been looking at this rifle for several months. I wanted something to play with other then my .22 rim fires. Almost all the reviews on this rifle were great and the price was good. I saw this combo package on the Airgundepot web site and was impressed with the price. I called and talked to a nice lady. Bottom line I placed my order. A week later my goodies arrived. I couldn’t wait for the next day to get my air tank filled at my local dive shop. I mounted the scope to my rifle and sighted it in with 10 shots. Once sighted in my next 10 shots were unbelievable. All 9 pellets went through the first hole the #1 pellet made. At first I thought all the pellets missed the target. After further inspection I realized what had happened.

Pros
Very very accurate . Good price on such a well made rifle.

Cons
Nothing I have noticed so far.

WOW
For being entry level, this Rifle is amazing. Extremely accurate and very powerful. Using a nitrogen set up, I couldn’t be happier. Overkill for plinking but will easily take out any pests/rodents.

Pros
Powerful Accurate

This is my first pcp airgun. I was a little concerned about how to fill it with air and how the magazine worked but let me tell you it’s really simple. Don’t hold back from getting a pcp gun because it seems complicated. I absolutely love my gun! This gun is amazingly accurate. The only thing I might change is to have ordered it in .22 vs .25. The reason is the .25 is an air hog. With that said, I can’t say enough good things about the gun! Buy it!

Good Lord that's a lot of Money!

Pros
accurate , but so is a rimfire .22 & 1/3 the price. Ya got to love airguns to pay this much for a rifle.

Cons
lotta money.

This is the best quality PCP Pellet rifle I've ever seen. Top quality components and easy to use.

I am very pleased with this pellet gun... Very accurate, very powerful, definitely recommend. Great gun for the price. I was using a Gamo Whisperer bone collector before this gun and the difference is night and day. I have a tin plate about as thick a furnace duct and the gamo (rated at 1300 fps) would put a healthy dent in it at 150', the marauder (rate at 1000 fps) punches right through it no problemo. Great scope, clear, bright, easy to dope. No jarring recoil like the Gamo, and the 10 pellet clip makes shooting fun again.

Pros
Nice, easy trigger pull. Great scope, Accurate, powerful. Ten round clip works great, order an extra one or two because your going to have so much fun shooting you'll not want to be bothered with reloading.:)

Cons
I feel that the barrel mount at the end is poorly designed, it actually has a gap were the barrel floats in it with about 1/16" of an inch on top and almost 1/8" at bottom. The barrel it's self is light weight and actually moves if you lean it against something. Not really a good design in my opinion, barrel mount should hold it absolutely secure. I solved the problem by filling in the gap with a hot glue gun on the barrel mount, and also ran a strip of hot glue for about 6" in between the barrel, and the air tank. A little hillbilly but hey, Problem solved. Benjamen needs a better system in my opinion because you can't really lean it against anything without it either leaning on the barrel, or the scope. Neither are good for keeping your gun's accuracy from changing.

I've had the combo for only a couple days. Not thrilled like most other reviews. Biggest prob is that filling the chamber is a giant pain in the butt. I had a local paintball shop fill the carbon fiber tank, but the tank wouldn't take more than 3k psi. The local dive shop doesn't have the adapter necessary to fill the tank or the gun. Dive shop compressor tops out at 3k psi so I can't fully load the 4.5k psi tank even after buying the fill station adapter. So far I've been shooting between 2,500 and 2,000 psi. I REALLY want to shoot at the top of the range. A hand pump costs well over $100, and I already have $800+ into the rifle kit, so not eager to spend more big bucks to work my ass off just to shoot. A scuba tank is a couple hundred bucks, too. It will be over a grand to really set up the gun.

Next, it's not nearly as quiet as what folks report. Not much quieter than my Gamo and Ruger spring guns, so don't believe all that "silent" talk, it makes plenty of noise.

The gun and scope weighs a ton, not a good choice for walking the woods for critters. My .177 Gamo weighs about half and with a disciplined hold I can hit any squirrel I can see.

Now the good....it's very, very accurate. The trigger (not tuned so far) is excellent. I knew how heavy the rifle is and holy cow, with a good rest this gun is a tack driver. And that's really my highest standard and why I will prol keep the gun. I'm sure that I can't ever consistently shoot a spring as well as a pcp.

All in all, I could have spent $800+ on a very fine bolt action .22 rifle and shot shorts. Hmmmmm....I'm sending this gun back, not worth the money.

This combo does exactly what I intended it to do! Rodent/pest control! Coupled with the compressor I purchased, it is hard to beat.

Pros
Accurate, I sighted in at 35 yards... Easy to recharge, load and shoot...

I finally broke down and purchased an air gun. The Marauder is great and Airgun Depot is a great place to shop. Greg helped me stretch my money with the package deal. I will be a return customer in the near future Thanks AGD and Greg!

Pros
I am happy with my deal!

Cons
That blasted magazine!!