Spring Marksman Rifle Airsoft Gun Real Wood

by B.B. Pelletier

Here's a sporting pellet pistol that can as well exist used for informal target shooting. It has fully adjustable sights, a single-stroke pneumatic powerplant, a nice trigger and it sells for less than $l. Information technology'due south the Marksman 2004 pistol!

Marksman'southward 2004 unmarried-stroke pneumatic pistol is a directly copy of the HW 40 PCA/Beeman P3.

Made in China
Let's get this out in the open from the offset. This pistol is made in Prc for Marksman. Marksman is based in Southern California, where they build many of the guns they sell. The Marksman 1010 leap-piston pistol is the oldest and nigh famous of all the guns they make. Some day I'll write a written report on the 1010, simply today we're looking at the 2004.

One more affair to reveal. This gun is a shut copy of the Weihrauch HW 40 PCA, which Beeman sells as the P3. And, Marksman owns Beeman. As far as who did what to whom or is the 2004 just as good every bit the P3, I am not qualified to say. Yes, there is a lot of intrigue in the airgun business, only I try to stay out of it if I can. I'm just interested in this pistol on its ain claim.

It looks like high quality!
Don't underestimate the Chinese equally manufacturers. If they have a good design to begin with, and if the manufactory tin overcome some cultural hinderances, they can brand products as good as those of any other state on this planet. Where they autumn short is in a cultural belief system (no doubt the result of Communism) that "adept enough is all it takes." When that conventionalities organisation runs the show, things go downhill fast. Some Chinese airguns are so laughably poor that they are a comedy of errors and deserve the scorn they receive from the rest of the world for making those airguns.

In other areas, the Chinese take now set the world standard. Optics, for instance. Most sport optics (scope sights, lasers, astromonical telescopes, dot sights, etc.) are now made in China. Virtually of the globe's finest cameras are either made at that place or their lenses are footing there, considering the Chinese atomic number 82 the earth in lens production. The Europeans and Japanese set them upwardly in that business in the 1970s, and they've been expanding the market ever since.

The 2004 pistol I have looks more similar a fine camera than information technology does a typical Chinese airgun. Whoever is in charge of making it is doing things correct. There are no voids in the constructed body, the corners and lettering are crisp, the plating on the bright parts looks even, the pins are all the right size and length (they're solid, not rolled), all the screws fit and are undamaged, and the lubricant doesn't smell like a abattoir! These are all the visible indicators that a typical Chinese airgun would get wrong. The only way to tell if the barrel is any adept is to shoot the gun. The manner to test the powerplant is with a chronograph.

Shooting
I chose 2 target wadcutter pellets I've come to trust for this test. The JSB Match Diabolo is a earth-class target pellet, and the Gamo Match pellet, while less expensive, often performs just also. I shoot x-meter air pistol competitively, so my experience with both pellets is offset-hand. I find pumping the 2004 a trivial hard, which is probably due to the length of the pinnacle part of the gun that's used every bit a pumping lever. This is not a gun for youngsters. On the other hand, the pumping effort became smoother and somewhat lighter as the shots increased. Pumping the gun automatically sets the safety – a feature I detest but understand in today's litigious world. At that place is no dry-burn down feature.

The trigger-pull is slightly creepy (that ways you tin can feel the move of the trigger through stage ii of the pull) but very dainty and light at ane-ane/2 lbs. The only feature that would brand it nicer is an overtravel adjustment. In that location IS a small screw of some kind in the trigger blade merely no corresponding access hole in the triggerguard for the Allen wrench to fit through, then I was unable to brand whatever adjustments.

The front sight is a wide square postal service that is too broad for the rear notch. It was difficult to obtain a precise sight pic because of little calorie-free on either side of the front post. Nevertheless, I managed to group v shots inside three-tenths of an inch at 25 anxiety when I did my part. That answers the big question about the barrel. This one is very good! The rear sight adjusts in both directions, but the screws lack detents. Pay attention to the scribe marks around the elevation aligning screw and the orientation of the screw slot on the windage screw to see how far yous've gone. They move the shot group very precisely.

Velocity
Marksman says this gun shoots 410 f.p.s. JSB Match Diabolo pistol pellets averaged 411 f.p.s. with a 3 f.p.southward. total deviation over 10 shots. Gamo Match pellets went an average of 406 f.p.southward. with a 9 f.p.due south. variation for the 10-shot string. All shooting was done in 58-degree (F) weather. I'd say the 2004 is correct on the coin!

Evaluation
The Marksman 2004 pistol is a $150 value selling for less than $50! It'due south that good. I cut this gun no slack because of the pistol it copies, but this one needed no apologies. If I were Weihrauch, I'd be concerned.