by kgatwork on Thu May 07, 2009 5:52 pm
Sorry I thought I had posted a few hours ago, I don't have any pictures here as I don't have a shareable photo site yet.
I've got about 70shots through mine now (two fills at approximately 2400psi.
Right out of the box with no adjustments, I filled the Marauder with a Max start pressure of 2400-2500 psi, that was all I had in my scuba tank. First clip of 10 shots brought the pressure down to approximately 2000psi (about 40psi per shot). Max velocity was about 890's with a 14.3 grain Crosman Wadcutter. Next clip using a mixture of eley wasp 5.6mm, crosman pointer, gamo hunter and gamo mater point resulted in lower velocities from as low as 668 for the tight fitting wasp to a max of 830 for the remaining pellet types, final pressure was approximately 1500-1600psi. The last set of pellets were slower than the second set, mostly in the high 700's to low 800's. Include in the last set were the RWS Super-H point, Daisy Wadcutters, JSB exact jumbo express 14.3, and beeman silver arrow. Final pressure was approximately 1100psi. My guess is the gun is set up for a 3000 psi fill.
Enclosed in the box was a letter congratulating the owner as one of the first 100 to purchase a Marauder. The gun is really quiet compared to the other guns I use, but I have no comparison to any shrouded/LDC/Brake equipped air gun so I can't say if its really loud compared to say a shrouded condor or talon.
I guess the next thing to do is to scope it and check how accurate she shoots. Then after that, start playing with all the adjustments.