Best Air Rifle?

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Originally posted by Bill

Thanks, Jon, for all your good advice.

I too had a lot of trouble with two brake barrel pellet rifles. Based on your advise I just purchased a Benjamin Discovery PCP and added an aftermarket suppressor. It is amazingly impressive. It is now sighted in for 35 yards and I can keep the shots in an area the size of a quarter. I also added a scope. Thanks

Bill

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Bill, here is a shooter comparing the sound of a Benjamin Maximus PCP air rifle, with, and without a TKO muzzle break:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKZu6zio19o&t=19s


I put one on a CO2 rifle (Crosman Custom Shop 2400KT), and it made a huge difference in sound level.

The Maximus is a fairly new model from Crosman/Benjamin. It has a 2000 psi fill level, and most use a special hand pump to fill it. I know you have a Discovery (AKA "Disco"), but the sound level difference would be similar. If you want to look into a TKO muzzle break, google TKO airguns. They don't make them for break barrel models, as the don't work so well on that type. Much of the noise on a break barrle, is the mechanical noises of the spring slamming forward, or the gas ram slamming forward. Whereas most of the noise on a PCP or CO2 airgun comes from the muzzle as the pellet exits. Or from the pellet slamming into a metal pellet trap.

Jon in Keaau/HPP