{"id":1671,"date":"2009-09-04T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/04\/marauder-first-look\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T05:16:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T10:16:22","slug":"marauder-first-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/04\/marauder-first-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Marauder First Look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this informative \u201cfirst look\u201d Marauder article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airgunweb.com\/2009\/08\/marauder-meaderings-first-look\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.airgunweb.com\/2009\/08\/marauder-meaderings-first-look\/', 'airgunweb');\" target=\"new\">airgunweb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> If you\u2019re reading this review and you\u2019re like me, you\u2019ve already read every other review you could find on the internet, so let me attempt to describe just how quiet it really is. The \u201cping\u201d of the hammer and spring releasing the valve is LOUDER than the discharge. Or to put it another way, you\u2019ll be able to HEAR the vibration in the hammer spring as it makes a cute \u201cting\u201d sound. I accidentally blank-fired a BSA Sportsman HV .22 in a sporting goods store in Phoenix, AZ the other day and the report\u2019s echo slapping off a nearby wall made my ears ring. The BSA wasn\u2019t fully charged. Popping off the Marauder the same way, at 2500 PSI, in the much closer confines of my garage won\u2019t make enough noise to frighten my 4 year old daughter! The blast of air will effectively eliminate a black widow spider! Yes, you WILL wonder if the rifle isn\u2019t working right\u2026 until you shoot through your pellet trap, as I did! Mind you, I\u2019m using this just as it came from the box, with the recommended valve, spring tension, and hammer-length adjustments. I\u2019m not firing it remotely close to its maximum velocity! My pellet trap is (was) rated for .22 rimfire rifles. I\u2019m going to need a sheet of battleship armor plating very soon. That\u2019s no exaggeration. If you\u2019ve got a pigeon or squirrel problem, you\u2019ll be dropping them so fast, and so quietly, the live ones will be walking around wondering what happened to their buddies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like the description on the \u201cting\u201d sound, and the rest seems to be pretty spot on.  I am still shooting my Marauder at around 1500-2000 psi, but hopefully I will be able to go higher once my replacement screws for the Hill pump mount arrive from Straight Shooters.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to the author following up with a full review and\/or subsequent reports.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this informative \u201cfirst look\u201d Marauder article at airgunweb. If you\u2019re reading this review and you\u2019re like me, you\u2019ve already read every other review you could find on the internet, so let me attempt to describe just how quiet it really is. The \u201cping\u201d of the hammer and spring releasing the valve is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/04\/marauder-first-look\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marauder First Look<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,33],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-benjamin-marauder","tag-pcp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2730,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/2730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}