My friend ordered some Marauders for a few of guys and he brought mine up to me yesterday. The scope and rings wont be here for it till a day or so I had to take one off of one of my 850's. Well first impressions are fair to middlin. I have other guns in various states of tune so this is first box stock gun I have had for a while. First thing I noticed was that the pellet going into the breech seems a little chunky. Dont really know how else to explain it. Hmm notchy maybe would be better. So I am thinking some work needs to be done to the breech end of the barrel to smooth out the loading. The stock to action was a little loose so I tightened the screw a little to snug things up. Fit and finish seem really good from what I have noticed so far. I did try and disassemble the gun to get to the barrel to see if I could get a better feel of what the pellets were doing when they were entering the breech end but....oddly enough I didnt have the right size allen wrench to remove the bolt hehe. Gonna have to bring some tools home from work tomorrow to see what I can do. As far as accuracy goes the jury is still out. I think the pellets are getting clipped when entering the barrel but since I am unable to check things out thoroughly this will have to wait. The power from the factory is to my liking. From a 3000psi fill going down to 2000psi, the fps range was from about 860 to 890 with cphp's 14.3 gr. I got about 5 mags out of it with this fill pressure also. Pretty good I think right out of the box. It is fairly comfortable to shoot but since I have small hands I wish all of my guns had the pistol grip closer to the trigger. But this is common with most of the guns I have ever shot. I just adjust and make do. It is a quiet gun and I like that a lot. But of course an airgunner is never happy....the ping of the tank will eventually be taken care of. I have read the posts about depingers and they were very informitive. An o-ringed delrin depinger sounds like a good project. All in all I am pretty happy but like most guns right out of the box, some tuning and smoothing will be needed. And of course that is the fun part of airgunning for me its the perfect tinkerer's hobby.
John
The 850 Resource
