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    Pellet gun review - Umarex .177 Fusion

    I have been looking to buy a pellet gun for a while but just didnt want to spend the $ and I really wanted a quiet gun. The only experience i have with a "real" pellet gun was I did purchase a stoeger pellet gun around a year or 2 ago. That gun was insanely loud. Way louder than a .22 rifle and not good for my backyard use....

    On to the review....
    I came across a pretty good deal at Academy on a Umarex .177 Fusion on Friday. So I went home and did some research and it had some pretty good reviews. Alot of them were saying it was real quiet. Saturday rolls around and I do my family stuff all day and never made it back to Academy. Saturday night I start thinking I should have just bought it... Thinking that there wont be one there on Sunday morning. Sunday morning finally comes up and I scoop up one of my kids and head to Academy and wait for the doors to open.... Like a kid.

    The regular price was $179.99 on sale for $71.98.

    This gun is super quiet. Not one dog barked when i was shooting in my backyard. Hollywood movie silencer quiet... Very Impressive. It also has zero kick.

    The gun is light. I dont know the weight but I could easily walk around carrying it. Compared to some of the other ones i was holding at Academy this one seemed alot lighter. When thinking of weight I put into consideration my 4 and 6 year old and how long they could carry it before they ask me to.

    The box said 750fps. I have nothing else to go off of other than that. It seems fast enough to me to take out a bird or rabbit. I dont think they could jump the pellet. I would say even a well placed shot on a coon or possumn at 20 yds. I would not try it on a hog size animal though.

    I was shooting at around 10yds to sight in the scope. I was putting pellets inside other pellet holes on the paper. I moved back to around 25 yds. I was hitting around nickel size groups. Btw I am not good at gun shooting.... The scope could use an upgrade. It is a fixed scope. The center is clear but the outside part is sort of blurry. Almost like a matrix type effect. Maybe all scopes are like that, like I said I am not a gun shooter...

    The part where you put the pellets into the gun is a small area and under the scope. It is hard to put a pellet into. Its doable but you will have to pay attention while loading a pellet. No way you could do it with your eyes closed.

    It uses 2 co2 canisters. I was nervous about buying a co2 gun because I didnt want to have to deal with having to buy them all the time.... I bought a 25 pack so I should be set for a while. The reviews all said to follow the instructions to a T. So I did. No problems but it defintly could be an easier process than what they designed for the gun. The reviews said you will start to lose power at around 50 shots. I dont know how many shots I fired but I say around 40 and its still shooting strong and on target.

    I purchased two kinds of ammo. Both Gamo, one being Red Fire and the other was Silent Cat. The silent cat was a heavier pellet @ 10.5 gr. vs the red fire @ 7.8 gr. The Silent Cat was defintlely quieter than the Red Fire but it did seem to get to the target slower. That could have been my mind playing tricks though. I had no problems with either ammo and they were both hitting in the same spots on the target.

    If you are looking for a super quiet pellet gun that is reasonably priced I would recommend this gun. Even though it doesnt go 1200 fps I would still recommend it even at the full price. The positives are way more than the couple of negatives it has.
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    Sounds like a good buy!

    If you are interested in chrono'ing your gun, I started using an app for iPhone/android called Chrono Connect. It uses sound/reports and user defined variables to determine fps. IE. measure the distance from muzzle to target, muzzle to phone. The mic pics up the muzzle report, and the impact of pellet to target (use a hard surface that will produce good noise). App computes the FPS. After I played with it a few days, I got it dialed in and believe its pretty accurate.

    FYI- ive yet to find an air gun achieve the speeds printed on the box.

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      #3
      Speed is NOT the most important factor for air guns!

      Originally posted by Playa View Post
      Sounds like a good buy!

      If you are interested in chrono'ing your gun, I started using an app for iPhone/android called Chrono Connect. It uses sound/reports and user defined variables to determine fps. IE. measure the distance from muzzle to target, muzzle to phone. The mic pics up the muzzle report, and the impact of pellet to target (use a hard surface that will produce good noise). App computes the FPS. After I played with it a few days, I got it dialed in and believe its pretty accurate.

      FYI- ive yet to find an air gun achieve the speeds printed on the box.
      Pellet guns will shoot at some really fast speeds, but the pellets cannot fly stable at those high speeds that are advertised. That gun shooting in the 700's is pretty good for a .177 cal. pellet. Those that brag about 1200 fps and even more, even IF they will shoot that fast, they will not maintain accuracy at those speeds. Beyond about 20-25 yards, they will spiral totally out of control... If you want to see what i'm talking about go here and watch this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z3YNLBs8Lo (The whole video is pretty interesting, but the squirrley pellets start at 4:35 into the video.) I have a lot of video that is similar using a high speed camera that records these pelltes cork screwing badly until you slow them down to a speed that they can remain stable. When you do that, you can shoot some of these high end guns WAY beyond 100 yards and shoot some tight groups at that.

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        #4
        My longest shot to date is 139 yards... a head shot on a turtle sitting on a log. Longest on slo-mo video is 97 yards, another head shot on a turtle...

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          #5
          Originally posted by SaltwaterSlick View Post
          Pellet guns will shoot at some really fast speeds, but the pellets cannot fly stable at those high speeds that are advertised. That gun shooting in the 700's is pretty good for a .177 cal. pellet. Those that brag about 1200 fps and even more, even IF they will shoot that fast, they will not maintain accuracy at those speeds. Beyond about 20-25 yards, they will spiral totally out of control... If you want to see what i'm talking about go here and watch this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z3YNLBs8Lo (The whole video is pretty interesting, but the squirrley pellets start at 4:35 into the video.) I have a lot of video that is similar using a high speed camera that records these pelltes cork screwing badly until you slow them down to a speed that they can remain stable. When you do that, you can shoot some of these high end guns WAY beyond 100 yards and shoot some tight groups at that.
          I know the high speeds rob accuracy. In my own experience I found significantly better groups shooting 10+ gr pellets in .177. Found a nice middle ground at 9.57 gr H&N Baracuda Extreme Hunter.

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            #6
            Originally posted by SaltwaterSlick View Post
            My longest shot to date is 139 yards... a head shot on a turtle sitting on a log. Longest on slo-mo video is 97 yards, another head shot on a turtle...
            Wow thanks for the video link above and info... What model air gun are you using for that kind of range?

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              #7
              Originally posted by Pedernal View Post
              Wow thanks for the video link above and info... What model air gun are you using for that kind of range?
              Kalibrgun Cricket in .22 cal. and another one in .25 cal. plus Air Force condorSS in .22 and .25 cal. Hawke Sport Optics Sidewinder 30 Tactical 6.5-20X42 scopes on .25's and Primary Arms 4-14X42 FFP Mil dot scope on .22's. JSB Heavy 18.1 gr. .22's and JSB Kings 25.4 gr and .25 polymags in .25's. .22's shoot 880fps for best accuracy in my guns. .25's shoot 930 fps in .25's...

              These things are so much fun to shoot! AND they are totally silent except the sound of the hammer hitting the air valve and the pellet smacking whatever it hits. First time out last Fall squirrel hunting, I took out 3 squirrels from one tree back to back. They had no idea why their buddies were suddenly falling out of the big red oak where they were cuttin' acorns... That hooked me for good to this addiction!

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                Here are my Crickets...

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by SaltwaterSlick View Post
                  My longest shot to date is 139 yards... a head shot on a turtle sitting on a log. Longest on slo-mo video is 97 yards, another head shot on a turtle...

                  This is the man to talk to if you want to learn about pellet guns!

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