The Cayden was delivered this evening around 7:30 in the middle of a down pour, so all I could do was take it out of the box, mount a scope and a LDC. It's packaged much better than any other Benjamin air rifle I've ever purchased! It came double boxed and there foam packaging was very formfitting to the rifle.
The wood stock has some really nice grain, but it's more of a rough finished stock than most air rifles. It's got a couple small scuff marks, but they don't detract from the overall look of the stock, and I'll probably be refinishing this one anyway!
It came full of air, well, overfilled with air! Either my gauge is way off, or it arrived with close to 4000 psi in the cylinder! It will be interesting to see what the chrony shows shooting it from this pressure!
I removed the muzzle brake, that is screwed right on the end of the barrel, via a ½-20 UNF threads and added a Neil Clague LDC, which should really quiet it down. Even with that monster attached to the end of the barrel, it's not any longer than my Mrod with a DonnyFL Tanto attached.
It came with two 12 round magazines, an assortment of Allen Wrenches, a few o-rings, a Female Foster Fitting, a short Picatinny Rail with attaching bolt and a couple small brass discs that look like burst disks. There is a threaded brass fitting right in front of the air gauge that I assume is for the picatinny rail. It fits there, so that's where it sits, for now...
The manual covers the basics such as loading the magazines, filling with air, clearing a jam, etc. Not one word about the burst discs, picatinny rail, or what all those Allen Wrenches are for! Interesting that it seems to include spare parts, but doesn't really cover any maintenance items, other than adding a drop of silicone PellGun oil to the o-ring inside the barrel.
Hopefully, the weather will clear tomorrow and I'll be able to put some lead down range and test accuracy and see what kind of power it's producing right out of the box.
The wood stock has some really nice grain, but it's more of a rough finished stock than most air rifles. It's got a couple small scuff marks, but they don't detract from the overall look of the stock, and I'll probably be refinishing this one anyway!
It came full of air, well, overfilled with air! Either my gauge is way off, or it arrived with close to 4000 psi in the cylinder! It will be interesting to see what the chrony shows shooting it from this pressure!
I removed the muzzle brake, that is screwed right on the end of the barrel, via a ½-20 UNF threads and added a Neil Clague LDC, which should really quiet it down. Even with that monster attached to the end of the barrel, it's not any longer than my Mrod with a DonnyFL Tanto attached.
It came with two 12 round magazines, an assortment of Allen Wrenches, a few o-rings, a Female Foster Fitting, a short Picatinny Rail with attaching bolt and a couple small brass discs that look like burst disks. There is a threaded brass fitting right in front of the air gauge that I assume is for the picatinny rail. It fits there, so that's where it sits, for now...
The manual covers the basics such as loading the magazines, filling with air, clearing a jam, etc. Not one word about the burst discs, picatinny rail, or what all those Allen Wrenches are for! Interesting that it seems to include spare parts, but doesn't really cover any maintenance items, other than adding a drop of silicone PellGun oil to the o-ring inside the barrel.
Hopefully, the weather will clear tomorrow and I'll be able to put some lead down range and test accuracy and see what kind of power it's producing right out of the box.
