finally got round to measure my son arrow in 22 cal it shooting 14.3 hp at only at 672 fps. Anyone’s getting the same number?
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The first Arrow I ordered was only shooting the 14.3 grain CPHPs at around 645-650 fps. It was super accurate and killed every single squirrel I shot with it with the first shot, but the lower than expected velocity bothered me. I ended up sending it back to PA and exchanging it for another one. I just tested it over the chrono and it's getting 734 fps with the same 14.3 CPHPs. Very happy now.
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Only have experience with my friends .177 arrow, but plop a 13.43 gr pellet in that and you see much the same speeds as i recall.
The arrow are not a power house.
The arrow are not a power house.
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Agree 100 %. Someone posted a link to where you could get the gamo urban for just over 200 dollars. I forget where. Much better gun for sure.
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When I was shopping around at the time I purchased the Arrow, the Urban was in the high $200s. I got my Arrow on sale for right under $150, so buying an Urban would have been almost double the price. Also, for the ranges I'll be shooting at, the Urban will not offer any accuracy advantages even with its almighty BSA barrel.
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I know there are MANY other .22 PCPs that are way more powerful, but the Arrow is my first PCP and the price was right. That being said, my original one was only putting out barely over 13 fpe. The new one is putting out right at the advertised 17 fpe which I'm happy with. Again, I know I could have gotten xxx for only $xxx more which has xxx and xxx over the Arrow, but I did my research beforehand and knew exactly what I was getting (or should have been getting). If I decide to stick with PCPs and upgrade from the Arrow sometime in the future, I'll definitely skip over all the other budget PCPs like the Gamo Urban and Umarex Notos and get something really good.
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The arrow is a fine little thing, shooting 25 - 50 M my friend hang with me shooting substantially more expensive rifles.
It is actually making me a bit miffed, so i have to think 50 - 100 M which my friends arrow absolutely will not shoot compared to my Maverick and Vulcan 3
It is actually making me a bit miffed, so i have to think 50 - 100 M which my friends arrow absolutely will not shoot compared to my Maverick and Vulcan 3
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Like they say, it is what it is. The Gamo Arrow was never intended or advertised as being a top quality, super accurate product made with the finest materials known to man. It's targeted (no pun intended) for a certain audience at a certain entry-level price point and does a fine job for what it is, IMO. The fact that it can hang with your $1,500 rifles at the shorter ranges it's designed to shoot at (and even outshoot the Gamo Urban at 50 yards in one YouTube video review I watched) speaks volumes. Sure, one can "only" spend $50-$100 more and get something else, but if one doesn't have the money, or the desire, to spend $50-$100 extra on a PCP rifle then the Gamo Arrow is a decent choice. That being said, if I didn't get mine at such a good price, I wouldn't have opted for it. I would have spent $10 extra ($239 vs $229) for the much more powerful wood stock version of the Arrow from Gamo's website.
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Haha! I just picked up a Gamo Hunter Extreme .22 (same 33mm magnum powerplant as the Swarm Magnums) and have been shooting the dickens out of it. Very challenging, but that makes it more fun to me!I have fantastic pecs from loading my gamo swarm
I like many things about the Arrow except the firing valve broke after only a few months, now in for warranty repair. I'll jerry rig something so that won't happen again. I also plan on enlarging the transfer port.
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