Here's my micro review of the 2025 edition of the Karma Red Panda Bench that I received two days ago. There is a noticeable "upgrade" from the 2024 version. At my request, my Panda is tuned for pellets.
I took it out of the box, there's rumors that I got a hernia, lifting it, out of the box, and cleaned the bore thoroughly, and filled it with air.
I first shot 38.6 grain AEA slugs. At 779 ft./s. I got 52 foot pounds. BC 0.078
With the JSB 33.965 grain pellets I got 842 ft./s with 53.5 ft. lbs. of energy And BC of 0.056
Both of these projectiles gave me extreme accuracy, literally pellet on pellet. I mean exactly pellet in the same hole, not a ragged hole as the other previous pallets. I started taking videos of this on my Zulus scope, but they were all the same. Every group I fired, was the same exact thing. I was shooting at 30 m. I'm going to move out to 50 tomorrow and I usually shoot at 50 every day.
Aside from being the most accurate PCP rifle I've ever even dreamed of, and I am especially OCD on accuracy at SD, the regulator was very stable with a tight, standard deviation, which I'm sure will only improve after it's broken in. The trigger pull from the factory came in at about a pound, and for now I'm gonna leave it at that because I didn't wanna change a thing on the gun. I have no need to do that. The power on the Red Panda is quickly and easily adjusted from very low to extremely high, depending on your preferences, and what you're shooting at.
The gun is very tunable without tools.
Note that the threaded adaptor is M18x1 not 1/2 UNF
This is obviously a bench gun. I don't believe anyone would carry this out in the field unless you had a decent sized stand set up and a sturdy tripod and called your target in.
Tomorrow if I can find the time to post, not only targets at 50 m, but the video from the Zulus proving it at which time you'll be able to hear the true ballistic chronograph spitting out the data.
I shoot every day in my backyard at 50 m for two or three hours competing against myself and for the last five weeks or so I've been solely focused on my favorite gun the K-1 in 22 caliber. So I put that aside and for the next few weeks, at least I'll shoot this behemoth at 50 m just so I can go "unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable" with each shot.
Many people know I'm an FX fanatic and I think they make the best product on the market in their dynamic block and I have several of those but my most accurate gun up to the time I acquired the Panda was a 30 caliber Kng GRS in Green Mountain, which gave me eight consecutive shots in one extremely clean, not frayed hole at 50m
I don't know whether that's a fluke and I just got a special King GRS but I'll take it as it is and that was out of the box. No changes to the tuning, totally amazing.
So I'll provide the actual data and imagery for this hopefully tomorrow or the next day but in closing I can say that this is one exceptional PCP rifle. And I don't think that there's any commercially available PCP rifle that's as accurate as this Red Panda.
It's so good that's for the first time in my life I'm actually considering entering a competition. I don't know what to do at a competition. I've never seen one and I've never been in one. I'm a little intimidated by the thought, but I'm not intimidated about the fact that I believe that my Red Panda will come away from the competition with stellar results. The hard part is my PTSD, being around people, having to travel and meet with strange people, and trying something that I've never tried before, but I'm gonna try to do it if I don't chicken out at the last minute. I'll have to find a competition close enough for me to drive to in New England because there's no way I want to get on an airplane again or go to an airport or at least a commercial airport. I just don't want to handle that. My kids are all pushing me to do a competition to help me step "across the line" of my service-connected PTSD.
I have a great deal of admiration for Donny Donnyfl Du, .and I'm very appreciative of all he's done for me to help me. Needless to say his products are definitely superior and I do everything I can to make other people aware of them because not only is he a real pleasure to do business with, I 've got to mention PJ as well, but the way they run their business, and the quality of their products is an example for others, especially to 2 PCP dealers I can think of in the American Southwest.
#karmaairguns Donny Donnyfl Du DonnyFl #redpanda #Accuracy #GreatStandardDeviation #MostaccuratePCP, #BestPCPforCompetition, #22caliber #accuratepcp #PrecisiionPCP #pcprifle #pelletgun #pjclark
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I took it out of the box, there's rumors that I got a hernia, lifting it, out of the box, and cleaned the bore thoroughly, and filled it with air.
I first shot 38.6 grain AEA slugs. At 779 ft./s. I got 52 foot pounds. BC 0.078
With the JSB 33.965 grain pellets I got 842 ft./s with 53.5 ft. lbs. of energy And BC of 0.056
Both of these projectiles gave me extreme accuracy, literally pellet on pellet. I mean exactly pellet in the same hole, not a ragged hole as the other previous pallets. I started taking videos of this on my Zulus scope, but they were all the same. Every group I fired, was the same exact thing. I was shooting at 30 m. I'm going to move out to 50 tomorrow and I usually shoot at 50 every day.
Aside from being the most accurate PCP rifle I've ever even dreamed of, and I am especially OCD on accuracy at SD, the regulator was very stable with a tight, standard deviation, which I'm sure will only improve after it's broken in. The trigger pull from the factory came in at about a pound, and for now I'm gonna leave it at that because I didn't wanna change a thing on the gun. I have no need to do that. The power on the Red Panda is quickly and easily adjusted from very low to extremely high, depending on your preferences, and what you're shooting at.
The gun is very tunable without tools.
Note that the threaded adaptor is M18x1 not 1/2 UNF
This is obviously a bench gun. I don't believe anyone would carry this out in the field unless you had a decent sized stand set up and a sturdy tripod and called your target in.
Tomorrow if I can find the time to post, not only targets at 50 m, but the video from the Zulus proving it at which time you'll be able to hear the true ballistic chronograph spitting out the data.
I shoot every day in my backyard at 50 m for two or three hours competing against myself and for the last five weeks or so I've been solely focused on my favorite gun the K-1 in 22 caliber. So I put that aside and for the next few weeks, at least I'll shoot this behemoth at 50 m just so I can go "unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable" with each shot.
Many people know I'm an FX fanatic and I think they make the best product on the market in their dynamic block and I have several of those but my most accurate gun up to the time I acquired the Panda was a 30 caliber Kng GRS in Green Mountain, which gave me eight consecutive shots in one extremely clean, not frayed hole at 50m
I don't know whether that's a fluke and I just got a special King GRS but I'll take it as it is and that was out of the box. No changes to the tuning, totally amazing.
So I'll provide the actual data and imagery for this hopefully tomorrow or the next day but in closing I can say that this is one exceptional PCP rifle. And I don't think that there's any commercially available PCP rifle that's as accurate as this Red Panda.
It's so good that's for the first time in my life I'm actually considering entering a competition. I don't know what to do at a competition. I've never seen one and I've never been in one. I'm a little intimidated by the thought, but I'm not intimidated about the fact that I believe that my Red Panda will come away from the competition with stellar results. The hard part is my PTSD, being around people, having to travel and meet with strange people, and trying something that I've never tried before, but I'm gonna try to do it if I don't chicken out at the last minute. I'll have to find a competition close enough for me to drive to in New England because there's no way I want to get on an airplane again or go to an airport or at least a commercial airport. I just don't want to handle that. My kids are all pushing me to do a competition to help me step "across the line" of my service-connected PTSD.
I have a great deal of admiration for Donny Donnyfl Du, .and I'm very appreciative of all he's done for me to help me. Needless to say his products are definitely superior and I do everything I can to make other people aware of them because not only is he a real pleasure to do business with, I 've got to mention PJ as well, but the way they run their business, and the quality of their products is an example for others, especially to 2 PCP dealers I can think of in the American Southwest.
#karmaairguns Donny Donnyfl Du DonnyFl #redpanda #Accuracy #GreatStandardDeviation #MostaccuratePCP, #BestPCPforCompetition, #22caliber #accuratepcp #PrecisiionPCP #pcprifle #pelletgun #pjclark
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And be kind to your fellow competitor and don’t tell them its your first as your smoke their arses… just funning…
