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I heard airguns perform poorer on colder temperature.

Can you elaborate on the potential piston issue? You mentioned something about maybe the piston needs some kind of welding or something to prevent something possibly going bad? I want to get one because of my addiction. I always try at least to treat all guns as heirloom type potential. Even though I know better. I do know this gun has potential at least.

The 342 is a superb air rifle. I bought mine in 1981, a St.Louis Benjamin. A great close range small game and all around fun air rifle. Great stuff.

Just imagine, a pumper with a regulator for consistent pressure in reservoir. PCP level accuracy.

I loved your video as I've been packing my Benjamin M342 since I got in new in 1984. Note However: Benjamin recommends "between 4 and 5 pumps" for shooting. I don't know how to pump 4.5 but you know. I can tell you I've pumped mine (I was a kid) about 12 times and absolutely blew the seal in the chamber. I've not once pumped over 5 since that day. GREAT VIDEO!!

How many bbs does it hold

Excelentes videos y entretenidos aparte de sus buenos comentarios e información . Saludos desde Chihuahua México 😊😊

Thank you for the spring rifle video's! And the chickens 👍

Great video. I was reminded of the Benjamin.22 pump I got from my Dad when I turned 10. Used it so much the brass wore to a nice gold patina from gripping it and pumping. Birds, rabbits, Lordy, it took a lot a critters during my youth. I still have it stored lovingly away but it needs new seals and I don’t have a clue on how to repair it. If anyone has a suggestion I would love to hear it. I’m 73 now - it would be nice to shoot it again some day.

As frustrating as this Umarex synergist Elite has been and how I wanted to send it back I think I may have found a pellet that it actually likes I've tried every 177 pellet I have from 7 to 16 grains but I bought these pellets for a different gun and I tried them in here and they're the JSP exact monster Diablo redesigned 13.43 grain they do seat very tight in the magazine so you have to well.... seat them..... I have got almost hole in hole accuracy at 20 yards and the bonus to seating the pellet is that they don't fall out.

No such thing as a too long video, maybe to edit, but love to see the pump ups . My Blue Streak needs using , but old shoulder muscle rip shouts much louder in Winter, so out with thye Euro Trash at the moment. I love the simplicity of those sights. My 140 in the 60s was the same, or so I remember. That was good shooting. keith

Have two of those . Mine is original , the second one is from a former friend who used it to kill feral cats . It had issues as he never lubed the pump hinges , I was lucky enough to find replacement parts for it . Refinished to stock and forearm . Looks much better now .

So much fun!

I don't remember what year I got mine. Early 80s. Mine said it had a rifled barrel for the pellets, but it also had the scope mount, and later added one of my dad's scopes to it. Loved it, but from my memory it was somewhat under-powered. At least compared to a friend's crosman. Though the crosman had the massive advantage of allowing multiple pumps. Unfortunately I lived in town, and it was illegal to shoot it in town, so I rarely got to actually shoot it doh! lol I'd have to wait till the occasional trip to my aunt's farm, or walk a pretty long ways to the river. Which, of course, tended to draw a lot of unwanted attention, since it looked like I was walking around carrying a rifle. 😅

I love your reference to the Beeman catalogs of old. Thank you.

That rifle is very reminiscent of my Sheridan Blue Streak (bought new in 1976 and still shoots amazing). They just don't build them like this anymore.

397s still available at Field Supply for $150ish, last call to own a Benji guys!

Can't remember if you have the 1977...well if you do give that one a try its comparable to the 1000 in accuracy.

A very sensible way to make a good air rifle that's easy to shoot! And it looks cool!

Gotta love your channel. Just the fact that you don't go after the umpteenth FX or look-alike thereof (or literally any 1k upwards pcp) but actually show us a wide variety of airguns for the common shooter which are even available here in Europe. Something new, something old, springers and pumpers, cheap and slightly expensive. As for Weihrauch, they're actually made in the same region my father's from (tho Weihrauch originally was based in Eastern Germany, and relocated after WW2 to Mellrichstadt to avoid the Soviet Zone Of Occupation). Their Guns are superb imho, and the HW30 is their basic model, but honestly they're well finished and have very good QC. Price-wise (here in their home country) they start at 250€ which is the same Diana charges for their basic made in Germany models.

Krale is a 20 minute drive for me. 👍😉 Nice great shop with great custom service also. I own a old hw35

I had a 20 cal back in the late 80s it was stolen out of my pickup

A nice rifle to have in any collection and a good way of keeping warm in your weather as well. I used to have a Japanese equivalent called Sharp.

dont know what happened to original comment. dont feel like retyping it. anyways nice vid.👍

Sounded like she had some power to her Just wondering if you have chrony’d it 👍🏻

Best guun ever made in my opinion. Great video

That's a piece of history as much as it is a fine air rifle. Great shooting. 👌

Nice airgun brother

Every pumper I've had has been given away. The Grandkids, Nephews 😊 they all love them.

Looks really familiar to my brother's childhood Benjamin Sheridan I rebuilt it for him a couple years ago for Christmas after breaking it over pumping it as a younger kid

Oh man! That looks like my 2nd and 3rd Benjamin from the mid to late 70's. I don't think they changed the design again till Crosman bought them out. I had one in .177 which was the 347 I believe and then I went back to a .22. The 347 was a garage sell find new in the box around 1975-1977. My mom drug us out early every Saturday to go garage selling and she spent 40 bucks to get it for me. She knew how much I wanted it as my Tootsie Roll Benjamin was getting in bad shape. I didn't take very good care of that first Benjamin at that age and was ready for a new one. These always bring back great memories. The 1000's of pellets, and even BB's which i shouldn't have shot in the .177 brass barrel. I couldn't always get pellets when I wanted back then, but tubes of BB's i could get at the convivence store about a mile away. Sure took a lot of squirrel and rabbits with these back then.

KZbin acting up again. Those chickens sure do fly. I enjoy relaxing and sh0Ot1ng in the back yard with a pumper. I like the self-containment and power control. Its fun knocking down weeds and bug pesting from the comfort of a chair. 😂 Lol

The 342 looks great. How about doing some C02 guns at -20?

The hw30 is super accurate mine will shoot 1/2 groups or better at 40 yards with air arms 8.4gr and jsb 10.3gr

Hi from UK, got one in .22 which might seem strange for a low powered gun but everyone said they shoot 'sweeter' and having tried the .177 I tend to agree. These guns are absolutely perfect out to 35 yards and being low power perfect for gardens, I love mine.

That's really cool. Would be fun to do some rabbit hunting at night with that setup.

Nice gun indeed.... The cut out on the stock is to better accompany sandbags I do believe.

Patterned after Automag II we should guess, based on the cuts on top of the slide. Which would make sense given the "II" naming. I had the earlier grey version. Pro tip on keeping these from developing leaks, only screw the CO2 in enough to puncture and then a little more. If you crank it down hard you'll smash the o-ring and damage it. This thing pushes BBs at HIGH FPS out of that smooth bore and yes it will shoot spike-tip darts and bolts, but it's so powerful it will sink them completely into wood - like, so only the feathers are sticking out - and destroy them. Darts are really for use with a spring air pistol. Pellets are fine but a bit pointless with a smoothbore, it's really a BB race gun. I'd use ball (spherical) lead pellets if any. It's pretty accurate with nice adjustable sights. The trigger is the main impediment to accuracy, and the way to deal with the trigger if you're trying to precision single-shot is just to pre-compress it and hold it on-target until it breaks; just pretend it's a heavy dual-stage. I really liked mine. It had design and quality quirks - not unlike a genuine Automag. Heh.

I pump mine 10 times and it's just fine...I did the most common upgrades like steel breech, MIM sight, UTG BugBuster scope and Buck Rail silencer...probably overkill for a budget pumper...but it's a tack driver at 25 yards

Very nice! I have one German made springer Walther Parrus 177. It’s kind of loud even with a suppressor.

I have one ...Its an accurate rifle

Great little guns , ive bought my grandson one and he hasn't been born yet 😂, he won't be using it for a few years but it's there when he's ready 👍

Another quality springer. Very nice man.

HW-30 un arma magnífica esperemos más adelante, un video con agrupaciones ,con visor....y poder saber que medidas de visor soporta ,lo digo por el tamaño.Un saludo.

You should try a real quality adult bb gun from diana the oktoberfest gewher i just had mine today and damn that's real nice( if you but it use 4,4mm diana bb beacouse 177 steel bb's will ruin the bolt mechanism)

Beautiful rifle! That's a bargain at $300. Did that include shipping? Can you reply where you bought from again?

Great ‘junior’ gun. I have the same rifle as yours. Love shooing it and I’m in my 50s. I have a feeling I’ll be shooting in for many years to come if the universe allows it 😅 thanks for the great videos 👌

Agreed, an outstanding rifle. I bought mine from Krale as well, definitely recommend checking them out.

PCP stands for posers causing problems.