Pnwairgunner
HAM Sharp Shooter
I bought my first Marauder about 13-14 years ago, I pre-ordered the .25 Marauder after reading a write up that Tom Gaylord did on the .22 Marauder… I believe it was published in an issue of Shotgun News years ago. My first squirrel season with the Marauder was all it took to hook me forever on PCP’s. After reading about the Marauder and it’s quiet, magazine fed bolt action I knew I had to try it out. It was everything I wanted my Benjamin discovery to be!
The Marauder immediately took off in sales and quickly became the most popular PCP out there and then sprang up all the aftermarket goodies that it inspired!!
I was learning all I could about the Marauder by reading up on it daily on Marauderairrifle.com and doing my best to learn from folks that were much more knowledgeable about PCPs in general than I was. It was a fantastic time to have been lured into “the dark side” as the prices of things in the PCP world were becoming more attainable by men of modest means.
My original gen1 .25 marauder was/is a tack driver. It earned my admiration time and again while out hunting, and it impressed everyone I introduced to it. My beloved Benjamin pumpers sat unused for longer periods of time as the Marauder had become my go-to plinker/hunter/target rifle and I put many many thousands of pellets through that rifle over the next few years.
Then began the tinkering….
It started off innocently enough. I just wanted a depinger to tone down the loud ring in the reservoir after the hammer hit the valve. That’s all. But as these things tend to go, not long after that I wondered what a new valve would do for it… a Wicked Air Rifles valve soon arrived in the mail and was installed, transfer port enlarged and new springs were swapped back and forth. Now it was capable of REALLY moving some lead and it had grown much louder, but not to worry Tim Hill sells a moderator for that. Problem solved. Boyd’s Stocks… what’s this?? Oh boy….. I’m in trouble.
A Marauder is an airgun that can grow with the owner. It can be perfectly suitable in its factory form, or it can evolve into something else altogether if the shooter wants or needs something different. There’s no shortcoming that a Marauder has that can’t be solved, it’s as simple as just throwing handfuls of money at it! Haha!
Now my most favorite Marauder sits in a case in the safe and it’s in the form of an .25 Armada with a Magpul PRS stock, a gen1 Green Mtn barrel and an aftermarket valve, an aftermarket hammer with a PEEK striker, softer hammer spring, bigger transfer port, a depinger, a short shroud with a donnyfl 1/2x20 adapter and a tanto. It is the absolute quietest airgun I have ever seen. When I let someone new shoot it they often don’t think it has even fired a pellet at all!
I hesitate to add up what I’ve spent on it, but I guess it doesn’t even matter at this point because I do love it and would never part with it. I had also planned to add an aluminum reservoir as well but the supplier was a little erratic and I decided to just call it done.
How have you guys customized your Marauders?
The Marauder immediately took off in sales and quickly became the most popular PCP out there and then sprang up all the aftermarket goodies that it inspired!!
I was learning all I could about the Marauder by reading up on it daily on Marauderairrifle.com and doing my best to learn from folks that were much more knowledgeable about PCPs in general than I was. It was a fantastic time to have been lured into “the dark side” as the prices of things in the PCP world were becoming more attainable by men of modest means.
My original gen1 .25 marauder was/is a tack driver. It earned my admiration time and again while out hunting, and it impressed everyone I introduced to it. My beloved Benjamin pumpers sat unused for longer periods of time as the Marauder had become my go-to plinker/hunter/target rifle and I put many many thousands of pellets through that rifle over the next few years.
Then began the tinkering….
It started off innocently enough. I just wanted a depinger to tone down the loud ring in the reservoir after the hammer hit the valve. That’s all. But as these things tend to go, not long after that I wondered what a new valve would do for it… a Wicked Air Rifles valve soon arrived in the mail and was installed, transfer port enlarged and new springs were swapped back and forth. Now it was capable of REALLY moving some lead and it had grown much louder, but not to worry Tim Hill sells a moderator for that. Problem solved. Boyd’s Stocks… what’s this?? Oh boy….. I’m in trouble.
A Marauder is an airgun that can grow with the owner. It can be perfectly suitable in its factory form, or it can evolve into something else altogether if the shooter wants or needs something different. There’s no shortcoming that a Marauder has that can’t be solved, it’s as simple as just throwing handfuls of money at it! Haha!
Now my most favorite Marauder sits in a case in the safe and it’s in the form of an .25 Armada with a Magpul PRS stock, a gen1 Green Mtn barrel and an aftermarket valve, an aftermarket hammer with a PEEK striker, softer hammer spring, bigger transfer port, a depinger, a short shroud with a donnyfl 1/2x20 adapter and a tanto. It is the absolute quietest airgun I have ever seen. When I let someone new shoot it they often don’t think it has even fired a pellet at all!
I hesitate to add up what I’ve spent on it, but I guess it doesn’t even matter at this point because I do love it and would never part with it. I had also planned to add an aluminum reservoir as well but the supplier was a little erratic and I decided to just call it done.
How have you guys customized your Marauders?
