Game Changer: The Benjamin Pioneer Airbow

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I came across an article in "The Truth About Guns" where Crosman have come up with a new version of an AIRBOW, similar to crossbow with a twist.

I will let you folks watch & read the info for yourselves. Click on the link below to access site.

http://www.crosman.com/airbow










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Doesn't matter. It's $849 USD. Here will be $1200. Unless it drops in price in 3 months it will be a marketing failure.Too expensive for what it is.
 
Looks cool for sure. I used to do spearfishing when I lived in the West Indies, so it sort of reminds me of this except you don't have to swim down 50 feet and hold your breath (once shot a 50 lb Barracuda and the spear bounced off!). I am not a bow hunter, but it seems like if you were going to use this for hunting you might as well use a rifle and use iron sights if you want to make it more interesting. Wouldn't this take all the skill & fun out of bowhunting?
 
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Never mind the Benjamin. I want a FX Verminator MKII

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It gives you the choice of sending a .22 pellet @ 970 ft/s, .25 pellet @ 900 ft/s or an arrow @ 280 ft/s
Comes in a package that would fit great in a James Bond movie :cool:
 
I've checked into this, and I'm pretty sure it would be classified as a "toy". So for importing purposes, one should just be able to purchase it and have it shipped up no problem. As for hunting, not sure on that yet.
 
bungsTPS said:
Apparently It is a technically a airgun and fires arrows 450 ft per second. Incredible.
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Technically? By what legal standard has it been termed an air gun?

If we are throwing out legal definitions of what it is we should at least be basing it on something in law. Toy. Airgun. Firearm.

Does someone have some actual literature on it?
 
legi0n said:
how is the arrow pulled from the front?
it seems to me the front of the arrow is free-floated and doesn't seem to have a nock towards the front
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The arrow is a hollow tube, and is slid over the outside of the 'barrel' of the airgun.

If you were to look at the muzzle, you would see that there is a large outer tube, in this case, the forward section of the stock, big enough to clear the fletching, with a smaller tube in the middle that the arrow slides on to. The air is injected into the arrow to fire it off the inside tube.

Cheers
Trev
 
Swivel machine tool has gets similar performance from a arrow shooting 10/22 barrel, using blanks. It works: standard duplex scope (top post, cross, bottom post) gives pretty much point of aim impact at 25m 50m 75m. At 50 you can split your arrows.
Downside: BC CO calls it firearm for hunting. I'll bet most would call the air equivalent as firearm also. Legally (ie feds) should be non gun: Under 500 fps.
 
drslav said:
Doesn't matter. It's $849 USD. Here will be $1200. Unless it drops in price in 3 months it will be a marketing failure.Too expensive for what it is.
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Last month I was shopping for a Crossbow; I was looking seriously at the Excaliber Matrix Mega 405 package - The price of the 405 is $1299.99 Cdn.

The Airbow doesn't sound unreasonable at all if it does what it says.
 
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