beeman silver bear 1783 review

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Average Ratings

Accuracy	9/10
Handling	8.8/10
Value for Money	9.1/10
Reviewer Rating	9.1/10
Overall Rating	9.2/10

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By Clinton on 25th May 2004

Clinton's Ratings

Accuracy	10/10
Handling	8/10
Value for money	10/10
Overall value	10/10
Clinton's recommendation

Good Points

Very light, great materials used in construction, great packaging, extremely accurate.

Bad Points

POOR instructions!!!

General Comments

The Beeman Silver Bear 1783 was my first pellet gun. I did replace the included scope with the Powerline 3-9x32 scope: $30.00 bucks at Wal-Mart.

Once I had this scope set, the gun was extremely accurate with Daisy hunting pellets. I could make the pellets butt up against each other at 30 feet!! It was amazing!

The rifle is kind of tricky to keep an honest aim on a small target because it is very lite.

This rifle would be great for the beginner shooter, but since this was my first rifle, I took it that the windage and elevation adjustments were those black caps with the grips on them. This is NOT THE CASE! You need to take off the caps and use a flat head screwdriver to correctly make the adjustments. You do not need to pull the scope out and put scotch tape underneath to set it, as I did. Feel kind of dumb now, to say the least. HA HA

I went ahead and took it back to Wal-Mart and exchanged it for a Daisy 1000 S air rifle, which I am even more pleased with. If you've got the extra $40.00, I'd go with the Daisy. It shoots 1000 FPS and is also an excellent gun! However, this one would also be great. Just depends on what you want to do with it. I don't know if the Beeman would have enough power to kill rabbits or not, but I'm sure it could, however, the penetration would probably be minimal. You'd probably want to shoot it in the head.

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