Marksman 1010 Review

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Marksman 1010
2.7 stars
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ted3929's Review of Marksman 1010

8th Jun 2006

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Good Points

It's cheap
To a degree, it shoots


Bad Points

It's cheap
It shoots wherever it likes.
Guaranteed to break
Rotten quality control
You'd get better accuracy just spitting out the pellets


General Comments

Had one of the Mark 1010 years ago and had the recent misfortune of shooting a "newer" version.

Thought maybe 20 years or so would have improved the product. Unfortunately, it's the same old jazz, just another day.

The gun itself is made out of painted pot metal. Dig hard enough with a thumb nail and you'll remove the paint.

Loading is easy enough and so is cocking, but firing is something of a trick. Aim all you like, you will not hit the same place on your target twice.

Velocity is shy of 210 fps which means this pipsqueak can't even penetrate an aluminum can at close range (I know, I shot at one and had the BB come back at me after bouncing off the can!).

Barrel appears to be a bronze smoothbore but you can see the seam where they rolled the barrel from a flat piece of metal. There appears to be no attempt to make the barrel circular. It looks like one of the weird semi-circular shapes you hated in geometry class.

On the gun I recently shot, the barrel was not aligned with the hole at the barrel end. I had to take a coat hanger to push it over so the BBs wouldn't clip the barrel end upon leaving.

As for the darts, what a laugh! The old gun set used to come with a cork dart board. Think I maybe got one or two darts to stick, the rest bounced off. Marksman got smart and went to a softer dart board but the darts still won't stick.

Birds laugh if you shoot them with one of these, even if you do luck out and manage to hit one.

Pay the extra $20 and get a beginner's gun that won't swear you off airguns for life.

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