Gamo V3 Reviews

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Good points - grip, safety location, magazine design and release

Bad points - trigger pull, fake blowback

The Gamo V3 is a gun that many seem to hate. That made me have to purchase one, to see if I could make it better or prove people wrong. After inspecting the pistol and figuring out that the slide is actually part of the linkage between the trigger and hammer, I decided to leave the Gamo V3 alone and just shoot it. (Okay, I did lube it since many moving parts were dry.)

The V3 sure looks good enough, it is sized like the Colt Commander which is a perfect size for a 1911 styled BB gun. The grip fits my hand well and the magazine is a really neat design that loads BB really easy. Other good things are that the magazine release and the safety are in the correct locations for people wanting firearm realism.

The trigger is um, weird. It's heavy and does not have a smooth pull at all. Slow shooting is the worst thing you can do with this gun. The trigger really has to be pulled through quickly in one motion to have a chance at shooting the Gamo V3 well. This trigger is a hand exercise device. That can be good or bad. It is great if you want a lot of double action only (DOA) practice to keep your hand in shape for firing a real DAO firearm.

The other weird thing is the barrel. It moves back and forth with the slide when the trigger is pulled. It is not rigidly mounted in the V3. I'm not quite sure why it is built that way, but it doesn't seem to hurt the way the V3 operates compared to fixed barrel CO2 BB guns.

If I had to compare it to other air pistols out there, the Gamo V3 is not the worst or the best. It can get up to 6 magazines of BBs per CO2 cartridge and it is reasonably accurate for a plinker. Even with the crazy trigger pull, the Gamo V3 is right at the top of my air pistol collection when it comes to good entertainment. It is just plain fun to shoot.

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All and all a very good value for your money,If you can live with an all plastic gun then it is an improvement over the 1088

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Yes it is really good. If you want to kill birds, you'll no problem with the Gamo V3.

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I have read the reviews here, and everyone is complaining about the hard trigger pull. I have this Gamo V3 gun for a month now and I can easily pull the trigger! You can shoot all 16 BB's in about 5-7 seconds, at least I can, so I don't know if the others are so weak and can't pull the trigger or what. Everywhere it is written that it has a 15 shot magazine! That is also not true. You can put 16 BBs in there and the gun is very powerful, it shoots thru a 100 page magazine from 5 meters! It's a v ...

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Don't be lured in by the neat magazine, the Gamo V-3 is junk and isn't typical of Gamo which usually makes some fine products. The "fake" blow-back is gimmicky and child like. The slide is not blown back at all by CO2 but rather it moves a half inch every time you pull the trigger. This probably contributes to the absurdly impossible trigger. Also, you can see through the gun where the slide meets the frame, it's light as a feather making it feel like a toy, and the power and accuracy aren't ...

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My Gamo V3 is about a year old now, still in excellent condition. It's a good gun and powerful enough for birds, awesome for rats, but it's hard to get a co2 without it leaking a little.

It's a blow back but not a true blow back. There's no open chamber, the trigger makes it a blow back. I get about a 2 inch group at 5-10 yards.

Overall it's a decent gun and I would suggest it over any Crossman or Daisy.

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I have brought a Gamo v-3 from a sporting shop in Auckland of New Zealand. It did cost me $200NZ. I had 500 shots with the gun. There are two problems I have found very quickly. They are - valve leaking and jams. Valve leaking is a common problems with most of Gamo co2 pistols. However I received a new magazine form retails. When it comes to the jams, the result of jams cause hard trigger pull. As most of the buyers complained hard trigger pull, it is actually caused by jams. The mechanical syst ...

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This Air Pistols sucks. Gamo makes good air rifles, but bad C02 pistols. Just as bad as the Anics Skif-300 air pistol. JUNK!!!!!!! STICK WITH DAISY.

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Overall, the Gamo V3 is a great plinkin BB gun well worth the price. I was expecting so much fun with a BB gun under $50.00

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My Gamo v-3 CO2 pistol didn't work from the time it was pulled out of the box. Miserable workmanship. Horrid trigger, because of the slide that "moves". What Gamo doesn't tell you is that your finger moves it as you pull the trigger. Everything else that is above this is 1000% on the money. Don't waste yours.
I didn't even bother to send it back. The girl on the phone told me not to expect any satisfaction.

I smashed it with a 3 pound hammer, and will be mailing it to Ft Lauderdale tomorrow ...

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The Gamo V3 gun is great, just not a good trigger pull. If you want a powerful gun this is one of them.

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I bought the Gamo V3 pistol the other day and was a bit disappointed when I put in the co2 and fired it at an orange and watched it bounce off. I thought I had purchased a dud gun. The next day I changeed the co2 canister and watched it proceed to fire a bb strait through the orange. It's the dud co2 from gun shops not the gun that is broken. This gun is incredibly reliable and has a nice weight while still remaining very accurate. The stiff trigger isn't really that stiff adds to the realism of ...

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The Gamo V3 has the worse trigger pull (Nearly 11 pounds) on any gun I own. It is powerful though, and it will shoot lead or steel BBs through it's rifled steel barrel. It has what one would call "combat accuracy" That is, it will hit a paper plate every time from 40' during rapid fire. It is pretty heavy, and it feels like a real pistol. It is pretty easy to modify it, and the trigger pull improved when I did. It is pretty powerful, but the bad trigger pull ruined accuracy. Hope this helped.

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I had the Gamo v-3 pistol for about a year. Most of the time it was sitting like new in the box. Like most of the other posts, the technical stuff was the same. I had to pull the trigger hard, it misfired a LOT, BBs would roll out of the gun (how embarrassing). I got approximately 200 shots out of the thing before the top 'slide' just came apart! It was never accurate shooting. A total mess. I own the p23 and the 44. Both of these guns so far, shoot accurately and are mechanically well. It's a d ...

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Having been to my local gunshop to purchase a Co2 pistol there was limited stock so ended up buying the Gamo v3. When I begun to fire the pistol I slowly realised why this gun was in stock and no other,the Gamo v3 has a feeling of almost wanting to break each time fired and that the power was extremely weak for a normal 177 Co2. Having to pull the trigger all the way back before a shot is fired means that the accuracy is greatly reduced and after shooting at a plastic drinks bottle (no more than ...

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I bought my Gamo V3 last Sunday. I find it extremely powerful, accurate and pleasent to hold. I have previously had many pistols and rifles in the past such as the Gamo Shadow 640 and 1000. Agile, compact, reasonably affordabe. This truly is a boy's toy. Due to the rather stiff trigger of the V3 I would not recommend this pistol to anybody aiming to shoot moving targets. The V3 has a easy to load Co2 compartment in the magazine of the gun for easy loading being able to shoot up to 60 shots per c ...

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I bought the Gamo V3 Feb. 1 2005, I like the way it loads the CO2 which is similar as my Walther CP Sport. It's not too accurate but it's expected from a bb gun. Power? it's all there. I tested on my chrono it shoots at 405.5fps to 411.5fps. The trigger is hard to pull reminds me my walther CP88N and the CPSport. I think the way this semi-auto design, the trigger must pull the hammer back to later knock the pin. Unlike single shot you can cock the hammer first and the trigger just have to let go ...

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I bought the Gamo V3 when it was first released on the strength of a review in a gun magazine. The gun was supplied by Gamo without seemingly being oiled, and this made the trigger very stiff. Once I had oiled it up, it made a big difference to the trigger pull, and I have no problems now as long as I keep it oiled.

I also found that I wasn't getting what I thought was the claimed power; and on inspection, I found that the seal for the CO2 capsule was made of a too tough plastic to attain a d ...

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Purchased the Gamo V3 to help my son start into the shooting sports. He wanted a laser as well so he would look cool. No problem, the literature stated a 450fps rating and the gun just looked good in the package. Unfortunately, the gun lost all of its shine when my son put his finger into the trigger. He was having a hard time getting the gun to shoot. I checked to make sure the safety was not on and that everything was in order. Looked fine so I took the first shot about 50ft from the fence. Sq ...

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I also bought the Gamo v-3 just a few days ago, trigger pull is the worst i've tried, very hard and it affects also accuracy, I have also done some mods to the gun so it will perform better, I believe it is unnaceptable that Gamo produces and sells faulty products and then has the balls to charge
$69.99 for this product!! I do own another gamo pistol (p23) and compared to the v-3 it is a champ, well every now and then it shoots just gas,i t seems that ammo gets stuck, but well back to the v3, ...