AIRGUN REVIEW - Air Venturi Avenger .25 Caliber - Maxing out the Regulator and Testing at 100 yards. 

Thanks for another great avenger video! My first pcp was the .25 avenger and I gotta say I've been absolutely blown away at the performance for the price. I've had a blast over the past few weeks with this baby.. Everyone that enjoys airguns should have one! My next investment will be a compressor. I've been hand pumping the avenger since day one.. It's honestly not to bad by hand!

Really good review Tick, impressed on this one😊👍

Love your reviews

WE WANT A 30CAL air venturi...900fps...I can dream

Rick, so glad I saw your vid. A year ago I was sold on this gun. Can't afford a lot but this past year been reeealy lookin into a dreamline or dream pup. My 50 yd target w/ my umarex and my H bullpup is getting a little old. So I want to shoot 100 yds + and now I know this gun will do it. I also am the neighbor who keeps the coyote population under control w/my 1022 carbine, but maybe this one will let em know not to come back. Great info, thanks.

Having to drain to decrease a regulator makes me so glad my origin is unregulated.

hey rick 'awsome review 'i love your info 'i juse preordered the avenger in 25 cal i been watching a lot of reviews on that rifle 'and no one has anything bad to say about them 'cant wait to get mine but for now i'm going to have to pump it up with a hand pump it might take me about a month tp get it full nut i think it will be worth every day of it lol

Picket it (.25 cal) up on Amazon and paid the extra so I could use my points... looking forward to tuning it.

Wow awesome sauce👍👍👍

I shot mine for the first time today, out to 120 with Air Arms pellets as well the Hades and FX, I missed too many times, I got tired of it and went back to my 100 yard target, lol. I absolutely love this thing, outta the box it shoots everything well and just so nice to shoot. I love mine, did I mention that? it's dark, I need to learn to shoot better in the dark, hmmmm. Maybe I can wait 'til sunrise, I love this gun, did I mention that?

Mine in a wood stock loves the JSB Hades with the hammer spring 2 turns in and my reg set at 2400 psi. It’s a real tack driver. Incredible airgun for the money. Barrel band and adapter/moderator from Buck Rail. Amazing prices and free shipping. Also my gun came with a plastic stock which I replaced later with a wood stock from PYA and my accuracy absolutely got much better. Worth the money to get this gun in wood especially for bench shooting but for just hunting the weight is less in the plastic stock and easier to carry around all day hunting.

My first PCP was purchased on your recommendation, Rick. You said the UmareX Origin .22 (with pump) was the absolute best starter package for the money. MANY THANKS! I've been having a blast with this puppy from the git-go. My debate has been, which .25 cal. am I going after as my 2nd PCP? I don't want to break the bank, so I've been looking at the Avenger (wood stock), the JST Airacuda, and the DAR Gen III. Your comment about the Avenger warranting a scope priced twice as much as the rifle clinched the decision. Now I just have to call Rhonda @Pyramid Air and start spending $$. Thanks again, Rick.

Just ordered mine a few days ago

Great review Rick! I would love to see your all time top .25 cal air rifles 2021 edition

Update!!! The air rifle turns out to be a big POS! Unless you spend a ton more money and alot of time and testing. You can buy an AIR Arms or an FX for the overall price! Dont waiste ur money on it! All three mine shot good at first then it all went south from there! I do pest control, so i cannot afford mistakes!!! Nice shooting boss Rick.I have this air rifle as well. I paid $450 for it ,but it is wood. It is a tack driver nonetheless. Cocks nice for a cheaper receiver,no complaints.Its worth every penny.I think it was a pyramyd air gun. Shipped from solon Ohio.

I shot 22LR at the range. When i use 850 fps ammo i can barely do any good grouping.. i need to use 1200 fps ammo to achieve better result. So for pcp airgun i suppose this comes into play. Most .25 pcp outhere output 900 fps. So you need to set moa quite a bit to zero 100 yard and you still won't get a good grouping…. With my 308 win, shooting 100 yards is like shooting 5 yards with a pcp rifle,.. a 168 grain 308win bullet travel so fast that it hits the 100 yards target instantly. So you get a grouping almost the size of a the bullet it self… don't get me wrong though,, i love pcp shooting, it is cheaper to shoot pellets than centerfire, but they need to figure how to increase fps on those pcp.. i say 1200-1300 fps is the minimum for zeroing a 100 yard target. The reason i was watching your video is because im still looking for the best value pcp rifle capable of 100 yards plinking better than my 22 lr

This should of came with a bottle , really nice gun !!!

Rick do you think this would be a better buy than the umarex gauntlet 1 .25 cal?

Wait till you get to see the surprised look your going to have from the H&N Grizzlies.😎

Thank you for your reply. I did it three times how can I tell if its broken??

Idk if I got lucky or just haven't shot it enough but after about 150 shots I'm still getting 53 ft/lbs with fx hybrids and 55-56 with king heavies with my .25 Avenger. My reg came maxed out as well so I just played with the hs to find the most efficient setting. I found that to be at exactly 4 turns in from all the way out. My hs goes 5.5 turns but I actually lost power at anything past 4 1/4. Hs maxed out at 5.5 gave me only 48-49 ft/lbs.

Good bang for the buck!

Make sure you're not running to a "phantom" stop on that hammer spring adjuster. It will turn about 5 and a half turns from stop to stop but sometimes there is a little resistance so people stop before it is fully cranked in.

Will this make a good 50 yards and in coyote airgun? I’d prefer the wood stock, but if I can get 50-60fpe I think it would take coyotes.

Is your group with the hammer spring weak and 2900 psi reg I have a 25 cal

What was the fps with the 33.95 gr?

Which is better the avenger, marauder or the hydra ? For 25 cal?

Hi do you know what the twist rate is for the .25 Avenger thank you

Couple of questions to get more out of the Avenger I believe drilling out the Barrel Port a little bit would be better than adjusting a bigger spring also the other question do you find it that everytime you filled a gun up with air the aiming Point changes is that common and most guns have to recite every time you fill up

You need to try the cattleman t2 or m1 in 25

What should we expect from the Air Venturi Avenger? I have experience with five different Avengers in .22. One had a POI change that was erratic and unpredictable. Nothing seemed to work to correct the problem. The group would unpredictably jump three inches to the left but without changing the scope setting and after several shots the group would shift to the original POI. Strange behavior that I could not correct. Another of the five had a barrel that shot so low and right that I did not have enough scope adjustment. Scope shimming was not an option due to stressing the scope tube. Numbers three, four and five had regulator leaks. Those Avengers were the new baffle models that leaked 200 PSI in seven minutes and increased to 600 and 800 PSI over night. Is there a manufacturer’s defect in the new baffle models? Since the Avengers are a budget model and defects should be expected however all five in my experience were beyond tolerable defects. My air rifles and supplies are bought from Pyramyd Air and have not experienced the Avenger problems with other Chinese air rifles. The Gauntlet is a prime example. The Avenger baffle models were accurate on the bench but very unpredictable on the regulator while hunting. Even with all the problems, I am looking for an Avenger .22 that works with tolerable defects. The Avenger sounds like a good hunter.

First i would do is make a nice wooden stock for it.

Rick thanks for the great video and information! I think I would call Tyler Patner (Pyramid Air) and get a replacement Avenger. Regulator stuck at 2200 PSI doesn't sound good. Since you were talking scopes do you think an Element Helix for $400 would that be enough scope? Thanks

Sir,is the barrel choke?

im getting 805 fps with 36 grain slugs reg set at 2500 psi hammer spring maxed then backed out a full turn

Hi Rick. Considering you have had both in your hands, I am curious as to what is, in your opinion, the best buy between a Hatsan bullboss .25 and the Avenger .25? Both can be considered high value-for-the-buck entry-level PCPs and I want to join the PCP community which got me looking at those two. What I am really interested in is you take from not the accuracy or power level, but from the overal quality of the build, replaceability of parts and ultimately the expected lifespan of the rifle. One is Turkish, one is I believe Chinese with US quality control... My experiences with my sons RC cars which have excellent reviews and are of Chinese making is that on first sight the quality is fine...but things go south real fast when put to the test...and in the end you spend more time and money fixing stuff that should not have broken in the first place... the devil is in the details. For PCPs that would be quality of the screws used, how they are put in (glued stuck so they break when you need to take one out), quality of the o-rings, easy replacement of parts (e.g. the regulator air chamber or whatever I need to call it on the Avenger seems like a very custom built and so when defect can only be replaced with a part from Air Venturi, which you'll see, in 5 years no-one can provide)... So I hope I got the point of my question across...I am asking YOUR personal opinion...other experts may disagree...up to ppl like me to choose who to listen to :-) Hope you can shed some light on this. Thanks for your awesome videos, keep up the good work!

I just reeled off a 867 fps with a 43.2gr with this thing. Over 70fpe. A 25.4gr will do 1026fps. The only thing I did was open up my barrel port.

I did it three times

Nice shooting and great info. For target shooting at 75 and 100 yards, would you select a .22 or a .25 Avenger?

Hey Rick is that hill compressor a better compressor than the Omega

How many shots on a full load of air?

Hi I have a question I have a Hatsan BT65 QE. And I dry fired it with no air in the tank but it was installed in the gun and no pellet. Did I damage it?

I bought this gun and ran into something I can't explain. I sighted in the gun at a temperature of about 60F and could put pellet inside of pellet at just 25 yards. Thinking I had everything in order to go hunting I went hunting in about 32F temperature and found the gun was shooting about 5 in. low I resighted the gun in and again pellet after pellet in almost the same hole at 25 yards. Is this normal behavior for PCP guns or am I doing something wrong?

I love my 22 Avenger. I am using the Athlon Argos BTR 6-24 x 50 FFP which is a great scope for this gun.

This or the Gauntlet?

i love how nobody here will admit to breaking their own regs by adjusting the wrong way with air in the gun

So if I hear you correctly, it is an awesome gun because it is defective from the factory?

You get what you pay for!!

I've learned to NEVER skimp on any glass for any gun. What's the point of putting a POS glass on a rifle ?

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That's the one I want or a 25cal. Fx impact mk2 if I was 🤑 rich

ill be buying this rifle but had to say. that stock looks like trash. and as soon as i get mine. i will be building a new stock for it like i did on my gauntlet .25

That gun is definitely screwed up. Should be able to get way more power

You should test some slugs at 100

Your gun is defective. I get 895 FPS shooting Air Arms 25.4s, reg at 2000, hammer spring at 2.5 turns in.

Your shots are spread out over what appears to be a 3 inch target, maybe 2 inch. Either way it’s now where close to one inch. Come off it.

(WARNING) Do your research on this hill compressor, Rick is pissing on you heads and telling you it's raining, For $1000 gents look at the Omega air charger for just a couple buck more $1150