A very nice gun and a great package from BSA all for under £500, rifle, scopes, silencer, stirrup pump, and carry bag, some shops throw in pellets and targets, it fills to 230 BAR that's about 115 times higher pressure than the tyres of your car, roughly 3300 PSI. amazing pressures from the provided stirrup pump, things have changed a lot with air guns since I got my first BSA Dianna 22 back in the 1960s.
Someone with a ham fist has been forcing the loading instead of gently probing and keeping it oiled up with silicone, the phox is not the smoothest loader in the world and ramming the cock forward all the time will damage the mechanism.
Very late to this one, but as there will be shooters on a budget looking at this vid now and in the future, I'd like to assure them that the Phox is more than capable at 30 meters. My .177 with JSB 4.53 8.44g puts down way tighter groups than this demo. The magazine and indexing is generally adequate, but the example being demo'd here is a complete disaster - there is either damage to the mag or the gun for it to be this bad. Whoever bought it for 30O sobs got a raw deal in my ooinion. The basic gamo scope that comes with the gun is low grade; the first thing you'd change. You can't state as fact that this gun's accuracy isn't on a par with Daystate , AirArms etc and then demonstrate your assertions by shooting it in a cold wind with a random untested pellet, coupled with a budget scope - the likes of which you'd never put on a Daystate.
Tbf to the gun, you're using the standard gamo scope, it isnt all that. You can spend £40 on a basic bsa scope and you'll have a much better rifle all round. I just popped a £200 hawk scope on my phox mk2 and its now even better. Bear in mind you can also purchase an 18" bsa barrel for it, which will tighten that group. Ive used those pellets and find that they can be hit and miss(literally) those jsb jumbo heavy's hit really hard and are consistent enough but the jsb hades diablos are essentially the same weight but are much more consistent in my phox mk2
Great review i own one of the gamo phox it came with a stirrup pump and bag, pellets and targets scope and mounts i paid around £500 at the time,just to add this is a fantastic .22 which is very accurate the pellets i found to work best with this rifle are the range masters by daystate .
it would really improve picture quality, as Mr Kodak first advised, to shoot with the sun over your shoulder rather than looking directly into it. but great info.
Not had any indexing problems with my gx40 in .177. Definitely worth pellet testing with a range of pellets, but also load the pellets into the mag from the other side, this helps seat them better. Recommend removing the barrel band to free float the barrel. Great gun for the money.
nothing wrong with that sounded pretty breezy by the sound of it . personally i am a signal shot tray shooter so the mag would not be an issue however i would definitely have asked the shop to try another mag see if that’s the issue or an alignment issue but i know crack shit would look after you as a customer for sure
The phox, coyote and gx40 are all the same action and barrel I believe, the boxer is similar with the bolt being different. Personally I think they are great value for money and have never had a problem with my magazine (boxer .177) I regulated mine with a lane reg and went from an ES of 14 fps to 4
Purchased the Phox as my first PCP never had a problem with the supplied mags or aftermarket ones, mine seems to like Hades pellets, I also have an BSA R10, no problems with those mags either. You could actually have a BSA mag there they look the same but the Gamo doesn’t like them. Just a thought.
