Very cool, here in The Netherlands they're rifled barrels, and modular. The pistol version .22 is 11 Joules, and can be fitted with the stock later on. Very nice little ratcatcher with a red dot on it
This is good tohear, because maybe, just maybe they ( Umarex ) may offer the rifled barrel model here in North America. I'd almost bet, if rifled, and hopefully, more powerful, these RP5's would sell rather well!
@@regsparkes6507 you can identify them because they dont have the little F in a hexagon stamped on them, and the oval cutouts on the barrel shroud are not there either.
In France I got a 22. version, but thé thread for the silencer was M10( 10mm) not 1/2-20 unf. Brocock makes adaptators for that, but if was à pain to discover it myself, as it is unusual in France. Two days ago I got a leaking problem at the endcap, which is not dolce. I was surprised to got that because it seemeed very reliable at first. Overall, with a silencer, it is great with excellent target shooting at 20m with a cheap scope. Quality worth the money(except for the endcap...?)
Good review Andy, always a pleasure. Not sure that it's a product for me, you could buy (just an example) a CP2 in both .22 and in .177 calibres for the price of the carbine and they are more powerful, can be swapped between pistol and rifle formats and have rifled barrels. The RP5 looks more like a fair-ground type plinker than a semi-serious entry level air gun.
Hi Andy. I'm re-entrying the fascination of Airguns at an age of 48. Last time I fired an airgun, I was 14 years old. I traveled the world in military contractor roles and always had an interest in the various guns but never the time to really study them and fire them as I felt like. I would carry guns or riffles that I never got to fire. (Thank God!) With the cheap airguns I can make my own little collection and learn all about the guns and their history. Thanks to you. The feel of good replicas and I only buy guns you recommend. It is growing into a hobby I can have with the rest of my family, including my wife, two daughters and a son. Thank you for your great informative videos. It makes me feel like this is a real hobby and not some nob head idea. Christian, Birmingham but born in Denmark.
I was thinking exactly the same. It's a shame as it looks the part and the action looks good fun, but with it's longer rifled barrel I wont be replacing my CP2.
Just bought a 2250 . Great gun to play around with and cheap. Also have a pp750 so can't see me going for either of these. Interesting review as usual..
Hi can you get hold of a Discovery 5-30x56 ffp with 34 mm body , looks to good to be true ? I can’t find a proper review so far . Thanks for your indulgence, love the show
That smoothbore, bugs me. For a carbine that is loveable in every way (most secure stock I've ever seen on an air rifle carbine), it just screws it all up with a non-rifled barrel.
Andy - can I set you the £200 challenge, please? A friend of mine wanted an air rifle for a squirrel problem and was ADAMANT (!) he wanted to buy new and his budget was £200. I came up with a rifle, scope, pellet and bag - starting with the .22 Gamo Whisper Sting. When many cannot afford expensive rifles, even your great £500 package suggestion may be a step too far. It could be a useful video.
Missed a trick here with the smoothbore. Give that a rifled barrel and it would be a great short ratter. But the crossman wins out of these, the 2250 & 2250 are superbly accurate
Both are nice looking and seemingly good quality kit. But a smooth bore? Even if that's a legal requirement in some countries how much more would it cost to offer a rifled barrel where allowed? Good review, as always. Thanks.
I accidentally unscrewed the co2 cap on my umarex Fusion 2 while there were 2 fully loaded co2’s and the cap shot off and imprinted the co2 and cap onto my ceiling lol it was extremely loud and scared the sh*t out of me ..
Umarex advertised a higher power for the carbine when they first came out. But I know some other u tube channels ended up returning them because they were alot lower than was claimed
looks good fun I don't understand why you can have this as a pump action when a few years ago the Logun Sweet Sixteen was determined as illegal as a pump action? Maybe this is why it is less then 6ft lb, seems a shame it has not got a rifled barrel. Great review 👍
Hi Andy, did you experience any of the loading and misfiring issues that Giles had when he reviewed it? A pity its so expensive , i will stick with my cp2.
Seems worse than the crossman ratcatcher other than the pump action. I would not like to think of anyone using either on rats or anything else - underpowered and smooth bore. Might be fun for small garden plinking if a little overpriced.
Loved the contrast, factual and to the point in the studio, turns into a young lad out in the field when shooting it! I'd say that shows it has done a good job
Wow! Sweet little (and a little larger) piece! And I'd more likely to also be going with a carbine over the a bit too long of a pistol (imo). That dual butt-to-butt co2 cartridge system seems quite common - and proven to be good. I like the cocking mechanism also. That 25m accuracy test on a seemingly windy day was well enough for me. I assume the target paper was approx 14x14cm in size. I bet the green dot covered the whole bullseye sticker area on that distance. I used to shoot my Sig co2 MCX from 18m. The red dot covered well the 7cm black bullseye are that I had. But the pellets did land at the area the dot covered at the given distance. A very nice review indeed! Thank you once again to Andy and crew!
i take it Germany are putting up their prices to get some money in, might be fun gun, but couldn't call either of them a serious piece of work, good review though as always
What ruins this most of me is the magazine count. 5 shots just doesn't cut the mustard. A understand why they left it at 5 with the magazine design but this absolutely needed at least a 10 shot rotary mag.
Thanks for mentioning two CO2 cartridges doesn't increase power. There was a comment about this on one of your previous vids, I explained that one cart is ~900psi, and two is 900psi for more shots, not more power, but someone still argued the point. Meanwhile, it's a novel carbine,... but I was looking over your shoulder at the Nemesis X to be honest, looking forward to that review.
I see you have a webley Nemesis X in the background, I’m looking forward to your review and thoughts on it , I was looking at buying an RP5 but for the money they are I feel you could get something a lot better
I’ve just got the Webley nemesis x great gun I would recommend the combo kit or a good silencer for it as it barks 😆👌👍 I’m just about to do a pcp/hpa bottle line conversion on it nice lil double sided mag that’s easy to load too . Great fun u can get the power up doing pcp regulated bottle
@@jon9087 I’d be interested to see what shot count and power could be achieved with a hpa conversion, you should do a video once you’ve converted it . I’m definitely going to buy one soon
Don’t get the RP5. Carbine should be nearly 11 Joules (8.1 Ft/Lb) in the UK, and it’s ridiculous chocked barrel is a major down size. Not worth the money, and if you really want a multi-shot Co2 rifle get yourself the SMK CP2 for half the price. I know because I have tested them both against each other, and the CP2 out performs the RP5 in every aspect.
I don't think smooth bore is very target worthy, maybe I should grab my great great granddaddy musket. Now , do you know what does have a rifled barrel? A target rifle, so how about a review on one of those. AA is coming out with the XTI 50😃😃😃👍👍👍
Another great review, no doubt the RP5 is top build quality and the pump action is different and appealing, but I can't really see the point of the RP5 as a pistol and it would be nice to have a slightly more power available in the carbine version. It would be interesting to compare it with a the new Webley Nemesis which is cheaper and offers a bit more power for pest control.
Like always number 1 review. Andy ur the best. Going have to quit watching. Lol 😆. I buy all the one like you review. Just kidding on quit watching not on buying. Thanks for your time and effort and stay safe.
It never has been fair to the manufacturer nor possible customer to test accuracy in a high amount of wind. Those quality weapons don't appear to be aimed at the plinking market, but the reference made an excuse possible. "But the German construction of this does take it to the next level".
Great video as always Andy .... one big complaint ... you and a lot of reviewers of all types, refer to Picatinny/Weaver mounts .... it can only be one or the other ... they are completely different !!
You always seem to have wind issues (so to speak!), perhaps you could give us a much better idea of accuracy in a different environment? Just saying. I'm really enjoying your channel and I'm desperate to get back into it all again.
Look forward to my Fridays with AAR. Glad I hit that bell. Don't know why UK guns are not rifled & pistol/carbine power is the same. It's not an EU thing as arms regs are not the same in the different EU States (sovereignty). It might be some German regulation exported to the UK with a "that'll do" attitude.
355 quid for the carbine version. Not even slightly worth it when you can get the SMK cp2 for less than half the price with more power, a rifled barrel and the ability for it to be both a rifle and a pistol.
£344.95 for the carbine, think for that price I will stick with the smk cp2 which is a pistol and rifle at a fraction of the cost. £264.95 for the pistol.
@@neilaharding agree completely, especially as the cp2 parts are interchangeable with the pp800, giving you a nice little pcp rifle and a very accurate co2 pistol, if you swap the actions over, which is a doddle. all for about £380.
