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.
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 .
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Great video Christopher I own a gamo phox and never had a problem with the magazine 👍🏻
I have the gx40 .22 never had any problems with mag very smooth thanks for video
Back from the range and the phox 22 put 10 pellets under 20mm at 45m, pretty good for the money.
I have a gamo phox in .22 and at 30 yds its a 5pence shooting daystate soverigns & h&n great video
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 .
Im planning on buying this gun. I hope im as happy with it as you are. Its my first pcp.
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.
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.
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
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
Nice.
Borrowed onw of these to try out on tuesday morning. From my very breif testing 10 shots at 10m it feels cheap but accuracy is good.
For a 2nd hand Phox at that price, that misfitting mag is a deal breaker. I would expect the shop to sort that.
Totally respect that John - it is really important that I am honest about everything that I encounter....this is one of those things.
@@southwestshooters Absolutely Chris, appreciate the 'warts and all' reviews
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.
every one is a dead rat. It's last though is not going to be 'that was not a tight group , O the shame !'
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.
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
Reximex pretensis has entered the chat minus the scope 😂
I got 3D printed mags off ebay which are far better than the BSA ones .
What do you search for such a magazine?
I only have one question- will you hit what your'e aiming at ? My agenda is Survival food not target shooting!!
Up to around 25 meters, yes!
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.
Beats any daystar at that price
The rifle will shoot as good as any other rifle come on pal.......................?
What have you done to the Sound! Your old videos had much better sound,are you recording in a studio, aweful.please sort it out.