It's a C02 air pistol. You just pull the pistol grip off the left side and insert a C02 cartridge and lock it in. You get about 50 or more shots from one cartridge. I've heard that after 40 or so shots, you loose some power, so I've been changing my cartridge out at 60 shots. For a plinker, I don't mind if I lose a little power.

The gun is made well, although it's mostly plastic. It feels very nice and the weight is good. The trigger and cocking lever are all metal as well as the main body of the pistol. The barrel is plastic with a steel insert. The sights are also plastic but very good. My shot perfect right out of the box.

To shoot it, you load 12 pellets in a circular magazine. Any type pellet seems to work well, although the cheap Chinese pellets fall right through. After finding this out, I decided not to use these pellets anymore for anything. The pistol comes with 2 magazines, but you can buy extras all over the internet for under $5.00 for 3 of them.

It has a great safety on it too. Just pull the trigger back slightly and slide the safety to the left to show the red dot. Now you can still pull the trigger and it acts like it's firing, but it won't. At first I though I had a bad one, but it was just that the safety was on. I'm not used to a gun that will still let you cock and pull a trigger with a safety on.

It shoots at 435fps. Far better than my cheap Chinese air pistols that were supposed to be much harder shooters. Turns out that overstating the fps on an airgun is pretty common across the board. I've seen the B3-2 rated at 900fps when it only shoots at 450. I took it outside right after loading it to check it out and shot up a cup laying in the backyard. Hit it with every shot and sent it popping up and flying around. After a reload, I put it to the test on my clay pigeon targets. At 15yrds, I was tearing it up. I was busting them up with 3 shots and dropping the next one in one right after another. Very cool. I hardly lost a shot with it.

After shooting about 100 rounds, I did have a problem once with it skipping over a couple pellets. I believe the problem was from overshooting. I was pulling the trigger as fast as I could and at some point it must have skipped over a couple. When I slowed it down a tad, it never missed a pellet. Another area that may be a problem is the thin dove tail across the top. The dove tail rail is raised and is plastic, so you can actually move it around like it's loose even though it's not. Sammy put a laser sight on his and it wobbled as was inaccurate. You can probably overcome this by mounting the laser under the barrel. Only something real light weight like a Daisy red dot scope would work on the top rail. I'm thinking of keeping mine open sight though.

Overall, it's a great little pistol. I'm not going to post a target as I am just using it for plinking and really don't expect much from it as far as accuracy. However, it's very accurate for plinking and I have read reviews on the internet where they say the accuracy is anywhere from "great to fair".

Reviewed by Robert Fischer