The B20 air rifle review by Don Ackerson

 

This is a review of the B20 in .177 caliber is a clone of the Beeman R9, and is a copy of the RWS 320. All these rifles share the same design concept and version of the precise reckord trigger. I had heard many stories about the gun being plagued with numerous quality control issues. Which can be the case with Chinese made air rifles. My rifle arrive double boxed as did my TF97 on the same day, I unwrapped the B20 and was impressed with it design construction from its solid and well made wood stock to it nicely formed and blackish blue metal work and finished. I was Impressed and this was before the trigger set or any shots were fired. It is big step up from the typical Chinese rifles that I have owned. Of all my air rifles and some of my high- powered rifles this one has a metal trigger guard and trigger, nice. I must say that the Chinese rifles I own are great bargains for the price. This one seems exceptional and I was well pleased. I had already decided that I was going to send it off to be tunes after I broke it in to see what it could do. After checking it out I found no problems that would hurt accuracy like I’d read about on other   forums.  So I wiped it down with gun oil and polished its wood stock, now it was time to shoot it. My first shots were with iron sights not bad, they are workable but my old eyes need a scope I’m almost blind past 15 yards. So I mounted a Tasco 3x9x40 scope with Leopold mounts and added a scope stop to avoid the scope sliding. The B20 has pretty stout recoil. I also find that it is hold sensitive. The first couple shots were accurate but not until I adjusted the trigger did I find what a great a gun this is or could be. It has the requirements to be a super accurate and fun gun to shoot, its funny how those two go together. The look, feel and handling of this rifle is excellent and gives the look, feel and performance of a real high dollar air rifle. It was shooting CPLs at 807-796fps when new my TF97 was more powerful 850fps, now 500 rounds both in the break in stage the B20 is firing the same pellet 910-900fps and the TF97 is now doing 750-725fps its slower, settling down to this fps, but its still accurate.

The B20 seems to like the CPH domes 10.5 pellet on a good day 5 pellets groups appear to be one or two shots, this day started like that but as I fired more round it opened up to a 10-11 shot dime size group at 18 yards (that’s a dime along side it). It seem to fire the 8.3-10.5 pellets in tighter groups though slightly high over center, (now this could be me because most of my rifles are doing this, except for the TF97). It shoots the CPL wadcutters 1” high over center, which is easy to dope but some of the lighter pellets group to left or right 1” low or high to the left or right. So I’ll stick with my finding 7.9 –10.5 which are serious weight stuff anyway. The B20 is so impressive that I may buy another one in .22 just to have two great bargain guns with great triggers and useable workmanship. I can’t resist a bargain that performs like this. Bottom line this is a fun and easy gun to shoot. I’ve also some also impressive things about B21 it clones the RWS 48/52.

 

Review by Don Ackerson