Blake
I have a Benjamin Trail NP XL 725, .25 cal
Wednesday, March 04, 2026, 01:54

Now a days. It’s a real hammer on squirrels out to 50 yards. Very accurate but a real learning experience to shoot! It recoils in two dimensions , first forward then in reverse. To shoot it accurately you have to let it recoil on its own off a good large sand bag with the least amount of contact from the shooter!
My old Diana spring piston was no where as finicky and every bit as accurate, but nowhere near as powerful. The Benjamin wears an Hawke scope. The nitro piston and springers are hard on scopes do to the two way recoil! have a Diana co2 pistol in .177 that I scoped it. It will take a Squirrel out to 20 yards for about the first 20 shots on a new co2. Fun stuff sitting on the back deck hunting squirrels and shooting spinners. I have a couple of 22 rimfire spinners screwed into trees at different distances. They have 1, 2, and 3 inch target. That .25 cal will spin even the 3” at 50 yards. It has about the same power as a subsonic 22 rimfire!