Barra Air Guns Sportsman 900 BB Gun Rifle for Adults, Pellet Rifles for Hunting, 177 Caliber Airgun with Rifle Scope - Shoot Pellets & BBS, 800 FPS

This rifle is handsome, lightweight and comfortable to hold. The pump seals appear to be of good quality and promising a long service life. First things first: I would not shoot BB's in it. The manual refers to the rifled barrel as "delicate". We all know that steel BB's can damage a rifled barrel, let alone a delicate one. Some warts and pimples: - The unique safety is finger breaking stiff to operate. A few drops of oil help. - The bolt action feels stiff and gritty. A drop of oil again. - The cam which locks the pump lever in the closed position is a bit stubborn. A drop of oil again. - The arrangement that the rifle can only be pumped with the bolt open is awkward. Lawyers ruling over engineers! - The trigger pull is heavy and gritty. I did not have the means to measure it but it feels about 5-6 pounds. It is crisp however, and with practice you know where the crosshairs are when the trigger breaks. - Loading pellets is cumbersome at best. The loading port is shaped like a groove or a channel and recessed into the body of the rifle by about half an inch, so a pellet cannot be placed in it, it has to be dropped from that distance. It drops in just right about half the time, more often than not it drops either standing up or upside down, or pointing backwards, or falling into the BB's magazine. When the latter occurs the manual instructs you to take the gun to a gunsmith. This is silly nonsense. All you need to do in this case is open the BB's loading door, shake the gun around a bit, and the truant pellet comes right out. This by the way will save you multiple trips to a gunsmith. The best part of this rifle is accuracy exonerating all of the above. With Winchester pellets, the scope zeroed, I get 5 shot 2-1/4" groups at 15 yards. One flyer removed, the group is 3/4". This is as good or better than the Umarex Ruger 10/22 without the headaches of leaking CO2. A word about the scope: It is very basic but it is not trash as other reviewers have stated. The field of view is very narrow and when mounting the scope you must adjust the eye relief distance to get any view at all. Clarity is good and you may adjust the eyepiece focus but it does not make much difference. The windage and elevation turrets do not click, you have to go by half turns, quarters, and eighth turns, not a problem. With the iron sights (they are actually plastic) I get comparable accuracy at 15 yards. The fiber optic sights are clearly visible in daylight. The rear sight is adjusted by a screw in a slot which allows it to slide sideways. With the screw reasonably tight you can still swivel the sight around the screw for fine adjustment. Whether this is a fluke or deliberate design I have no way of knowing but it works either way.

This came in today and it is beautiful! It shoots very well and very accurate without the scope on. I just attached the scope and it’s wonderful. Just need to adjust it a little bit but it is very well built. This is also a very quiet shot. I am excited to continue using, and I will update a review after continued use. I will absolutely buy from barra again!

for the price it's great very powerful and on point i did not like scope took off and used regular sights. the only issue was it would be hard to get it to prime up if not used in a little while. i started just leaving it pumped up went i was not using it problem solved. i had a turtle problem in my pond i easily hit quarter size target 100 to 150 yds keep the barrel clean and its pretty bad assed

Excellent Rifle. Bought for my 12yr old grandson and loves it. He had to get use to the pump as it was a little hard at first. Now that he has gotten use to the pump he has NO problem up to 6 pumps. As he gets stronger he should have no problem pumping 10 times. The scope is worthless. Infact it came in broken as you view into the scope one of the cross legs lays to the side. Nevertheless It's a great gun and recommend...

This rifle is fun n easy to shoot it's also easy to pump, the power is decent, n it's really accurate, not a fan of the barra brand loading ports on this and the 1866 but it's due able, all in all an excellent air rifle for target practice and plinking. The 4×15 package scope that it comes with rifle is total trash but that's expected from these budget friendly air guns.

Good quality beginner bb gun

It states that this is a "BB/Pellet Gun". It should be stated as a "Pellet/BB Gun". While shooting pellets at 35 feet, it is SUPER accurate, grouping 5 shots within a circle the size of a quarter (eight pumps and open sights). I didn't mount the scope. It is basically useless. The target viewed through the scope is very fuzzy and basically no magnification. I was hoping the scope would work well, as it has a very nice mounting rail that it appears would remain accurate once sighted in. I didn't have to adjust the rear sights, even though they are adjustable.The fiber optic sights are excellent and very easy to see. The pistol grip stock is great. Now for the bad....at the same distance and number of pumps, the best I could do with BB's was a 5 1/2 diameter "grouping". I had no idea where they were going to hit. So, if you want a BB gun, you probably want to get something else. If you want a pellet gun, get this one...it is VERY accurate and shoots hard! THE ABOVE WAS WHEN I FIRST PURCHASED THE GUN....NOW: I oiled it with 30W non-detergent oil as stated to do in the owners manual(same as I use in my lawnmower) and stored it in my garage. I took it out two days ago (about 4 months after purchase) and now I can't get it to pressure up. When it does semi-pressure up, the best I can get is a 12 inch diameter "grouping" at 45 feet. At that distance, with the sights adjusted at max, it still drops 10-12 inches from where I aim. The gun is basically worthless. ONE MORE UPDATE: I purchased the gun on 11-28-2016, arrived 12-05-2016, emailed Josh (Service Dept) 3-22-2017 of the above problem, no response. Talked to Josh on 6-6-2017. He said he needed the order number and that he would send a replacement gun. I left him a message that day, 6-6-2017 with the order number, no response. I sent him an email on 6-24-2017. NO RESPONSE. Bottom line....if you need to return or have service GOOD LUCK WITH THAT. IT DOESN'T EXIST WITH THESE PEOPLE!!!