Kit and caboodle origin12/18/2023 ![]() The rifle itself is a solid piece of gear. Look at the bright side, you’ll save a ton on a Cross-Fit membership! The first bit is easy, like a bike tire but the work increases exponentially as your rifle fills. However, when your muscles need to produce a tank filled with 3,000 or so psi, you’ll be exerting some serious effort as the tank nears maximum pressure. Filling a bicycle tire with 50 psi of air is no big deal. Unless you’ve used a high-pressure hand pump to refill a PCP air rifle, you may not fully appreciate the benefit. The company claims the Origin 22 rifle requires just 50% of the air input of comparable rifles. With about 100 cycles of the hand pump, you’ll get about 40 shots before it’s time to refill the onboard air cylinder. Additional pumping won’t increase velocity or power but it will give you more shots. With just a few cycles using the included 4,500 psi hand pump, you get a legit full-power shot. All of this translates to less manual pumping on your part. The Ever-Pressure system makes whatever quantity of air residing in the system more useful, doing “more with less” so to speak. Umarex has engineered some kind of mojo into the rifle’s air reservoir mechanism to allow full-power operation with less incoming air. The Umarex Origin rifle is actually optimized for hand-filling. To be clear, this isn’t just a marketing bundle. The Umarex Origin 22 comes with a high-pressure hand pump capable of delivering 4,500 psi air directly to the rifle, so you have your own infinite compressed air supply right in the box. Well, actually it’s not a rifle, it’s more of a kit. Umarex is making the world of PCP shooting even more accessible with the Origin 22 air rifle. The hand pump option is the most economical but unless the rifle is designed for efficient human-powered filling, you’ll get a serious workout. You have three choices: buy a large backup reservoir like a SCUBA-type tank and get it filled periodically at a dive shop, fire station, or paintball center purchase your own air compressor or use a purpose-built high-pressure hand pump. You’ll generally need an air supply capable of delivering 4,500 psi to the rifle’s onboard system. ![]() Considering my Toyota Sequoia land yacht tires run at 34 psi, the electric pump in your garage isn’t going to cut it. By enough pressure, I mean 3,000 psi and up. A PCP rifle’s powerplant is an onboard air reservoir holding enough air at high enough pressure to drive 10, 20, 30, or even 90 shots before a refill. In fact, the only downside to PCP is you need to sort out your air supply. As for price points, manufacturers like Umarex have brought the PCP to everyone with sub $300 rifles designed to impress. The beauty is PCP rifles are available in any caliber from. What’s not to love? Smooth operation, no “springing” noise from springs or pistols, lots of shots before having to “reload” more air and plenty of power to boot. Pre-charged Pneumatic (PCP) rifles are the Ferarri Enzo of the air rifle world.
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