First Look At The Umarex Canex CO2 Air Rifle
Today, let’s take a first look at the Umarex Canex CO2 air rifle. This is a small, light airgun that’s powered by two 12 Gram CO2 cartridges. It’s part of a clear strategy by the company to introduce entry-level – yet surprisingly good – airguns.
HAM has already checked-out the MarkPoint spring/piston-powered pistol. Plus, the forthcoming Avera CO2-powerd pistol is coming soon.
OK, first let’s sort-out the name. “Canex”. But is it pronounced “Cane-x”, or “Can-ex”? I’m going with the latter, as in a “can destroyer” meaning.
Umarex gives a clue on this with those printed can targets on the back of the shipping box. Plus, the company website explains that you can use this air rifle to “let those tin cans know who’s the top shot.”
So here we have an unabashed, close range, plinking airgun. And with a Street Price of $65.99, if it goes “bang” consistently and hits soda cans reasonably well at 10 Yards range or so, this could be a gun to interest a whole lot of people.
As you would expect at this price, the Canex is a rather minimalist product. There’s a set of “could not be more primitive” open sights, with windage and elevation capability for the rear leaf.
The front sight is an unprotected post.
There is a set of dovetail rails molded into the top of the breech area. So our preferred choice would probably be a red dot sight. However, given that we’re going to be testing this Canex for accuracy, we mounted a cheap 3-9x40AO Mantis scope. At $79.99 plus rings, it cost more than the gun!
The Umarex Canex CO2 air rifle is available in the USA in .177 caliber only. Ten pellets are loaded into the rotary magazine. Umarex supplies a total of three magazines with the gun and they’re also available in three-packs as spares. That’s good.
The magazine rotates the pellets into battery using a double-action system. In other words, it’s done through your finger pressure on the trigger. However, the manufacturer claims that the gun uses a semi-automatic action. We’ll need to investigate this more in future…
The two, 12 Gram CO2 cartridges are loaded through the buttstock. This is a method used by multiple Umarex CO2-powered air rifles. The buttplate removes in order to insert the cartridges.
Well, that’s it. This is a pretty simple air rifle, but we’ll be running it through the full HAM test review procedure soon to see if it can really demolish those feral soda cans like Umarex claims!
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Umarex Canex CO2 Air Rifle 0.177
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