Gamo Swarm Whisper Multi-Shot Air Rifle air Rifle

Excellent quality pellet gun that packs a punch. I live in a residential neighborhood and had a problem with a particular species of animal that was both annoying and causing property damage. And these animals don’t die easy. Most of the neighborhood was all for removing these animals, but others were against it so discretion was paramount. After receiving the rifle I dry fired it in my garage and was shocked at how loud it was. I ordered a 3rd party scope and took the rifle to the range to dial it in. I ran about 50 rounds through it and it actually seemed significantly more quiet. Firing the gun in a residential neighborhood is tricky, but with patience and precision shooting this gun delivers, you can get the job done without having your neighbors hate you. Well worth the price

this gun seems to be a good pellet gun its the first one for me. I have not sighted it in yet with the scope that came with it but I will when I have time. I ordered the .22 cal and it shoots fine.

Wow I just received the Gamo 611006875554 Swarm Whisper Air Rifle.22 Caliber, Black a few days ago. And as a natural born skeptic I usually put more weight to the negative reviews. So I was on the lookout for shoddy packaging at first. No such thing this gun was packaged professionally. Next, I figured the scope would be a piece of junk as many opined throughout the reviews. Honestly, I am not anything near a professional regarding scopes. But I will say my 1st shot at a squirrel which had caused $1,454 in damage to my Ford Raptor was 1 shot 1 kill. The scope came out of the box up to the task of a 50 yard shot. The Gamo .22 pellets worked so well it killed the little piece of crap immediately. The gun has hefty weight and is of course louder than an average pelllet gun. But it was quiet when compared with my friends .22 crossman. I don't know...but right off the rip this rifle impressed the hell out of me!

Great, solid, and easy to operate pellet gun. It functions very well. Trigger pull is perfect -- slow and steady. Cocking is as expected. Instruction booklets that came with the gun and the sights are near worthless because of the poor wording and bad illustrations but, fortunately, I didn't have to rely on them as most things were pretty straight forward. Adjusting the sights with the scope was difficult because it was so far off (6 inches down and 4 inches left) at 30 yards. It made me wonder if I was doing something wrong or the scope was broken -- but I eventually got it dialed into the black.

Awesome gun worth every penny

This Gamo Swarm Whisper is a good quality air rifle in pretty much every way except for one (well two if you count the mediocre-at-best scope but I'm not going to count that against it because I don't expect a scope included with a $150 rifle to be much good). The massive Achilles heel of this rifle is the 10-round magazine/loading mechanism. The design is horrendous and it makes an otherwise good rifle a complete failure. Other reviews mention issues with loading the magazine itself (I was able to load it relatively easily by hand) and issues with it not successfully chambering a pellet and the pellet falling out (I did not have that issue either, not exactly anyway)... no, the issue I had is that the crappy magazine/loading mechanism misfed a pellet and resulted in the pellet jamming halfway down the barrel. Because this is an air rifle and because the pellet did actually travel partly down the barrel (e.g. pellet no longer visible in the breech) there was basically no immediate indication that the jam had occurred, resulting in a couple subsequent rounds being fired and jammed/compacted in the barrel before I realized something was amiss. If I had fired the gun right prior to this incident I would have likely been able to tell the difference in sound report between a successful firing and this unsuccessful one but I had not fired it recently prior to this happening so I didn't have a fresh comparison sound in my mind. That delayed how many shots it took before I knew it jammed To be clear, I have many similar air rifles and have many real firearms. I am very experienced with both, I know how to use them, service them, etc. at a near expert level. When things go wrong, I also know more than enough to determine how they went wrong (and rule out all the things that did NOT contribute to the problem as well). In this case I can say with complete certainty that user error, lack of maintenance, or mediocre ammo are NOT a factor in this incident. The magazine was loaded properly, the rifle was stored in a climate controlled environment since last use, and I even ran a soft bore snake and cleaning pad down the barrel before I used it just to make sure there was no surface rust. The snake had zero metal parts and, therefore, zero risk of damaging the barrel. Lastly, the ammo used was a high quality .22 pellet We can be sure that the barrel was 100% in operating order, the magazine was used properly, and the ammo used was the right kind. This pretty much leaves the feeding mechanism itself as the only remaining explanation for the issue. It's also just pretty obvious from a design standpoint that this is the most likely candidate, even before ruling out all the other candidates. Anyone who observes and understands the mechanics of it will see that it is a subpar design. To attempt to remove the jam I first sprayed penetrating oil (like you would use on a stuck bolt on a car) and let it soak for several hours. I then inserted an air nozzle with a narrow diameter rubber sealing tip into the bore on the breech side and introduced air at 26cfm and 140psi from an industrial grade air compressor in my shop... this was unable to clear the jam. I was trying to use the most minimally invasive/lowest-risk method available but it looks like my only recourse left is going to be to lock the rifle into a vice, insert a 3/16 wooden dowel into the barrel, and go to town on the dowel with a dead-blow mallet. I have my doubts that this will work and it may end up damaging the barrel but it's the only option since the rifle is out of warranty and is basically a paperweight at this point. Ironically the only reason I bought this particular air rifle was for the 10-round magazine because I was tired of having to load one at a time in my other air rifles... and of course that feature was its downfall and has essentially costed me $150. Shame on Gamo for releasing such a half-assed loading system on a fairly expensive/high-ish end air rifle. UPDATE: Since the first attempt to clear the jam with highly compressed air and penetrating oil failed, I resorted to trying to physically push the pellets out with a 3/16 hard wood dowel. I was initially going to use a dead blow hammer on the dowel even though I have a 20-ton shop press available. I initially thought the shop press would be too much, but then I decided actually the shop press would be the better method because its a smooth and consistent push on the dowel/pellets instead of sharp jabs like with a hammer. Lower risk of severely mushrooming the pellets and worsening the jam or damaging the rifling. So I disassembled the rifle (very simple thankfully) and loaded the barrel up into the 20-ton shop press to push the pellets out. But sadly they are so compacted in there already due to being fired into each other, that the blockage took more pressure than the dowel could handle. The dowel snapped before the pellets budged much at all. So this barrel is 100% hosed. After this result I have another bone to pick with this rifle besides the garbage loading mechanism. My other issue is the non-removable plastic shroud around the barrel. If it didn't have that shroud I could have easily resolved this problem by heating the barrel up with a propane torch enough to expand the barrel slightly and loosen the blockage of pellets enough that the air compressor would have no trouble blowing them out. That would have been a virtually risk-free and easy solution... but no, the suits at Gamo had their way and now the modern Gamo rifle models have these gimmicky plastic barrel shrouds that clearly have no good functional rationale (even the non-whisper models have them so it's not part of the "silencing")... these plastic shrouds are clearly an aesthetic thing that some business guy thought looked cool... or they are there so that they can use much lower quality steel to cut costs on the barrel without having to hear from customers about how easily the outside of the barrel rusts (since it's covered in plastic). Anyway, the plastic shroud screwed me out of being able to fix this jam. So while the magazine/loading mechanism is primarily responsible for the jam happening, the barrel shroud is responsible for the jam being a terminal problem for the gun. CAVEATS: 1) I maintain what I said earlier about the rest of the gun, besides the magazine and barrel, being pretty well made for the price. I fully disassembled the rifle and had a look at everything inside and out. It's mid, bordering on high quality, in the grand scheme of things which is pretty consistent with its price range and competition level. I might re-purpose the rest of the gun besides the jammed barrel for something else. Maybe buy a .22 barrel blank and weld on some drilled mounting ears/tabs to mount to the rest of the original Gamo rifle and give it a second chance at life. 2) This would be a decent (but overpriced) rifle if you just remove the magazine and loading mechanism and use it as a normal single-load pellet rifle where you load each round manually. It is very easy to remove that mechanism (its just a pin with a circlip and a pivot spring). SO FOR THE LOVE OF GOD IF FOR SOME REASON YOU ALREADY OWN THIS RIFLE AND ARE READING THIS REVIEW, PLEASE REMOVE THE MAG/LOADER FROM THE RIFLE AND JUST MAKE PEACE WITH LOADING IT ONE AT A TIME (it absolutely can be used that way and doing so will save you from almost inevitably having a paperweight some day... from what I've seen it is not a matter of "if" but "when" that mechanism misfeeds and jams your barrel).

It was a very good product worked great accurate got the job done was fun and was very durable I dropped it a few time and it still worked great. But the scope was not the best if I bought it again I would get a 20-50$ scope and use that instead also one day I was using it and all the sudden it stopped working so yeah it was probably a user error because I let my friends use it and that was not smart but otherwise it was a great product and well worth it for what it cost now I will try to fix it later but otherwise was great. My one thing was it was hard to pressurize the chamber/cock it