Reviews of Gamo Wildcat Whisper 22 Cal Air Rifle

HAM Test Rating	69%
Value For Money	OK cost simply yous'll demand to throw away the bundled scope and buy another.
All-time For	Plinking, hunting small critters
Best Pellet Tested	JSB Exact
Street Toll at Time of Exam	$150
Caliber Tested	.177
RateAGun Score	Experience Required

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Gamo Whisper air rifle

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Gamo Whisper Air Rifle Combo

VALUE FOR Coin

The Gamo Whisper Air Rifle plays in an ultra-competitive sector of the airgun market, at a Street Price of effectually $150. In that location's plenty of selection bachelor in this cost range, including many other models from Gamo itself.

For an "old fashioned", spring/piston powerplant, with a scope that'south actually best replaced and a level of audio reduction that seems but moderate, nosotros feel that the $150 price is reasonable.

And it does shoot, equally yous'll read adjacent…

SPEED AND Accuracy

The Gamo Whisper tested past HAM gave consistently excellent accuracy with all the pellets tested. It's very pellet tolerant and this is a strong do good for the practical airgunner.

Muzzle velocity is shut to Gamo's claims, with the maximum of over 1150 fps coming from the lightest weight alloy (PBA) Gamo Raptor Platinum pellets.

Muzzle energy was quite consistent in the 13.4 ft/lb to 15.4 ft/lb range, although peak hit power is seen to be developed with pellets in the 6 to 7 Grain range – that's heavy blend and very light lead pellet weights.

Pellet	Average Cage Velocity	Average Muzzle Energy	Accuracy
Gamo Raptor Platinum 4.seven Grain	1157.fourscore FPS	thirteen.98 Ft/Lbs	Proficient.
H&Northward Field Target Trophy Green 5.56 Grain	1115.02 FPS	15.34 Ft/Lbs	Good.
RWS Hobby 7.0 Grain	971.59 FPS	fifteen.38 Ft/Lbs	OK.
Crosman Premier HP 7.nine Grain	900.42 FPS	12.32 Ft/Lbs	Good.
JSB Verbal Diabalo 8.44 Grain	862.94 FPS	13.95 Ft/Lbs	Best tested.
H&N Field Target Trophy 8.64 Grain	876.54 FPS	fourteen.73 Ft/Lbs	Practiced.
H&N Baracuda Match 10.65 Grain	752.95 FPS	13.40 Ft/Lbs	Good.

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JSB Diabolo Exact .177 Caliber Air Gun Pellets

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JSB Match Diablo Exact pellets, .177 caliber

TRIGGER AND COCKING EFFORT

HAM tester Paul Manktelow found that cocking the Gamo Whisper was quite easy. It tested at a cocking endeavor of 42 Lbs. But he didn't like the noise it fabricated every bit the cocking shoe grated over the jump.

Paul as well felt that the trigger was "bully at all", in spite of the average pull weight of 5 lb 2 oz and the variation in pull weight of 15 oz – around 20% – betwixt the everyman and highest trigger pull weights recorded on test. Every bit you'll run across from the test targets, the trigger certainly did not impact his ability to produce excellent groups with this air rifle!

COMPARISON TO MAKERS CLAIMS

Gamo is very upfront with its marketing claims for the Whisper. In fact the muzzle velocity claims are really screen printed onto the pinch tube of the gun itself, so information technology's difficult to escape them.

Gamo claims a maximum muzzle velocity of 1200 fps for the Whisper with PBA (blend) pellets. The HAM test showed a maximum boilerplate muzzle velocity of 1157 fps with Gamo Raptor Platinum PBA pellets. That's just 4% less than the manufacture'due south claim.

The maximum claimed muzzle velocity for atomic number 82 pellets is 1000 fps. RWS Hobby pellets – the lightest lead pellets – gave an boilerplate muzzle velocity of 971 fps. That's only 3% below the claim.

Gamo claims 30 lbs for the cocking effort. The sample tested past HAM felt quite like shooting fish in a barrel to cock, but the measured cocking endeavour was most twoscore% above the claim at 42 lbs.

Gamo'due south marketing around this gun'southward noise level as "The Quiet Gun" and it'due south proper noun "Whisper" would lead united states to await that it's very placidity. Marketing material included with the gun claims that "Gamo's How-do-you-do-Tech Integrated Noise Dampener Reduces Sound up to 52%". This may be so, merely compared to what? That information is not given.

Subjectively, the HAM testers did not find this to exist particularly quiet in comparison to other bound/piston air rifles of similar power.

CONSISTENCY

Standard Deviation – the amount of shot-to-shot variability in muzzle velocity was well controlled on the Gamo Whisper air rifle tested past HAM. With about pellets, Standard Deviation was beneath vii.5 fps  – and every bit low as iii fps with JSB Verbal pellets. This is creditable operation for whatsoever bound/piston air burglarize. The merely outlier in cage velocity consistency was the Gamo Raptor Platinum pellets, where the Standard Divergence exceeded 37 fps.

Trigger pull weight varied past effectually twenty% between shots – equally described to a higher place. This departure of 15 oz betwixt maximum and minimum trigger pull weights is not a great issue but, again, Paul shot excellent groups in spite of this.

NOISE LEVEL

HAM's subjective cess of the noise level for the Gamo Whisper air rifle is "average". It's not clear to u.s. that the integrated silencer tames the muzzle report very much. And there's no uncertainty that PBA pellets traveling at over 1100 fps have the potential to produce a sonic boom that will make this air rifle VERY loud – well-nigh to .22 LR firearms level – in spite of the silencer. This would be the case with any other air burglarize as well, of course.

Spring twang is non too pronounced for the shooter, peculiarly considering the synthetic stock.

SIGHTS

The Gamo Whisper air burglarize is fitted with fiber optic "iron" sights with the rear sight being click adjustable for windage and acme. No problem here.

Only the 3-ix×40 scope bundled with the Whisper is completely unsuitable for use with an air burglarize. HAM's advice is that yous don't even carp to mountain it but just purchase another, improve scope at the same fourth dimension. Of course this increases the cost…

The bundled scope is not equipped with AO (Adjustable Objective) focusing and prototype quality is subjectively very poor at ranges nether about 50 yards: ranges at which any air rifle will normally be shot.

Added to this, the scope has a simple duplex reticle. There'south no mil-dot reticle every bit is practically mandatory for successful scope use at varying ranges with an air burglarize.

The scope is supplied advisedly installed in its mount, ready for mounting by the possessor. But incredibly the telescopic stop screw – which is absolutely essential to prevent the scope being shaken out of position during shooting – is non configured in the right "out" position and thus will not engage the scope runway stop. Nor is the scope stop and its purpose fifty-fifty mentioned in the telescopic's instructions.

Then the scope instructions tell the new possessor to sight-in the scope at no less than 100 yards – without providing whatsoever coherent instructions almost how this should be washed.

In HAM's opinion, the scope and mounting instructions are completely unsuitable, particularly for a newcomer to airgun shooting.

Paul shot the HAM test targets with some other, amend, scope to achieve the accuracy that the Whisper can deliver.

SHOOTABILITY

The Gamo Whisper'southward shootability benefits from the light weight of both gun and arranged scope. Information technology points easily and has a convenient transmission safety that's located conveniently within the trigger baby-sit, merely ahead of the trigger bract.

Merely, similar almost all high power (one thousand fps and above) jump/piston air rifles – and gas ram guns for that matter too – the Whisper requires skill and experience from the shooter for accurate shooting. Utilize of the loose "Artilley Hold" is mandatory and a tight grasp on the gun will destroy the accuracy of which it is capable. Like well-nigh manufacturers, Gamo does non explicate this in the instructions that accompany the Whisper.

This need for experience to achieve the best from the Whisper is reflected in its high RateAGun scope of ix.2

Advent AND End

Appearance is OK. Blueing of metal parts on the Whisper is adequate, just non deep or rich looking. Metal terminate is good, however, as is that of the plastic parts that cover near of the gun, including the stock and the plastic overmolded barrel.

BUYING AND OWNING

The Whisper falls brusk in this section of this HAM examination report.

As described above, the scope instructions are very poor.

The 12 month warranty is average for an air rifle merely Gamo is one of those (fortunately few) companies that requires the user non only to pay for shipping back to Gamo for any warranty repair piece of work, only also requires a prepayment of $ten.00 as part payment for the return of the gun later on warranty repairs. And repair time is quoted equally 6 weeks.

Spare parts for Gamo air rifles are not by and large bachelor from Gamo, except as part of a repair undertaken by the company. This beingness in strong dissimilarity to the approach taken by Crosman and Umarex – for example – which make spares for many models readily bachelor.

Liability issues are probably backside Gamo's arroyo to the non-provision of spare parts, simply this does non help the knowledgeable owner who aims to keep his (or her) gun in utilize over many years.

Of course, if the gun works well and no warranty claims or spare parts are required, this may non thing to the purchaser!

Examination TARGETS

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Gamo Whisper air rifle

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Gamo Whisper Air Burglarize Combo

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