I've said it before and I'll say it again, I was a sniper in a past life. I don't target shoot often, but when I do I hold my own. Today was my first day shooting an air rifle. My dad bought one for fun a few days ago and brought it to my grandma's for some practice. I was thinking it would be light weight and hold many pellets like a BB gun. Not at all. I think it's heavier than a .22 rifle and holds one itty bitty pellet at a time. The reload is a slow, hard process too. It takes a lot of elbow grease to cock that open. I prefer a gun that can hold a couple rounds at a time, but as my dad says, this gun is for accuracy not speed shooting.