Gamo Swarm Maxxim

About the Gamo Swarm Maxxim

The Gamo Swarm Maxxim is a break-barrel, gas-piston (IGT) repeating air rifle made by the Spanish manufacturer Gamo. Unlike conventional break-barrel airguns that must be loaded one pellet at a time, the Swarm Maxxim uses a 10-shot horizontal rotary magazine that indexes automatically each time the barrel is broken and closed, giving rapid follow-up shots. The .22 (5.5mm) version drives pellets at up to about 305 m/s (1,000 fps) with alloy ammunition. It features Gamo's Whisper Maxxim dual-chamber sound-dampening system, a two-stage adjustable Custom Action Trigger (CAT), an all-weather glass-filled nylon synthetic stock with a Shock Wave Absorber recoil pad, and an 11mm dovetail rail typically supplied with a 3-9x40 scope.

Gamo, founded in Barcelona in 1959, takes its name from the Spanish word for fallow deer and grew from a lead-pellet maker into one of the world's largest airgun manufacturers. The Swarm line was its answer to the long-standing limitation of break-barrel airguns: single-shot loading. The auto-indexing magazine that defines the Swarm series became one of Gamo's signature consumer innovations of the late 2010s.

Gamo Swarm Maxxim specifications

Introduced in 2017, the Swarm Maxxim was Gamo's first mass-market break-barrel design to combine a multi-shot magazine with a spring/gas-piston powerplant. A revised 10X Gen 2 model improved the magazine mechanism and reduced jamming. Also offered in .177 caliber, where alloy-pellet velocity reaches up to about 1,300 fps.