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Gamo Viper Express
Break action · .22 Air (5.5mm Pellet) · introduced 2005
Also known as Viper Express Air Shotgun
About the Gamo Viper Express
The Gamo Viper Express is a Spanish-made break-barrel air shotgun built on a spring-piston powerplant. Unlike conventional pellet rifles, its smoothbore .22-caliber barrel is designed to fire self-contained air shotshells loaded with No. 9 shot, patterning a spread of pellets for small pests and birds at close range, while an included chamber adapter also lets it shoot standard single .22-caliber pellets as a rifle. It is a single-shot design cocked by breaking the barrel, delivering roughly 725 fps with shotshells and up to 750 fps with pellets.
Air shotguns are a rarity in the airgun world; the Viper Express became one of the best-known examples, marketed to pest controllers and backyard shooters who wanted a shot pattern rather than a single pellet.
Gamo Viper Express specifications
General
- Type
- Shotgun
- Action
- Break action
- Trigger
- Two stage
- Calibres
- .22 Air (5.5mm Pellet)
- Magazine capacity
- 1 rounds
Dimensions
- Barrel length
- 457 mm (18.0 in)
- Overall length
- 1105 mm (43.5 in)
- Weight (empty)
- 2.50 kg (5.50 lb)
Barrel
- Rifling
- Smoothbore
Materials
- Barrel
- Steel
- Receiver / frame
- Steel
- Stock
- Synthetic
- Finish
- matte_black
Performance
- Muzzle velocity (typical)
- 229 m/s (751 fps)
- Muzzle energy (typical)
- 24 J (18 ft·lb)
- Effective range
- 18 m
History
- Introduced
- 2005
- Production status
- In production
- Country of origin
- ES
Features
- Break barrel cocking
- Spring piston powerplant
- Smoothbore barrel
- Shotshell capable
- Pellet chamber adapter
- Bead front sight
- 11mm dovetail scope grooves
- Ambidextrous monte carlo stock
- Ventilated rubber buttpad
- Smooth action trigger
Safety
- Manual safety
One of very few production air shotguns. The proprietary EXP20 shotshell holds roughly 17 grains of No. 9 shot (about 20 pellets) and produces a spread of around 12 inches at 10 yards. The barrel is smoothbore, so it is not intended for precision pellet accuracy at distance.
