 Welcome to The Pyramid Insider. I'm Tyler Pattener. Today we have the brand new Benjamin Akila in 22 caliber. The Akila was announced at the 2020 shot show and Crossman Benjamin has brought this bullpup out kind of to answer the questions from folks that have wanted a Marauder bullpup for many years. Now the Akila is part of their craftsman line, which is all made in Turkey by crawl and they don't make a secret of that But I really think you guys will be impressed for those of you that are maybe naysayers on crawl as a manufacturer This gun's packing a lot of value and is a really solid good quality gun Now before you just assume that the Akila is a crawl with benjamin's name slapped on the side Let me tell you there are quite a few differences that crossman's team has kind of built into this gun And crawl has done a pretty good job of putting into production here. So let's go over the details We'll start at the front now You'll notice that we have a fully shrouded barrel and this is pretty much the same shroud system as you'd see on a Marauder so you do have baffles inside of here and it does a very very good job of keeping things nice and quiet Now just under there We do have our air cylinder and one difference you'll notice from the crawls keeping in line with the other benjamin guns out there We do have a quick disconnect fill fitting and you actually just above that have a degassing port Now my only gripe with the gun so far in use is these kind of wings here that are around the fill nipple They just makes it a little bit difficult to get that qd on and off But other than that i've had no problems with it thus far the cylinder does fill to 3000 psi Roughly 200 bar now from that 3000 psi fill crossman says you can expect about 60 good shots Of course, we'll put that to the test over the chronograph here in a bit But working our way back further you do have your trigger up here Which is adjustable in terms of left right up and down so you can move that blade on the post there Which is nice and you do have a manual safety in front of that You flip that all the way back that renders the trigger safe And then forward is hot and ready to go and moving up We do have a full picatinny rail for mounting your optics and this is a metal rail so very solid and sturdy there We went ahead and mounted a meopta four and a half to 27 This is in their optica six line beautiful scopes going to complement this very very nicely now coming down We do have our pressure gauge here, which does read in psi You'll notice you got the big numbers there marking a thousand two thousand three thousand This is three thousand max fill like i said before and just behind that We do have a transfer port power adjuster here and you can get a nice easy hold of that And that's going to allow you to actually choke off the transfer port to reduce the power I've left it all the way open. We've seen good results so far with it all the way open So we're just going to roll with it like that But you do see over on the left hand side of the gun that we do have kind of a nice little gauge there as well So you can see where you are as you adjust and kind of you know over the chronograph Take your power settings and jot them down so you know what each mark means now Of course, the akila is a multi shot and we have a side lever system that operates everything Nice and easy to pull back and the magazines are a 12 shot magazine now For those of you thinking you might be able to use your crawl mags Sadly, these are a bit thinner than a standard crawl magazine So you will need a key less specific mags But these magazines are the same for all of their craftsmen lines So very easy to get a hold of and the gun does come with two So 24 shots on hand ready to go whenever you need them loads right in nice and easy You got a little ball detent that locks it in place Very solid no problems with the magazines thus far and then just at the back of the breach here We do actually have an adjustable cheek section So you're going to loosen up this little screw at the back press in over here And then you can actually work it up back and forth a little bit as well And then lock it in depending on your scope ring setup personally I don't need to have this up at all but a nice little feature there You know some people like to run higher setups lower setup. So having that adjustment is definitely handy Let's move on to the stock here rounds out of the nice rubber butt pad But you guys will notice and you've probably seen it before the stock bears a very striking resemblance to the fx wildcat And that's a stock. I love it's a very comfortable gun And i'm actually very glad that crossman has kind of gone with that same styling. It looks great This is a Turkish walnut. It's just a beautiful setup in my opinion You get some nice grain you do have checkering here on the grip area and some nice finger grooves This thing handles like a dream You do have your sling swivel studs on the front and the back there And you also have this hole which you can actually mount your little plastic pick a tinny rail to if you want to mount a Bipod or something like that comes with the screw. You're just going to mount it up like so. It's really easy Not the most solid setup, but it'll definitely get the job done Overall the gun feels good looks great and so far shoots pretty well, but don't take my word for it Let's head out to the range and i'll show you So from an accuracy perspective, obviously the akila has the goods Half-inch group with those fx 18 1 3's you're going to see similar results out of the jsbs. This is all 12 shots guys This is really really impressive Even shot the fx hybrid slugs pretty well. You got 10 out of 12 there in a three quarter inch group You also shooting the heavy stuff quite well The jsb monster redesigned in a sub one inch 12 shot group And the jsb hades as well got that one shot there throwing it a little bit bigger But 11 out of 12 in a sub one inch group is very very solid So really good accuracy out of the akila, which is pretty typical of a crawl barrel in general Now before we talk about the chronograph results one thing I should mention here We do have a hammer spring adjustment at the back of the action But you do have to take the action out of the stock to get to it I did that just to check where it was. It's about a half turn in Let's check out these chronograph results So taking a look here from 3000 to 2000 psi you are talking about roughly 48 shots So that's a lot of magazines worth of shots there But what you see at the end of that string this gun is really optimized for 3000 to 2500 or so psi That's where you're going to get some very impressive results for the first 29 to 30 shots You're talking about an average velocity of 883 feet per second, which is roughly 31 and a half foot pound So a good bit of power out of those jsb 18 one threes with a very slim 13 foot per second extreme spread you're talking about almost regulated numbers here on just five or 600 psi worth of air So very impressive numbers out of the akila. I would like to see that shot string extended out a bit Because again, they're claiming 60 shots. I'm sure that 60 shots is from like 10 of the high velocity But for me in terms of getting great accuracy downrange, I'm limiting this to 48 for those You know 50 yard interactions And if you do want to go further than that those first 30 shots are really where you're going to want to keep this gun Now as per usual, we'll do our trigger testing here. Let me go cock the action We have a safe direction over here. So not to worry Go ahead set our trigger gauge up One pound and just over an ounce there. So 1.1 pounds. This is a really solid trigger guys It is fully adjustable, of course two stages, but right out of the box. I had no problems with this I have not touched it at all. So just over a pound very very solid out of the akila Let's wrap up the benjamin akila. So this gun a very impressive offering in my opinion guys Really love the feel of this gun and it's performed flawlessly for us here I've got hundreds of rounds through this thing and probably will be shooting it for much longer than this review Just because it is a very impressive gun for the price point And really has a great feel mixed with some great performance It's a nice and quiet very backyard friendly. You have the quick fill on it already good to go The power adjuster we didn't dive into it here But having the ability to adjust that on the fly is nice And of course you have that hammer spring adjustment at the back Side lever smooth. I would have loved to see that side lever adjustment up here forward. So it's more ergonomically friendly But I can't complain. It's nice and smooth. It works very well Shot count was a little below what crossman is saying you're going to get out of this gun Maybe with a little bit of tuning and tweaking you can get there But for me really like 30 to 40 shots is where this gun is going to shine and give you great downrange accuracy And that really grounds it out. It is very very accurate. It's not pellet picky And this gun for the money again is a great shooter. I think you guys are going to enjoy it a ton I'm hoping that they're going to bring this gun out in a 25 caliber as well Because I personally that's where I would like to see it But right now just the 22 caliber is all that's available. So we'll see what happens in the future But definitely worth checking out next time you're on the website If you're in the market for an affordable bullpup the akila definitely should have your eye for the insider I'm tyler patner as always don't forget to like comment and subscribe head over to facebook and instagram follow us there And we'll see you next time