I have had a Benjamin HB17 pellet pistol for a long time. I agree that it is pretty accurate. My wife dispatched a destructive squirrel with it once :-) It does require a number of pumps to be effective though. I just looked up the owner's manual and it says a maximum of 8 pumps that will apparently produce velocity of 525 fps.The Annoyed Man wrote:I used to have a Benjamin pump pellet pistol kind of like this one - http://www.crosman.com/airguns/pistols/HB22 - except mine was in .17 caliber. It wasn't a single pump stroke, but the upside was that you could regulate how much velocity you wanted by how many pump strokes you used to charge the reservoir. I recall it being a reasonably accurate pistol.
Ken