FULL-LENGTH FIGHTER
It’s wrong to pick a rifle on looks alone, but I think most of us have been guilty of that at some time or another. And so it was with the Benjamin Cayden, a hunting rifle that at first glance looks like a traditional sporter, but on closer inspection actually offers quite a bit more, and in any case is extremely pleasing to the eye.
The Cayden is part of Benjamin’s Craftsman Collection, which at the moment consists of three multi-shot PCPs, the other two being the Akela bullpup and the buddy bottle-equipped Kratos, all three rifles wearing quite luxurious looking Turkish walnut stocks.
The Cayden is a sidelever-operated pre-charged pneumatic that at the moment is only available in .22, but we may see a .177 version later. It’s a long rifle, with an overall length of 106cm (41.7”), but luckily it’s not a particularly heavy rifle, coming in at 3.58kg (7.9lb) unscoped.
“Cayden” is thought to be an old Gaelic word meaning “fighter”, and I did wonder whether this particular rifle would end up fighting me due to its dimensions, but in reality the Cayden proved to be docile and an absolute pleasure to shoot.
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