From the first shot, I knew this was a gun that I wanted to shoot more! I’ve always been a big fan of Brococks rifles, but the Commander XR exceeded my expectations on our initial shooting session. My testing is ongoing, but here I’ll give you a brief status report
It doesn’t happen often, but I would be buying this gun after the first shot! I have a lot of guns that cycle across my desk, and to be honest I like most of them. It’s not that I would want them for my own collection, I have very specific things that I want in my personal guns, that are subjective. But when I evaluate a hunting rifle, I try to place myself in the mindset of the targeted customer segment. Is this a gun designed for a new shooter, a long-time shooter, somebody that needs a gun for close range pest control, or larger game at greater distances? Is this a rifle designed to appeal to a segment with specific budget requirements, such as inexpensive or entry level guns, etc.?
A sleek and minimalist design, but ergonomic and feature rich with what you need. 
For this initial testing I was using the JSB Exacts and JSB Hades pellets.
Actually, there is not even a straightforward answer about my own shooting requirements, because I hunt so many different game species, under so many different conditions, it’s not a one-gun-fits-all solution for me. However, in general I am concerned about accuracy, ergonomics, power, reliability, adjustability, cocking/cycling action, trigger, reliability, reliable magazine feeding, ease of field carry…. and I want these things in any rifle that I’ll take on the hunt.So when I received the Brocock Commander XR I expected a quality air rifle, I think Brocock make some of the best hunting rifles on the market, and I have said many times that the Compatto and Bantam are two of my all-time favorites…. they tick all the boxes for me when it comes to a small/medium game rifle. So, I set out to test the Commander XR for an upcoming hunt, with a certain expectation that the rifle had to live up to.
Shooting groups with both Exacts and Hades. 
30 shot 50 yard group with Exacts 
30 shot 50 yard group with Hades 
Shooting off rifle mounted bipods 
I refilled after every three magazines.
I sat at my little portable table shooting the Commander off of an attached bipod at 35 yards to check zero of the factory installed scope (the brilliant MTC Cobra F1 FFP scope), and put my first 3 shots into a single hole. It was high and about 2” to the left, so I made the horizontal adjustments and left it shooting high. I then moved the target to 50 yards and proceeded to shoot 30 pellets with the JSB Exact King Heavy Diabolo 33.95 gr pellets and 30 with the JSB Hades Diabolo 26.5 gr pellet. The gun gave me 40 or so shots before dropping into the yellow, but I was refilling the tank after ever three magazines cycled.
,I found this air rifle very shootable, it fit me perfectly the trigger and the cocking action were both smooth as silk, and I felt like I could have gone the whole day dropping pellets into the kill zone of a squirrel. I was getting velocities around 930 fps with the Exacts, and 870 fps with the Hades, which is generating around the 54 fpe mark.
shooting across the chrony 
I got around 930 fps with the Exacts and 870 with the Hades.
My next step is some long-range shooting, and this may be the rifle I take out on my squirrel opener in Michigan before heading off for some major hunts in Texas later next month. So, I seem to be falling in love with this rifle, and if things keep going the way we’re currently headed, I’m going to be writing the check to add this one to my private collection!
