Western Airguns Western Mordax Venom, first impressions, and eventual ongoing review.
- By steve123
- PCP Airguns
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Last winter I got a hankering for another semiauto pcp airgun. I was kind of leaning towards buying a pistol and that would have been a Huben GK1 V3, except I contacted two dealers and one called back once and answered my questions but when I called to order it a few months later, even after another two calls, he didn't return a call back to me. Okay???
The other I messaged here on AGN and no reply back.
Alrighty then, maybe some day I'll try to get one again, but maybe not, and not from them.
For some reason I didn't find out about the Western Mordax until this spring, somehow I had missed it's small size thinking of their bigger pcp's which I wasn't interested in?? So I looked into it.
Removeable 15 shot mags, check.
Small enough to be used as a pistol, check.
Pic rail on top for easy optics mounting, check.
But not a great shot count so I held off ordering one and wasn't sure what I'd do at that point.
Enter the Mordax Venom with 300cc bottle that just became available, and with higher shot count, so now it became much more appealing to me! I had to have one so I talked to Lauren of AOA and got one ordered. She had it shipped out as soon as it was ready to and it was at my door two days later via UPS.
Pistol, or Pifle, how is this Mordax to be described??, so I'll just leave that to the opinions of others?? However I'll be using it as a pistol and a pifle - both ways.
I've had a lot of PB pistols, BIG heavy ones and sometimes long too, so shooting a Mordax as a pistol is fine with me and thus accepted it's large size in pistol form. It is what it is, right. I found out it doesn't fit in my pocket well, lol, who'd a thought, no biggy because I have the right tool for that job already for duties should it ever be needed.
What I haven't had much of is SBR-ish guns this small, airgun or PB, so that'l be fun to try out with the Venom.
Onto my first impressions.
Mine is a 22 caliber since it'll be used for plinking more than hunting and little desire to bump up the power but might go down in power some later on.
I just opened the box.
Wow nice case! IMHO It's aspects like this that greatly improves the ownership experience. One less thing to have to buy, also a backpack, or normal carry for keeping the nice gun inside from getting scratched up, out of the weather, or you name it, and with lot's storage. I'm already envisioning going on long E-MTB rides with it while seeing, then havesting, tree squirrels in the fall as I'm riding along. Have to get the Wifey to make some soup which I found out can be delicious.
AOA must have made sure the Venom was in good working order since there is the blue tape showing some stats they wrote down. I like it that they put this extra effort in.
Other than reading the instructions the first things I did were getting a feel of the gun, both with the folding stock deployed as a SBR, then folded as a pistol, then the folder removed. Man this gun is light and light enough to be used as a pistol just fine which was a concern of mine beforehand. So far so good - I like the feel of it. In pistol form most likely will just take the folder off since it's just loosening one screw to take it off. Everything seems high qaulity and there's no play in the folder system as well easy to fold and unfold.
Next installing the Holosun Green Dot/GD. I like larger dots and this one is 8 moa which is great for shooting fast. Eh I'll try it and if it's too big I've got RD's with smaller dots to use too. Not sure I'll put a rifle scope on it but who knows it could also happen.
See how things pan out.
I got lucky because of the fact I have small cheeks and I can put my face on the stock and see straight down the GD perfectly.
Well at this point there's what could be considered bad news, and it is that I'm waiting to shoot the Venom until late next week while on my annual camping trip up north in Wyoming, so I'll get back on this thread around that time to share the news.
Though a VERY positive thumbs up so far! I hope it shoots as good as it looks and feels!!!
The other I messaged here on AGN and no reply back.
Alrighty then, maybe some day I'll try to get one again, but maybe not, and not from them.
For some reason I didn't find out about the Western Mordax until this spring, somehow I had missed it's small size thinking of their bigger pcp's which I wasn't interested in?? So I looked into it.
Removeable 15 shot mags, check.
Small enough to be used as a pistol, check.
Pic rail on top for easy optics mounting, check.
But not a great shot count so I held off ordering one and wasn't sure what I'd do at that point.
Enter the Mordax Venom with 300cc bottle that just became available, and with higher shot count, so now it became much more appealing to me! I had to have one so I talked to Lauren of AOA and got one ordered. She had it shipped out as soon as it was ready to and it was at my door two days later via UPS.
Pistol, or Pifle, how is this Mordax to be described??, so I'll just leave that to the opinions of others?? However I'll be using it as a pistol and a pifle - both ways.
I've had a lot of PB pistols, BIG heavy ones and sometimes long too, so shooting a Mordax as a pistol is fine with me and thus accepted it's large size in pistol form. It is what it is, right. I found out it doesn't fit in my pocket well, lol, who'd a thought, no biggy because I have the right tool for that job already for duties should it ever be needed.
What I haven't had much of is SBR-ish guns this small, airgun or PB, so that'l be fun to try out with the Venom.
Onto my first impressions.
Mine is a 22 caliber since it'll be used for plinking more than hunting and little desire to bump up the power but might go down in power some later on.
I just opened the box.
Wow nice case! IMHO It's aspects like this that greatly improves the ownership experience. One less thing to have to buy, also a backpack, or normal carry for keeping the nice gun inside from getting scratched up, out of the weather, or you name it, and with lot's storage. I'm already envisioning going on long E-MTB rides with it while seeing, then havesting, tree squirrels in the fall as I'm riding along. Have to get the Wifey to make some soup which I found out can be delicious.
AOA must have made sure the Venom was in good working order since there is the blue tape showing some stats they wrote down. I like it that they put this extra effort in.
Other than reading the instructions the first things I did were getting a feel of the gun, both with the folding stock deployed as a SBR, then folded as a pistol, then the folder removed. Man this gun is light and light enough to be used as a pistol just fine which was a concern of mine beforehand. So far so good - I like the feel of it. In pistol form most likely will just take the folder off since it's just loosening one screw to take it off. Everything seems high qaulity and there's no play in the folder system as well easy to fold and unfold.
Next installing the Holosun Green Dot/GD. I like larger dots and this one is 8 moa which is great for shooting fast. Eh I'll try it and if it's too big I've got RD's with smaller dots to use too. Not sure I'll put a rifle scope on it but who knows it could also happen.
See how things pan out.
I got lucky because of the fact I have small cheeks and I can put my face on the stock and see straight down the GD perfectly.
Well at this point there's what could be considered bad news, and it is that I'm waiting to shoot the Venom until late next week while on my annual camping trip up north in Wyoming, so I'll get back on this thread around that time to share the news.
Though a VERY positive thumbs up so far! I hope it shoots as good as it looks and feels!!!
