Recent content by jpiperson2002

My wife isn't interested in shooting sports of any kind, usually I end up shooting targets with my brother. Air bows vs pellet guns: When my sons were young we had a couple of Air Javelin air bows. Relatively compact and quite accurate (several Robinhooded bolts) shooting at 30fpe. Had two of...

So this approach is somewhat similar to the REPR regulator on the Leshiy2 where an external pressure gauge can be screwed in and a special tool is used for regulator adjustments (done externally on the L2). I'd have preferred a permanently mounted regulator gauge on the Slash along with an...

Yes, .22 is the obvious choice since that caliber will likely make up the majority of sales. Since this might be (one of) the first Slash videos reviewing the actual performance of the commercially available version, I'm mostly interested in how it is adjusted and how it reacts to adjustments...

I loosely referred to the version with the 420mm barrel as a compact just because it is the shorter version currently available. To be more accurate I haven't seen the term 'compact' used in the Taipan descriptions of the Slash. Though I would like to see them offer an even shorter barrel to...

I ordered a .25 Slash Tactical compact instead of a .22 mostly because ... I hesitate to be honest here but I can't be the only one to think this way ... because I have so many tins of unused .25 cal pellets left over from an L2 and a Huben K1 I used to have. Plus the few .30s I've had in the...

The new 8-shot repeating Redback airbow by FX has a regulator and the typical FX smart tune controls. So the power on that one, unlike (most/all?) other dedicated airbows, can be adjusted from lower, quieter ~7fpe up to a very loud 100+fpe. A different approach would be to use Air Venturi Air...

A Chronograph iis an indispensable tool for understanding the performance of your air guns. A well laid out work bench with a good set of tools helps a lot once you start working on your own airguns. A decent scope with a reticle that is easy to see, and a good shooting stand to secure your...

I'm waiting on a preorder of a .25 Tactical Slash from Talon Tunes. I'd be surprised if they are available at vendors for shipment in June. Balistas recent YouTube video on the Slash provided a nice visual overview of the Standard and Tactical models. But they still haven't released a promised...

I was just coming back around to delete my erroneous post about the Steyr Pro X not being semi-auto. Since a correction was already posted I'll leave my original post alone. The Steyr Pro X picture I was looking at appeared to have a side cocking handle. I've never had a chance to shoot one and...

The Steyr Pro X always gets good reviews combined with comments about the high price. I don't see it listed in a semi-auto version though. In my mind that's that's the fundamental difference between Hubens and the Slash and other more common manually cycled repeating models like the Pro X. JP

I'm winding down my involvement with airguns so my Slash will probably end up in the classifieds within a year. The number of dependable adjustable-power semi-auto hunting airguns is still relatively small. The Huben K1 has been around long enough to have worked through any initial problems and...

The suspense got to be too much, so I just preordered the only .25 compact Tactical Slash listed on the Talon Tunes web site. It may be risky to order a 1st release of a new model but it's also fun to be one of the first to get one to try. I just relisted a custom-shortened K1 in the...

This listing has been renewed

I had three of these for a few years, two of them had been converted to HPA. The one running CO2 never worked 100% and had problems with leaking and freezing up. The two HPAs conversions bought off eBay with a upgraded chip they worked fine. I finally sold them because there wasn't any...

It was less expensive to design the original FX chronographs without an internal screen. And a screen wasn't needed by most people since many folks already had a phone then which could use the FX chrony app to show and speak and record the chrony data at a distance removed from the device. This...