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    What’s the cheapest pellet trap I can make?

    Cardboard box, filled with your old socks, underwear and tee-shirts. Works. Ask me how I know. Quiet too.
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    30-Yard Challenge

    Where is the download file for this target? I wanna' get a dog in this hunt. I haven't shot in almost two years. I've been taking care of my wife. Sadly, she passed the day after Christmas, on our 39th wedding anniversary. Seeing those targets is the first thing that has peaked my...
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    Taipan Veteran Long .25 low power tune results

    I have mine tuned to shoot 800-810 and you are right: They are a pleasure to shoot and even more precise when you tune them down.
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    If I could start over from scratch what I'd get.....

    Yes, the Taipan and the Kalashnikov, neither are optimal designs. I don't see either of them surviving long...
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    If I could start over from scratch what I'd get.....

    Time and money wasted on modding three Marauders, always chasing POI around paper. Almost drove me away from the sport. Then three Taipans. Love 'em. Benchrest no less! UNLIKE the Marauders, I kept my cotton-pickin' hands off of them, didn't change a thing, except to slow them down to about...
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    Taipan Veteran Std vs. Snowpeak P35

    Taipan: Shoot, smile. Repeat.
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    Taipan owners....

    Own three here too. For almost five years. Not one single problem. Buy one. This forum is slowly becoming woke about Taipans. Better investment than money in a savings account.
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    Taipan Veteran Long .22 Power Plenum Package from Talon Tunes

    All this Taipan worship has given me a woody. I've got three, a .22 Long and two .25's, a Std and a Long. You'd think with two .25's there would be two chances to outshoot the .22. They won't. The CZ-barreled .22 will out-shoot the .25's at any distance. Maybe it is just the pick of the...
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    Who's willing to play - you can only keep ONE......

    Ukrainian Taipan Long in .22. CZ barrel. Head and shoulders more accurate than the Ukrainian .25's I shoot. They are quite accurate, but they can't come close to the .22 Long's repeatable precision at extended ranges. The CZ-barreled .22 is heads and shoulders above them in accuracy at any...
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    Any whispers of a forward cocking lever bullpup from Taipan?

    Right on JM. Relax and focus. The slower I go the tighter my groups. If I could, I'd rather shoot one 5-shot TIGHT group a night than five mediocre 5-shot groups. I am an expert at shooting mediocre groups. I only shoot stellar groups when I slow down. Apparently, my Taipans like lethargy...
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    "best" bullpup

    Reasonable minds could easily identify a preference among the opinions offered above.
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    I posted my 100 yard group where's yours?

    One of the so very few Longs to ever be shipped to the Western Hemisphere from the Ukraine, a bone-stock Ukrainian Taipan Vet Long .22, as it came out of the box, except tuned down to 806-810fps. Pellets inspected/sized/weighed. That 0.93" is an eight-shot group of 15.89's, even though it says...
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    One gun, one caliber

    Taipan Long of Ukrainian origin. Either .22 or .25. Both are incredibly accurate, but truth be told? The CZ-barreled .22 outshoots the .25 at 100+. Every. Time. So make mine a .22 I guess.
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    Compact bullpup scope

    He has made it full circle back to a Taipan! I think that BB is the scope for the shorty. I too am going the short route, just to try one out to see if I like. Bought some no-name $36 8" 40mm scope on Amazon. If I like I'll wait for a sale on the BB. I remember then being about $69 late...
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    Blitz magazine mounts/holders?

    Scalesdini, How have you been? Recovered from the amputation? I sure hope so. Just checking into see if you ever came up with a good design. There is a download on the net for a version of a holder: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4359551 I'm thinking more along the lines of an...
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    Best O rings

    Anyone tried HVAC o-rings? I watched a Youtube vid the other day and this mechanic said that is all he used anymore in the automotive shop because once he replaced with AC orings, even in non-AC applications, he usually never had a leak in that location again.
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    Taipan Manufacturers - When are you going to make a forward cocking side lever?

    Yes, I would like that too Octavius. That WOULD be an improvement without changing what makes a Taipan what it is. Just curious Octavious...when you were growing up did your buddies call your mom...OctoMom?
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    Taipan on the way what should I have to try?

    Sparky, if you intend to shoot mostly 75+ yards, whichever the scope you choose, and even with the the Taipan 20MOA head start I would recommend that you consider shimming your scope. At 104 yards my 8x32 Airmax is 3-4 elevation clicks from maxed out on my .22 Long. It is dead nuts on so I...
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    Taipan Manufacturers - When are you going to make a forward cocking side lever?

    Yeah, you are so very right! I was thinking about Ed the other day. He very well could be Mikhail Kalashnikov reincarnated. I was thinking about just that: the similarities between the two men. Like Kalashnikov, the man is a genius. As Kalashnikov was to assault rifles, so is Ed to...
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    Taipan Manufacturers - When are you going to make a forward cocking side lever?

    No sales. Of Taipans. Surely you jest. The Taipan is the Kalashnikov of airguns. Yeah, you heard that here first. I hereby coin that phrase. Monogrammed teeshirts available here tomorrow. Anyway...as we were discussing...No sales of Taipans? The corners of my mouth curl in a slight...