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I have a daystate huntsman xl that I fill to I believe 3100 psi. What would be my best choice for back up air to have on my person for long hunting trips? I would be filling both the gun and the small tank with a hand pump. Any ideas? 

Jonny. 

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Ahhh! The venerable Daystate Huntsman Regal Xl. Such a beautiful and elegant rifle. Also, light and 38 - 40 inches. Perfectly balanced and laser accurate. My Regal is .177 cal an unregulated. This rifle was among my first 3 PCP purchases, and I must say that it moved the bar for my expectations for air rifles to a level near-impossible for other air guns to meet.

I get nearly 40 useable shots -- if memory serves me -- with my Regal. More than enough for a hunting trip. 

What caliber is your rifle? And is it the newer, regulated version?

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I have a daystate huntsman xl that I fill to I believe 3100 psi. What would be my best choice for back up air to have on my person for long hunting trips? I would be filling both the gun and the small tank with a hand pump. Any ideas? 

Jonny. 

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Ahhh! The venerable Daystate Huntsman Regal Xl. Such a beautiful and elegant rifle. Also, light and 38 - 40 inches. Perfectly balanced and laser accurate. My Regal is .177 cal an unregulated. This rifle was among my first 3 PCP purchases, and I must say that it moved the bar for my expectations for air rifles to a level near-impossible for other air guns to meet.

I get nearly 40 useable shots -- if memory serves me -- with my Regal. More than enough for a hunting trip. 

What caliber is your rifle? And is it the newer, regulated version?



They are a great looking gun. Mine is in .22, also unregulated. Your 40 shots is about right. I get the same maybe a bit less if I’m shooting long range. 

I had some issues that affected my accuracy for the last few months but now it is spot on. 40 shots is more then enough if I’m on a 3 hour rabbit hunt. But when it’s large barn yard pesting or dawn till dusk deep woods hunting trip I don’t want to have to count my shots. There was a time hunting hares that I bumped my scope and had to rezero in the woods. When I got done I had 8 shots left and a 3 hour walk home. 






 
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Addendum: My Jack Russell Terrier, "Spaz", now nearly 15 years old -- and still going strong, I might add -- had been with me for more than 11 years before I acquired my Regal XL. Although I knew from research the history of the Parson Russell/JRT's selective breeding and thus the dog's strong hunting instinct, living within the constraints of a subdivision rendered Spaz's deeply ingrained hunting/retrieval predilection to the occasional chipmunk chase around my backyard. And Spaz was indeed great at keeping the those pesky chipmunks relegated to my neighbor's yard.

On that late Autumn afternoon when my Regal first arrived, things changed for me and my appreciation for ole Spaz. Spaz and I were lounging on the deck watching my favorite cable news channel, my newly acquired Regal within reach, scoped, zeroed and loaded with 10.34 JSB domed pellets, when this fat grey squirrel appeared on my bird feeder about 25 yards from my deck. I imagine I was shaking with excitement when I grabbed the new rifle and put the cross hairs squarely on the bird feeder bandit and squeezed the trigger. The squirrel feel from the bird feeder, thrashing briefly and ruffling the dried leaves on the ground below. Ole Spaz, my heretofore house-pet, looked up at me, looked toward the fallen squirrel, then back at me once again, as if to say "So you've finally figured out what I was bred to do. It took you long enough". And then he took after to retrieve the squirrel.

My wife watches, fascinated that whenever I reach for any rifle, Spaz is overcome with excitement, expecting another opportunity to get after some vanquished pest.
 
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