Record whitetail buck taken with an Airforce Texan SS big bore airgun
huge buck taken with a Texan SS
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@LethalAir Very impressive looking offhand shot. He had a beautiful rack on him. What’d he weigh? Where’d you hit him? What sort of damage did that copper round do internally? How much penetration did you get at 81 yards?
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well he didn’t go but 15 or so yards so penetration was excellent and one of the fractured pieces sliced his heart … slug fractured into 5 pieces 4 make up the hollowpoint and the core of the slug. The core was a complete pass through. I believe he was around 205 lbs…. If you check out my Mississippi deer hunting video I take an 8 pt with the same ammo and in the video we skin out the deer and look at the internal damage they cause. we are presently working on bringing the ammo back to market along with several other copper design option!
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@LethalAir Nicely done. The coagulated blood I saw around the ribs tells me that y’all had some serious meat damage. Looks like those petals were devastating as they moved into the animal.
As for the copper rounds, how are your barrels affected after shooting 100 + copper rounds? Do you have to clean the lead out before shooting copper to get better accuracy? What issues have you encountered shooting them? Which velocities do they like?
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We are working on tweaking the design along with some non fracturing and solid nose prototyp testing…. They should be back on the market by the end of the summer
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@LethalAir How do these copper slugs affect your Texan barrels? Do they wear them out any faster? What do you use to clean the fouling?
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These rounds are not exactly cheap to manufacture a box of 25 will retail around $45-$50 mark in the 45 and 50 caliber sizes so guys are not gonna be doing a lot of shooting / plinking with these rounds. I have shot a bunch through several different air rifles and have not seen any effect on the rifling. In order for these to fly Out the barrel at fast speeds they have very small, thin rings that barely make contact with the barrel. These are considered bore riders, so there is not a lot of surface to surface contact however, to shoot these accurately, you must clean all the lead or as much as you can out of your barrel before shooting these optimal performance, I can tell you this they are worth their weight in gold In terminal damage/ performance as seen in my Mississippi Airgun deer hunt vide.state governments have been trying for years to ban lead ammo. Some states have succeeded with a ban on use for hunting on public lands. Most states are still fighting it but eventually it will be nationwide or close to it at some point In my opinion. Non-lead options will be the future advancement in airgun ammo.
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im in Ca where of course its already a rule which is why im interested in picking some up from you guys. hopefully youll have them in all different calibers
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