Is your Taipan hard to cock, or is that your friends Taipan is just extremely easy to cock? The reason I am asking is your current tune isn’t close to maxing out what that .25 standard is capable of which is 55 FPE. So assuming you have the factory regulator and it hasn’t been adjusted , you shouldn’t be close to the max hammer spring tension and it shouldn’t be difficult to cock. You mentioned the rifle was new to you, did someone previously own it? If so do you know for a fact if any changes were made? There is a possibility that someone could have installed a heavier hammer spring and that would definitely increase the amount of force needed to cock it. As for aftermarket parts, the only ones I am aware of are a plenum, heavier hammer spring and regulator. Anything else would be custom made and you would likely need to send the gun to the tuner building the parts to ensure proper fitment. A rifle’s tune will also effect noise levels so I would verify this first before doing anything else.
The rifle is not new. I bought it used here on the forums. It had the Donny hammer adjuster pre installed as well as the endcap for moderator use. I can’t tell you any more than that. My only confusion being, if it was the heavier hammer spring, why would it be any easier to dock with the factory spring? In order to achieve the velocity I am now, the spring tension would need to be the same wouldn’t it? Unless the previous owner played with reg setting which I also don’t know.
If there were aftermarket parts available, this would be an easy fix, but it seems there is no aftermarket for these based on the everyone thinking they’re perfect out of the box. Guess I’m living with it for now.
thanks for the help!