Quackenbush Air Guns.

[Guest]

What is your opinion on the quality of Quackenbush Air Guns? I never see to many of them used listed for sale and when you do they are very pricey? 

Mod edit: moved to Big Bore Airguns forum

 

[Guest]

Are there any Quackenbush outlaw .58 caliber air gun owners out there? What can you expect to get from a 14" air pistol regarding fps and fpe? Has anyone ever hunted with one of these and what is your take on the matter?

 

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I thought the one I had was solid and well made, and a bargain compared to the other custom big bores on the market. Downsides: it's darn hard to find one since you can't buy a new one, and they aren't built to be efficient at all! Two good shots with enough difference in velocity between them to shift POI an inch or two. If I were to buy another big bore, which isn't really likely, I think I would also highly consider the AoA Bushbuck....I guess they still sell one??

 

[Guest]

Thank you I appreciate your help.

 

[T3PRanch]

Traditional style Offerings other than Dennis Quackenbush are about 3 times more expensive retail (around $2000).

This includes:

AOA's Bushbuck

XP-Airguns many offerings

Extreme Big Bore

PBBA Big Bores are the exception at 2 to 2 1/2 times more expensive.

It always makes me mad to see a Quackenbush gun listed used for twice what was paid for it. 

 

[tkerrigan]

Here you go, Regards, Tom



http://www.quackenbushairguns.com/currently_available.htm

 

[AirNGasman]

I got a 14" barreled .50 and 16" barreled .25 Quackenbush pistol in an estate auction at great prices a few years ago, and believe they demonstrate some typical DAQ gun qualities. Among those are solid construction, good accuracy when you find the preferred ammo, and lack of a bell-curve power-band virtue of HIGH power priority from the maker.

My .50 pistol prefers .495" swaged balls and shoots them surprisingly well. At the factory power level the first shot (with 181 grain balls) was 675 FPS, but the second shot was about 450. Took me a few hours to tune it down to get more than one consistent shot by cutting the extremely heavy hammer-spring shorter and adjusting the power adjuster (hammer-spring preload adjuster). But after cutting over 1.5" length off the hammer-spring I got her shooting two consistent shots at 580 FPS, the third shot down to 475.

I then started serious accuracy testing and found the thing shot well enough to keep moving the target farther, even beyond the abilities of the 2.5X pistol scope to draw a fine bead on small aiming spots. So I mounted a Crosman shoulder stock and 3.9X rifle scope, and kept increasing the range all the way to 50 yards. Then shot 5 consecutive two-shot groups that averaged 1.10" c-t-c, all five groups (ten shots total) going into 2.5" at 50 yards. Having found her abilities and proper ammo, I made her back into a pistol

Hope to hunt hogs with it some day; but per my usual hunting approach with airguns, will rely on brain shots.

Since pistols don't have 16" barrels, I had Steve Corcoran build a gorgeous carbine stock for the .25 caliber 'pistol'. The carbine shot 25.4 grain JSBs and 21 grain H&N Baracudas well, both at about 40 foot-pounds. As taken from my fourth book, Airgun Chronicles- Thirty Years Of Airgun Testing And Competition-

25.4gr JSB Exact King, 3000 PSI, 14 shot p-band Low=823, Hi=850, ES=27, SD=11, Avg=835 FPS / 39.3 FP 

30.2gr H & N Baracuda, 3000 PSI, 12 shot p-band Low=790, Hi=822, ES=32, SD=11, Avg=807 FPS / 43.7 FP

 

After overhaul & de-tuning, ‘Mini Mite’ consistently averages 1” five-shot groups at 50 yards.

 

[Guest]

Please tell me what that stock cost? it will fit a Quackenbush air pistol?

 

[T3PRanch]

Steve Corcoran, according to my understanding of a post over at the GTA, has returned to the workplace full time and it will therefore be much harder to get a stock from him due to limited time to work on stocks after his "day" job.

 

[T3PRanch]

Look at the .72 Caliber guns at the bottom of the link below:

https://www.xp-airguns.com/photo-gallery.html

 

[Guest]

Funny that you should say that, a friend of mine just paid someone to make him a custom made 72 caliber air rifle. I just want a couple of inexpensive stocks that will work with a couple of DAQ .58 caliber outlaw air pistols with 14" barrels. 

 

[AirNGasman]

That stock was made for the gun, Shamus. Been a few years, but think it was between $600 and $700. 

 

[tkerrigan]

Dennis makes .58 short rifles (20" barrel) now, I got over 400fpe each on first and second shot using 330gr bullets. It will do much better if you cheat on the fill pressure a bit. This is a two shot gun as shipped, you should be able to get 3 or 4 shots if the spring is shortened. Regards, Tom

 

[Guest]

Thank you.

 

[Guest]

$600.00-$700.00 damn! I wish that there was an inexpensive way around this?

 

[AirNGasman]

There is an inexpensive way around this Shamus. A $30 plastic Crosman shoulder stock fits. 

 

[Guest]

I used to have one of those Crossman stocks on my DAQ 58 but I did not like it because it was loose and did not feel right.

 

[tkerrigan]

On the Crosman shoulder stock just put a 005 o-ring that just fits over the post both sides of the handle that slides into the stock, will firm it right up. I have six pistols and have shoulder stocks for all. Regards, Tom

 

[AirNGasman]

I don't like the Crosman shoulder stocks either Shamus, but I've also had to shim more than one Corcoran stock. 

 

[Guest]

I guess we all have to make due with what we have.