Western Airguns Western Mordax Venom, first impressions, and eventual ongoing review.

[steve123]

Man I had my heart set on an L2 for squirrels in 22 but this little carbine in 22 might trump it.

I wanted a L2 when they came out but 8 rounds in semi wasn't what I was looking for and 10 rounds in the ProX just barely. 15 rounds, now that's more like it.

The overall form of the Venom is appeasing to me with little room for improvement.

Going through a lot of air and pellets but that's to be expected. I had to fill both my tanks all the way up to 4500 psi already twice to keep getting the 290-ish bar fills. Next time I shoot the gun from a bench I think I'll just tether it.

Can't remember the last time I went though a whole tin in 3 days or had this much fun in doing so.

 

[drsquall]

I wanted a L2 when they came out but 8 rounds in semi wasn't what I was looking for and 10 rounds in the ProX just barely. 15 rounds, now that's more like it.

The overall form of the Venom is appeasing to me with little room for improvement.

Going through a lot of air and pellets but that's to be expected. I had to fill both my tanks all the way up to 4500 psi already twice to keep getting the 290-ish bar fills. Next time I shoot the gun from a bench I think I'll just tether it.

Can't remember the last time I went though a whole tin in 3 days or had this much fun in doing so.

Yeah 8 rounds isn't enough for sure. I am not needing huge power just want to shoot the hades accurately and have decent shot count.

 

[steve123]

Seems there's been a lot of walking traffic out in the FS lately and since my property borders the FS on three sides that's where they "for some reason" like to go even though if they'd go another 200Y out they'd be out of the line of sight.

My spinners have steel and rocks behind them so those pellets won't be leaving my property so I'm not concerned here. However...

My tractor sits unused except for once or twice a month so I put it to use today in the place which is my most convenient direction to shoot to, and to shoot from, that being directly in front of my garage. The bucket has a lip at the top which directs lead fragments down but to be safe, even though I need to find a better solution, I put this piece of cement board up to further protect the window. Really it'd be a accident to miss the whole bucket at 17Y and since I'm at a 80% hit ratio in offhand on 1" steels and 90% on 1.25" steels I wasn't too worried about it.

I found other things which are good to know when I'm plinking at these size steels this close in.
#1 One being I can go all the way down to 80bar and I can still hit the steel and the gun is still functioning fine. This extends the shooting session without having to fill so often.
#2 Since I'm putting up 10 or so steels it takes less time to fill the mags back up to 15 and I'm getting faster at putting pellets in having shot the Venom so much lately.

I shot for a couple hours until my arms got tired of shooting offhand, lol.

What else??
Kinda want to get more mags.

Mixed feelings having this scope on vs the green dot on because my hit ratios are higher using the green dot for the type of plinking I was doing today. Of course the March is a way more versatile sight.

I found on the 1" steel I liked 2.5x and the 1.25" steel 8x-10x, that weird huh?? I think it's because of how shaky I appear on the smaller steel so on 2.5x the apparent shakes aren't magnified so much. It's interesting just how much of a difference that 1/4" looks at 17Y. 1" aren't easy to hit and if I didn't concentrate I'd be missing quite a bit more, while the 1.25" are pretty easy, so not only can I shoot them faster but I don't have to pull off near perfect shots every time to hit them.

 

[steve123]

Half a dozen of us seniors had our Wednesday plinkfest this afternoon.

Suffice it to say the Venom put smiles and laughter into our group of old guys!!!

We shot steel fast and slow and also full auto.

Went through the 2nd tin as well. No problems and I'm more impressed than ever.

We did a one time 100y paper match which I won with the Venom. Mostly just got the wind right.

I also shot these two 5 shot groups at 50y. I couldn't tell where in the black bulls I was hitting using 8x but they are 3/4" or so.

Love this little gun!!!!

 

[esd02]

Half a dozen of us seniors had our Wednesday plinkfest this afternoon.

Suffice it to say the Venom put smiles and laughter into our group of old guys!!!

We shot steel fast and slow and also full auto.

Went through the 2nd tin as well. No problems and I'm more impressed than ever.

We did a one time 100y paper match which I won with the Venom. Mostly just got the wind right.

I also shot these two 5 shot groups at 50y. I couldn't tell where in the black bulls I was hitting using 8x but they are 3/4" or so.

Love this little gun!!!!

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i’m obsessed with my mordax as well

 

[steve123]

We got chickens this spring and these ground squirrels have been eating the scratch and the laying feed so I've been sneaking around the back side of the barn near the junk pile hunting them. They always go down or run off before I can get a shot but I got lucky today and ventilated/venomated two. I shot the large one which was mostly obscured by stuff so I had a small window at the chest. Then the next ran up to the top of the stuff when it heard the noise and I head shot it.

I doubt I would have gotten a shot off on #2 with a bolt gun. That right there is a good example for not having time to cock a gun and for having a semiauto. Both done DRT around 20Y.