The reputation is getting around that I am "air gun nuts." A friend of a friend called me today asking if he could bring his new Taipan Veteran over to my indoor and outdoor range to shoot and to show me. It was so new, and he is so new to the air gun arena, that he didn't have a tank, compressor, or hand pump. As I love to help others with their shooting sports interests, especially air gunners, I had him come on over.
We first took his new .22 Taipan Veteran to my indoor 18 yard range. I plugged it into my Omega Supercharger and fed it 240 BAR. We then fired a few shots using JSB 18.13 pellets to sight the rifle in at 18 yards. The scope he had mounted was a 4-12 Sightron Duplex.
Once it was sighted in, I had him fire a three shot group that all virtually went into the same hole. I set chronographs at 4" from the muzzle and just in front of the target at 18 yards to give me precise velocity data at the muzzle and at the target with each shot. The average muzzle velocity was 941, with a maximum spread of 8 fps. The average down range velocity for the three shots was a whopping 874, with a total spread of only 4 fps. The resulting muzzle energy was 35.6 ft lbs, considerably more than my Air Arms S510 in .25, let alone .22.
We then took it to an exact 50 yard measurement. At 50 yards, it actually shot .375" high and .125" left, with a dead-on hold. Every one of the five shots were touching each other in a near cloverleaf pattern. This group was about half the size of the very best 50 yard group I have ever shot with one of my Air Arms rifles, measuring approximately 1/2" or maybe a little less. Using the Strelok Pro BC calculator, given the 18 yard zero and the 50 yard comparison, the resulting BC was .0461.
I dialed all of this info in to the app and moved a set of steel silhouettes that included a ram, pig, turkey, and chicken to a laser measurement of 67 yards. Holding just over 2" above the desired POI, we never missed hitting one of them in the vital zone.
Summary; I was very impressed with the trigger, function, accuracy, and totally quiet report of this firearm. While it certainly is not as beautiful as other guns I have owned and/or handled, it isn't offensive either, and it certainly shoots.
I hope this hopes someone thinking about purchasing one of these.
We first took his new .22 Taipan Veteran to my indoor 18 yard range. I plugged it into my Omega Supercharger and fed it 240 BAR. We then fired a few shots using JSB 18.13 pellets to sight the rifle in at 18 yards. The scope he had mounted was a 4-12 Sightron Duplex.
Once it was sighted in, I had him fire a three shot group that all virtually went into the same hole. I set chronographs at 4" from the muzzle and just in front of the target at 18 yards to give me precise velocity data at the muzzle and at the target with each shot. The average muzzle velocity was 941, with a maximum spread of 8 fps. The average down range velocity for the three shots was a whopping 874, with a total spread of only 4 fps. The resulting muzzle energy was 35.6 ft lbs, considerably more than my Air Arms S510 in .25, let alone .22.
We then took it to an exact 50 yard measurement. At 50 yards, it actually shot .375" high and .125" left, with a dead-on hold. Every one of the five shots were touching each other in a near cloverleaf pattern. This group was about half the size of the very best 50 yard group I have ever shot with one of my Air Arms rifles, measuring approximately 1/2" or maybe a little less. Using the Strelok Pro BC calculator, given the 18 yard zero and the 50 yard comparison, the resulting BC was .0461.
I dialed all of this info in to the app and moved a set of steel silhouettes that included a ram, pig, turkey, and chicken to a laser measurement of 67 yards. Holding just over 2" above the desired POI, we never missed hitting one of them in the vital zone.
Summary; I was very impressed with the trigger, function, accuracy, and totally quiet report of this firearm. While it certainly is not as beautiful as other guns I have owned and/or handled, it isn't offensive either, and it certainly shoots.
I hope this hopes someone thinking about purchasing one of these.
