Anyone own this rifle? Accuracy, reliability of the electronics, hold its zero any info on it would be appreciated as I'm thinking of purchasing one
Daystate Air Wolf MCT .22
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I've had one for about 4 years, and accuracy wise it is beyond fantastic. If I do my job it can truly stack pellets at 30 yards. Trigger is something you need to get used to as it has no creep and breaks at about an ounce. I have a Neil Clague LCD on it and my AirWolf is truly the quietest 30-40 fpe air gun I've ever owned. It has been perfect thus far.
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I owned a pulsar for awhile.....the electronics are awesome. Only reason I sold is because I learned I dont like bullpups. SOB was accurate too. The electeonic daystates are the quietest guns around hands down with a good ldc installed.
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Ihave the Airwolf MCT in 25 with a Huggett. It has held it.s zero for almost four years. It is my 100 yard gun and shoots ca 1.5-2 inch groups with JSB25.4 gr pellets. Trigger is superb and, knock wood, the electronics have not failed. Initially I was concerned about purchasing an electronic gun but was so impressed with it,s accuracy and almost silent performance that I decided to chance it.
The reason for my concern was my experience shooting free pistol many years ago. Morini sold an electronic triggered free pistol. Unfortunately they used a battery which was subsequently discontinued and could not be replicated thus making the pistol and expensive paperweight.
The reason for my concern was my experience shooting free pistol many years ago. Morini sold an electronic triggered free pistol. Unfortunately they used a battery which was subsequently discontinued and could not be replicated thus making the pistol and expensive paperweight.
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Have a .22 MCT. No issues with electronics. This being a 40 ft lbs gun think it should shoot well at 30 yards. Don't believe one can judge a high powered PCP at short ranges. Minimum 50 yards better still 75 to 100 yards. Lovely buttery smooth and quiet bolt action.Only downside is the weight after fitting decent scope, bi pod etc. Especially after using a light bullpup. If you static hunt or target shoot Airwolf excellent. Get a sling though to lug it around. Very very reliable.
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I have a 2015 Airwolf MCT 22 with a Huggett moderator and a total shot count of 1500 rds. The electronics have been flawless and it is the quietest PCP that I own. However, I have been disappointed in the accuracy. At 20 yards as a reference, both low and high power, I have been unable to produce better than 1/2" 10 shot groups with the rifle totally locked in a rest. I was extremely happy with this performance when I first received the rifle but not since I purchased a Vulcan which will shoot consistently through the same hole at 20 yards. Daystate makes a high quality beautifully manufacted rifle but the accuracy on mine could be better.
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I've owned my Wolf MCT .22 since January and have about 1500 rounds through it. My only complaint is that your kind of pigeon holed in terms of the pellets you can use on high power....My Wolf shoots JSB 18.13 and Air Arms 18gr pelllets best on high and its damn close between the JSB 18.13 and the JSB 15.89 on low. I think I would have preferred high power to be like 30ft lbs instead of 40 and low power to be somewhere under 20ft lbs. I personally think 40ft lbs is borderline too hot for most .22 pellets. That said, I haven't seen any spiraling even out to 70 yards (the longest range my backyard will allow) with my JSB 18.13 shooting at 960fps.
From a solid rest, the Wolf will stack them all day at 30yards and gives me .4-.7 inch groups (depending on how much chocolate I eat that day
) at 55yards with pellets straight from the tin. The trigger is the best trigger I have ever felt and for a long time I thought the FX Royale was the best around. The trigger, when pulled, is "dead"...literally just a mouse click...and then BOOM....dead Starling. Due to the fast lock time, it is very difficult to "pull" a shot. IMO, my FX Royale 500 is quieter than my Airwolf, but then again I don't have a Hugget on my Wolf.
Through the chrony the Wolf is not my best performer.. that honor goes to my FX Royale 500. The ES from my Wolf tends to be right around 26 and some days closer to 30 over a full shot string. Whereas my FX 500 is in the single digit extreme spread pretty consistently. That said, the ES doesn't seem to effect accuracy a whole a lot, though at longer ranges I often wonder if the high ES leads to a flier here and there. The electronics of the gun do a nice job "regulating" the air for each shot, though IMO, not as good of a job as a mechanical regulator. I have never once worried about water damage as I have literally had mine out in a snow storm and nothing happened.
In terms of shot count the Wolf is a BEAST. On high I shoot from 230bar down to 140 for a told of 70 high power shots. On low power (28ft lbs), I get over 100 shots and shoot from 230 bar down to 110bar.
Overall, the comfort and feel of a Daystate is second to none IMO. The wood stock is INSANELY NICE and shouldering the rifle is a thing of beauty in IMO. You cant go wrong with a Wolf however, if it were me I would wait to see if Daystate is going to put the Wolverine's mechanics in a Wolf....if they do...buy that one...if you cant wait...buy it now! As always...have fun!!!!
From a solid rest, the Wolf will stack them all day at 30yards and gives me .4-.7 inch groups (depending on how much chocolate I eat that day
) at 55yards with pellets straight from the tin. The trigger is the best trigger I have ever felt and for a long time I thought the FX Royale was the best around. The trigger, when pulled, is "dead"...literally just a mouse click...and then BOOM....dead Starling. Due to the fast lock time, it is very difficult to "pull" a shot. IMO, my FX Royale 500 is quieter than my Airwolf, but then again I don't have a Hugget on my Wolf. Through the chrony the Wolf is not my best performer.. that honor goes to my FX Royale 500. The ES from my Wolf tends to be right around 26 and some days closer to 30 over a full shot string. Whereas my FX 500 is in the single digit extreme spread pretty consistently. That said, the ES doesn't seem to effect accuracy a whole a lot, though at longer ranges I often wonder if the high ES leads to a flier here and there. The electronics of the gun do a nice job "regulating" the air for each shot, though IMO, not as good of a job as a mechanical regulator. I have never once worried about water damage as I have literally had mine out in a snow storm and nothing happened.
In terms of shot count the Wolf is a BEAST. On high I shoot from 230bar down to 140 for a told of 70 high power shots. On low power (28ft lbs), I get over 100 shots and shoot from 230 bar down to 110bar.
Overall, the comfort and feel of a Daystate is second to none IMO. The wood stock is INSANELY NICE and shouldering the rifle is a thing of beauty in IMO. You cant go wrong with a Wolf however, if it were me I would wait to see if Daystate is going to put the Wolverine's mechanics in a Wolf....if they do...buy that one...if you cant wait...buy it now! As always...have fun!!!!
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I have the MVT version in 5.5. That thing is incredible, with none of the pellet choice issues that the MCT seems to have. Been working perfectly for 3years and as long as the barrel doesn't need a cleaning it's absolutely dead on. Tested the chrony in the shroud against several quality stand alone chronys and never more than single fps difference. Extreme spread also within 10fps over more than 140 shots - usually fill up 'just because' rather than needing to
Wish they still made them. Outright the best gun I've ever shot. If they did I'd really recommend you get one! If the MCT is half as good I'm sure you'll be thrilled with it!
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Wish they still made them. Outright the best gun I've ever shot. If they did I'd really recommend you get one! If the MCT is half as good I'm sure you'll be thrilled with it!
Cheers
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My Airwolf MCT .22 is my go to gun for backyard shooting and and pesting. The action is silky smooth and very light (1 pound pull on the bolt measured by a Lyman trigger gauge). In addition to having the Daystate 10 shot magazine and single shot tray, I also purchased a Rowan Engineering single shot loader. . The Rowan is great because you have have a pellet in it and be ready to go but not loaded into the barrel like you would with the Daystate single shot. I've also trust it to repeatedly load the pellet the same way without damaging it (still don't fully trust the 10 shot magazine in that area). I would recommend them to any Wolf/Wolverine owner.
http://www.rowanengineering.com/products10.htm
My trigger is setup with basically no travel and a couple ounces of pull. You don't have to have great trigger skills to get very repeatable results. Weight and balance with the carbon fiber bottle is fantastic. My shot count is is line with the above poster's. Way more shots than one would need for a day of hunting. I never had any issues with the electronics and really like all the options they have on board the computer. Hipower is great for hunting and low power is great for target shooting. Accuracy on high power shoots into 3/8 at 50 all day long with sorted pellets (I have lots of post here showing that). Low power basically stacks them at that distance (shooting off a bench-rest). Extreme spread on a ten shot group is under 15fps on high and low power. That is 50% less ES than my Impact could pull off. JSB 18s on high average 935 fps and 813 on low. AA 16s are 858 on low and 979 on high. My barrel prefers lubed pellets (slightly more accurate). I have a full Huggett shroud on mine, and the gun is super quiet. If I shoot from in the house, all one hears outside is a muffled "pfffff'. The pellet hitting the target at 50 yards is louder than the gun! My brother in law got like 5 shots at a squirrel at 20 yards without the squirrel deciding to need to move. Turned out to be a bad decision for the squirrel on the 6th shot. The wood on these are fantastic. The fit and finish is fantastic. The Airwolf is one of a few of "I will never sell it" airguns.
It is my only .22 and I have no desire to consider getting a second .22 rifle. Even when I had the Impact, I saw no reason to get a .22 barrel for it. If money was no matter, I'd have a MCT in .177 and .25 as well. The only downside to the gun is they are not cheap if you get one at full price. I got mine for great price when Daystate decided to pump a bunch out last year. I've also heard that a couple of these didn't have great barrels, and wound up at Zasadnys for barrel work.
If you want a different fpe level, AoA can reprogram the gun (for a fee) to set the power where you want it. I've contemplated setting low down under 20 fpe for field target, but haven't pulled the trigger on it yet.
Update: I pulled the trigger and bought a Heli board for my MCT. The board has 12 power levels from 6 ft/lbs to 38 ft/lbs. It is a "must have" if you want to tune your Airwolf.
http://www.airgunnation.com/topic/airwolf-mct-heliboard-ultimate-airwolf-full-review-inside/
http://www.rowanengineering.com/products10.htm
My trigger is setup with basically no travel and a couple ounces of pull. You don't have to have great trigger skills to get very repeatable results. Weight and balance with the carbon fiber bottle is fantastic. My shot count is is line with the above poster's. Way more shots than one would need for a day of hunting. I never had any issues with the electronics and really like all the options they have on board the computer. Hipower is great for hunting and low power is great for target shooting. Accuracy on high power shoots into 3/8 at 50 all day long with sorted pellets (I have lots of post here showing that). Low power basically stacks them at that distance (shooting off a bench-rest). Extreme spread on a ten shot group is under 15fps on high and low power. That is 50% less ES than my Impact could pull off. JSB 18s on high average 935 fps and 813 on low. AA 16s are 858 on low and 979 on high. My barrel prefers lubed pellets (slightly more accurate). I have a full Huggett shroud on mine, and the gun is super quiet. If I shoot from in the house, all one hears outside is a muffled "pfffff'. The pellet hitting the target at 50 yards is louder than the gun! My brother in law got like 5 shots at a squirrel at 20 yards without the squirrel deciding to need to move. Turned out to be a bad decision for the squirrel on the 6th shot. The wood on these are fantastic. The fit and finish is fantastic. The Airwolf is one of a few of "I will never sell it" airguns.
It is my only .22 and I have no desire to consider getting a second .22 rifle. Even when I had the Impact, I saw no reason to get a .22 barrel for it. If money was no matter, I'd have a MCT in .177 and .25 as well. The only downside to the gun is they are not cheap if you get one at full price. I got mine for great price when Daystate decided to pump a bunch out last year. I've also heard that a couple of these didn't have great barrels, and wound up at Zasadnys for barrel work.
If you want a different fpe level, AoA can reprogram the gun (for a fee) to set the power where you want it. I've contemplated setting low down under 20 fpe for field target, but haven't pulled the trigger on it yet.
Update: I pulled the trigger and bought a Heli board for my MCT. The board has 12 power levels from 6 ft/lbs to 38 ft/lbs. It is a "must have" if you want to tune your Airwolf.
http://www.airgunnation.com/topic/airwolf-mct-heliboard-ultimate-airwolf-full-review-inside/
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My 35 ft-lb 0.22 Pulsar is not only extremely accurate it has that most important attribute for a hunting rifle; it has a stable zero. Mine has not needed adjusting for over twelve months. During this time it has been bounced around in the back of pick-ups, all the usual field hunting trip bumps etc...
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Can someone with a 177 or 22 Air Wolf with a Huggett please measure the length with it attached?
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Barrel length is about 15" from edge of receiver. With a full Huggett Shroud on, it adds about 6.5" length.
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Im going to take you up on that. I replaced the aluminum 500cc tank with a CF 480cc, What is the max fill pressure with the CF 480cc?
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Sam 63,
You didn't mention whose CF480 bottle. Daystate resells one brand "a", but one can get a CF 480cc bottle from Talon Tunes (a different supplier, brand "b") for a lot less than Daystate's.
Either way, the max fill pressure for the gun (vs bottle) is 230 bar. I have done crony testing at 240 bar and am seeing the same fps from my 240 bar fill as the 230 bar fill recommended by Daystate. Now that I have a Heli board, and I can control the milliseconds of the solenoid opening as well as the voltage of the solenoid, I will try moving to 250 bar. What one has to be careful about is ensuring that adding more pressure to the bottle (which the Daystate bottle can handle) doesn't overwhelm the valve and solenoid that opens it or falls outside of the computer program that controls the solenoid.
Either way, the bottle from Daystate is rated way higher (315 bar at 65c) than the rest of the gun.
Now, if one wanted to get tricky, they could add a regulator between that 315 bar bottle and the gun and step it down to 230-240 bar after the regulator/at the gun for extra shot count. It probably wouldn't help the aesthetics of the gun, but it could be done.
You didn't mention whose CF480 bottle. Daystate resells one brand "a", but one can get a CF 480cc bottle from Talon Tunes (a different supplier, brand "b") for a lot less than Daystate's.
Either way, the max fill pressure for the gun (vs bottle) is 230 bar. I have done crony testing at 240 bar and am seeing the same fps from my 240 bar fill as the 230 bar fill recommended by Daystate. Now that I have a Heli board, and I can control the milliseconds of the solenoid opening as well as the voltage of the solenoid, I will try moving to 250 bar. What one has to be careful about is ensuring that adding more pressure to the bottle (which the Daystate bottle can handle) doesn't overwhelm the valve and solenoid that opens it or falls outside of the computer program that controls the solenoid.
Either way, the bottle from Daystate is rated way higher (315 bar at 65c) than the rest of the gun.
Now, if one wanted to get tricky, they could add a regulator between that 315 bar bottle and the gun and step it down to 230-240 bar after the regulator/at the gun for extra shot count. It probably wouldn't help the aesthetics of the gun, but it could be done.
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Just a current long term note on my 2011 Air Wolf, for anyone considering buying a pre-owned rifle . . . get it. Everything that has been written about this gun's accuracy, trigger, Hugget Snipe/shroud, quietness, dependability and quality/beauty (except for the single anomaly post that discussed poor accuracy) is true! I am the third owner of this rifle, with the original sales slip from AoA and plan to pass it down to my children/grandchildren. It is a classic/legacy quality rifle and a pleasure to shoot. I was so impressed with it, I added a pre-owned Huntsman Regal .20 from a similar vintage. Purchased it from a member here on the forum. It is a stunning rifle in its own right, and takes no back seat to the Air Wolf. I fill to 230 BAR on the bottle and 210 on the Regal.
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Nice gun, I actually just pm'd the forum membr who had that same rifle...he told me he sold it alrdy
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