40 Bullpups Photo Comparison Chart – For Size and Looks

Nice list Jungleshooter! Seems that people love bullpups or they hate them. I own four and and only want one or two, maybe three more .

I have a JKhan bullpup that wasn’t on the list, not sure if they are in production anymore.

Great post, thanks for taking the time to do this.

I've got #1 and #3.

Mike

What is the lightest multi shot bullpup in .25 cal? 

What is the lightest multi shot bullpup in .25 cal?

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must be the P15

And the winner is...The FX WILDCAT!!!

The obvious winner on good looks is the FX Wildcat hands down! And then add to that the fact that its cocking lever is forward above the trigger area vs. way back by your ear! And last but not least crowning its good looks and ease of operation it has the best accuracy of the whole bunch too! I wouldn't trade my Wildcat .25 for any three of the other guns listed above!

What ? The wild cat don’t have any thing on the Edgun matador R5M, when said gun includes one of the very nice walnut stocks some get lucky to own. Even the laminated stocks looks better, what makes your 25 cal wildcat mk11 different then the 30cal.wc Mk11 ? Accuracy is not huge to me as I will not be sitting at a bench trying my best to hit things at 100 yards, I need one that can handle some abuse and be coon accurate at 50 yards, oh yea and look good doing it. ( at least what a good dress can do to an ugly girl, bull pups are all ugly, just some don’t have the make up available to hide it). I say winner by landslide Edgun R5M with a nice walnut stock, no comparison ! See for your self ! 

ghoststalker just exactly what air rifles to you currently own?

ghoststalker just exactly what air rifles to you currently own?

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I don’t own any of the pcp, but I have eyes ! After all wasn’t this a size and LOOKS comparison. I doubt any one here owns all of these to truly compare accuracy, and accuracy wasn’t even in the question by op. I may have owned a wildcat MK 11 by now if it wasn’t for the pms suggesting not to buy one. But to each their own, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And I think they are all on the ugly side, as far as looks go. 

I always enjoy these comparisons, and this infographics style is a particular effective way to communicating data. Here are some other ideas weight, loudness (and I agree with @tor47 that most people throw on a moderator so now the actual length depends how loud the gun is), accuracy (one angle would be at what distance do you get a fixed CTC say 1cm; gun A is a 25 yard gun but gun B is a 46 yard), favorite pellet per gun, power, something to tell us how good the magazines are (I love how easy to Taipan magazines are to use for instance), something objective about the trigger (something more interesting than a single pull weight measurements), location of cocking lever, scope height (it doesn't matter which scope, as long as you translate that measurement to your scope), weight, price.

For the current graph, maybe include the different stocks options somehow? For instance, I think the Beech option nicer looking for the Taipan than the black version (with black details tend to disappear).

We could crowd source the data.

Thank you Matthias for taking the time to do the research and making this comparison list with pics. +1 from me. 

Thank you for putting this together. I'm a newb to PCP and have never handled much less shot a bullpup. But my interest in PCP is due to the combination of compact, quiet and accurate hunting/pesting rifles so naturally bullpups intrigue me. But there is something that confuses me.

If you look at the Lelya 2.0 you see that the butt stock curves underneath towards the breech.

The Skyhawk, on the other hand, appears to have a fair amount of stock hanging off the back of the rifle. So I have a couple of newb questions:

1) Is there some advantage of shooting position comfort to have this much stock hanging off the back? There isn't enough room to have a cheek rest and a lower scope position like a Cricket Mini Carbine so me it's just unnecessary length on what is supposed to be compact rifle configuration.

2) Is it to maintain a decent length of pull and avoid a longer trigger linkage? 

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Ed and his team purposely designed the breech block on the R5, R5M/Lelya to be positioned as far back to the rear and is also integrated into the butt stock. It's actually a good design if you think about it. It brings the overall length down by a few inches while still having a standard length barrel and a longer moderator. I measured the distance from the breech face to the apex of the butt stock on my R5M and it came out to 2.5 inches. Here is a comparison to the Diana Skyhawk for example...



The Skyhawk looks to be about 6 inches from the apex of the butt stock to the breech face.

I'm regards to the length of pull, gun manufacturers have settled on anywhere between 13 to 14 inches LOP for the average person. I'm not sure if there's a major difference adding 1 to 3 inches in the trigger linkage to notice a difference. 

EDGUN moved the grip about 9 cm front than the others, so the butt pad can be removed forward
you put your cheek behind the mag at P15, Skyhwk, but in the front of the mag at Edguns

Gotta admit, as a Wildcat owner, that Lelya is intriguing. It’s just so compact...

Seems like moving everything backwards like that would make it feel even lighter.

Ed and his team purposely designed the breech block on the R5, R5M/Lelya to be positioned as far back to the rear and is also integrated into the butt stock. It's actually a good design if you think about it. It brings the overall length down by a few inches while still having a standard length barrel and a longer moderator.

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I agree. That's what I was getting at. And not only maintaining a standard length barrel but actually a longer barrel when comparing it to the similar sized Veteran compact. As I recall the Lelya 2.0 has a 1.1" longer barrel while having a longer length of pull and a slightly shorter overall length.

More cushion for the pushin'. Sorry, had to.