Renewed and upgraded my 15 year old air rifle just incredible now. :)

[randyhub]

Years ago I bought a .22 Airforce Condor and have constantly modified it for .177, .20 before landing on .25. The .25 pellets I use are between 24 and 46 grain for controlling pests. This oil drum filled with aluminum shavings was easily penetrated with Eun Jin 28 grain round nose pellets. My furthest witnessed and range lasered gopher harvesting was 144 yards.

Blackworks provided a frame kit (M82 style) for my Condor that really strengthens the frame and with my larger capacity tank that has a regulator (thanks Voltar1) the whole rifle has been transformed to a great bench and stationary pest rifle. Using 24 grain .25 pellets at 930 fps I am well over 100 shots with a very flat string with no bell curve. The rifle is heavy and very consistent now with a great trigger using a air compressor to fill to 3000 psi is so much easier than a hand pump..

How it started:

Final build: stock tank

High capacity regulated tank:

Oil drum:

Let's see your air rifles!

 

[IanC]

Wow that's one heck of a rifle, thanks for sharing. A friend has one of those and is an active field target shooter. I was blown away at how far he could reach out with it. He wasn't taking 144 yard shots but made some very impressive 100 yard hits with just a quick adjustment of his scope. If you know your clicks these rifles are hard to beat for the money. Personally I never got into the PCP game I just shoot short distances with my HW95.