The Blackwolf is amongst us! Launched at the British Shooting Show, the new Daystate rifle is already arriving at Airguns of Arizona with the new rifle selling out before shipments arrive. Production is to be stepped up with the next shipment leaving the UK at the end of next week, and them another interim shipment planned shortly after. With a compleatly new rifle initial production is always cautious as you don’t want to risk any mistakes and risk the reputation of the model.
Its a great relief to be able to talk about and post on a rifle on which I saw the first AutoCAD animation in Dec 2021 in designer Adriano Nodari's Brescia office, and which I know had been worked on for at least a year before that. These things take time, though much quicker than Wolverine which took 6 years!
I’ve personally been shooting one since last summer, but only saw the finished stock in December, which is the way with stocks designed on CAD and made by CNC: you have none and then you have a hundred!
There are 16 points which we are talking about, many of them you could say can be found on other Daystate and BRK, but what is unique to Blackwolf is all of them in one place. The trigger for example is matched by the Red and Delta Wolf triggers, but this is a mechanical unit and certainly the best Daystate mechanical trigger of all time (yes, I include the CR-X). Other new features have been in consideration for years, the titanium valve was first tried on the MK4, but didn’t have enough benefits to cover the cost, but when combined with the balanced valve from the Delta Wolf and Ghost which has a more substantial valve stem, the weight saving and added strength gives a big benefit on Blackwolf, especially on the High Power models which at AofA has just hit 155 ft/lbs in a tuned .30 version.
Developing brand new models by what is a small company in a niche market that is air gunning and at the top end of the market is a risky and expensive business and there are not too many who can a) afford it b) have the knowledge of what can be done, so I hope you do understand why so few airgun companies are innovating to this level.
I hope this gives you an insight into the thinking behind the rifle and will keep an eye on this thread and answer some of the questions you may have.
Tony Belas (Daystate Factory)
