Taipan New!!! A semi-auto Taipan!!! 🤤🤤 Oh boy!!!

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Ezana4CE said:
@thammer For what purpose would you want or use a low powered .357 air rifle?
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Rabbit, squirrel, fox, raccoon....... it would be a long list. Inside 50 yards the trajectory is easily calculated and that would in my opinion be the maximum effective range for my use. Also at the same power level..... meaning 50fpe in each caliber I would choose the low for a .35 powered gun over a 177/22/25 pretty much every time. High powered small bore ammo exits with a lot of left over energy do to the ease of penetration it has. I prefer the energy dump from a large cross section projectile.
 
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Rabbit, squirrel, fox, raccoon....... it would be a long list. Inside 50 yards the trajectory is easily calculated and that would in my opinion be the maximum effective range for my use. Also at the same power level..... meaning 50fpe in each caliber I would choose the low for a .35 powered gun over a 177/22/25 pretty much every time. High powered small bore ammo exits with a lot of left over energy do to the ease of penetration it has. I prefer the energy dump from a large cross section projectile.
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@thammer For rabbit (unless you’re talking large hares) and squirrel within 50 yards? That’s different, but I think I understand what you’re saying. In that case a tunable .35/.357 with the option to go higher would be nice, but a max 150 FPE is unattractive. The big bores industry in .357 has moved beyond that for the most part. I hadn’t realized there was a market for low powered big bores. I would think a guy would just step down in caliber for less power and use an expanding projectile if it was that serious. Generally I see guys wanting more or wanting to know if an anemic airgun is enough for certain quarry.

Let’s see what Taipan comes up with. I’m still hoping this is a .30 caliber airgun.
 
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I like to save money on air and ammo so I prefer. 22 cal and .177 . Raccoons and down is all I'm pesting and I'll use a PB for anything else. Look at a Rem .223 or nato 5.56 and what their capable of . Shoot a pellet or slug that expands and your fine . My little .177 slugs expand to .35 cal so why waist air and money ? And shot placement is king so even rnd's work .

Not knock anyone's choice. Just stating why I like the smaller fodder .
 
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Ezana4CE said:
@thammer For rabbit (unless you’re talking large hares) and squirrel within 50 yards? That’s different, but I think I understand what you’re saying. In that case a tunable .35/.357 with the option to go higher would be nice, but a max 150 FPE is unattractive. The big bores industry in .357 has moved beyond that for the most part. I hadn’t realized there was a market for low powered big bores. I would think a guy would just step down in caliber for less power and use an expanding projectile if it was that serious. Generally I see guys wanting more or wanting to know if an anemic airgun is enough for certain quarry.

Let’s see what Taipan comes up with. I’m still hoping this is a .30 caliber airgun.
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81gr JSB at 900fps or 68gr Hybrids at 1000fps are both right at 150fpe which seems about perfect. You'd need a tank on your back and a hose to get even a full magazine in semi-auto at high the end of the power .35 guns get. It's hard to build a light, powerful, semi auto in the first place. Looks to me like they've nailed it as long as it functions as advertised. Big power bigbores only get a few shots per fill and this is designed to shoot mags at semi-auto. The two don't go together just yet. I hope one day we get there but only there's only so much air can do.
 
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thammer said:
81gr JSB at 900fps or 68gr Hybrids at 1000fps are both right at 150fpe which seems about perfect. You'd need a tank on your back and a hose to get even a full magazine in semi-auto at high the end of the power .35 guns get. It's hard to build a light, powerful, semi auto in the first place. Looks to me like they've nailed it as long as it functions as advertised. Big power bigbores only get a few shots per fill and this is designed to shoot mags at semi-auto. The two don't go together just yet. I hope one day we get there but only there's only so much air can do.
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@thammer That sounds really strange to me. I’m not sure what constitutes “the higher end of the power .35 guns get,” but I don’t want to continue to derail this thread. If you’d like to discuss this further with me feel free to PM me.
 
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Not so interested in semi auto. Nor am I too excited about the 148fpe.

What DOES get my attention is Taipan quality + a bottle gun (shot count) that doesn't look like somebody jury-rigged a bottle on the end of the tube like it was an afterthought. I'm also quite intrigued by the possibility of making a 148fpe gun a 50-60 fpe gun. Going that direction is usually much more enjoyable shot cycle tham making a 50 fpe gun a 60fpe gun.

I'm wondering if we've got some sort of Huben/hammerless tech happening here...."patented semi-auto valve system" per the video.
 
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I'm thinking the 145 FPE is from a 357, 145 FPE out of a 30 would be dynamite, but they would need a re design of their valving system. Which they claim. I'm wordering if they designed their efforts close to what RTI did. However, they did stipulate a patented valve system, they never went over 25 cal before, so maybe they are only going up to 30 cal. Anyways, it's all speculation until march 3.
 
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