Today I finally got a chrony along with a sound meter and a higher scope mount in hopes of getting some scope footage.
Here is what I discovered so far. Using my Marauder .25 as a baseline at around 840fps the sound output was roughly 73.5db. Same distance with the shrouded Texan I was getting numbers between 97.8 and 99.2db with fps between 950 to a max of 1001fps. I fired it before having the shroud and my advise is simple. Pick up the shroud if you intend use the Texan without ear protection. Adjusting the power so far has been a bit tricky for me, but it appears to like the setting it was given at the factory for the 143gr round balls I've been using. At max power it'll kick, but from the factory it's no worse in my opinion than firing a springer.
Mechanics wise its simple. The cocking lever is smooth enough that I wished I had it on my Marauder, and to be honest has less effort I think. The Spin-loc tank takes some getting use to compared to my other rifles, but it does what its suppose to do. It's not exactly very user friend with my Orion Steadypix Camera mount, but I managed to make it work. The only thing I would honestly like design wise to be different is to have weaver rails instead of dovetails.
If I had to make a comparison between it and my other guns then it'd be this. The .22 Disco is like a tack hammer, the .25 Marauder a claw hammer, and the .45 Texan is like a spiked sledgehammer. It went completely through the junk microwave I picked up at work for target practice and still had enough going behind it to embed in the black walnut tree that was behind that.
It's definitely meant to hunt, and its fun to shoot if you ever have the need to put some holes in something. I could see using it on raccoons, possums, and coyotes in a rural area where the nearest neighbor was a mile away and I had a need not to wake up everyone else in the house.
Now for the short video of the microwaves demise. I apologize for the strange angle. It was the only one I could successfully get to work with what I was using.
Here is what I discovered so far. Using my Marauder .25 as a baseline at around 840fps the sound output was roughly 73.5db. Same distance with the shrouded Texan I was getting numbers between 97.8 and 99.2db with fps between 950 to a max of 1001fps. I fired it before having the shroud and my advise is simple. Pick up the shroud if you intend use the Texan without ear protection. Adjusting the power so far has been a bit tricky for me, but it appears to like the setting it was given at the factory for the 143gr round balls I've been using. At max power it'll kick, but from the factory it's no worse in my opinion than firing a springer.
Mechanics wise its simple. The cocking lever is smooth enough that I wished I had it on my Marauder, and to be honest has less effort I think. The Spin-loc tank takes some getting use to compared to my other rifles, but it does what its suppose to do. It's not exactly very user friend with my Orion Steadypix Camera mount, but I managed to make it work. The only thing I would honestly like design wise to be different is to have weaver rails instead of dovetails.
If I had to make a comparison between it and my other guns then it'd be this. The .22 Disco is like a tack hammer, the .25 Marauder a claw hammer, and the .45 Texan is like a spiked sledgehammer. It went completely through the junk microwave I picked up at work for target practice and still had enough going behind it to embed in the black walnut tree that was behind that.
It's definitely meant to hunt, and its fun to shoot if you ever have the need to put some holes in something. I could see using it on raccoons, possums, and coyotes in a rural area where the nearest neighbor was a mile away and I had a need not to wake up everyone else in the house.
Now for the short video of the microwaves demise. I apologize for the strange angle. It was the only one I could successfully get to work with what I was using.
