MORE COMPACT Bullpups? (3 parts: Wonderings — Gun List — and Questions) WONDERINGS I'm all in favor of making airguns more powerful — with slugs leading the way.
However, I also favor airguns being SHORT! (Not just bullpups per se, but COMPACT bullpups.)
So, I see product development going full speed for more power.
But I'm not seeing product development hastening to shorten the guns..... Sure, a lot of so called "compact" bullpups are coming out — but none beats the EDgun Lelya 2 with its short 23.4" (=59.5cm) without power reduction.
The Lelya 2 has been around for over half a decade....
And by now I would have expected bullpups being offered in say 20" (=51cm) or less..... The manufacturers are inventing new technologies to create more power, and create it more consistently. Great!
More power to them!!
But I would have expected that they would ALSO create new technologies to:
• reduce the length of the action
• facilitate shorter but higher pressure air bursts — while keeping muzzle velocity variations small
• improve shrouds and silencers to keep the noise down — while still creating the same power despite a shorter barrel.....
Well, I'll put it on my Christmas wishlist when I write to Eduard and Axel....
GUN LIST of COMPACT BULLPUPS So, below is a list of
compact bullpups (plus Leshiy), sorted from shorter to longer.
23.4" = 59.5cm: EDGun Lelya 2.0 — came out in 2016 [Lelya 1 is too rare to be included]
23.6" = 60cm: Taipan Veteran Compact
23.9" = 61cm: Ataman BP17
24.9" = 63.3cm: EDgun Leshiy [Classic 250mm]
24.5" = 62cm: KalibrGun Cricket 2 Compact — Discontinued
24.5" = 62cm: AGT Uragan Compact
24.9" = 63.3cm: RTI Prophet Compact
25.0" = 63.5cm: FX Impact M3 Compact
25.2" = 64cm: KalibrGun Argus 45
25.5" = 64.8cm: EDgun Leshiy 2 Short
25.7" = 65.3: RTI Prophet Performance Compact
————————The following are
excluded, because they have just "REGULAR" bullpup length — call them "compact" all you want:
26.8" = 68cm: FX Wildcat MKIII "Compact"
27.5" = 70cm: FX Maverick "Compact"
————————The following gun appears(!) short, but once you silence it to the level of the other bullpups, it's not compact anymore, just a regular bullpup size:
24.8" = 63cm — PLUS silencer!: STEYR Pro X Scout
3 QUESTIONS (1) Are there more?
(2) Which ones (besides FX) can have the regulator adjusted without degassing or complicated disassembly?
(something as simple as taking the stock off to get to the regulator would be fine)
(3) Which ones shoot slugs pretty well (besides the FX)?
Thanks for your help!
Matthias
