For what it’s worth, I haven’t done much target/benchrest shooting with mine, but headshots on squirrels at all your expected ranges are very easy, as long as I don’t introduce a shooter issue (pull a shot etc). It’s as accurate as any rifle I’ve ever shot -air or powder burning. There’s always some variation between individual guns, but I doubt you’ll be disappointed.
sI’m guilty of being one of those guys wanting “more shots.” After playing with marauders I was craving something that would put 80-100 shots down range….oddly enough my marauder was modded out to the point I can get 60+ before falling off the regulator, but I have to say I really enjoy the side lever on the taipan. I added one to my marauder, and it’s nice, but I can’t say it’s as smooth or easy as the taipans.Perry, I’ve had a few first Gen .22 Vets of different lengths and all were fantastic shooters. Sorry but I don’t have any experience with Gen 2’s but I would expect they are as accurate as seen in the videos. oddly the 2 compacts I had were as accurate as the Std and long versions I had too, all shooting 18s.
Personally I think they made a visual fail with the Gen 2 bottle versions aesthetics. It just looks like a last minute add on to appeal to some shooters wanting more shots. No doubt it’s functional but fugly looking to my
I bought a custom vet 2 standard .22 off of Tony from talon about little over a month ago let me tell ya this thing is a laser beam! This is my first Taipan and I don’t know why I waited this long to get one, it’s one of the custom made rifles by Tony with the 700mm CZ barrel, powerful plenum and power springer. I bought it strictly for slugs and this thing throws javelin 23gr slugs and I have it tuned to sling these out the pipe at 1000fps, I shoot off of a bench on my back porch at ranges 35yds-75yds and it’s a laser beam, I mainly use the rifle for pesting and let me tell ya when that slug hits a English sparrow with 50fpe the pop of the bird is louder than the rifle lol so ya go for it getting one you won’t be disappointed, the only downfall I would say is that I only get like 25 shots with this tune before it falls of the reg. I’m saving up to get another one from Tony and probably putting up some of my other rifles for sale that I said I would never sell, I love Taipans now..
I'm shooting .22 25.39 pellets at 893 for about 60 shots. It's likely that the regulator is set fairly low and the HS is right at or past the knee.I bought a custom vet 2 standard .22 off of Tony from talon about little over a month ago let me tell ya this thing is a laser beam! This is my first Taipan and I don’t know why I waited this long to get one, it’s one of the custom made rifles by Tony with the 700mm CZ barrel, powerful plenum and power springer. I bought it strictly for slugs and this thing throws javelin 23gr slugs and I have it tuned to sling these out the pipe at 1000fps, I shoot off of a bench on my back porch at ranges 35yds-75yds and it’s a laser beam, I mainly use the rifle for pesting and let me tell ya when that slug hits a English sparrow with 50fpe the pop of the bird is louder than the rifle lol so ya go for it getting one you won’t be disappointed, the only downfall I would say is that I only get like 25 shots with this tune before it falls of the reg. I’m saving up to get another one from Tony and probably putting up some of my other rifles for sale that I said I would never sell, I love Taipans now..
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Never messed with the reg I think they are set at the factory to 135 but not
sure, I’ll have to text Tony. The card it came with from talon said it was shooting 23g @ 930fps, all I did was turn the hammer spring in a little to achieve the 1000fps, there is lots of room on the adjuster yet and it isn’t hard to cock, the accuracy I am getting, pretty much hole in hole at 40yds and like quarter sized groups at 75yds so I’m not messing with the reg, I can deal with the low shot count of 25 or so, the rifle isn’t used for nonstop 500 round bench rest shooting it’s used for hunting/pesting so 25 shots is plenty for me, I’m by no means a pcp expert either, would the 75cc power plenum and the power springer be the culprit for more air use? I did turn the hammer spring down to try the Altaros slugs took it down to 880-890fps like suggested on here but the accuracy wasn’t as good, I did probably get like 35 shots at that speed, I tried a bunch of different slugs and speeds but found the 23gr javelin gen 2’s to perform the best, started testing them at 880-1050fps and got the best accuracy from 1000fps so that’s where I’m leaving it at… Never messed with the reg I think they are set at the factory to 135 but not
I wanted the .25 cal but here in the Communistwealth of Pennsylvania we are only allowed hunting with .177 & .22 cal
