Took the big bore plunge.

[JDShapp]

I figured it was finally time to go for a big bore, and I went with the Air force Texan. It should arrive sometime next week with a Hawke 4x12 scope, and some 143 round balls for testing. 

With any luck I'll be using it for deer later this year. At least that's my hopes anyway.

 

[wyshadow]

Post pictures plz. Gun and groups

 

[NCairgunner]

Cool !! keep us posted on the Texan. I just recently took the big bore plunge. I bought a Sam Yang 909S & had Will Piatt tune it. Now I'm waiting on some 155 gr. EPP-UG bullets. The Air Ventui 137 gr balls that I ought are too small of diameter(.452). the Sam Yang needs a .456-.457. I went a Leatherwood CMR 1-4 scope for it's compactness. I figured 4X is enough for 50-75 yard shots.

 

[FukoChan]

I'm saving up for the Slayer that im betting will be the first and last big bore I will ever have to purchase.

 

[JDShapp]

The Texan should arrive sometime at the beginning of this coming week. As insane as it sounds I've already been looking around to find an LDC or air stripper that can tame it a little for later on down the road. Of course I'll do my best to get some scope cam work on it if at all possible.

 

[ajshoots]

I think Randy at R&L Airguns is making a shroud for the Texan? Might want to check with him or maybe Neil Clague.

 

[linsfreak]

Man I heard/saw a gentleman shooting his. Holy poop! Ear plugs baby.

 

[JDShapp]

I found out the difficult way exactly how loud the Texan could be today. The scope isn't quite sighted in and like all tinkering fanatics I messed around with the power adjustment on it. On the one hit I did manage to land on a spent refrigerant can pretty much put a near perfect hole in it from front to back, and that's after knocking it several feet back from where it'd been sitting. Firing my Marauder afterwards was a real eye opening experience for how much power the Texan was putting out.

Any luck this weekend I'll get a chance to do more work, and get my tank refilled because the Texan is definitely an air hog.

 

[linsfreak]

Wowza... it's purely a killer machine!

 

[Pauls Custom Targets]

someone has a Texan on the yellow rt now for $950.00 shipped!

 

[JDShapp]

The R&L shroud I ordered late last week arrived today. I'd intended to take it for a spin after work tonight, but it started drizzling. So hopefully tomorrow after work I'll have better luck in getting it fully sighted in and maybe work on a short video with the scope cam.

 

[JDShapp]

I'll say this so far, My accuracy with Texan is not the best, but the gun itself is an absolute monster compared to everything else I've fired so far. I tried to mount the scope, only to discover my scope mounts sat to low to actually get the Orion steadypix to fit. So I had to improvise by setting the camera on the shooting bag and film the shots like that. If I'm lucky I'll be able to do some fine tuning to the power once I settle on a chrony to buy. Also the R&L shroud really helped with the noise.

https://youtu.be/jRAHud6mkVo