My new 14" .25 cal Talondor….almost done, finally!!!

Hi guys!
Couple months ago I got fired up to have short gun. So I thought of 14″ 25cal Talondor.
Also I wanted to know more about the gun and the best way to do it is to put it together part by part.
My idea was to be able to take the gun down and put it in my backpack and go into the woods to hunt. Very light and swift.
So, I ordered frame, trigger group, breach and main spring with PW from AirForce airguns.
I like to build things but I do not have a lot of tools and machinery to do it.
So, I ordered 100 gramm hammer from Tony and as usually it is top notch piece of work. Thank you Tony!
But this super duper forum has a lot of really nice guys who know what they are doing and very helpful.
First off;
Eric AKA Metal Head supplied me with really nice 14″ .25cal barrel. Real nice one! You can see in in the pics. Thank you Eric!
Than I assumed that to push .25cal Kodiak up to 900fps and more I would have to crank the gun up the and it would eat a lot of air.
So, Hoot, agreed to sell me his 53 cu in bottle, that is almost 860cc of air.
I hope I can get more shots from it. Thank you Hoot!
I am still waiting on E-TacHPA adapter for this bottle from Jim AKA Marmot Militia and it should be here shortly. Jim is nice guy to deal with!
Thank you Jim!
Putting gun together wasn’t too difficult and it turned out pretty good.
The most difficult thing was to wait for all the parts to come together but that is the fun in itself.
Just this Saturday I received some goodies from Adam and as you can see they look awesome on the rifle ( as they belong there) Cool, right?
Thank you Adam!
I made shroud for it as well to keep things quiet as it will be really loud one.
I also thought of back up tank for this gun. I have one but it has regular Talon valve in it. I didn’t want to spend any more money for another hi-flo valve so I decided to order tophat, stem and brass valve insert for hi-flo valve. It turned out to be much, much cheaper than buying whole new valve. Kind of like modifying Talon valve with Condor valve parts.
I put lighter valve spring in and put the valve together. Pumped it up to 3K and it holds air well.
I will test it soon and let you know.
As soon as I get the E-Tac adapter I will test the 53cu in bottle as well.
All in all, I really like how this gun turned out; nice and compact.
I took the tank off of my Condor and shot 15 pellets through chroni with PW on 12 and 3K in the tank. Highest was 915fps and the lowest was 899fps. After 15 shots velocity started to drop. But that is from tank that is set for .22cal. I hope to push them faster with 53cu in tank.
To be continued