Airhog 111fpe .25 Condor available soon
Why quit while you are ahead? According to the Febuary ’08, vol.62 Shotgun News, Airhog is working on a limited-edition .25 Condor. “It features a 28 inch. Lilja premium hand-lapped barrel that’s custom fitted to a Condor frame. Then, the valve is tweaked to make use of those extra 4 inch. of super-smooth bore.”
It further said, “In preliminary testing, this limited edition .25 has delivered 111fpe with heavy pellets, and accuracy that exceeds the standard conversion. There are more developments yet to come. . . by the time this special rifle hits the street, it will have exceeded 120fpe, which of course is well into .22 LR territory.”
Btw, Gaylord was getting .75″ group at 50 yd. shooting 31 gr. Kodiaks with the standard .25 conversion so this Ltd. edition would likely be getting 0.5″ or less with some “heavy pellets”.
Lilja is well known in the BR world but I didn’t know they make AG barrels. Wondering if it’s a modified PB barrel and who made those pellets. At 120 fpe, wouldn’t a 42 gr. EJ be flirting with the transonic zone ???
Still, this has to be good news for those that think excess is just “enough”. 😉
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WOW… that’s wild.
A 22lr is around 100fpe in 40gr (1080fps)
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I called Airhog and got a bit more info on the custom Condor rifle.
-Right now, the rifle will probably retail for about $1100
-Unfortunately the 28″ barrel will not be purchasable separately. If you want to get the barrel on your rifle however, you can send it in and they will install it.
-I was told that they actually don’t do anything to the air tank or the valve. Not doing any mods lets them retain AF’s factory warranty on the rifle.
-The rifle will put out around 111fpe, but they will probably limit it down to about 90fpe; so it would be around the power output a AAA Condor by Tony, but only factory tuned so it would still have all the rough edges of a stock rifle. I’m not sure if the limiting will be a permanent mod or if it will be able to be turned up to full power after market.
-The rifle will come un-shrouded from Airhog. A regular shroud does not fit onto the 28″ barrel. A shroud styled like a regular .25 one would make the rifle about 5 feet in total length. Kentucky Long (Air) Rifle?