Beta testing on Big Bore Tadagger Super AiRRow

Well on vacation, built most of it up last night on a loose Talon SS frame with a trigger group out of one of Tony’s Condors, his Breech knob, Woks AR trigger guard, trigger pad & butt on a JDS 68ci bottle with a canted ETAC with a Blod Knob Big Bore valve plus a Russian Kobra holographic sight mounted on the foward rail
AND
the experimental Tadagger Big Bore conversion…
this is overall a great piece of work
right now I am using the standard Tadagger striker spring and while its moving a great deal more air volume, its actually a bit quieter than the small bore conversion with the modified Condor valve probably due to the larger bore diameter and more efficent valve.
No numbers yet, still fighting my chrony and weather but it is running bolts clear through one bag and buring them to the fletching in the second. Maybe not twice as fast as the Condor based valve but I am reasonably certain its in the 600FPS plus range
on a side note you should have seen the faces of the clerks at the local Archery joint when I inquired what the best target they had. They showed me a local manufactured 400FPS one, said nope, need something good for at least 600.
the look was priceless as were their reactions when I brought in the completed rig
“What the hell you call that thing?”
“Where did you get it”
“How much?”
and so forth…
anyways hopefully I can get up some numbers to report back with a few pix, perhaps even a couple meat shots if one of my buddies up here has a Beef cow to volunteer for testing as numbers have never meant as much to me as seeing what a projectile does on living flesh & blood
so far it looks good, no valve lock Walt, may up the spring rating tomorow
one thing for sure this has SERIOUS promise… 600FPS with a heavy cutting projectile is about as devistating as it gets in flesh & bone media short of explosive slugs
have my own creative juices flowing now 😉