Conquering the Beast!

A lot of Matador owners felt left out after I created the Cricket Shroud/LDC. Honestly, I have been putting off making one for the Matador because I’ve tried it in the past and failed many times. The gun is LOUD and I tried everything I could to slow the air or displace it. To be backyard friendly, Ernest set my regulator to 115 Bars and shooting 760 fps. In addition to that I had to put on Neil’s 8 inch LDC. The 6 inch LDC didn’t do much for it. The past few days, I’ve tried different stuffings and different can sizes. Even at 760 fps it was loud with the ones that I created.

Last night I had an idea and made a prototype and it worked wonderfully. The only problem is how would it perform at 880-900 fps. This was the range that people said that they wanted to be able to shoot backyards. I took apart my regulator this morning and brought it up to 130 Bars, after putting everything back together it was shooting 880-890 fps. Placed my prototype at the end of the muzzle and took a few shots and Wow 😯 I conquered the beast!

To those who have been asking me for a solution, hope the pictures make you happy.

The gun doesn’t make much muzzle noise anymore but you can definitely hear the spring/hammer slap. If you’re shooting paper in the backyard, the pellet impact is louder than the gun.

One thing that is different between this and the Cricket. The cricket you can dry fire and it will still be quiet, with this gun, so much air rushes out that it is a bit louder. Put in a pellet and all you hear is the hammer slap. While I was outside testing, my neighbor was in his lanai (10 feet away) I asked him if it was loud, he said no, can hardly hear it 🙂

Description

Donnyfl special
Regulator setting: 130 B
FPS: 880
Overall length of gun 35 1/2 inches
Shroud extends past air gauage 6 1/2 inches
Backyard friendly: Yes

Traditional LDC
Regulator: 115 B
FPS 760
Overal length of gun: 38 1/2 inches
Shroud extend past air gauge (with John Hagan baffle cover): 9 inches
Backyard friendly: Yes