Talon SS C02 50 yard performance??
Hi everyone,
Im considering purchasing a talon ss with the C02. I was curious as to the performance at 50 yards. This is not going to be a hunting rifle, as it will strictly be for target.
should I look at the 177 or 22?
Any and all opinions welcome!!
One last thing. I noticed that there is a “gun only” and one with open sights. However, all the pictures that I have seen dont show any open sights at all. Am I missing something??
Thanks!!!
-George
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I can’t see any need to get a 177 over the 22 or 25. When you go to sell the larger ones are easiler to sell. At long ranges they carry better. If you go hunting they kill better. I have the 22 and love it. Never shot the 25 but do have a 9mm but it uses too much air and makes too much noise to just shoot.
I would not even consider co2, you will have a ton of fills with a 3500 psi fill tank, if your just shooting target the gun can be turned down to shoot in the 500’s fps range or so and adjust your gun for this range of shooting.
I have a string posted on here somewhere where i had my 22 condor turned down to the 500’s , the string started out at 500 fps, peaked at 612 fps at about 80 shots or so , and i quit shooting at 176 shots and the fps was 496 fps. i filled to 2000 psi and the end psi was 1300 .
there are several pellets that shoot great at the low fps, mine is in 22, so i cant give you feedback on the .177 , except in my spring guns. but if you want to shoot target only, i don’t see why you would not want to stay with the .177
Good point about location. I live 5 mins from a dive shop and they can top my tank off while I wait for $5. How far is your filling station? Any paintball shops nearby?
If you find you’re burning through air after six months then consider a second tank and cascade like 80 suggests.
I never really did the math to figure that out being so close to a scuba and firehouse and owning four tanks…One thing is for sure you should have a few tanks so you can cascade fill. I use my emptier tanks to do the initial fill…then I top off with the tank that has the most air close to my desired fill pressure. I rotate my tanks in this manner until it is time to refill them. My buddy at the fire house gets me 5500 in my CF so that one lasts quite some time.
Check out the airhog calculator: http://www.airhog.com/tank.htm
The fact you have 3500psi is great… A regular 3000psi tank is not so good for what you want.
The picture below is for hunting power, you can continue shooting to about 1500psi inside 25 yards without any significant drop. Perfect for plinking.
Thanks for the replies. The reason that I am concerned with C02 is because it is to my understanding that even with an 80cu airtank at 3500psi, there are very little amount of fills that a tank like that can handle.
My shooting sessions will probably be about 100 pellets and I will be doing this once a week.
How often will I have to fill a scuba tank with this type of volume of shooting?
Personally I can’t see spending that kind of money on a co2 setup. It is also counterintuitive to the allure of the airforce rifles being one of “the most powerful production pellet guns”….
There normally sold as a gun only and then you pick the sights your after. So if you want open sights or optics you have to buy them. The CO2 rifles are quite low powered as standard with the Talon SS only pushing around 12ftlb and that is on a hot day so you may be better off with HPA.
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.177 will be more economical per shot in pellet cost and air consumption if you are punching paper or chasing a tennis ball if that is the purpose, you still can pop the occasional squirrel, small bird or rat