Talon ss doubts
What the max effective range of this weapon on .22?
Before you ask i define “max effective range” as the maximum range you can shoot the 22. talon ss and hitting your target a minimum of 6 out of 10 times.
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They consider a silencer to the “firearm accessory destined to reduce the noise of its shoot”.
Then you are out of luck.
Buy some earplugs 😀
I read the portuguese laws concerning silencers and they are not very clear in this aspect.
They consider a silencer to the “firearm accessory destined to reduce the noise of its shoot”.
A shroud is an extension that covers the barrel. Some reduce the report of an airgun some do not.
Check your laws in Portugal concerning airguns and silencers.
Is a shroud a silencer?
The problem is that in Portugal shrouds are ilegal. ( i think )
Simple.
buy shroud from Tony at Talon Tunes and your condor will be SILENT but deadly.
I would buy a Condor…
The only problem are the neighbours…
Before you ask i define “max effective range” as the maximum range you can shoot the 22. talon ss and hitting your target a minimum of 6 out of 10 times.
If you really want long range performance then get a condor, and buy a takeoff 12″ bbl.
If the 12″ TSS setup doesn’t do it for you, the 24″ bbl should.
If you want a short and long barrel, it’s probubly cheaper to buy a condor and a 12″ bbl, than a TSS and a 24″ bbl.
It’s always nice to have more power than you need and the ability to dial it down to what you desire.
going to look at this from another direction.
For many years, hunted cotton tail rabbits with your basic Benjamin 312 (later a Sheridan) and had zero problesm out to 35-40yards.
Today, working backwards, know I was delivering about 8 foot pounds of energy to those rabbits. Hit them right, no problem…hit them wrong and more power isn’t going to help one bit.
I wouldn’t sweat the power aspect nearly as much as the ability to hit a tiny target…and 6 out of 10 is NOT passing.
Like everyone says, the effective range of a weapon boils down to the shooters ability.
If you’re referring more to the maximum effective energy range of any particular pellet/velocity combo… that varies greatly…. but with a well set up AirForce gun it’s probably got enough energy to kill further than you can hit it.
Example. You can set up a .25 Condor to shoot 42 grain Eun Jins at about 950 fps. Given the pellets velocity and ballistic coefficient, that configuration would still carry 16 foot pounds of energy at 250 yards. Now, 16 foot pounds is enough to penetrate a fair sized game skull…
… could you hit the mark at 250 yards with approximately 15 feet of hold over? Not to mention wind drift.
70 yards is a good range for hunting with the SS for the Talon 100 yds and yet further for the Condor.
With that said most hunting is going to be within 50 yds.
5 out of ten times at that distance is good, but a 1 in 2 chance is not ‘effective’. Though ony the guy pulling the trigger of his rifle knows what range he can effectively hunt at, be that 30 60 or 120 yards.
These rifles will reach out to 150 yards if your scope can hold over that much, its down to individual skill.
I was hitting soda cans at least half the time at 110 yards back when I had a stock SS. When I was in the nevada desert recently, we hit a 7″ square metal plate 4/10 time at 160 yards, with a power modded SS with 24″ barrel. Kodiaks at a little over 1000 fps, tried JSB’s, but the wind blew em off target. The pellet still made a healthy “”clunk!” at that distance. I bet if you were to hit a bunny in the head at 150 yards, it would die.
Depends on muzzle-velocity and pellet-weight. According to Chairgun both a 21-grain .22 and a 30-grain .25 at around 900fps to 1100fps will fly down a 1″ kill-zone from around 20yds to 65yds. After 65yds you have to take the cross-hairs off the target and drop the rounds in using hold-over.
So the answer to your question would appear to be around 65yds. 🙂
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