The "Almost Free" Talon
This is Yellow Ninjas old talon frame after he machined the scope rail off. I believe the idea was to mount a NV scope lower to the barrel.
YN sent me the frame after I sent him a tube for his RWS 52. He included the power wheel adjuster, and later sent me the pins for the trigger group.
I only had to buy the following parts: Springs, grips, trigger parts, floor plate and cross-bolt (grip mount bolt and nut). Total cost, $118.
The grip adapter was a pleasant surprise from JFK.
The weaver rail, Kobra sight was included when I bought my Condor. The bottle and WOKButt is from the Condor, shoots well with no further adjustment needed.
The shroud is all free, made from scrap materials. The barrel is the .22 I no longer use from the condor, perfect for this project.
All I had to do to make this frame work was remachine the top of the frame. YN had machined it flat, but not enough for me to mount the weaver rail. I had to take it down level with the accessory rail on top of the frame.
I then glued the rail with liquid aluminum. Before you laugh, its an aluminized epoxy we use at the carbon factory to repair tooling. You paint it on, oven cure it and its just like aluminum all over again, neat stuff.
After the oven cure, I drilled and tapped the frame, cleared the burrs from the inside and bolted it down.
After that, everything assembled like normal. I mounted the red dot to the rear so I can put the green laser in front of it. Might not need it though, havent tried to shoot red-dot at night.
This makes a super light and very quick to point/aim rifle. Its quite easy to hit plastic golf balls at 35 yards. Just put the dot on and shoot, easier than iron sights and much more accurate. The red dot design has NO parallax at any range. I love it on this rifle. I must have shot 300 pellets today, knocking wiffle balls every shot until they fell apart.
Its placing FTS in .75″ at 40 yards off the bench. I had to use a large black circle target to get the dot centered. Even with my old tired eyes, shooting with this dot is easy.
Shot 4 or 5 groups to set it up, then off to plinking I went. 😛
Anyway, enough talk heres the pics!
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Me likey very muchly! Would love to see it in a shortened configuration as well just for giggles. With or without shroud. Nicely done!
You can’t expect any better than that, my eyes are older, so sold.
Not sure JD. If I turn the PW up one turn, they go supersonic so I am guessing in the high 900s.
They are moving faster than my s410 will push them, and it shoots them at 920.
Good shootin…how fast are those 15 grainers goin -when leaving the barrel
Very nice glad that you got it working love seeing a one of a kind in action.
I couldnt stand it. So I robbed the hammer from my Condor, resighted after reassembly and sat down to see what this thing would do.
I set this target up at 30 yards. Very easy to center the red dot in the black circle; felt a lot like using a peep sight.
Shot jumbo JSBs the 15+ grain ones, and busted out this group.
I couldnt see the hole until about shot 8 or 9, but after 15 I could see the middle of the target was shot out.
When I walked out to look at it, it became a keeper.
Remember, this is a red-dot sight with 46 year-old eyes shooting LOL.
I used this stuff.
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/items/5A457
There is a putty version available, part # 10610 I think. We have both but I used the pourable so I wouldnt have to smash the putty.
I also quick cured it by putting it in our curing oven at 265degrees.
Both versions are kinda spendy, but bond aluminum like nothing else.
Mikie Likes it! 😀
“damnit jim I’m a doctor not a pool man!” 🙂
Riff…. check this thread out for a new inexpensive hammer…
http://talonairgun.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7764&highlight=hammer
thnx for checking the liquid aluminum
Another first.
Today the power dropped off to almost nothing. One shot didnt even push the pellet out of the barrel.
Adjusting the PW had no effect. It has been supersonic anywhere above 2.
After one shot, I noticed the hammer wasnt quite against the breech block anymore, maybe 1/8″ gap.
I took the gun apart, and found the delrin on the front of the hammer had broken in half. A semi-circle of plastic was between the hammer and breech.
Now I have to try and make a hammer tomorrow, or wait for another to come in.
Dammitman!!! Its so much fun to shoot. In one day its become my favorite rifle.
That’s really come a long way’s Riff great job 😀
Hey, that has the military look to it, I think it is so cool when someone makes something completely different here and has so much fun with it after it is finished, keep up the good work Riff!
Let me ask our engineer when I get back to work next week.
I know it was very expensive, cures out grey.
Yeah, me too! I really need some of that for my project 😉 😛
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Believe me, I thought about it. I didnt have a shorter barrel so I went with the 24″. Its not really all that loud without the shroud when I put a muzzlebreak on it. Truth is though, I think the length helps me aim. I am able to hit just about anything as long as I can see its behind the dot.
I find it easier to shoot offhand than any other rifle I own.