Ready for a large bore air rifle?

[Guest mosinon]

For those of us in the suburbs cracking off shots isn't an option. But it might be getting easier. Crossman is coming out with a 357 air rifle. Not certain about the legalities or cost but I really want one. I think

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[1gewehr]

Not bad! A .357 125gr bullet at 800fps with almost no noise. A serious backyard squirrel killer!

[Guest BungieCord]

Quackenbush has been building a .50 cal airgun for several years. They make a .458 that's been used successfully on black bear, buffalo and African plains game animals.

[MacGyver]

Love big bore airguns. Kudos to Crosman for upping the ante a bit.

Looking forward to seeing how this one performs.

[Tempest455]

Oh my!

I love shooting off my deck. I wonder how much???

[I_Like_Pie]

I am really surprised it took this long before someone brought these out again....only took a couple hundred years.

This will be a HUGE hit in U.K. as the bar of entry is much lower for air guns.

[bigwakes]

Looks impressive. You can shoot standard .38 bullets in it according to the guy at the end of the video.

[Ghooge2008]

willing to bet, that air gun pops louder than any 22 of the same barrel length used for dispatching neighborhood game.

[Backon4]

Why someone hasn't taken a different approach is beyond me, but why hasn't a major company looked to paintball for air gun design. Interchangeable HPA tanks with regulators? It could easily be magazine fed and with easily changeable air source. I think you could get some major FPS with the idea. HPA tanks are readily available and fairly inexpensive but 68ci 4500 tanks are a dime a dozen.

[Tempest455]

Wasn't that the sound of the shot @ 4:35 on the video?

[bigwakes]

Sounds more like a supressed .22 to me. The loud pops after the shot are from the AR next to them I believe. I'm guessing it's gonna be $1000 plus with the electronics. Anybody find an MSRP online yet?

[Guest Jcochran88]

Nice! I agree that it is going to be expensive.

[JAB]

willing to bet, that air gun pops louder than any 22 of the same barrel length used for dispatching neighborhood game.

I can't speak for this one but the big bore, precharged pneumatic air rifles I have seen on American Airgunner do seem like they would be louder than a .22 using subsonic ammo and certainly louder than CeeBees. It is still pretty impressive to see someone take a wild hog or a whitetail deer with an air rifle (iirc, in at least one case, a whitetail deer was DRT with one shot - didn't even run.)

Why someone hasn't taken a different approach is beyond me, but why hasn't a major company looked to paintball for air gun design. Interchangeable HPA tanks with regulators? It could easily be magazine fed and with easily changeable air source. I think you could get some major FPS with the idea. HPA tanks are readily available and fairly inexpensive but 68ci 4500 tanks are a dime a dozen.

Unless I am mistaken - and I often am - I believe I saw a couple of air rifles featured on American Airgunner that did use the same type of tanks as a paintball gun. I am sure that they have shown some airguns that can be turned up for more power or turned down to get more shots from the same amount of propellant. I believe that they have even shown a few that are capable of using more than one type of propellant source.

Edited January 21, 2011 by JAB