*Some exclusions apply.
The HW44 is a PCP pistol destined for greatness in your backyard range. Based on the action of their prized HW110, the HW44 gives airgunners the power they want and the accuracy they need for plinking and small game hunting.
Weihrauch HW44 Air Pistol Video Transcript:
Welcome to the Pyramyd Insyder. I'm Tyler Patner. Today we got a brand-new air pistol from Weihrauch in Germany, the HW 44.
So, the HW 44, guys, was announced at IWA Germany this year in 2017 and we wanted to get it in before the end of the year as kind of the final new offering that's come in in 2017 here at Pyramyd Air. The gun is a little bit different than what we saw at IWE but very interesting nonetheless. This is a high-powered pre-charge pneumatic hunting pistol that's got a lot of really nice features. Let's take a look at them.
Now starting at the front of the gun, this is probably the only departure that you'll see if you looked at pictures of this gun from IWE, is the fixed suppressor on the end of the gun here, it's about a six-inch suppressor, gonna keep things nice and quiet because without it the gun barks quite a bit. The gun's putting out about 17 foot-pounds of energy in .22 caliber, obviously a little bit less in 177, and those are the two calibers it's available in. So, the suppressor is a really nice addition, and while it does make the gun fairly long at just over 19 inches, it doesn't make it unwieldy, and we'll show you that here on the range a little bit later. It still shoots very well. Just back at the suppressor we do have a fixed front sight and that matches up very nicely with your rear adjustable sight unit, and it is fully adjustable windage and elevation all in one comes very nicely into the sight line very low-profile sight there. Although we do have a Picatinny rail up top and then on the underside of the gun for any optics, you're gonna want to mount, we're probably going to go ahead and mount a pistol scope for the accuracy portion of this review because we were expecting very good accuracy out of this gun and it certainly deserves it but you could also mount a red dot if you didn't want to go with the open sight setup and of course the rail underneath is gonna be good for your lasers, flashlights, things like that, heck, you can even mount a bipod on it if you really wanted to. As far as air capacity goes, we do have a very small cylinder on this gun, important to note. We should be getting very good consistency, although I'm not expecting a heck of a lot of shots out of this gun, probably about 15, that said you do have a colorful pressure gauge on the front, 200 bar max fill pressure, about 2900 psi, and the gun does come with a fill port cover which I love, it's little things that get me, guys, and the fill probe itself. We have it decked out here with a quick disconnect fitting. It does not come with this quick disconnect fitting so note that you will need to get one if you're running a QD setup on your hose to fill it, but just goes right in the end there, you hook it up and you are good to go, very easy to use. Moving on back to the trigger, this is a two-stage, definitely a match grade trigger and it is adjustable as well so important to note there, but the trigger right out of the box guys this is probably breaking right about a pound, maybe a hair under. This trigger is awesome, alright breaks like glass first stage, second stage, you can perfectly define them with your finger and it just breaks super clean, a very nice trigger. Now, the safety unit on this gun you do actually have to cock the gun to engage the safety and it is ambidextrous. One thing you'll notice about this gun is that it is fully ambidextrous so the grip you can actually switch the cocking lever over the loading lever. You can switch everything over, but the safety is the one thing you do not need to switch. It's fully ambidextrous so we're just gonna flip that down, that puts it on safe. We can go ahead and try and pull the trigger, nothing happens, really easy to operate system, and then when you're ready and you want to go shoot it, you just flip it back up. It's very easy to use. So, the HW 44 is built on the same frame as the HW 110 basically so your actions gonna function and feel the same and it uses the same 10-round magazines. So, magazines look just like this, ten rounds in 177 and 22. Obviously, we have the 22 here. There is a bit of a trick to loading it though. So, on the side of the gun we do have this kind of loading lever here which actually keeps a pin that retains the magazine in place, so to go ahead and load it you just kind of flip this into the upward position and then slide your magazine in till it seats, and you'll know it's seated properly when this guy flips back forward, and you're all set to go. You push this forward you're loaded hot and ready to go. The gun does come with two magazines, really like that. Overall the gun feels pretty good, yes, it's a little bit long, but it's not too heavy. I want to say it's right around 2 pounds or so but ambidextrous grip so whether you're a right-handed or a left-handed shooter this is going to fit into your hand nicely. I don't have the biggest hands but there's still room for me to get to that palm shelf there, but a very nice feel putting it out there, points well, and again other than being a little bit long, this gun doesn't handle too poorly for such a long pistol and the fully ambidextrous nature of everything, whether it's the safety that I can get too easily or the mag release or the lever itself, everything on this gun can be swapped to the other side so that feature in and of itself has me won over right there. So, whether you're righty or a lefty this HW 44 should perform very well for you guys. There's one other thing I want to mention before we head out to the range. There is actually a way to D gas this pistol which is very neat. There's actually a little cutout here in the molded plastic here and you can actually fit an Allen key right into there. You twist it and you go ahead and degassed the cylinder, whether you need to do so for travel or maintenance, whatever you may need to do that for, you do have the ability to do that without having to just fire off a bunch of shots, so I do like that feature as well. Again, wire rack nails the little details here, guys, which is really cool. We're gonna head out to the range. Now, I have a Leapers 1.25 to 4 pistol scope here so it's going to give you that longer IRA leave, so we can fully extend out away from the gun, got some Picatinny mounts here to go ahead get this mounted up. We'll see you out at the range. Alright guys, just real quick wanted to show you a couple things before we get to the accuracy. To be able to get our best accuracy and see what this pistol can do, we're gonna go ahead and bench it just like you're seeing it here so got a bit of a front rest that's about all we're doing here, nothing too extensive, but one thing I did want to show you guys was the muzzle flip on this this gun seems to pop quite a bit when you pull the trigger on it, and I wanted to show you guys that right here, so check this out, so two-handed grip off the bag and you can see that gun jump as you fire it. There's a fair bit of muzzle flip so that is something to consider. It's not seeming to affect my accuracy at all, but definitely an interesting feel out of this HW 44 when you pull the trigger.
Alright, guys, it's starting out with our groupings here. At 25 yards, our Predator GTOs did very very well, under a half inch group of 0.45 7/16s or so, very accurate pellet. This is again ten shot groups here, the JSB 15.89s also pretty impressive about 0.6 inches or 5/8 so a nice little grouping there so you definitely got some pellet options. It seems to be favoring the JSP although these Crosman premier 14.3 domes did very well. I was quite surprised by this as a lower cost alternative pellet 3/4 of an inch at 25 yards, you know this is going to be a squirrel's head all day. Moving out to 45 yards, really testing the accuracy at long distance of this HW 44 pistol the GTOs, I was a little disappointed after that grouping at 25 yards, just barely under an inch here for 10 shots decent spread. You're still going to be able to hunt with this at that distance with those GTOs. The Crosman premiers put down a very nice group except for two little Flyers up top there 8 out of 10 in about 11/16s inch group, but overall 1-inch for 10 shots and probably our best pellet out there 45 to JSB 15.89 7/8s inch group right here for 10 shots, very accurate pistol, very impressed out of this gun. At 45 yards, you're definitely gonna have both the power and the accuracy to go after small game with this guy, with the JSB 15.89 zero looking at an average feet per second of about 690 or so which is pretty good. It's about 17 foot-pounds with those JSB 15.89 and again very, very consistent on that regulator. You're gonna get about 15 or 16 shots from 200 bar with a very tight extreme spread and obviously a very good standard deviation. The HW 44 is making very good use of a very small air capacity with that regulator.
Alright, guys, pretty impressed here with the HW 44, very accurate, very consistent chronograph numbers, super smooth operation, and obviously the fact that it's very quiet is a big plus in my world. The ambidextrous grips and the fact that you can swap everything over it is very nice in my opinion as well. A couple gripes though I'm not a huge fan of this kind of magazine retention lever system. It just makes getting mags in and out a little bit clunky almost, but other than that the gun really functions well. Again, I'd like to see a quick disconnect, you know, fitting on these guns, but I get it. You know, fill probe is whatever it is and at least they give you that fill port cover there to keep dust and debris out of the gun, but overall, I mean, those are very small gripes when a gun's doing sub half-inch groups at 25 yards and under 1-inch groups at 45 yards. This is a pistol remember that guys so off the bench of very impressive results here for the HW 44 and one you guys are definitely going to want to check out. The high price point is well justified in my opinion if you are looking for something that is going to be able to hunt or target shoot accurately in a pistol format so check it out on PyramydAir.com. For the Insyder, I'm Tyler Patner. As always, guys, don't forget to comment, like, and subscribe. We'll see you at the next one.
A balance of performance, quality features, and price point, the Chief is Beeman's first foray into budget-friendly, entry-level PCP guns.
Beeman QB Chief PCP Air Rifle Transcript:
Red 22. Blue 177. Gunslinger hut! Come on! What? What?
Whoo, guys, it was tough but we won the game. So today we are looking at the Beeman QB, which I looked online I couldn't find what it stands for so I decided instead for quarterback and then I realized that's not what it stands for, and it's out of the Beeman QB series. This is the Beeman QB Chief. Now this is Beeman's intro to the PCP airgun. It's a $180 airgun. It is very simple. It's for beginners, it's for people who want to just get in the PCP world without spending a fortune. So taking a look at this gun it's pretty simple, first of all, a very classic Woodstock, very nice, and like a typical rifle, I would say. Rubber buttstock nothing really adjustable on here, but you know as you look at it's a single-shot bolt-action 177, also comes in 22, you've got the rear adjustable sights here, the fiber optics, and the front side up there. Safety, safety is pretty simple, it's it's right here on the backside, so you know when you get ready to shoot you just flip it like that. It's not automatic at all, so when you cock it and load it, it's ready to go. And here's your dial, so you can see how many psi. It only takes 2,000 psi because like I said it's a small reservoir. You do get about 50 shots per fill. Up front, you've got that you snap that off. You got the male quick disconnect there, so works with any female hose, you just snap it on. Very simple we're seeing more and more that in the airgun world which I love because I hate fill probes. We've got it filled up to 2,000, so let's take some shots, check some accuracy, see what kind of feet per second we're getting. They say at the 177 you're gonna get maximum a thousand feet per second. I'm gonna shoot a couple different size pellets here and see what we do alright, see how accurate it is.
All right so here we go I've got the Meisterkugeln in the seven-grain, I've got H&N Sport at the 8.1 grain and I'm gonna have the Kodiaks at the 10.6 grain, I think it's gonna be too much for this gun but you'll see what it does, and I'm gonna shoot it through the the open sights. It does have an 11mm dovetail here that you can mount a scope on, which you can get at Pyramyd. So here we go, let's take a look-see and see what we got starting with the seven grain. 1,214! Now this says this says that they give you get a max velocity of 1,000 fps on the 177. All right 989 ah that's interesting went from 1200, to 989 that's quite a jump. It's putting together a nice little group down there, didn't get a read on that one.
There we go 970, 600 there you okay so maybe that 1200 was a random one, it looks like it's 9 at high 900, it possibly over 1000. Let's move on and check out the 8 grain see what kind of group we can do there. Pretty impressive group again, like I said, for this gun.
9 54, again pretty nice group. A very nice group, come on Chrony, now that was shooter error, a little bit to the right. Ah there we got 954.1, so mid 900s with the 9 grain. Let's just take a look at the at the 10 grain, that's gonna drop it out about quite a bit but let's see what we've got. Very accurate. So so you're getting is like it's you're getting the 700s with the 10 grain. Now here's the one thing we shot about 20 shots now, and I'm getting close to out of the green, so as far as you know consistently get like, it says up to like, get 50 shots, I don't know if you're gonna get 50 shots on one fill you may get it if you take it down to zero but I got imagine after a thousand, you're gonna you're gonna get quite a bit of drop-off you know. I just want to reach out and see let's just check it out at 50 yards see what this thing can do. I'm impressed, I mean 2,000 psi you expect not a whole lot of power, small reservoir, but this gun has some good power so I think you can, you and you would be able to put to get a group together 50 yards. So let's check it out and see what it can do alright. 50 yards. Golly a 1030.
Yeah 837 that's how that makes a little bit more sense I'm getting kind of low, lower on air but again 993, so this is one interesting thing. I feel like the power's a little all over the place, the guns still pretty consistent 816. So you know I'd say your shot string from what I'm seeing, is about 20-22-25 shots that are gonna be pretty consistent and then it kind of gets a little weird from there. Um that's enough paper for me, I mean the fact this thing that I've got it, I've got a nice enough group at 50 yards with open sights, like I feel pretty good about it. Let's shoot some targets, have some fun, and see what this thing is really all about.
-Alright yeah. Let's see, let's see, let's get some skeet up there.
-Bang, there you go that's what I'm talking about. Can! Apple!
Apple. The slow roll of Apple death. I really want to hit this chalk, this purple chalk right here. There! The air is getting low want to see if this has the power to pop a over 100 psi bottle. Boom! Yes it does Beeman QB Chief. There it is guys I mean that's all kinds of target up to 50 yards, this is an intro PCP gun 180 bucks. I don't know what else you want out of it, I mean it's a great little gun, like I said it's only takes 2000 psi, which you can pump up with a hand pump in like less than 100 pumps. That's it for this Pyramyd Outsyder I'm Rossi Morealle, thanks for watching.
In the late 19th century, Russia developed a fabulous firearm that's still popular today. This is a faithful BB gun copy, but with a sawed-off barrel.
Video Transcript Below:
Sorry, okay, sorry, sorry, that got weird, but I just didn't have a knife and I really want some watermelon, oh there’s a little bit there too. Hey, welcome to Pyramyd Outsyder. Are you kidding me? I mean, if my gun’s got a bayonet on it, I'm gonna give something the old “get get get get get.” How do you not, right? It's got a bayonet on it, that's awesome. Let's talk about this. So this is the Gletcher M1944 or the Mosin Nagant M1944 which is the original gun. It's an old Russian legend gun. This gun was made from like the mid 1800s all the way through 1950 so this is a gun they used in World War II. These guns, the real version of this gun, is very expensive now so they say that, you know, if you get one of these that could go up in price as a collector's item, you know, if you're, if you're a fan.
Let's take a look at it here. It's got a polymer stock. It's not wood. It looks wood but it's not, it's a it's a polymer stock, but it still looks like the real thing which is which is very cool. It's got this dog collar strap here which you could, it's got the holes in there in the rifle where they originally were, everything I've seen it compared to, talking even to the Godfather, this gun is looks as real as the real 1944 carbine which is very cool, and if you're a collector, this is something that should be very interesting to you. It's got the bolt action. The way it works it's a, it's a single bolt action, so you cock it every time you shoot it. It is a repeater BB gun so let me just show you under here, so what looks like the magazine and and looks like the original kind of magazine setup on the actual gun, it just slides out and see that's where your co2 cartridge goes and where your BB's go, so you get 16 BB's in there. You've got your co2 cartridge, and it's kind of cool, it's got this little hex key right there for when you tighten it up. Now the BB’s are interesting because you have to bring this down and then you load them one at a time through this hole so you kinda have to hold it at a weird angle, slide one BB in, and they slide down, then when you're ready, don't forget to do this, so you slide this in, you know, and then once you put the magazine in, it's pretty cool because it's a bolt-action and it works so you pull back. Now, you won't actually see a BB go in because that's all happening internal in the chamber inside, but when you rack it, a BB goes in there, so you can't just keep racking if you don't fire cuz you'll just you'll put multiple BB's in the chamber. So, when you you're good to go at that point. For the safety, it’s safety's kind of interesting because, and you gotta be careful cuz you you pulls back just a little bit and you turn it, that lifts this bolt act a little bit, if you go too far it will throw the bolt back and it'll come back in, and you will be then cock the gun again, so you wanna be very careful about that, and then you just pop it back in when you're ready to fire. So, there's your safety and that's how it works. Be careful about loading two BB's.
Now, let's get through this cool little feature. At the bayonet, just put this guy back on safe, it has, you know, it has the the rear sights here that are you can adjust them for windage and elevation, it's got your front, your hooded front sight there which is good, it makes it pretty accurate, and then you've got this bayonet on the end which is, you know, when I first saw this I was like what in the world would you use it for, but you do instinctual, you go and you you stab fruit with it. It kind of makes it fun if you're gonna do some reenactment or, you know, just playing around. It's not really sharp but, you know, it's made of solid material and you just slide this up right here, fold it down, and it's like it's like there's no bayonet, and you can see if you look down, you can still shoot it with the bayonet out.
It's go time. Let's take a look. Let's chrony it. Let's take a look at how the feet-per-second. Let's check some accuracy, supposed to be a pretty accurate gun. Let's see what it can do, shall we?
Alright then, here we go. Let's take a couple of shots and see what the M1944 can do. Love that, I mean, that is, and look at that group, I mean, that's it, that's a quarter-inch group, I mean, you know, I work ten yards away, I wouldn't be surprised if you could, you know, reach out a little bit further, but there's another, you know, three three .378 a little bit lower, so my co2 might be it might be losing out a little bit, but, gosh, great accuracy for a BB gun, very legit, very, very well-made. Let's go to the fun range shall we and take a look-see at some target shooting. Let's do it.
I'm trying to take off. Oh, no helicopter. Red guy? Oh, red guy. Topical guys, the bunker, oh, I'll get that one. Jock on the right? Oh, nice. Let's see we can do with these little orange rings, shall we? Bang. Bang. Bang. I win. Bang. Hey, oh come on! I'm out. Here's a load this sucker up again. The bottom ones consider those hit. They're hit. I want to try downrange a little bit. I've got some Dr. Pepper cans at like 20 yards. Let's see if they got the power to pop those Dr. Pepper cans, shall we?
That's in 20 yards with a BB gun. Boom, that's what I'm talking about! Guys, this thing is awesome. The M1944, it's the Russian legends, oh my gosh, fantastic, okay, I know you're thinking I'm almost done, it's bayonet time. Let’s roll and a field target. I lost my mind a little bit there, but I mean, it comes with a bayonet. That's awesome, guys. That's it for this episode of Pyramyd Outsider. We're outside, we're having fun. You guys get your air guns, go to pyramydair.com buy some air guns and have some fun. See you next time.
You'll be hard pressed to find a PCP pistol as lightweight and powerful as the Evanix Rex.
Video Transcript Below:
Today on the Pyramyd Outsyder, it's the of Evanix Rex P. Never had a chance, that little t-rex never had a chance with the Rex P. Are you kidding me? This, my friends, is the absolute most powerful handgun/airgun you're ever going to put in your hands. This is the Evanix Rex P. There's the Rex, it's a, it's a, it's a rifle, full-size rifle, much longer air air tank here on the back where you would where your air goes, but this is the pistol version. So, Rex P the P stands for pistol. This is the .45 caliber. It comes in .20 to .25, .357, and .45. I don't have time for that other, those little tiny calibers, I had to go right to the .45 caliber and see what this thing is all about and it is an absolute beast. I mean, this thing, look at this, you have your option of basically a bullet which we shoot in our .45 caliber rifles, they got the ball which is also fun because you can do different things with it and carries a different different power and an accuracy process, and then this is new, this is the first one I've ever seen these, these are the JSB predator XXLs and it's basically, not basically, it is a giant pellet. There's a giant pellet so now you can use these for certain types of competitions that you have to have a pellet. You can use a .45 caliber now which I've had to use 357s in the past, so very exciting.
So, let's take a look at this thing. It doesn't come with a scope. It does have the weaver rail up here. I threw a UTG laser dot on there just because, I don't know, it looks cool and it's super fun, but basically, you're looking at a very tactical, you know, steel frame. It's got a plastic handle, everything else is steel, and then back here is the air reservoir which you can actually unscrew and you can have you can have multiple of these with you. In the .45 caliber, you're only gonna get 4 to 5 shots with this thing because it's it's it packs a wallop for sure, not to mention it's super loud, which I love especially when I'm hunting dinosaurs. I like for the other dinosaurs to know that I'm there, so they don't come creeping through the woods. One for the gun reviews. Back there you can see how much air you've got in there, at 200 bar is the, well 220 is the max, in the green it's 200 bar to 100 bar, 220 bar is about 30 almost 30, 200 psi so it's pretty good air pressure in there and it's a fill it. You just take that off. It comes with its probe, right, so you just take the back off, hook this up to your tank obviously, and just pop it in and there you go. I mean, I got to tell you, though it's a .45 caliber, so I don't know if you shot an actual .45 handgun lately, but they're not the easiest thing to control if you're not used to it, so it's definitely, you want your targets close, so you can hit them.
The other cool thing here is the cocking mechanism. So, it's under lever here. It's part of where the trigger guard is or it is the trigger guard, I guess, so, you know, you just, it comes down, cock right here, you can see the breech opens, that's where you load it up there on top and then as you close it, and then so you've got this little piece right here that you have to you just bend down and then it closes. That's it. You got your safety right here, safe fire, so, you know, as you can see it's pretty simple right there. It is known, what I hear, as the hand cannon so I'm gonna test it. Obviously, I'm not gonna test for accuracy because that has nothing to do with the gun, that has everything to do with me, but I'm gonna look at some, I wanna, I wanna shoot each one of these, see what kind of foot feet per seconds we're getting, look at the foot-pounds. They say you're in some calibers, you're getting like 90 foot-pounds, maybe even more at the .45, I don't know, but let's put up the test and see what this thing is all about.
Alright, so, first things first, I'm going to start with the ball. The ball is a hundred and forty-three grain. It's the smallest of all these. So, let's pop it in. So, there as you can see, it just kind of goes in and then you kind of seed it a little bit, but it doesn't go all the way in, so, you know, just be aware of that, and then close her down. We are ready to go. Here we go with the ball seat it in there, bring her back and bang, okay, so we've taken a grams with chrony. She's a 449 with 143 grain. That seems a little low to me, but real quickly, we're just gonna charge it up. We'll show you how that's done. It's like I said, you pop the black cap off there, slide her in, fill it up to 200 bar, and you get about four good shots at 200 bar, so there you go, simple enough, right? So, the ball, so 450 feet per second, let's move to the, This is the ball, this is a 200-grain bullet here. So, let's take a look at that ready 555 so that bullet goes faster than round ball. The round ball is at 449, the bullets at 555, and it's 60 60 grams heavier so that's pretty cool. 555 if you think 555 feet per second at 200 grains at 671, you're looking at that would be a 200 foot-pound so even if you cut that cut that half which is 675 to 5 only 100 feet per second off, I mean, you're looking at a hundred and something foot-pounds doing the math in my head. 671 is where you get one times the weight of the pellet so 555 120 feet per second less so you're getting like a hundred and fifty hundred and twenty foot-pounds with that. That's crazy.
Here we go, let's take a look, so this is the pellet and it's 243 gram. There we go, let's see what kind of powers. This thing is putting out three hundred three hundred and fifty-seven feet per second with a 243-grain pellet. That is some serious foot poundage. Alright, guys, as you can see this thing has got power. It is awesome. Let's take you to the fun range and blow some stuff up, come on.
Alright, I'm gonna go with the hollow-point 200 grain. Here we go. Bottle. Let's try that watermelon. Are you ready? So, there it is again into the wood, a solid, I mean, it's like an inch in there. I missed the cinder block. Cinder block, you're not done. I mean that's a that's a solid chunk of concrete out of there. This thing is absolutely, that's wild, can't get over it, I mean, listen, this thing has got mass amounts of power, tons of foot-pounds, is it a little difficult to shoot, sure it is, it's a .45 caliber hand cannon so it has kick, it has, it's gonna throw your scope off depending on what you put on there, got to make sure you get the right scope, but this is the Evainx Rex P .45 pistol. You've seen the rifle. The rifle is absolutely amazing. The pistol is just awesome; it's fun, it's scary-looking, it's intimidating, and you can get it at Pyramyd Air. That's it for this Pyramyd Outsyder. I hope you guys had as much fun as I have. See you next time.
PCP airgunners long for affordable guns that are consistent as well as powerful, and Umarex has answered the call!
Video Transcript Below:
Welcome to the Pyramyd Insyder. I’m Tyler Patner. Today, we have probably the most highly anticipated product of 2017, the Umarex Gauntlet in .22 caliber. Let's get to it. Alright guys, I'm really excited we're bringing you the Gauntlet here in .22 caliber, and this is a production gun. We've seen a lot of other content out there on pre-production models. I've had the opportunity to shoot a couple iterations of the pre-production guns, and they've all been phenomenal. They set a very high standard and we had the opportunity to put one of those guns on video for you guys, but we chose not to release that content because, quite frankly, I don't care about what a pre-production gun can do. It all matters if the production gun that's going to get into your guys' hands can do it too so that's what we're doing today. We're gonna take a look at the Gauntlet in .22 caliber here and see if it lives up to the high standard that the pre-production models have set.
Alright guys, starting at the front of the Gauntlet, of course, one of the hallmark features of the gun, fully shrouded barrel, it's a 23 and a half inch barrel. Underneath this full-length shroud, it's about a 28-inch shroud unit and we do have kind of a mono course style baffle system, so it's not like some guns we've seen where their individual baffles are inside. There it's actually a two-piece unit that comes together which means you really shouldn't have any problems with clipping or anything like that. So, overall that should be a very good design and the gun is very quiet. We're gonna, of course, sound test it for you guys, and see how performs there, moving back under the barrel, we do have a 13 cubic inch bottle. Now, this bottle translates to about 200 plus CC's, just a little over that actually 200 CC mark of air capacity, and it's a 3,000 psi fill, so a standard fill in a very similar air size to what you have on like your Benjamin Marauders and guns in that kind of range. You do have your gauge on the right-hand side of the gun and then we do have a male quick disconnect fitting on the left-hand side of the gun. This is really nice, really convenient. You have plenty of space to fit your female QD in there on the end of your hose. Whether you're pumping or filling with a tank, this is going to be super easy to connect to. This cage portion actually does remove so you can remove the bottle and you remove it via the swivel stud. So, you take this full stud completely out and then you just kind of squeeze the cage portion and bring it off, the bottle is actually integral to the regulator, so you can actually purchase regulated bottles for this gun to fit right on here, and our Air Venturi 13 cubic inch bottle does fit right onto this gun. You can purchase it right now if you wanted to have a spare cylinder going with you. One thing I do want to note though is that it does come with this degassing tool and you do have to degas as the cylinder to go ahead and remove it. So, to do that you would just insert the degassing key right here and then twist all the way around. You'll hear it go, it vents out the barrel, so make sure your unloaded with the magazine removed when you go ahead and degas that cylinder, and of course, you guys will note that I did say it is a regulated bottle which does mean the Gauntlet should have regulated performance. What that means is that we should get very consistent shot-to-shot velocities as well as a lot of shots. They're claiming about 60 shots on a 3000 psi filled down to that 1150 psi regulator pressure. We're gonna obviously put it over the chronograph and see if that holds true. We'll find out the pre-production guns that we've shot all hold up to that claim so we'll find out if the production guns do as well.
Taking a closer look at the breech, guys, we do have a repeater action, so you do have a 10-round magazine in .22, same in .177. I have confirmed that the Marauder magazines will work in these, very nice magazine. We know it's a reliable system. They've been used for a long time and overall I've had no problems around in this magazine, no jams, anything like that. The guns do also come with a single shot tray which is nice if you want to get just, milk a little bit more, accuracy out of the gun and the way you load those is via a side bolt action so a nice big bolt here to go ahead and grab onto, simply goes up and back and then you're gonna slide it down into that rear position to go ahead and insert your magazine or your single-shot tray. They have a nice audible snap in when you go ahead and put them in and then when you're ready to go you just simply push the bolt forward and you're all set, really easy to operate system. The gun decocks like just about any other PCP does. You simply hold the bolt back, go ahead pull the trigger, you hear that click and then you can slowly slide it forward, you're all good to go.
The safety dropping down here is a flip style safety so that is your safe position right there and when you're ready to go hot, you just simply flip that forward and you're set to go. We do have a metal trigger blade as well and Umarex says that via the manual that it is adjustable. We didn't adjust it for this video here. I can tell you guys it has a pretty long take-up, but it comes to that consistent stop for that supposed second stage wall, if you want to say it that way, although, again, with that long take-up, calling it a two-stage trigger out-of-the-box maybe not so true, but it doesn't break that heavy. It's right around three pounds and again very consistent when you get to that second stage wall so I don't have any problems with this trigger as it's set up. I do know it can go lighter as well as have a more defined first second stage, so that's good to know. It's capable of that and coming up to the top of the breech. We do have an 11 millimeter dovetail and it is a split breech design so you do have a dovetail section in front of and behind your magazine, all depends on the length of scope you're gonna be using because we're using a 3 to 12 compact swat-style leaper scope today, you really don't need to go ahead and mount it both forward and backwards to get that proper eye relief, and you'll note that we have plenty of room. I'll show you here to go ahead and get our magazine in without causing any contact between the gun and the scope, but that is something to consider. You're probably going to want to go with high rings with most optics on this gun just to make sure you can clear that magazine, and of course, we do have a fully synthetic stock on this gun with an adjustable cheek piece, which is an awesome feature to see, especially for a gun in this 300 dollar price range. Rubber butt pad on the back really cool, note by the way you simply loosen the swivel stud here on the bottom to go ahead and adjust this via the thumb wheel and this is actually your vertical up-and-down adjustment of the cheek piece and then when you get it locked in and in that position that's best for you in your scope height, you're going to want to go ahead and then crank this clockwise to tighten it down and that's going to lock you in place, really nice feature. Overall guys, the Gauntlet feels pretty nice and balanced, is quite well out there, I find that this kind of swooped out section is where balance is best for me. Offhand, you are talking about roughly eight, eight and a half pound gun without a scope and a 46 inch overall length which is on the long side, but it is very quiet and we do need that extra shroud length to keep it that way. Overall, really like the feel though it does have that kind of cheap plasticy feel that a lot of synthetic stock guns do, but so overall pretty impressed, but I'm really excited to get this out to the range guys and see what it can do on paper and over the chronograph so let's head out and check out those results.
Alright guys, we decided to take the Gauntlet straight out to 45 yards. There's really no point in testing really any PCP closer than that for the most part and the results are pretty good. We tested about 10 pellets in the Gauntlet and we found that 3 did better than most so we're talking about 1-inch groups is what my personal wanting was in this gun, you know, if we could do a 1 inch 10 shot group at 45 yards, I consider that a pretty solid grouping, not great but pretty solid, and the predator GTO is delivered right at about an inch for 10 shots, not too bad, but we definitely can do better. The JSP 15.89s you got a 3/4 inch group. They're very tight, little spread there, the regulator is certainly doing its job keeping those shots consistent and the H&N field target trophy is also coming in right at about 3/4 of an inch so pretty good groups, again 10 shot groups. So, they're gonna be a little bit bigger than they would be if they were 5, but the Gauntlet could certainly deliver out a distance 45 yards sub 1-inch groups, pretty impressed with the Gauntlet.
So, with our most accurate pellet the JSB exact jumbo 15.89 grain, we're looking at an average feet per second of about 790 789, which is right about 22 foot-pounds. Now, the important part here, Umarex claims 60 shots per fill and they hit that number on the money from a 3,000 psi fill down to that 1100 psi regulated mark with an extreme spread at 18 feet per second and a standard deviation of only 3.3 feet per second. The numbers are pretty impressive here, guys, it's a little on the large spread side for a regulated gun, but still anything under that 25 foot per second mark really isn't going to impact your accuracy downrange, out to about 50-60 yards so gotta say, these numbers are looking very impressive and exactly what Umarex is touting.
Alright guys, there's not a lot I can say for the Gauntlet that it doesn't say for itself on paper, very impressive offering in a three hundred dollar package. Quite frankly, this is mind blowing a little bit to see where the airgun industries come to in such a short time and for Umarex is first offering into the PCP market. This is definitely one you're gonna want to have an eye on, again 300 bucks, you really can't go wrong here. You're talking about three-quarter-inch 10-shot group accuracy at forty-five yards. You got decent power. It's a little underpowered in my opinion for a .22 right about 22 foot-pounds with those 15.89s, but you're getting sixty shots on a fill, guys, that's unreal, okay, and of course, the fact that it's regulated means you're gonna have very consistent results as well which is why we have such good accuracy out of this gun. It's quiet. It's accurate multi-shot capability. The trigger can be adjusted. The stock's adjustable. There's a lot of features packed into this gun. Guys, definitely check this one out on pyramydair.com guys, when you have a chance to. You know, as always, comment down below, tell us what you think about the Gauntlet, what else you'd like to see going forward in the future, hit us with that like button, and don't forget to subscribe. As always, Tyler Patner for the Insyder, we'll see you guys at the next one.
Introducing the TexanSS, AirForce's silenced solution for big bore fans. As easy on the eyes as it is on the ears, the TexanSS features a fully-shrouded carbine length barrel with Sound-Loc System technology. The TexanSS keeps the penetrating power hunters long for, but with quieter shots.
Video Transcript Below:
Welcome to the Pyramyd Insyder. I’m Tyler Patner. Today we're gonna be taking a look at a brand new one from AirForce Airguns, the TexanSS and 457. So, we saw the TexanSS at the Shot Show 2017 back in January and now it's finally here. Not a lot of changes from the traditional Texan platform at least from the back half of a gun. You're still talking about a four hundred and ninety CC bottle, the same non-adjustable trigger as you're gonna find on the rest of the Air Force line, side cocking mechanism and single loading, of course, which all functions flawlessly.
The Texan is a tried-and-true platform at this point with the .45 caliber being the most popular of the three. So, the TexanSS made sense to come out in that .45 caliber. Now what AirForce has changed about this gun, of course, is a shorter barrel so we're going from 34 inches to 24 and 3/4 inches and, of course, a full-length shroud system that's gonna sit off the front of the barrel making the total gun about 45 inches.
The moniker SS fits on many of the AirForce guns. They have an EscapeSS, a Talon SS, a Condor SS, and now of course the TexanSS. SS standing for super silent meaning that the gun is supposed to be quieter than the non-shrouded version. Now, with the small bore guns, that's always proven to be very true in all cases they're very, very quiet, but we don't know how that's going to happen with a big bore. Here we have a very large shroud, a lot of volume. It is a very large diameter can here and you have about four baffles inside as best as I can tell that should dampen the noise significantly. Now, I'm gonna guess that we're talking still on the relative loud side for most air gunners out there, probably not going to be a backyard friendly gun, but for those of you that are hunting out in the field, using this in big wide-open spaces, this is going to alleviate the need for hearing protection which is something that, quite frankly, I don't like wearing big earphones and I don't find that the little earbuds do it for me in most cases, especially when you're talking about guns that go over a hundred and twenty decibels for example like the normal Texans do, so this SS model should give us the ability to remove that hearing protection as well as keep a little bit of that silence factor, especially if we're going after some larger game.
Now, we're gonna take the TexanSS out to the range, put it through the normal battery of tests. We got a couple bullets lined up. I've already done a little bit of pre-shooting, haven't put it on our sound meter yet and obviously haven’t chronograph yet for you guys either. So, they're claiming 400-foot pounds out of this and you really shouldn't see any diminished accuracy with that shorter barrel, but we're gonna find out what it does at 45 yards. Let's head out to the range and check it out.
Alright, guys, before we get to the accuracy in the velocities and all that stuff, you'll notice I'm not wearing hearing protection with the SS. It's really not needed in my opinion even though we are in a pretty tight confined space, so if you're gonna be outside, you're probably not going to need hearing protection, at least I wouldn't, but right now indoors with the noise bouncing off the walls, it's definitely a little bit louder than it's going to be outside, and we're gonna throw it on the sound meter compared to a regular Texan and show you guys that difference, but just my take on it, don't need hearing protection which means that SS is doing its job well. So, let's head down range and see what we can do with these slugs.
Alright, guys, so we tested pretty much all the ammo options that we offer here at Pyramyd in this 457 size, came down to 4 that basically did the best for us out of the TexanSS here. First off, they got the JSB, the 234 grain XXL's, about an inch and a quarter group, maybe a little bit smaller than that in 323 foot-pounds, so definitely moving pretty good, although, not our most accurate option, you do have the 350 grainers coming in right again above an inch and a quarter so and generating 431 foot-pounds. That's a lot of power and our most powerful projectile here out of this text and SS, but still not terribly satisfied with the group, and then coming in at 407 foot-pounds is that 411-grain slug. That's a big freaking chunk of lead, guys, pretty impressive results, obviously, three shots with one going into that same hole there. This is gonna be a lot of power and very accurate, but our most accurate is definitely gonna be the 405 grain 406 foot-pounds of energy out of the 405 is about 670 feet per second at their highest. Guys, this is absolutely phenomenal grouping right here out of this Texan SS. Again, about 3 shots is what you're gonna get on a fill from something this heavy, but awesome groups, definitely get yourself some of these 405's and 411s if you're gonna get you a TexanSS.
Alright, guys, you'll notice we use the 357 Texan and not a 457 Texan here for the unshrouded testing purely because it's what we had on hand. The 457 is definitely a little bit louder in that unshrouded version, but that said, if we look at the audio files here, you can see just how much higher those peaks are for the sound on the 357 unshrouded Texan versus the Texan SS, so you know while that 5 DB difference may not seem like that much, it's actually very significant. It's a completely different sound profile which really gives the Texan SS a huge advantage.
Alright, guys, so to wrap things up on the TexanSS here, obviously, very impressive results downrange 45 yards 1/2 inch group basically cloverleaf in them at that 45 yard mark with 400 plus foot-pounds at the muzzle, these 405s, the 411 grain slugs, definitely going to be the ones to get, the 350 SR all right and they do produce a little bit more energy, but I'm sticking to those 400 plus grain slugs. They were very impressive downrange.
One thing definitely want to note there, we did three shot groups obviously, the gun only does about three shots per fill. You sure you could eke out a fourth if you really had to in the field, but for our purposes to get that best accuracy, we're refilling after three so that's why we did three shot groups.
Overall, though, I got to say that SS, the super silent, the sound moderator on the end of this, guys, is doing its job well. To be able to take the earphones off and be able to shoot comfortably without any hearing protection is a big plus in my book, and if you're looking for some extra stealth in the field, this is definitely gonna give it to you without compromising too much in the way of power, so if you are going after some big game or if you want to shoot long range with the AirForce airgun the TexanSS is definitely going to be one to check out and compare.
As always, guys, we want to hear back from you. Tell us what you thought of the video and if there's anything else you'd like to see comment down below. Don't forget to subscribe, hit us with that like button, for the Insyder, I'm Tyler Patner, we'll see you guys at the next one.
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