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Old 02-07-2019, 07:23 PM
Gelrir Gelrir is offline
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I'm no expert on air rifles, I dunno what the "most tactical" would currently be. There's two areas to consider:
  1. manually-pumped rifles
  2. pneumatic cylinder (stored air) rifles

Some examples:

I see an AirForce Talon SS, which can be had up to 0.25" bore, and feeds from a tank. A .49 liter tank can be filled from a compressor or by hand pump (not part of the rifle itself). It's powerful enough that a suppressor is available for it! At .25 caliber the top muzzle velocity is 665 feet per second. E-factor is 3.

The Seneca Double Shot is a double-barrel gun, fed from a tank, and firing up to .50 caliber ammo. It uses a 0.24 liter tank which will give 5 shots of round balls at "up to 600 feet per second". E-factor is 6 for round ball.

Neither of those is going to be made by people who don't have advanced materials for the tank, valves, etc. An older, lower-tech example:

Benjamin 342 hand-pumped .22 pellet rifle. It holds ten .22" pellets in an internal magazine. The shooter has to pump the front end three to ten times between shots. They have nice wooden stocks, brass receivers and barrels (under dark finish), and a barrel shroud that makes them look like ... well, less like a air gun, more like a .22 LR maybe. They need their internal rubber components replaced every few ... years, decades? Weight 3 kg. Muzzle velocity can easily be 550 feet per second. E-factor is 2.


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