I think my .308 Texan SS is the cat’s meow. I like my other big bores, if you consider .30 pellet shooters big bore. But for an all purpose gun, the .308 SS is it. It can change between being a 80-140fpe .300 pellet shooter to a 196-215 fpe .308 slug shooter in seconds. If I had to do away will all my other guns, it would be the one I’d keep.
Quote from: Bullfrog on December 24, 2018, 03:14:27 PMI think my .308 Texan SS is the cat’s meow. I like my other big bores, if you consider .30 pellet shooters big bore. But for an all purpose gun, the .308 SS is it. It can change between being a 80-140fpe .300 pellet shooter to a 196-215 fpe .308 slug shooter in seconds. If I had to do away will all my other guns, it would be the one I’d keep.InterestingSee, Bullfrog is hunting (hogs say) in Florida where I am hunting hogs in entirely different terrain. He seems to get one shot and his Texan works. I have been doing feral hog clearance for landowners because hogs here are overrunning and destroying land {that's why Texas openned up EVERYTHING, shooting from helicopters, full auto, silencers, etc} and my .357 or .457 Texan did the job but I lost that 2nd and 3rd shot on the sounders of hogs because it's a single shot. I even tried a 500cc CF bottle in a Camel Back with the valve behind my neck and a long microbore hose staying connected to the rifle run under my clothes. And a hard foam slug holder on the rifle that enabled me to have a bullet right beside the loading port so I could 'speed load'.It works but is still too awkward so now I have gone to magazine rifles like Pitbull, FLEX, Ataman and I think I'm going to order a .357 Slayer to check out.Different conditions mean different rifles work better.Sure wish there was a searchable/filterable master list/spreadsheet of air rifles so a person could compare easier but I'm too busy to do it (and then it would have to be maintained as what was available changed... ).
Evanix has a nice line of guns.If you have the money, look at American Air Arms, top notch stuff there.The Airforce Texan is wildly popular, but I don't think I could/would want to carry one in the field, based on the way I often hunt, due to their size.I really like my Winchester 70-45, but an Evanix by any other name, shoots just as sweet.