Northeastbeast
HAM Sniper
Custom bigbore appreciation post:
Left to right Corsair 308, One of one 452 Jack Haley Carbine in High grade wallnut stock. Pistols are Quackenbush 50 & 308 pistols.
Years ago there were no mass production bigbore air rifles. If you wanted one there were a handful of guys pushing the limits of what an air rifle could truly do. Jack Haley & Dennis Quackenbush were leading the pack. Randy Mitchell entered with his Corsair rifles and the power race was on. Guys like
Dan Mcvey who started XP airguns was one of the first to break the 500 foot pound mark. Extreme bigbores came soon after with there take on high power bigbore.
When Jack Haley passed away his apprentice John Bowman created the 257 scandalous pushing the range of bigbore airguns.
2015 Airforce airguns enters the chat with there .457 Texan making the worlds first mass production bigbore air rifle capable of 500 foot pounds. You no longer had to get on a list and wait a year or more to have a bigbore for hunting.
Guys like Mr Hollowpoint making ammo for all of these guns and testing them. Showing the world what air rifles were capable of.
UpNorth AirGunner aka Chris Turek with his youtube channel showing how far these rifle could shoot making some incredible unhurd of at this time shots.
Cedric Sophus from Tofazfou HPA adventures building custom 257 Airforce condors with the help of another Custom Airforce airguns builder Doug Nobal.
The Koreans are not to be forgotten as they produced some great and powerful bigbores under the samyang brand.
There are so many more people I could name that had a hand in bigbore airgun history but we would be here all day.
Respect to the ones who paved the way for the new generation of airgunners. And be thankful for all of these people. We now have so many bigbore options from 257 to 82 caliber and everything inbetween. Breaking 1k footpounds.
Left to right Corsair 308, One of one 452 Jack Haley Carbine in High grade wallnut stock. Pistols are Quackenbush 50 & 308 pistols.
Years ago there were no mass production bigbore air rifles. If you wanted one there were a handful of guys pushing the limits of what an air rifle could truly do. Jack Haley & Dennis Quackenbush were leading the pack. Randy Mitchell entered with his Corsair rifles and the power race was on. Guys like
Dan Mcvey who started XP airguns was one of the first to break the 500 foot pound mark. Extreme bigbores came soon after with there take on high power bigbore.
When Jack Haley passed away his apprentice John Bowman created the 257 scandalous pushing the range of bigbore airguns.
2015 Airforce airguns enters the chat with there .457 Texan making the worlds first mass production bigbore air rifle capable of 500 foot pounds. You no longer had to get on a list and wait a year or more to have a bigbore for hunting.
Guys like Mr Hollowpoint making ammo for all of these guns and testing them. Showing the world what air rifles were capable of.
UpNorth AirGunner aka Chris Turek with his youtube channel showing how far these rifle could shoot making some incredible unhurd of at this time shots.
Cedric Sophus from Tofazfou HPA adventures building custom 257 Airforce condors with the help of another Custom Airforce airguns builder Doug Nobal.
The Koreans are not to be forgotten as they produced some great and powerful bigbores under the samyang brand.
There are so many more people I could name that had a hand in bigbore airgun history but we would be here all day.
Respect to the ones who paved the way for the new generation of airgunners. And be thankful for all of these people. We now have so many bigbore options from 257 to 82 caliber and everything inbetween. Breaking 1k footpounds.
