If you looked carefully, there was a new PCP airgun being displayed at Extreme Benchrest 2024. It’s the new Western Airguns Mordax Carbine.
That makes it the second new product to appear at EBR. The other was the new, “secret” Daystate we have covered already.
In fact, the Mordax was displayed openly and undisguised. One lucky person even won one as a raffle prize! And, boy, was there a lot of hopeful tickets in the box for this one, before the winner was called.
This is it…
The Mordax was also available for anyone to shoot. So I did, of course
With that little red dot sight mounted, the Mordax was certainly a fun proposition to shoot!
Accuracy is anticipated to be a strong suit as the gun will be fitted with a SubMOA barrel.
Everyone was shooting the Mordax with the stock folded into position. So, I’m calling it a carbine, however I believe it’s official title is “pistol”.
Whatever the correct word, the Mordax is a compact, selective-fire airgun with a folding stock. It looks very much like a miniaturized version of the Western Airguns Sidewinder.
There’s a removable, 15-round rotary magazine and the gun is to be available in .22 as well as .25 and .30 calibers.
The gun I shot was in .22 cal and Western Airguns preliminary specifications for performance in that caliber are as follows.
| Regulator Pressure | Shots Per Fill | Muzzle Energy | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | 120 Bar (1,740 PSI) | Up to 45 | Up to 11.7 Ft/Lbs |
| As Shipped | 140 Bar (2.030 PSI) | Up to 15 | Up to 25.6 Ft/Lbs |
| Maximum | 190 Bar (2,750 PSI) | Up to 7 | Up to 41.3 Ft/Lbs |
The left side of the action shows the fire selector/safety switch, together with the regulator pressure gauge. (The fill pressure is shown by a gauge on the end of the tube).
That’s an AR15-type pistol grip. Also an interesting detail is that the quick connect HPA nipple is actually one end of a fill probe that can be pulled out and re-installed on the other side of the action, as required.
I don’t have details of the exact length and weight. However, the small size of the Western Airguns Mordax Carbine makes it ideal for shooters of smaller stature, as we can see below.
Western Airguns tells me that the Mordax has the capability for caliber interchange through swapping the barrel. There’s also short and long HPA tubes. The gun you see being shot has a long barrel and tube. The raffle gun shown above had short versions.
Price and availability were not finalized at the time of EBR. But it’s my understanding that the Mordax will be available very soon. Like – possibly – November.
The price? Dunno. It’s obviously not going to be cheap, but the “fun factor” is likely to have them flying off the shelves. I’d keep watching this Airguns of Arizona web page for price and availability.
HAM will bring you more details as soon as we have them available…
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