Moonbogg wrote: ↑Fri Jun 18, 2021 3:35 pm
I agree with JSR. I wouldn't expect any major revolutions in the airgun world, but instead continued incremental evolution and possibly changing popularity trends. You can already buy a PCP semi-auto that will shoot the wings off a gnat. What would really get me excited is the commercialization of SPUD GUNS! But we all know how much governments all over the planet hate spud guns for some really odd reason, so that's unlikely to happen. Besides, not enough commercial interest anyway. Sureshot did the best job of it by far IMO, and they decided it wasn't worth it.
I'd love to work with a mass production machine shop and some other people to develop a consumer-grade spud gun with piston operated hybrid capabilities and all sorts of amazing versatile launching abilities, but when the price ends up being at least $5000 (which it would) all anyone will do is just laugh at it.
In my view, a 6.35 caliber hybrid that shoots high X, 60 or 70 points, well built with machines, is superior in power and autonomy to any pcp weapon on the market, and can be semi-automatic, as I demonstrated. .
It is not a compressed air weapon, but it has a lot to do with it. Aperte, maintains the benefit of not "kicking" when shooting, which gives precision, and high powers.
A weapon that incorporates a thermal stage is undoubtedly a possible evolution. The challenge is, as in any engineering project, in ensuring that the manufacturing costs are adequate. I do not see that it is something impossible to do, you just have to have the capital to face the project, the necessary publicity, and some vision.
Think of a weapon that handles at the moment of shooting, about 420 bar or more ... or that at the same firing speed of a pcp, it has a much higher autonomy.
Development is necessary, but it is definitely possible and feasible.