.45 Cal/800fps Air Gun Protects Your Nuts – AirForce Rifles – SHOT Show 2015

Nice concept poor execution. Air Force airguns are very low quality and more marketing hype than gun. If you willing to swap lots of parts and spend $$ they can be decent shooters but still not great. For something quality look into Rapid Air Weapons or something along those lines.
This Texan does not even seem to hold its own power well with its frame warping during the shot. Want an affordable and Big Bore?; go Korean and you get a better quality multi shot with decent wooden stock for less $$

Very interesting that they finally came out with a big bore. The Airforce platform has a history of being being modified to various calibers, as its modular design lends itself to being easier to tinker with… I am not so impressed with the .45 as they are getting all their velocity through the length of the barrel and with such a big surface area to push the big bullet, along with a big volume of air ,,, its nothing to push a big bullet to this velocity. It is easily achievable to get those types of Ft/Lbs of force when you are throwing such a heavy slab of lead, but as with all airguns, we have to fight gravity and end up lobbing the projectile to achieve much distance. I am sure this gun must be accurate at 50 yrds but that is nothing like what is being achieved with certain “wildcat” airgun calibers being built around this gun by some top notch machinist. How about M.O.A. accuracy to 400yrds being achieved with 250+ Ft/Lbs? (Check out YouTube for the pepsi challenge, theres several guys taking out soft drink cans out past a 1/4 mile with air rifles!) Cast lead bullets with superior B.C. is an ever growing niche for shooters breaking away from powder burners.
In the case of the Airforce Platform the airtanks are proprietary nonstandard threads due to their unregulated valve and have a maximum charge pressure of 3000 psi. Very similar to a paintball tank but different thread and unregulated where as paintball tanks contain a built in regulator. However, some have modified carbon fiber paintball tanks for 4500psi fills, both regulated and unregulated.
These airguns are not safe for typical backyard use and do in fact have a very powerful and loud report. Many often do employ some form if noise reductions in the form of air strippers and fully shrouded barrels that utilize baffled bushings. A bit of a legal grey area has made its way through the courts and is now often cited as case law when pertaining to airguns and sound moderators. A silencer in and of its own intended use can be considered not only a firearm but a NFA device….. However the intention for use on a nonfirearm opens a loophole for use on an airgun but it must not be adaptable for firearm use. Interstingly also is that full auto air machine guns are yet another avenue that has recently seen growing activity, however not nearly the level of power, accuracy and sophistication as the wildcat cast bullet guns.

Where can I buy one. Or someone feel sorry for this old man and buy me one!

A .45 caliber ‘pellet’ is a waste of lead on a squirrel. Our Founding Fathers might have considered a .36 caliber rifle a ‘squirrel gun’, but then they were using .45 – .50 caliber long rifles or British .68 caliber muskets, for larger game.

From what I’ve read, Lewis and Clark only had one air gun; a repeater.

Could one utilize an air compressor, of the sort that you would use to air up your car’s tires, to refill this ‘pellet’ rifle’s air tank ?

I believe I’ll wait until they come up with a repeater.