AirForce EscapeSS Air Rifle, Spin-Loc Tank

I LOVE this gun. I also still love my .50cal Texan but I'm hopefully going to get the Texan LSS with blah blah...but let's talk Escape. I must say, this .22 cal is my favorite gun right now. ( I have a few). It feels great shouldering it, totally manageable for a day in the woods it actually feels right when hiking with a backpack.. No shlepping this along. (open up your Yiddish dictionary) This Escape is GREAT with the air it uses, even at highest power. It's accurate as heck and I don't miss an 8 inch group at 100 yds. For real. Surprised me. I'm trying to see how far I can lob a pellet at @ 150 yds. Getting this? It's FUN, ACCURATE if your hunting furry things...if you can't make one and done, DON'T DO IT. '

I would send me a free Texan for writing such a positive review for the Escape.

Find a pellet with a little more weight to it rather that going for the lightest ones. Unless you're doing what I'm doing like testing max distance. Put a good scope on it. It deserves one. Hate the 11mm rails.

I bought this gun because of its quiet power, light weight, and short length. So far all have expectations have been met if not exceeded. I am still working on dialing in the power (FPE) element. What I have so far for power is plenty but if I can get more and remain accurate why not. I also really like the small air bottle. It's nice I can adapt it to a larger bottle if I like but being able to hand pump this gun from 2,000 PSI - 3,000 PSI in just under 100 strokes is working great for me. To me this is a hunting gun more than a paper puncher. Most of my hunting trips (other than prairie dogs) allow for fewer than 10 shots unless I am having a bad shooting day so the gun is perfect for why I bought it.

I am still looking for the scope mount I would like. I prefer the lowest (closest to bore) mount possible and the design of AF guns makes that a little bit of a challenge but I knew that before I purchased the Escape SS. There is a lot of info on the web about the Escape but very little of that is focused specifically on the Escape SS... review videos are not my forte but maybe this is a call for those of you that have that talent. Most notably I have found very little on the best tune (power wheel) for the SS as far as balancing shot count and power (FPE). The numbers available for maximum FPE mainly seem to be available for the original Escape not the SS or UL versions.

Pyramid Air ROCKS! The majority of this gun was purchased with proceeds from one of Pyramid Air's contests, Thank you! The gun was on backorder but the tracking and delivery was all right on track. The gun is great but expect to give thought to the need and best way to install a sling as well as what to do about scope mounting to your preferences.

This gun is fantastic! If you're looking for a really lightweight compact hunting rifle, this is it! I enjoy off hand shooting more than prone or with a bipod, the lightweight of this gun makes that doable even with a large optic! At about 30" long it's also more compact than many of the expensive bullpups! This gun does sub inch groups at 50yds with ease, and will do 3" groups at 100yds.

The safety is almost like pushing a razor blade. Really needs a rubberized edge or atleast to be smoother.... The grip came loose to the point of nearly falling off in the first couple 100rds. I had to take it off and reinstall. Haven't had a problem since. The trigger spring is a noisy spring. And for the life of me, it's a $600+ rifle intended to be knocked around the woods. why aren't picatinny rails machined into the scope rail from the factory???????

****I did the "Oring mod", but the thing is.... the top hat itself is adjustable. So when you add an Oring, it's like taking away from the stroke of the tophat which means less power/air. So you will get "more shots" but at a reduced lower corresponding to how much you reduced the tophat/valve stroke. So to maintain power, you'll need to adjust the top hat out relative to Oring thickness, and will see no change in shot count****** I used a .125 Oring, and adjusted the tophat out the same. I get about 10-12 shots at 840s fps power wheel setting "3.8" for about 40fpe with the 25gr JSBs. Adjusting your tophat/Oring also effects the performance values at the power wheel. So if you are going to mess with that, you need a Chrono and a feeler gauge to take notes about tophat position. You can turn the tophat in to the same effect as adding and Oring to the factory tophat position. You can get 20+ shots from this gun if shooting at 650-700fps is acceptable to you.