Daystate Air Wolf Review

Overall Rating

I purchased an Air Wolf in 25. I live in the USA so I was looking for a hard hitting rifle. Well I got one. The first thing I did was tried all the pellets. At first I was not that impressed with the accuracy. Kind of sloppy and all the pellets had different impact points. Well, off came the shroud. Wow, now it shoots accurate. Ok, time to shim and work on the shroud. Daystate needs to do some work with this. I have a very simple solution I presented to AOA but I don't believe it will go anywhere. Anyhow after a few tries I got the barrel on strait and found a remarkable improvement in accuracy. I haven't really papered it out but at 80 paces I can hit the butt end of a soda can every time.

Something to know. I sent it back for some servicing and asked to have the gun turned up to full power. Doing this means you will never be able to turn it down to less than 750 fps with Kodiak Match. The upside is you can max it out with KM at 940 FPS. I have found that if I tun it down to 8 power I can get 40 shots at 805 fps to 830 fps back to 805 fps. That seems to be the most accurate power setting and speed for the pellet. Please note, I had a 400 CC bottle installed so the standard 500 will give maybe 10 more shots. I also found it requires a fill of 190 bar and will drop to 150 before I refill. You will want a high pressure steel tank to fill the gun. At factory settings it wants 150 bar and will shoot down to 120 before the refill. At that pressure, from the factory it will shoot about 775 up to 795 and back down again. Ocassionally you will get a hot shot that will hit 800.

The trigger is amazing. The accuracy is quite impressive for a 25. It can't compete with a 177, but, I turned a duck over on a pond at 110 yards with one shot. It hit him in the back between the wings and shattered everything before exiting out his craw. You could easily hit crows at 130 yards and it will punch through the wings.

Another thing, I hear people complain about the rotary magazine. Take it apart and pull very fine steel wool through all the holes and burnish off any rough spots. It works flawless after that. Loading it is simple. Balance the tip of the pellet over that hole and it will fall right in, the flair of the skirt will catch it and stop it from going all the way through. Don't loose the tiny spring inside it.

If you want pure accuracy out of it you have to use the tray. That's just a fact of life. If I was going to paper it and go for the smallest groups possible I would put the tray on, but like I said, at 80 paces it hits the end of a soda can every time. At that same 80 paces the pellet explodes when it hits a rock. It just detonates. The power is incredible. You have to remember too, along with that power comes responsibility. You can't shoot this gun into the air in the city. That lead will go 400 + yards and when it comes down I'm sure it will go through clothes and into the skin. You get what I mean.

All in all you can't find a better 25 caliber air gun. Its light, especially if you put a hunting scope like a little Leupold on it. Big scopes are nice but this really is a hunting gun.


Hope you enjoyed my review.

Members' Comments onKingRex's Review

• might on 21st Oct 2008

  HA! The .25 Airforce Condor shoots 42 grain pellets at 950 fps and kms at 1060. Also you can tune it down to abut 580 fps. All in all, there are better .25 airguns than the Daystate Wolf

• tirade on 27th Oct 2009

  Nice review in general. A few points though.
  
  1) Soda can at 80paces(yards?) I should hope so. In the UK that would not be considered accurate enough for hunting.
  
  2) Interesting that you chose .25 - I just wondered why? .25 not popular in UK (limited choice of ammo)
  
  3) In experiments with 6fp air pistols I found that the shot carried over 150Yds which would mean that your 1000fps projectiles is likely to go all of 400yds if not more - would be an interesting experiment.
  
  4) Detonating pellets - an interesting concept! All pellets arriving at a hard back stop will deform from 5fp upwards in my experience. A .177 at 11fp
  will completely disintegrate.
  
  Sounds like useful bunny hunter!