To my opinion he lost the sincerity in what he says.
I feel that it is now more job than fun for him. I don’t know whether you noticed it or not but it is obvious for me that he lost the interest in what he is doing regarding airguns, I see yearning in his eyes. I don’t want to follow the “established” rules, to pay those bloggers in order to advertise what I produce, to pay the shooters them showing they are happy with my guns. But I still cannot overpower myself, still remaining the same amateur who has started that bullpupmania in the airgun world almost 20 years ago. I know that it is a normal, one made something, one needs to sell it. My problem is that I hate all those tricks, directed to catching the attention of the potential customers. And I will be honest and maybe not pleasant as usually, sorry for thatĬompetition. Let me add two cents in this topic, once not only my guns, but me, personally, was mentioned.
Also, what do I know anyway? I'm just some nutcase on the internet.
Of course I don't own a Lelya, so take what I say with a big pile of salt. Both of these things could be mitigated with a more optimized moderator/air stripper system. That is a common misconception, in both airguns and firearms. Where this may start to break down is things like higher muzzle pressures generating more turbulence upon exit, and more capacity for disruption within the moderator. This post is getting a bit long and ramble-y, so I'll just wrap up by saying that shorter barrels don't innately reduce accuracy, they are every bit as accurate as their longer counterparts all else being equal. That is some complex design work which would just tickle me pink. I'd be an incredibly fun challenge to try and build a moderator core for the Leishy or Lelya to try and eek the most in terms of accuracy and suppression out of that platform though. It is just speculation obviously, but if you aren't getting the accuracy you want out of a Lelya I'd start looking there. And Ed is fighting with trying to push as much suppression into as small a package as possible, and my guess is for clearances and to try and regain a little accuracy, that is why he went with the size bore in the core he did. Being the quietest in and of itself isn't that remarkable because you can really piss away accuracy in doing so, and airgun pellets are WAY WAY WAY easier to disrupt than bullets. Moderator designs are just like firearm suppressors, in that you're balancing how much POI shift and accuracy loss is acceptable against how much sound mitigation. I still think his guns are exceptional and speak for themselves in their own way, and I love that Russian styling, but without the backing of a precision shooter to advocate (in English) for them, a lot of us just grit our teeth at the price and go with a more proven or less expensive rifle.Īnd now I'm going to say something controversial that gets me in hot water: the core design on the Edguns looks to my eyes like a design which will develop enough internal turbulence to reduce accuracy.
Now whether or not this is working I couldn't say, but I'm betting it worked at least to some extent.Įd is in a bit of a tight spot with all this, because he "invented" the airgun bullpup but it was rapidly copied by just about every major manufacturer. They probably paid Claudio Flores to fly up and work their booth, they did a limited edition gun to "match" his competition gun, they've got the guns signed by him, they're using his win at EBR as part of a huge marketing push. Still don't believe me? Take a look at the pics coming back from the DS booth at SHOT this year. And I'm sure Daystate didn't miss the fact that part of FX's ascendancy is linked to both Ted Bier's proclivity to them and their dominance at EBR. People want to know because if one design is head and shoulders above the rest they want to be shooting that. It is much like Cal Zant's data collection on "what the pros use" in the PRS series. People, myself included, keep an eye on things like EBR to get some idea of what the best of the best are using.
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