The Condor is adjustable, you knowShooting at LESS than full power

by Harley Ayre

Many shooters buy a Condor for the bragging rights, but what they may not know is that they've also purchased one of the nicest precharged rifles there is - as long as the power is turned down! No law says you have to blast away at top power all the time, and turning the power down on a Condor reveals a real sweetheart of an air rifle!

The power wheel
The power adjustment wheel on a Condor is more sensitive than the adjustment wheel on either the Talon or Talon SS. The extra-long 24" barrel makes all the difference when it comes to sensitivity. You can even dial most Condors down to the zero mark, where they will spit out .22-caliber JSB Exacts at way less than 700 f.p.s.! You'll get lots more shots on that setting, and your rifle is still powerful enough to hunt squirrels to about 30 yards.


The power-adjustment wheel on the Condor is a fine tuning instrument, thanks to the 24" barrel.

Clean your barrel!
For best accuracy with a Condor or any AirForce air rifle, try cleaning the barrel with JB Non-Embedding Bore Cleaning Compound. Coat a wire brush thickly, then run it through the barrel 30 times in both directions. After that, your barrel will be smoother and probably more accurate than before. AirForce barrels often have light corrosion in the grooves and this treatment takes care of it. You only need to do it once, and then you can stop cleaning the barrel altogether.


This is the stuff benchrest rifle shooters swear by! One cleaning session with your rifle will have it shooting its best. Buy this at any good gun store or from Midway USA.

4 easy steps to get miracle groups!
Your Condor is fully capable of shooting groups of less than a half-inch, center-to-center at 50 yards. Here's how to get them:

1. Clean the barrel as instructed above.
2. Put the adjustment wheel on the number "4."
3. Shoot JSB Exacts that have been sorted by weight to the tenth of a grain.
4. Shoot at a time when there is no wind.

I can shoot a half-inch group with these rules, and so should you.

How to scope it?
The Condor is a long-range rifle, so it wants a scope to compliment that capability. A 6-24x is not too much for this rifle. Use adjustable mounts to conserve the scope adjustments 'til you really need them. High mounts are more desirable because of the straight line of the stock. Since the scope is separate from the barrel, a scope level is a handy tool for precision shooting.

If you own a Condor, isn't it time to explore everything the rifle has to offer? You're wasting a lot of potential by just running it wide open all the time.