Tau 200 Junior. Yes, the stock is plastic, but we prefer to call it "resin." Actually, after I added a 3/4" spacer, the ambi stock is really comfortable. I added a Williams 1" sight aperture, rubber eye-cup, and a clear-aperture front sight disk. The trigger on this thing is UNBELIEVABLE! I actually had to f*** around with it to get it to where I was comfortable with it. As it came to me, it was scary light; just the slightest touch would discharge.
Quite an amazingly accurate little plastic gun, obtained at a bargain price.
Next stop is an upgrade to a proper Anschutz rear sight.
Jim, great to see you at the show! What a lovely rifle - looking at it at your table, I had no idea the stock was, uh, "resin" - interesting! I look forward to seeing here the tiny groups you will shoot with it, LOL.
Here's my main Findlay loot - a boxed, pretty darn cherry, early 70's-vintage HW 55S. The sight is the Williams "ARH 624" that was made just for Air Rifle Headquarters, to fit HW's older 13mm groove spacing.
Have had a 55MM....have not owned a Tau and that one interests me. HAve shot them, not owned one, and I like co2 match guns.
You are in place to answer some questions befoer I go hunting one up (Jr. or Sr.)
Memory is faulty,,,remember them having an odd ball rear sight mount width....something like 8mm08,5mm groove spacing. Might just be me faulty there, but standard spacing didn;t work (more like the Alfga Proj size than US standard).
Remember them as having an "up "angled gas tube, both bulk fill end cap as well as a 12gr. Thinking the "up" angle was to keep it from sucking in liquid co2 as you shot it match-horizontal.
Most of the difference between the Jr. and Sr. was the stock...mechanics looked the same, so the bi-pod/bench rest shooting was just about the same.
Remembering that the butt pad spacers interchanged with the cheek piece spacers....could make it longer OR higher....but would need "extra" spaces to do both.
HW 55....really made me rethink recoiling springers...they should all be so good.
Have had a 55MM....have not owned a Tau and that one interests me. HAve shot them, not owned one, and I like co2 match guns.
You are in place to answer some questions befoer I go hunting one up (Jr. or Sr.)
Memory is faulty,,,remember them having an odd ball rear sight mount width....something like 8mm08,5mm groove spacing. Might just be me faulty there, but standard spacing didn;t work (more like the Alfga Proj size than US standard).
Remember them as having an "up "angled gas tube, both bulk fill end cap as well as a 12gr. Thinking the "up" angle was to keep it from sucking in liquid co2 as you shot it match-horizontal.
Most of the difference between the Jr. and Sr. was the stock...mechanics looked the same, so the bi-pod/bench rest shooting was just about the same.
Remembering that the butt pad spacers interchanged with the cheek piece spacers....could make it longer OR higher....but would need "extra" spaces to do both.
HW 55....really made me rethink recoiling springers...they should all be so good.
Rear sight grooves are std 11mm. You are correct that the gas tube is angled slightly down towards the front of the rifle, for whatever reason? As far as I can tell, there's no difference in the metal parts between the Junior and standard Tau 200. My standard, (which I stupidly sold,) and my new-to-me Junior both came with a piercing cap on the muzzle end of the gas tube. I have no experience with bulk filling these guns. Both the standard and Junior have a UIT rail in the forestock.
I will say this: Tau triggers are about the best I've experienced. You can make them scary light if you want to.
Second best 10M CO2 gun I've owned. 1st place goes to the Daisy 887. Needs some trigger work, which can be easily done, but that LW barrel makes it the best 10M gum I've owned!
I may have met Jim before as he finds unusual stuff at Findlay. Several years ago I believe you were buying and then posting about a side lever Hammerli target model. I believe I sold you a pristine Haenel 303 that I tuned a couple years ago too. Always fun at Findlay and the people selling and buying are great too.
I checked the map a day or so before the Finley show to see how far it was from the Dallas area. It was something like a 17 hour drive each way so I bailed on the idea of a road trip. Sometime I would like to make it to Finley and Hickory. With no shows in Arkansas or Texas this year I am missing a good airgun show.
David Enoch
One other unique trait of the Tau 200; you need to cock it before piercing the cart, otherwise you lose a bunch of gas.
Nice find. I sold a 34 to cheap and bought some dented tin pellets. Had my eye on a couple of sweeties but went home empty handed. If it was a two day gig instead of one, I'd probably be in trouble.
Have two Taus. One is the ./177, plastic stocked, Jr. model wearing a red dot sight. The other is a .22, wood stocked, l/h, Safari model that belonged to Rada P. It wears an SS-2. They have adapters for both bulk fill and Co2 carts wonderful triggers, and are easy to work on.
When we have youth events they are, hands down, the favorites of the kids - some as young as 5 or 6 yo. We set up FT animals with 45mm KZs at 10, 15, and 20 yds . Grins from ear to ear!
Parents and AG Division members love them just as much. Velocity and trajectory are similar to an HW-30. But they are lighter, shorter, and totally recoiless. Jim, you have a keeper!
The 200 std I used to own had stampings on the receiver, "Tau 200," Made in Czechoslovakia," "Cal .177," and a serial number.
The 200 Jr has NOTHING, except the number 697, which appears to be cast into the receiver, just in front of the loading gate. No other markings on the gun, ANYWHERE.
