Doubtful, I have semi auto .357 from aea and it was ~1100$ stock , the tech has come a very long ways in a few short years, a Benjamin bulldog .357 costs maybe 600$ and it's the most customizable semi big bore air rifle currently out there, Benjamin also did release a 458 bulldog a few months back but power gain wasn't worth for me at least. The handle itself means little I'm interested in how he plans to make the actual bolt.
@Lindsey Zacek oh I agree, mostly because you can't really even shoot groups unless you get a regulator because the variance in speed translates to impacts that drop several feet at like 30 yards even. I ended up getting an extended reservoir with a huma regulator pre installed from pitbull and just swapped out the reservoirs. The reservoir is rated to 5000 psi so I start at 4500 and the 10 shots will take it down to 3000. I still have 5 shots left after that but obviously below 3000 psi so not consistent. This terminator is the first and last product I ever buy from aea. I hope they got sht together for your .50 but I took a chance despite the bad rep and they without a single doubt made me regret doing that.....
Even with a mishap, it's still amazing the work you manage to do with minimal packing and shims to get things at correct height. With an angle plate and vertical slide there is very little you couldn't make. I guess you could weld up and machine an angle plate when you get time and some 'scrap' steel plate?
well done, well done. insultingly spoiled the appearance a little, but why did it weakly process it with a metalwork file? looks angular. such a good barrel mount body, and the lever should be beautiful