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Today we’re traveling to a small village somewhere in the middle of England. Actually, it’s the quiet medieval village of Eccleshall in the county of Staffordshire. There – if you know where to look – you’ll find an inconspicuous-looking modern building tucked-away. It’s the Daystate factory.

In fact, this is the factory where both Daystate and Brocock airguns are assembled. Let’s look around and see the mouth-watering variety of beautiful air rifles in various states of construction…

Above. Assembled actions are stored in racks prior for leak testing. Stocks are added only at the final stage – just prior to packaging – to protect the beautiful woodwork.

At Daystate, every air rifle is built to order. The customer is indicated on the breech of each gun with a paper sticker. For example the AOFA stickers on these Brocock Commanders indicate that they are destined to cross the Atlantic to Airguns of Arizona.

Then there’s more over here for AoA, too!

At one side of the manufacturing floor, ART barrels arrive. They’re machined ready for installation in the breech/receiver assemblies.

In another part of the floor, trigger assemblies are being assembled by expert technicians at their workbenches. These are electronic triggers for the Delta Wolf.

Below we see some Wolverine HPs being assembled. This, of course, is Daystate’s top-of-the-line, all-mechanical air rifle.

Each Daystate and Brocock air rifle is bench-assembled by a skilled technician. They’re proud of their work, as you can see below!

Each gun is filled with High Pressure Air and then leak-tested for several days. Once they have passed that test, they move on to the shooting test.

Here, every gun is fired over a Chronograph and the targets checked for accuracy. Using Daystate pellets, of course!

A record is kept of the performance of every air rifle, on paper and electronically…

After testing, guns have the stocks added, prior to packing for shipment.

Now, finally, we have the final product! It’s checked-over a final time and boxed together with magazine, instruction manual and all the other goodies you find when a Daystate air rifle like these Pulsars reaches you!

I hope that you’ve enjoyed this Daystate factory tour!

From what I could see and hear, everyone there is doing a great job. They certainly know that Airguns of Arizona is one of their biggest and most important customers – that means that they try their best to ensure that the Daystate or Brocock air rifle YOU buy is as perfect as they can make it!

Now that the new Daystate Delta Wolf air rifle has started shipping, it’s a good time to look at how the advanced, built-in power control system works.

Being electronically-controlled, the Delta Wolf has some highly-sophisticated technology built into it. Of course, some folk are just going to love experimenting with all the options! But if pushing buttons is not for you, don’t worry: there’s minimal need for you – the owner – to get involved in detailed setup. Unless you want to, that is!

To achieve this result, the Daystate Delta Wolf’s built-in power control system is set-up so that every gun is pre-loaded with multiple shooting “profiles”. There’s one for each of the four calibers, two barrel lengths and two weights of pellets. This is incorporated in the factory build of all Delta Wolfs, regardless of the caliber actually you actually choose.

Much of this power control system is actually translated into the operation of the Delta Wolf’s valve, hammer and regulator. Here’s a close-up of the valve, below.

So if you want to go ahead and shoot your new Delta Wolf straight out of the box, you can do so. You just use one of the profiles that’s loaded into the gun.

Should you want to customize your Delta Wolf for your own specific power and pellet requirements, you can do this using the built-in Advanced Shot Settings functionality.

Let’s take a look at how this is done…

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1. Setting Regulator Pressure

The Daystate Delta Wolf is fitted with a HUMA regulator that it factory-set for the power level and caliber as shipped-out. However – as you would expect – it may be necessary to change the regulator set pressure if changing calibers.

Regulator pressure adjustment is undertaken manually by turning this screw at the front of the receiver.

To increase the regulator pressure, turn the screw counter-clockwise. You will see the pressure increase at the top left of the display screen.

To reduce the regulator pressure, it’s necessary to first release air pressure from the gun by unscrewing the HPA bottle. Prove safe, then “dry fire” the gun safely until it’s empty.

Now turn the regulator screw clockwise. The new – reduced – regulator pressure will display on the display screen once the HPA bottle is re-attached to the gun.

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2. Display Screen Basics

When shooting, the top part of the display screen shows actual data for the gun as it is right now. These include the actual regulator pressure (171 Bar), number of shots left in the magazine (8 S.L.) and FPS of the previous shot in the string (848).

You know which shooting profile you’re using because it’s indicated next to the “ACTIVE SET” text in the display. This is NOT shown in the photograph above.

The lower part of the display shows the setting parameters that were pre-programmed and are being used at this time. This includes regulator set pressure (175 Bar), caliber, barrel length and aim Muzzle Velocity.

Here’s how a different profile looks on the screen…

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3. Power Control Set Up

Basic Delta Wolf power control setup is undertaken by sideswiping on the screen to move through setting types, then pressing to register your selection.

As mentioned above, each Delta Wolf is programmed to include factory settings that make up a specific “shooting profile” for the gun. These can be changed by the owner as appropriate using the Advanced Shot Settings capability.

With so many types of pellets available and individual power level requirements, it’s obviously impossible for the Daystate team to program profiles for every possible combination. So – as you would expect – they’ve programmed the pre-set shooting profiles based on their own Rangemaster pellets and slugs.

This does NOT mean that you have to use Daystate pellets with the Delta Wolf. It just means that – if you want to use another pellet type or weight – just set it up using the Advanced Shot Settings capability outlined next.

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4. Advanced Shot Settings

The Delta Wolf features Daystate’s AVT – Advanced Velocity Technology.

Using AVT, you can create, set and name multiple individual shooting profiles for your own Delta Wolf. This includes fine-tuning the hammer stroke and dwell time in microseconds.

This AVT system includes an integrated Bluetooth module to allow for future additional features. Daystate says that this is what makes the Delta Wolf “future proof”.

So that’s an overview of the Daystate Delta Wolf power control system. It certainly looks impressive and comprehensive, as well as being easy to use.

AoA is getting the Delta Wolf as fast as the British factory can make them. So if you want to be a part of this new wave of airgunning, you’ll definitely want to get in line, as they’re selling on a “first come, first served” basis due to overwhelming demand!