Very spiffy, and your budding rodent-forming skills are coming along nicely as well. ; )by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
It's a pussycat with .44 Specials, tolerable with factory ammo up to about the 240 grainers, and brutal with the heavyweights you need for bears and other big critters. Buffalo Bore actually makes a special load just for this pistol, one with fairly heavy super-hard cast lead solids. They load it to the point where it'll do enough damage, but not to the point where the recoil is unmanagable.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
VERY pretty car there. Not quite a factory color, is it? I used to occasionally drive my great-aunts's Delta 88 with the 455. She kept snow tires on it year-round (in Albuquerque, NM, no less) so you had to be very careful with the throttle if you didn't want to smoke 'em. I'm not sure how she ended up with such a huge engined car, but I doubt she ever moved the gas pedal more than a quarby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
They do make some very nice rigs for night use, but they're $$$! You can spend about as much as you want, depending on just how good you need to see. The rigs the military uses these days aren't much bigger than an Aimpoint type scope, but they cost as much as a nice custom rifle does. If you've never looked through a night vision goggle, they're monochrome green and usually a big grainy. How graby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
I've got one of those ultra-lightweight S&W .44 mag pistols, it's the one I carry around for fishing, picking blueberries, hiking, etc. It's by far the most economical gun I own, especially when I take it to the range to practice. Yes...good quality ammo in .44 mag is fairly expensive, but... It hurts so much to shoot that nobody ever asks to shoot it more than once.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
That "born on date" thing is gonna get complicated. Is it "born" when you finalize the design, or when you build the reciever, or when you first assemble all the metal parts, or when it's rough stocked and test-fired, or when it's fully dialed-in with the last coat of oil, or crated and shipped, or...??? These things are like elephants. There's a long gestation period, but you've really gotby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
I really, really, like the fact that this BBS hosts it's own pics. I'll gladly trade the smaller file size for the convienence of NOT having to go through the hassle of storing a JPEG elsewhere so that I can link back to it to post here. The images are plenty large enough to get the point across, and for those of us with a slow connection it's a mercy not having a bunch of ginormous files to loadby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Yeah, the Hollywood(land) types want us all to believe that a single shot from a 9mm pistol can knock a bad guy back at least a couple steps, and that a shotgun blast can throw him all the way across the room, but it's all total BS. To film those effects, the actors have to be hooked to harnesses that yank them backwards when the special effect squibs go off simulating the bullet impact. The wireby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Actually, this might be the better tool to control problem beavers. But...not nearly as much fun.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Definately chainsaw territory there, from the looks of it. I'd say get as much shoveled as you can, before it freezes up solid. That wet, heavy snow can turn to white, crunchy ice overnight and then you'll be hacking it apart instead of shovelling it. My snowblower doesn't like the heavy stuff much, but it doesn't work at all on the ice.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Another benefit to this forum (so far) is that it's relatively free of ultra-specific jargon, mysterious abbreviations, and impenetrable acronyms. I've visited some other sites where the acronym plague has progressed so far that most of the latter posts are completely incomprehendible to an average reader, even one that's familiar with airguns in general. Ironically, many (if not all) of thosby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
I saw that video on a tractor-afficionado site about a week ago...very cool invention. I especially like the way that it's just a "kit" that attached to a regular tractor, which you could convert back for the rest of the year. I'll bet you could sell one of those today, perhaps as an add-on to an ATV which would normally just be parked for the winter. You could make the cylinders out of some flexby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Hey Gary, don't get all worked up over a bit of polyurethane down the muzzle. Just keep that stuff off the WOOD, for goodness sake! You know your rifles are all immediately welded securely in gun safes to collect rust and dust forevermore, nobody will ever know the bore is plugged with foam (I'm almost kidding). It's too bad that so many of your rifles have dropped off the face of the earth aby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
I've worked the sort at UPS as a temp during the Christmas rush. The REAL logo oughta be a big brown boot crushing a box flat...a box that's clearly marked "fragile". The boxline I worked had a regular conveyer belt at the end which accomodated overflow traffic, and the plain truth was that there was nothing at the end of the belt except a long fall to a concrete floor. The THEORY was that all boby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
That adult-proof packaging drives me nuts. Even with a pair of EMS shears that can cut through sheet metal you still have a hard time getting anything out of one. I can't count the times that I've given blood trying to get some el-cheapo toy out of a heat-sealed plastic clamshell. The worst part is how often it turns out that the stupid package is tougher and better built than the toy itself.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
I took a look at one of the forums about modding the Crossman 13xx series, and wow! There's no end to the stuff that people have done to one, all kinds of mods and upgrades. Some of them are getting to the "Washingtons axe" stage though... You know..."we've replaced the head twice and the handle three times, but it's still the authentic Washingtons axe".by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Hmmm...wonder if I can get a Baby Ruth bar around here these days... ; )by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Or you could just spring for a Gen III night scope. Shouldn't cost more than twice the rifle itself.by rotorhead - Gary's Galleries
It would be handy if the employees at the chain restaurants had a big G.A.S. gauge pinned to the front of their uniforms. You know, the one that lets you know if they Give A S...uhm...spit? If you walked in and everyone you saw had their G.A.S. gauge pegged at zero, you could just walk out and try somewhere else.by rotorhead - I'm just sayin'
Very cool looking, I particularly like the "mega-shroud" look and the new receiver profile. Now you just need to make it all in flat-black and mount a photomultiplier night-sight, you've got the ultimate "stealth" airgun for predator and and wildlife damage control work. Very nice!by rotorhead - Gary's Galleries
Ah... Denny's, the ultimate late-night refuge...for hungry drunks after closing time, zombie waitresses, and about six people a year that forgot that nobody shows up after hours at a Dennys unless they want to deal with zombie waitresses and drunks. Betcha won't make that mistake again! It doesn't matter which city you're in, once the morning pancake crowd clears and the lunch-rush is over the plby rotorhead - I'm just sayin'
I suspect that containment is gonna be an issue with the last shot. Maybe stick it in a container of some type, a 5 gallon bucket, or a large piece of PVC pipe with a cap on the end. If you've got one of those halogen work lights sitting around, they throw a pretty good beam and their color temp is fairly good for photography. Maybe aim one of them over your shoulder towards the target when you gby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Fine looking young lad there (and the kids a cutie too!) SO...when did you finally get your glasses back? I assume that's the next stop after he got done thinning out the beard a bit. ; )by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Yup, it seems that Gary has the "galley workshop". It's like the "galley kitchen" design, where everything is always in reach from anywhere you stand. Of course, you DO have to make some minor concessions like not being able to open the oven door at the same time that you're loading the dishwasher, and that only one person can really work there at a time. Or was it the "galley workshop" whereby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Actually, at the pace that Gary introduces new models and variations I suspect that NOBODY actually ends up with exactly the same gun they entered the ledger with. Unless they have multiple ledger spots running concurrently, in which they end up with ALL of them. Yeah...I'm just jealous...by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Decisions, decisions. Far be it from ANY Barnes customer to completely change his order as it comes closer to the front of the ledger. At least, not more than a dozen times or so.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
The Navy guys use an interesting mix of cutting-edge and Edwardian-era tech every day. Even with the nuke boats, they're really just another kind of steam engine in the end. If they have a system that works reliably even when it's exposed to salt spray 24/7, crammed under a deck stuffed with heavy machinery and maintained by junior enlisted techs, I'd say that's pretty amazing by itself no maby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Maybe it's referring to valentines day, on or near valentines day. If so it means that your spam filter is both calendar and context-sensitive, which is probably a good thing. Of course, it might just not like me very much. Maybe it's been using my speakers to listen in on all the verbal abuse hurled at my computers over the years. ; )by rotorhead - I'm just sayin'
I've gotten two "might be spam" warnings in the last two posts I made here. It's not like I've been discussing the benefits of male "enhancement" pills or time-share condo sales or anything like that. Did you guys tighten down the spam filter another notch, or does the despaminator just not like me?by rotorhead - I'm just sayin'
I got to spend Valentine's day fending off a bad cold, trying to keep an energetic pre-schooler busy and wishing my wife was home so I could go back to bed. No such luck.by rotorhead - I'm just sayin'