Like a little ultrasound rig reading right through the barrel wall? Might just could be, I guess it could also be an electrical contact of some kind. All of the projectiles are conductive metals after all, even the sabots for the tank rounds. I'm sure it's out there somewhere on the net, everything else seems to be. ; )by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
I've had pretty good luck with one of the Baikal air pistols, the IZH-46. I bought one of them when they first came out. Back then they were less than $100, but they're about triple that now and still a bargain. It's pretty low powered, but it's also more accurate than I'll ever be able to hold and built like it'll last forever, all metal and hardwood. They make an inexpensive rifle that's supposby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Hello Jerry, Didn't think of that but it makes a lot of sense. The stakes are a bit higher if they bunt one off the deck a bit too slowly. Not only does the pilot go for a swim (or worse), but...what's it run to replace an F-18 these days? I'd also like to know how they keep those chronos functioning that are built into a 155 howitzer or an M-1 Abrams main gun. The civilian ones I've workeby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Sepeteus, I just read the articles on the rifle with the solenoid-operated valve, thanks very much for the URL. It's amazing that they were able to incorporate so many unique features through the electronics. Not only does it adjust the valve duration to achieve a user-specified velocity with any weight pellet, but it does it automatically just by firing the desired pellets. They built a chby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
What a great shooting trip, the slow-mo video was really cool to watch. The way you just tagged the side of the paint can was especially masterful, getting it to spin like that. ; ) Which camera does the 1000 frame/per/second trick? That seems really fast for a consumer digital rig.by rotorhead - Video Library
Hey guys, a bit of an open-ended question but it's at least airgun related. ; ) Has anyone ever built an airgun that used high-pressure solenoids or electronically actuated valves? It seems that much of the art vs. science in PCP design is dealing with the inevitable compromises imposed by a mechanical valve system. If you could control the lift and duration of the firing valves opening cycleby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Lucky you! The only thing my primary IP shared with me was frequent smacks up-side the helmet when he thought I wasn't listening. ; ) Nice enough guy once I got through primary, but not perhaps the most patient man I've ever met.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Boiled peanuts are a snack food unique to lower Alabama as far as I know. Perhaps they're available in other places where they grow, but you find them all over the place sold at roadside stands and such down in 'LA'. They pick them a bit green and boil them in the shells (and usually still on the vine) in very salty water. They sell little brown bags of them hot out of the pot, and they've got aby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Oh don't worry Bigbore, I still drink iced tea every day. It's just that if I leave it in the car too long I have to thaw it before I can drink the rest. ; ) Call me crazy, but I'd rather have to wear a jacket most days than to suffer the heat down there again. I guess my time spent in LA ruined me for the weather down south. BTW, thats LA as in Lower Alabama. ; ) Home of fire ants, matchingby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Right on the money, but the scale was surprising. The clusters were about the size of tennis balls, and some of the individual frost crystals were over an inch across. These were all over the surface of Chilkat lake near my home, millions of them. In an unusual sequence of events we got a couple of weeks of temps well below freezing with no snow and almost no wind. Most years the lake usually isnby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Been here reading quite a bit but not much to post on the airgun front. It's been a bit cold up here, but you do expect that in winter when living in AK. ; ) For a bit of variety, how about guessing what this is...by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Hey, I've got nothing against titanium either, in the right application. In fact, I've spent an appreciable portion of my life depending on it (literally). This is the rotorhead of the last helicopter I flew, and almost everything you see in this shot is either titanium or carbon fiber. The hub is machined from one solid block of titanium, but then the Germans always have been big fans of tecby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Sweet, thats really getting some hard data on things. I've got a program that figures muzzle energy, but nothing like this.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Actually, a more apt metaphor would be a restored classic roadster like a Bugeye Sprite, or an MGA or such. People spend inordinate amounts of money bringing classic cars like those up to better-than-new specs, and still end up with a car thats easily eclipsed in performance and practicality (not to mention price) by a used Mazda Miata. As far as Barnes airguns go, repeaters are pretty thin oby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
I agree that titanium has a reputation that exceeds it actual utility in many cases. I see so many cases of "titanium marketing" that it makes me wince, "titanium" kleenex...come on people. ; ) I suspect that the marketing morons see "titanium dioxide" in the ingredient list and say to themselves, "yeah, I can legally call this titanium", when all it's actually used for is as a pigment. Evenby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Yeah, the Hoss...one small difference though... It's roundball are about the size of snails ; ) Not gonna be much meat left one one of those afterwards.by rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Actually, I've seen plenty of accurate smoothbores that get shot quite a lot at very long range, with impressive results. Here's one that'll hit targets ~4km out, with a muzzle velocity of 5700 ft./sec Of course, since the barrel alone weighs 2970 lbs, it's not quite as handy as the Woodsman series.by rotorhead - Gary's Galleries
I don't know about you guys, but personally I'm planning on Gary being around for AT LEAST thirty more years. In fact at the rate at which he's introducing new models which we "gotta have" , he'll have a hard time catching up with the backlog of add-ons even if it turns out that he's immortal. ; ) C'mon Gary, our needs are simple: One of each model you've ever produced (fully carved and customby rotorhead - Gary's Galleries
Can you imagine hunting with an 8 bore shotgun? The nimrods of yore must have had shoulders of steel. ; ) I'm surprised that Holland and Holland is still in business, given the rabidly anti-gun climate in Britain. Up here in AK you still see the .375 H&H around quite a bit, it's one of the more popular cartridges for brown bear.by rotorhead - Gary's Galleries
Welcome Sepeteus. Glad to see that you've found this forum, Finland seems to be one of the sole remaining countries in Europe that has a strong tradition of firearms use, shooting, and hunting. Of course, it helps that you're much more sparsely populated than most of the rest of the continent. As a bonus you don't have to worry about some of the ridiculous restrictions that we have here in theby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Nope Gary, not hardly. Once I saw that original Woodsman it was all over for me. Of course, I'm still thinking along the lines of bronze/stainless given where I live but lets not get your blood pressure up THAT far just yet. ; ) Hoover... I think the fully rifled barrels you're thinking about are called "gain-twist", and not Paradox. In fact, I think the Paradox thing was a brand name fby rotorhead - Gary's Galleries
Actually, there are many varieties of wood that are toxic to some extent. I recently checked out a woodworking book in our local library that had an extensive list of wood characteristics; it had tables listing origin, grain, density, compressive strength, resistance to decay, etc. What really surprised me is that virtually all exotics and many of the more common hardwoods are known to be irritanby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
I read about that paticular report in a gun magazine, so it's really third-hand information. I have little doubt that the original report is out there...somewhere.... As I recall, the article that I was reading was about shotguns (no surprise there) with very long barrels, like five or six feet long. They were used by a particular gun club or group of shooters to keep the noise down. Apparentlyby rotorhead - Gary's Galleries
You know, you could probably get the slugs to spin just a bit with even as slight an interior surface finish as a spiral honing. I read a report some time back that claimed that just some steel wool on a dowel could impart enough surface finish to the interior of a shotgun barrel to get the big "pumpkin" slugs to rotating slowly in flight. I think that they were trying to get more accuracy back iby rotorhead - Gary's Galleries
Dang, All I got to shoot today was a bunch of snow...out of the snowblower.by rotorhead - Video Library
Roose, Good luck with your search. Perhaps one of the multitude of CO2 semi-autos will suit you, I haven't had a chance to handle any of them myself, the only airguns I've got now are the IZH-46 and a Beeman R-7. I do remember an article about one of the early Russian imports that was based on a Makarov pistol. I seem to remember a Tom Gaylord article or similar on the subject online somewhby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
So Gary, I was wondering how much velocity it costs you to go with a carbine vs. full length in this model. Is the rest of the powerplant the same, just shorter barrel and reservoir tubes? It sure looks light and handy, though...by rotorhead - Gary's Galleries
Here's a couple of possible alternatives that are available now. The Drozd by Baikal requires batteries and CO2 cartridges (it can be bulk fed the latter) but it can and does shoot BBs either semi or full auto. Not exactly up to target pistol standards, but it oughta be fun anyway. I'm not sure of it's construction, but I suspect it's mostly plastic and moldings with a steel barrel, I'lby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
I agree with Jerry, the low-power repeater/10-meter/airsoft market isn't going to do Gary any favors. All you'd hear is how that "fancy hi-dollar Barnes gun don't shoot no better than my Crossman XXX" or whatever. Gary already has the Victory line of pistol/carbine in the linup for lower-powered lightweight fun, and there was that pretty little .25 rifle as well, I remember a bit about it shootinby rotorhead - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Not boring at all ! The only problem I have is keeping the drooling to a minimum since I'm waiting for one of my own! Have you tried it out on clay targets or live birds yet?by rotorhead - Video Library