Oh man... you guys are gonna force me to get one of these arent ya..........(bend my arm....) I can need pellets by the ton after buying one.... How are you filling it?by dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Jerry Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What if > Crosman decides to build a semi-auto or add > electronic control or put a huge air bottle on the > front of their next PCP? If they do, I can finally afford one. Home grown, kitchen table mods, aftermarket parts.....wont be long. The Discovery, Marauder and the Nitro will make the Euro folks sitby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Update: 500 rounds now thru the thing (yes, I'll post groups and chrony numbers when I get home). Off the bench and a bag, at 10m , I can get most of the pellets to group 1/2 inch most of the time. cant seem to get that barrier to break. Funny part is, Friday morning I couldnt get it to group smaller than .75 inches..... Turns out there is some flex in the table I was using that let the smallby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Jerry, Cheap Chinese action wrapped with a fine hand crafted stock? Like this:?? Got about 30-40 hours in the stock...... 30 minutes in the action.... Action is one of the "truck sale" B-3-1's....US$25.00.....by dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Jerry Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > intend to hold them out in trade for member > contributions. > >So, I'll do the > videos after I see some posted from the rest of > you! Fair enough! I got a cam capable of vid, and the software..... let see what the week end holds..... But I dont have a Barnes gun, so your stuck with what Iby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
I second..... those of us not fortunate enough tohave physical access to a Barnes rifle, dont get to see the details that a photo wont pick up....unles its a close up.by dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
>>That little number beside everybody's name/Avatar is the total number of posts per that person. Try to drive yours up. Got a couple of things.....by dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
barnespneumatic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Your grip on the rifle, and the stock's contact > with your shoulder are the two largest things to > concentrate on (after you have a consistent bag > position for the gun). > Yea, I think thats it. After finding that blurb on RFC, I'm thinking that its my technique, or lack there of.by dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Gary says: Everybody likes attractive guns. But ... it's ugly guns that get used. Whatchagonnado? Thats easy, order two guns.... one ugly, the other ornate.....But I 'd be shooting the ornate one all the time...... When did this "obsession" with figured wood start? Looking back thru history, most rifles had straight grain. PArt of it, maybe, is that firearms are not the tools they were, eby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Rimfire central had a link to : just under figure 9 I found this: I) - Unsettled fore-hand position. 11) - Trigger Pulling. III) - Pushing the butt forward with the shoulder. IV) - Poor aiming-variable hold or inefficient sights or sighting. When the big box o'pels hets here, I do some more group shooting and pay particular attention to the first three Items above. I'm starting toby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Flyers..... whats the deal I go thru phases (and maybe Ive answered my own question...) where I can stack them, fairly effortlessly, then cant get any group to come down below an inch and a half..... Lately though, I'll get a sub-half inch 5 shot group going, then shot 3 or 4 will drift out, making it a 1.25 or something. I know that sometimes you get a bad pellet, or it does seat or seal wby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
barnespneumatic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The ones in the guns are free to recoil > violently - just like a spring. And it does, but it doenst. There is definelty a recoil pulse, but its short and sharp, compared to what seems like a 3 second springer stroke. No spring buzz or twang. Having shot the gas ram a couple hundred shot now, I thinkby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
And I'll share my own "aha stupid" moment...... Had some folks over to "the Lab" and showed them the gun.... Nitro..... suddenly it dawned on me that they mention NITROgen, the gas... ala "gar ram". Not Nitromethane, the race car fuel, or nitroglycerin, the explosive...... nitrogen..... um, says so all over crosman's page for the gun, and all over the box the gun came in....by dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Ok, thats good to know, not just me misreading it.... Didnt used to be that way, and Ive seenit happen on the native american flute forum and some of the didgeridoo forums too. Maybe its how big they get? dunno. sounds like a thesis project for some socialogist......by dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Ive read Gary's thoughts on figured wood, and the page on the website of him wrestling the big plank of maple. I used to work at the Gibson Guitar factory here in Bozeman. They used a lot of mahogany. I'd forgotten how much Ive cut when I worked there. I can see why its a favorite.by dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Last Sunday night the History Channel did piece on the entire piracy incident. What they didnt tell us what the use of helicopter, ship wakes and other nonvioelnt means to keep the lifeboat away from shore. The last fifteen minutes or so--cuz we know how it ends --was about them setting the pirates up, to take them down. Watch for it.by dan_house - I'm just sayin'
Gary said in another post, in different thread, in a time long long ago, " I try to choose for the given usage" I suppose, intuititively, I understand this. But apparently there are 3 or four brain cells way in the back that dont, so I have to ask... Customer specifications aside, are you saying you would have a wood type in mind for a target gun, or that you would use something else for huby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Whats with people? I frequent several airgun forums, have learned a lot, and on occasion contributed something. Lately though, some forums have been suffering, yes suffering, from big egos, bruised egos, name calling and energetic transfers of bovine excrement. I know its the nature of the internet, to degree, thats its human nature, and the 'net takes some of the nonverbal conversational cluby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
The gas ram is, well, different. Having mostly shot springers, the Nitro's firing cycle had me befuddled till I 20 or rounds thru it and began to understand what was going on. After that, a piece of cake. I have about 2500 pels coming... RWS, Beeman, and Crosmans for the thing. Premeires are still out there, and I think you can get them by the ton... or at least 1250 at a time.... So if thby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
DD talked about swarf and cutting fluid everywhere.... the "glamorous side" of airgunning. the customers dont see the stuff on the floor, the dirty oilly clothes, the band-aids by the ton, industrial strenght hand soap....... I dont think most folk understand the amount of stuff that has to happen that isnt directly connected to gunmaking, but yet has to happen for the gunmaker to operate....by dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Jackson Hole? Thats only 4 hours away from Bozeman. The wife is artist in residence in the Grand Tetons at Colter Bay once or twice a year.... Cant shoot in the park though, they frown on that..... Jackson's fun though. El Abolitas for great Mexican food, and Mountain High has great pizza. But the BEST restraraunt in Jackson has to be the Gun Barrel. Elk, deer and fried green tomatoesby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
I dont think your paranoid at all..... Carry pistol, in a holster, outside of any clothing you have on. Practice drawing it, and at the range, practice point shooting at close distances, shoot it laying down, on your butt, on your side. you may not know your being attacked, until it knock you down. You may have to fight from the ground, in a defensive posture you may not have be used to orby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Aquired the new Crosman Nitro over the weekend (dont ask, I wont tell you) The gun has the "gas ram" gizmo instead of a spring; just any other springer other wise. Still has that weird double recoil inherent in most springers, but the problems fo the spring are mostly gone. No spring means no rotational torgue, and the gas-gismo has short stroke which makes the energy pulse very quick--like 22by dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
neilmcp Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >Jerry and his > boys do the weighing and sorting for me Yikes! it just occured to me that your downunder somewhere......and having that stuff shipped.....oy!by dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
D D no incoming flack..... at least from me >>> Good Springers rock<<<<< And taht I think is the crux of it. Folks run to Big Box Store, spend US$75.00 and expect it to shoot just like their rimfire. They are shocked an distraught that it doesnt. Truth is, it probably does, they just dont understand HOW to shoot it. IMO thats where this "bias" comes from. So after thby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Awesome! congrats on the promotion!by dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Been reading Precision Shooting Magazine a lot of late.... The rimfire fanatics have demonstrated that sorting non-match ammo by rim thickness, wieght of the round and length can reduce groups size sometimes by 50%. Is it likely we airgunners would see changes in group sizes by shooting pels of like size and weight? Or is it going to be more likely this will be a gun to gun issue? That'by dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Gary's last comments reminded me of page on the Barnes website... about quiet time. One of the reason I shoot: it requires concentration. You simply cannot have accurate shooting when your mind is going everywhere. The act of shooting, because it requires you to mentally shut up and focus, is relaxing to me. For the loengthof the shooting session, I dont think of much else. So for a brief pby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
When the wife and I got togehter she had a Mac. We got another one later on...... 3 things I took away from owning a couple of mac's, that Ive carried into my professional life : 1) Apple does value "style", to the point of snobbery (computers are supposed to be tools.....) 2) when they work, they are incredible computers. (good tools make the effort easier) 3) When they dont work, theyby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum