I'll never crack! I may weep and drool though.....by dan_house - Gary's Galleries
Zebra stripes? Guess that makes it a horse of a different color....by dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Next, I suppose, you'll be torturing us with a pic after its been blued. I cant wait!by dan_house - Gary's Galleries
Well, um, yyyyeeeeaaaahhhh..... Not that I'm critical, and it is his gun, but........ Tiger stripes? Wonder what his motivation was, and why he picked that pattern?by dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
If your gonna put wheels on it..... go ahead and build the shooting bench and make it one mobile unit....by dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Carb cakes? aaahhhhhh mannnnnn..... I havent had a decent crab cake since I lived in Atlanta in the early 80's.......by dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Nlei looks good! would offer two suggestions: First, make the baffle spacing irregular, random, so that none of them are the same distance apart. Second, if the acoustic material between the baffles doenst have some texture to it, add some. Cut a few holes in the foam, or pull random chunks out of each one. Both of these change the way the "shock wave" interacts with the device,by dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Ohhhhh mannnnnnn If I was on the ledger, I think I'd be changing my order about now....... O that is soooo sweet! The anodizing is what I think aluminum would look like if it had figured grain.......by dan_house - Gary's Galleries
Peter I was thinking kinda the opposite...... While we all expect certain things of Barnes, I had a vision of medium caliber, ultra refined details, lotsa engraving and carving, deep dark bluing to the point of being Black. Wood being ultra figured (I know, Ive read and reread Gary's thoughts on fiugred wood) or a way cool laminate, ground breaking anodizing patterns and colors..... Aby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Adn according to Wkipedia, Gary played pro football too, in the early 60'sby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
I'dlove one.... but its all the stuff you have to get extra to fill it, turns a US$500 purchase into something much greater. There is however a Discovery in my future....comes with the pump... (and I can always sell it if the "pcpc expreience" isnt what I thought it was gonna be)......if my tax return ever gets here...... then maybe later in the summer or maybe Christmas, the 'Rauder butby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
You make it look soooo simple and easy......by dan_house - Gary's Galleries
barnespneumatic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Dan, > > Tough week eh? You should see how it affects the > brain to "hawk art" to collectors for 35 years. > > > Gary yea.... I cant wait..... Thats been the longest we've ever done a show. The wife is used to it.... but I didnt realize what a marathon I was getting into.by dan_house - Gary's Galleries
Heather, yea... was having trouble getting past the girls name...... then your description of it refocused the addled brain.... a quick trip to Wikipedia and its all good..... now with that in mind, yes, Heather is an excellent description. engraver in this life, yes, now that too has re emerged...like on knives, other airgun actions, and rings.... its amazing how fried you get from a wby dan_house - Gary's Galleries
Holy Cow! Awesome stuff! But... Heather? some significance to that? And that will mellow and age like the wood does? gary must have been an engraver in a previous life.....by dan_house - Gary's Galleries
Gary.... reread the first post in this thread...... and realized you are hand shaping the stock. given how smooth and symmetrical the shape was, I assumed you were milling or machining it first to get it roughed out..... Awesome handwork.by dan_house - Gary's Galleries
Eric Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > At a distance small ballons make great targets no > doubt when there hit but only good once. Plasters' book "the Ultimate Sniper" says to use heluim ballons at various distances, tied with different lengths of string. He says when the breeze kicks up, the balloons react differently depending on a number of factoby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Pablouk Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Barbie, in full evening wear, gets > blasted from 50 yards.... Head shots? hehehehe I mean, for shame, taking that kid's precious toy! Pics of said carnage?by dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
For sighting in, and precision work... the "shoot n see" ones so I dont have to remember to bring the spotting scope. Gophers the last few days.... Reactive tagets.... soda or beer cans (still containing beverage) shook up and placed at unknown distances. No doubt whne you hit it. and if I ever get a line of sight on them, some crack heads that live across the river (kidding, at least tiby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
barnespneumatic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Dan, > > I'd personally suggest that you NOT persue that > course of action. . Nobody has to shoot a trophy > Elk to have a great airgun hunt. > I'm not. For a variety of reasons. the two biggest being that airguns are part of larger shooting continuum that I have mostly coveredby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
barnespneumatic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- , that > public hunting laws are not the total sphere of > what exists. Your right. given the immense amount of publically accessible land in this area, I forget that there are other options for folks not otherwise blessed with public lands. you get spoiled..... Ive emailed with the agency in chargeby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Gary, you still shooting sling shots?by dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Except in Montana, where it is not legal to hunt big game with an air gun...... errr,,,,,,,,,by dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Dyson Diver Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >is it a rolex? No. Its like a rolex. Short of doing a Doc Beeman kinda thing.... the Barnes line stops when Gary does. But..... there could be a school of "Barnesian airgun thought"........, like Bauhuas is/was in the design world........by dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Roose Hurro Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Isn't the idea of a Chinese-made Barnes an > oxymoron? I'd say more of an abomination..... While the quality of the Chinese guns has risen dramatically, the fact remains that they are knockoffs of proven designs from elsewhere in the world. The"good" chinese guns are just better quality copies of good Euby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Awesome So what the story with the .25 barrel?by dan_house - Video Library
Dyson Diver Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > as ive written before , you can teach most people > how to do something , its just hard to teach them > why. Worse than Why, is motivation. I think a crappy craftsman with a desire to build excellent product is better than a genius machinist with no deisre to create. I hired a desktop person who'sby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
barnespneumatic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > OK, I'm sorry ..... but was any of that supposed > to make sense?????? Yes! > Gopher hat trick??? Whacked 3 gophers... Hat trick is a hockey term, eh, meaning 3 goals by one player in a single game > Phantom Menace??? My Crosman Phantom springer.... been tuned and shrouded, so its tby dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum
Jim Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Think about that for > a sec . . . they've just been ordered to > immediately engage targets in a life-or-death > situation, No, thanx. I cant handle my day to day issues...... much less something like this. But, thank goodness there are those that answered that call. So any pull you have with the Divine nby dan_house - I'm just sayin'
Got a Gopher Hat trick with the Phantom Menace..... buffed out a tru-oil application. Turns out I was doing it wrong, so I'll be revisiting that project. Spent Friday night and all day saturday at the Powwow......by dan_house - Airgun Rendezvous Main Forum