Recent content by outdoorman

According to the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks website, a Recreational Use License is required to hunt nongame species on state lands.

No hunting license required in Maryland to hunt on your own property.

From the Cardew book on spring guns: "A graph of typical piston travel against time is shown in fig 5.1, it can be seen that the velocity is approximately constant after the initial acceleration until it nears the end of the cylinder when it slows down abruptly and stops for an instant at...

The Federal regulations do not state that "waterfowl must be taken by steel shot". They state that you cannot posses any shot other than steel, bismuth-tin, tungsten-iron, tungsten-polymer, tungsten-matrix or such shot approved as nontoxic. This restriction only applies to ducks, geese, swan...

The Migratory Bird Treaty Federal regulations do not say all birds have to be taken with a shotgun. The regulations state they can be taken by any means except those prohibited by said regulations which do not include air guns. Rifles are specifically prohibited however an air gun is not a rifle...

I've taken over 300 squirrels since I began fighting back on them 3 years ago with my D34. I mostly go for heart/lung shots unless they are under 20 yards. Most of the time they last about 15 seconds with a heart/lung shot and they rarely escape in that time although a few have disappeared on...

Well, that's one of the craziest things I've ever heard of. Lead poisoning can cause a host of health problems. But, then again, I'm sure there are many smokers here and to me, that is one of the dumbest things a person can do to themselves. Everything has risks. All I can say is, educate...

Well, I think I've told this story here before but worth repeating. In an effort to be stealthy when lining up a shot on a squirrel in the back yard, I put my eye to the scope, raising my gun while coming around the corner of our sunroom and lined up my crosshairs on the squirrel. Little did I...

Stick to your story, I've seen woodpeckers hammering away on metal gutters and downspouts. 

With springers, the barrel is forced downward due to the sudden stopping of the piston which occurs before the pellet leaves the barrel. I use a shooting stick most of the time. When shooting off hand, I have to use significant hold over. I'm surprised that you found a hold that gives you the...

Ha, and look at that massive silencer on the end of it!

Yep, 53°, dry air and blue skies. Perfect, love it.

There is no way you can prevent a spring gun from moving before the pellet leaves the barrel. The initial recoil, due to the release of the piston, is rearward and is in fact, into your shoulder. Then there is the forward "recoil" due to the stopping of the forward motion of the piston both...

All I know is that my gas ram gun is progressively harder to cock toward the end of the cocking stroke just like my spring gun is. The gas ram gun is harder to cock overall yet the spring gun has a little higher velocity. I don't think one technology is any better than the other overall. I do...

I agree with leadfoot, but even if you were right, so what? How does that have any affect on launching a pellet at a particular velocity? What would make that a "huge selling point"?