Happy Mothers Day!
Pretty nice conditions but those darn weird swirlies get us. Ed got me, Doug n Bob held them off.
Turns out one needs to be cautious of different (new) slug lots too.







This is how Vipha feeds us! Our bellies need tending

Thanks to Tim (Mac1) for helping Joe score and bringing good air.
Thank you JoeF for gifting us your facilities and more.
Thank you Vipha for feeding us baby-chicks & thanks to Felipe & Perry for the goodies.

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Looking to buy a Dragon Fly 2 model, 22 cal rifle and or parts etc.
Payment by PP.
Please drop me a pm.
Thank you

ok Barra owner in video says the tube is 233 cc size, then in other sights they say its 322cc,. can somemone please clarify???thx

Took this out my shop door!

Want to bottle my notos, Want some opinions on the best conversion kit.

I’m sure a lot of you have a favorite airgun YouTube channel or podcast. Whats your favorite channel or videos?

I’ve recently came across some old airgun videos from the 90’s y’all might enjoy. (Not my channel or videos)

*contains some hunting *



This is a very interesting caliber comparison video.

* hunting footage warning *


The YouTube channel Camelots County Sports has a good mix of reviews, hunting and interviews.

I’m in the USA but I still find the sub12 stuff interesting.

Gun was purchased new last summer. Was going to use it for Open Field Target, not comfortable with the bullpup style of the gun. Gun is stock except for the lighter spring I installed above the trigger to lighten it up (13oz), will include original spring. Included is Carm single shot loader, 1 magazine, breech seal orings, trigger Allen key, and hard case. $1650.00 shipped in conus PayPal F&F or $1716.00 G&S, money order or personal check, will ship when it clears. No trades. Thanks Rick

I have 1 of these left, brand new in the packaging. You can't buy these anymore for some reason, from Ernest Rowe. These are high flow twin ports. See pictures for details.

Paypal as payment, $40.00 each, shipped in the lower 48 states for free.


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Purchased my first order....says it is reusable; first cleaning worked great; however on my second after soap/water cleaning/air drying, the foam tip tore up...used in the bore of
my Air Venturi Comp10, .177:

Took my wife on a 21 mile tandem bicycle ride out to the Ashokhan Reservoir for Mother’s Day. Got back home and was relaxing on my back porch enjoying a brew and thought. “Let me send a few”, so I set up some wine corks as pictured at 31, 43 and 53 yards. Sending CPHPs off of a tripod that belonged to my father in law and is at least as old as I am. First round hits on all three, at which point I simply sat down to enjoy the rest of the brew and type this. My Pathfinder XR has proven to be consistently first shot accurate. And has taken many, many pests for me. It is with me for the long haul, simply a sweet little beastie… If, and that is a big IF I had to choose between it and my Ghost Carbine? The little Pathfinder would win out for what I do with my airguns…

Have 3 Big bore pcp rifles by Sam Yang that my father collected as part of his rifles. all 3 are like new. Never really been shot before.

1. Big Bore 909 .45cal Camo Dual Air tank / Extra .50 Cal barrel. 425.00 shipped


2. Big Bore 909 .45cal < 425.00 shipped


3. Big Bore Recluse .357cal 425.00 shipped



I accept Paypal, Zelle, Venmo

(Just decided to go with a Veteran)
Snowpeak P35x in .22 Can Include -Vector Veyron, 4-16x44 IR SFP scope and bipod.
$645.00 SHIPPED for package or will sell less scope or bipod

CRONO SHOOTING INFO FROM ORIGINAL PURCHASER THAT I BOUGHT RIFLE FROM. I AM SECOND OWNER.
Gun is currently tuned for FX18.1 pellets at 887.7 avg.
SD is 1.89. 166 verified through 131 shots
Extreme spread of 6.8.high was 891.7 low was 884.9
gun is incredibly good shooting, surprisingly light, and decently powerful.
At current reg setting you’ll max out at 865 with 21gr slugs or 872 with 20.83 monster lights, 926 with JTS 18.1, 921 with FX or/
JSB 18.1 970 with 15.89.
Last two pictures shows small marks

Talked with my Dad today and he said “make someone a deal on it and sell it so your Mom stops complaining about it laying in the office” so here is a great deal for someone….

875 and we can split the shipping. PayPal F&F for payment.

Original Martin built .30 HM1000x in Steve Corcoran benchrest stock.

Gun was resealed last year and shoots the 44.75 at 875-900. Ships with 3 magazines and single shot tray.

My Dad just turned 80 and is to much gun for him and this one deserves to go to someone who will put it to use.

First “I’ll take it” wins, should go without saying but no negotiations on this, price is firm.

I have not found yet the best ammo for this rifle.

Jsb pellets in 8 and 10 grains are shot accurately but wind affect them a lot.

NSA .177 slugs deal better with wind but some flyers.

Jsb 13 grains not much accuracy....

Has any one tried the NSA .178 slugs?

Selling my GK1 V3 .25 cal. Shoots great. Ares loading gate, ares mod adaptor, apex foldable carbine stock, pic rail and sniper 3.5x40 prism scope. Currently shooting hades pellets at 840 but can be turned way up. Comes with the hard case, spare parts and fill probe. $1350 shipped. Can add a donnyfl mod for an extra $50. Would trade pistol for pistol for a .22 gk1. May consider other trades in .22 or .30 cal. Im not looking to add cash from me on any trade.

*** SOLD ***

*** Actually I now believe that the manufacturer calls this configuration the 'Carbine' in black soft touch. To differentiate it from the shorter bullpup configuration of the M2 ***

I bought this rifle used from Utah Airguns a couple of years back on a whim. Just wanted to see what an Ataman shot like.

For my current backyard shooting with friends, I like an airgun which shoots like a scalpel. And to me for some reason this one shoots like a hatchet. Not that it is tuned too high (chrony numbers I have shows excellent accuracy of 18.13's at 953 fps). It is not too loud,as it is very backyard friendly. The trigger is smooth, clean and quite light. Yet somehow it feels like more of a hunter/pester to me, and I just shoot paper on my 25 yard backyard range any more. So this Ataman doesn't leave the gun rack in my study, and needs to move on.

It comes with the 2 magazines, the slip-on muzzle device (brake?), fill probe and owner's manual as shown in the pics. There are 2 small blemishes I find in the soft touch stock (which is nice and solid - likely wood and not some hollow plastic), shown in the close-up pics.

Also, it comes with the 2 non-functional magazines I received with it. It looks to me like they are just missing the little spring which holds the magazine's release lever. Likely something which you could find at a local hardware store, but I never shot the gun enough to go that far.

I noted this morning that the rifle's pressure gauge is off - reading LOW. It only showed 50 bar but when I went to top it off to test dry-fire it, it actually had something like 200 bar in it per my compressor's gauge. When I took it up to 3,000 psi (it is 300 bar working pressure), the on-gun gauge showed 100 bar, not the nearly 300 bar it should have shown. SO YOU CANNOT RELY ON THE GUN'S BUILT-IN PRESSURE GAUGE.

$465 payable with PayPal Friends & Family, including shipping CONUS.

First "I'll take it" wins.

Thanks,
Tom

are they safe ?
working pressure is 4500psi
all stainless they say.

While changing out the Bottle on my Avenge X. I blew out the Burst Disc that is rated at 6K. Pressure in the bottle was less than 4K. What could have caused this.
This is the second Burst disc while doing this.

With all of the talk about what tariffs have or might do to airgun prices, I thought that it might be fun to have a continuing thread where members told other members about hot air GUN deals that they saw. (For this thread, lets just talk about complete GUNS and not accessories, ammo, etc.).

I think that it will be fun to see what other airguns members find interesting enough to post, as all or our 'needs', wants and preferences are different. So please lets keep it CIVIL and in compliance with the thread title.

This thread is NOT for discussing the issues one has had with a model or brand of gun another user posts, nor is it a place to question whether the posted deal is actually all that good. POSTS ARE ALL THE OPINION OF THE AGN MEMBER WHO FOUND A PARTICULAR DEAL ON A PARTICULAR GUN WHICH THEY FELT WAS WORTHY OF SHARING. IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE GUN OR AGREE WITH THE DEAL, YOU ARE FREE TO KEEP IT TO YOURSELF, OR CREATE YOUR OWN SEPARATE THREAD. I really want to see what different forum members out there like, and their reasons - hopefully it will be a learning exercise for all of us to maybe look at some different guns than we had been looking at.

And maybe get a good deal too!

So let's organize this by:
Make/Model
Shop
Deal Price
Link to the deal, if at a specific shop
Do you have one, and what do you like about this gun, especially at this deal price?
Photo, if you like.

Lets have fun with this and not drive others away with posts condemning their choices.

So I'll start:

KalibrGun Cricket 2 Tactical 45 CRBT
Airguns of Arizona
$1,200
https://www.airgunsofarizona.com/precharged-pcp/kalibrgun-cricket-2-tactical-45-crbt-.22/
I own one of these in .22 cal, and at this price I would buy one if I didn't already have one. Great shooter - accurate, reliable, lots of shots per fill, really comfortable to shoot (I like the stock extended behind the action compared to the other Cricket 2's), and accurate as all heck. Not the lightest but not bad and I mainly shoot off the bench. Really easy magazines to load, although the cocking/loading action can feel a little notchy unless you get the mags adjusted right. This gun must not be selling well for some reason. But to me it is a little gem which is significantly discounted during this time when other airguns seem to be increasing in price.

I THINK, I KNOW what's the better caliber for feral pigeons — but then, my wife tells me that I'm not always right when I THINK I'm right.
So, please, correct me or enlighten me at least.


I am aware —
and blatantly disregard —
the disadvantages of the .30cal over .22cal. Here in no particular order:
▪ more danger of damage apart from damaged pigeons
▪ less shots per charge
▪ louder
▪ more expensive per shot



Now, I am looking at shooting the .30cal with an MV of 540fps — for a ME of 32FPE — so, very low velocity, very low power for a .30cal.
That should eliminate the disadvantages of noise and low shot count.
▪ What about the danger to stuff other than pigeons?
▪ The trajectory is rather loopy, so my PBR is only 36y (33m) short. My largest distances are 60y, typical is 25-45y.


Do you have anything to add here?
Please, do so.





The advantage of the .30cal — using the JSB 50.15gr dome at 540fps MV — hitting pigeons at 50y with 25FPE (473fps):
▪ a bigger hole in the pigeon = equates to quicker kill and on marginal shots, a kill at all.

Is this correct thinking?
What comments do you have?



This is not academic, I have a .30cal rig with these specs.
Thanks!

Matthias

I have a vulcan 3 30 cal 700mm up for trade. I got it in a trade, fixed all the leaks and shot it a little. It's sending 54.5 hsa slugs @1015fps with more to spare. It's accurate. I probably have near 1000 rounds or more of the aforementioned slugs to go with. Has a700cc bottle on it and I have a AGT 500cc. Someone needs all this power, I don't. That's the good, now the bad.
The screws that secure the plastic cover/cheek rest are stripped, the pictures with the pen shows what I'm talking about. I have the screws, not sure if I have all of them. There's plenty of material if you wanted to drill and tap for the next size up if you wanted. It doesn't affect performance in any way and the cheek piece doesn't move, it's actually a pain in the neck to get off. So if you made it this far I'm looking for a higher end .177 or .22 PCP rifle.

I have two repeat customers that love two projectiles for their guns:



Problem is, both of these slugs do not consistently fill out past .002" of spec. I have other moulds that do not have this issue.
The .252 is being shot out of a K1. Variance is .252" - .2535". The owner is using silicone grease to keep them in the mag!
The .455 is having the same problem in a Rattler. However, it feeds the slugs reliably.
So my intent is to pilot these slugs with the same customers, hoping to add .001" diameter to each side, thus fixing the consistency issue.
If I am successful, and the slugs fit reliably with the same accuracy or better, I will offer this service to my entire product line.
So far I'm starting with red powder coat. I've read that turquoise and green are other good colors. I've done the homework online, but no question there is a learning curve in the real world.
Seems like the only other airgun slug maker I know of that offers powder coating for airgun slugs is ZAN and AEA. ZAN priced their hyper line 43% above traditional slugs.
We'll see how it goes in the coming weeks.

NLA

Nice day, it's getting warm here in SoCal. 96* in the San Fernando Valley today.
Conditions were good for both Joef Pellet and the Sportsman class boys.
I stumbled on a great tune shooting Alteros slugs in my Thomas pellet rifle - Thanks to Mike for making great rifles.




That Randolph rest is heavy and I'm getting old. This is nice.

Ed's Annie is nice


Thank you JoeF for gifting us your facilities and scoring our targets.
Thanks guys for the donuts!

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