Haha the mods were dragging on it and because I asked what he may or may not be looking to invest/divest from in a much broader post about carpentry it got flagged for mod approval. So I got scolded for inappropriate content for circumventing the system. Maybe classified should be hidden all together from users without the tenior and from search engines?

To me those look like the originals. Pretty sure Rowan doesn’t use cast which is why your trigger has a 3 cast into the metal.

doninva said:

I am about 99% sure this is for a record trigger unit but could anyone confirm. I found it in one of my parts bins. Evidently l forgot l had it. Old age socks sometimes . Don

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Looks like the OEM trigger blade for a Rekord unit.

Got this HW77 out to check zero now that the front sight assembly is fixed. All good. POI was wandering last time I shot it before things came loose so assume that was probably when it first started to loosen up. I know I’ve whined before about the current HW stocks, but man! If they still made them like this instead of the fuglysticks they turn out now I’d probably own a half dozen more than I do.

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KWK said:

Ron, AO can be very useful when hunting. Set it for 30 yards on lower power while walking in. That should give you sufficient depth of field for anything you walk up on. When you find a place to sit for a while. Use max power and the objective to rangefind a few trees, features, etc in your perimeter. Now you have a very good idea of range when game appears.
For me a nice light variable is worth the weight. The old Korean 3-9x32 Bushnell Sportview was great for this. Beeman sold them and some came as Blue Ribbon. (I'll never put an ugly blue scope on any gun of mine ). Nice clear optics.

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we'll have to agree to disagree. I've never needed more than 4x for anything I'd be shooting with an Air rifle. I'm familiar with your technique but in practice I've missed far more opportunities than I care to admit to because the scope was on the wrong power and or parallax setting when something pops up at an unexpected distance. I can hit a 500 yard 10" plate with an AR with a 1-6X. A fixed 4X works (for me) for anything I should shoot with an air rifle.

Another great score posted Dana!

The scores are so close in the pro class:

TOP 5 SHOOTERS IN THE PRO CLASSIFICATION​

Nealgl1985 said:

Will the pathfinder shoot the heavier stuff well?

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The heaviest pellets I‘ve sent are the JSB Exact Jumbo 18.13s... Which it shoots as accurate as I can hold. Have also tried the Air Arm 16 gr. Diabolo Field which are excellent. Some numbers from mine as received from AOA. I ran all three TP settings… I haven’t changed a thing and have been using it as received, right out the box. I don‘t believe the platform was designed to send 25 gr. pellets.

CPHPs / TP High
Hi: 846 Low: 835 Avg: 841 Std: 3 ES: 11 FPE: 22.4

CPHPs / TP Med
Hi: 836 Low: 829 Avg: 834 Std: 2.27 ES: 7 FPE: 22

CPHPs / TP Low
Hi: 794. Low: 784 Avg: 789 Std: 3.36 ES: 10 FPE: 19.7

JSB Exact Jumbo 18s/ TP High
Hi: 794 Low: 782 Avg: 788 Std: 4.94 ES: 12 FPE: 24.8

The following two groups show some of the accuracy of the Pathfinder when I’m on point…

Impact701 said:

I was wondering the same thing ? So I shot a baseball sized potato at 30 yards, it popped just like when I hit one with a hollow point.

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..and meplats performance does not depend on expansion. I hope they make a 177 version!

So far I've had 1 of 9 +$1200 - $2000 guns come with a hard case that could fit a scoped gun. The impact.

4 of 9 if you count the AGT soft cases.

The Uragan, Uragan2 , and vixen.


I am also of the opinion its insultingly cheap they dont throw in larger case.

ZekeZX10 said:

OUSTANDING! How are you liking the Karma EQ

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Im really liking it so far! I’m still slug testing. These 52gr are good but this gun wants heavier. Also, it will fit, cycle and load all those super long griffin boat tails! I’m probably gonna end up with something around the 58-65gr zone just because I like to shoot them faster for the “flatness.”

Beyond that the gun is heavy but shoulders well. It has a solid steel barrel and a big plenum. So it can take riding shotgun in dirt roads and hiking the desert.

The reg hates to move so you have to dry fire a bunch to make it settle every time you move it. That’s annoying. It takes a lot of air to tune it. Beyond that tuning is easy… I’m right at 101fpe and getting exactly 30 good shoots a fill.

Feels like there’s a lot of headroom for power still. I’ve hit 110fpe with the Griffins so far but someone smarter than me is gonna hit 120fpe+ slinging something heavy haha.

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Centercut said:

I received some of those Tuesday, and shot about a tin today. 700mm .22 cal 1:16 twist Superior Heavy liner in a Skout Evo.
I shot them at 950, 975, and 1000 fps at 104 yards. All speeds were very accurate, but 950 ish fps was best.
One thing that surprised me was BC G1. It seems many of the “Influencers” are getting crazy high BC. For me, that wasn’t the case. Over the three speeds tested BC was about 0.156 to 0.160. Not bad, but not in Altaros territory.

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Just to make sure things were good, I shot my old standby .25 Panthera 600mm with @Altaros 49.5 grain slugs at 888 fps. BC was the usual, today right at 0.209 G1.

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Can you reduce the velocity of the Ace slugs down to 890fps.

I thought for $1500 (what I thought was a lot for a pellet gun at the time) the damn case it came with should fit the damn rifle with a scope.

This is far too true.

Ron

I've shot two 200s on the 30 yard challenge with inexpensive (under $500) SPA bullpups. Definitely not benchrest rifles in design but accurate enough to have fun with. Both are 22s. Probably not powerful enough for longer range but under 50 yards they will work. The Stoeger Scout and Ranger are similar in construction but are more conventional in design.

I haven't belonged to a rifle range since 2008 but when I did, I had stands make of 1x2s I took with me. Thicker heavier wood might be easier to work with but 1x2s are cheaper and lighter and strong enough. The base could be made like Mongoose's design where the upright slips into the base. That might mean the base should be 1x4s. They will not withstand hits well but would be cheap to repair or replace. I used them with powder burners so there was no practical way to make something that was both portable and would survive.

At home I put small traps on either a brick column with a concrete paver on top or on a portable stand I made out of an old brake rotor and a piece of pressure treated 4x4. The 4x4 column has taken a lot of hits but is still usable. The brake rotor is heavy enough to make a sturdy base. You'd need an inexpensive source of brake rotors or drums but they don't have to be usable on a car to work for this.

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Serious good inexpensive...no.
Informal good, sure, just depends on your expectation.

Impact701 said:

I was wondering the same thing ? So I shot a baseball sized potato at 30 yards, it popped just like when I hit one with a hollow point.

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Nice!

Good is a relative term. For many years, I felt that a good air rifle was a 2 MOA rifle. I still do. Two MOA at 75 yards is 1.1/2 inches, and the 8 ring on the EBR target is 2 inches. If you shot all your shots into the 8 ring, you would have a good score.

Do I still shoot EBR with the Marauder I took to my first match? No, I shoot an FX, but it is a rifle I grew into.

Any benchrest match is a "gear heavy" sport. To let expense deny oneself the experience and the community of the competition is a bad call. At the basic level, benchrest with pellets is a marksman ship challenge. After my first EBR, I though, "This is the best no BS match I have ever been to". Air rifle benchrest is still that high on my list.

Ron