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crowski · Apr 17, 2025

Shot two 50’s . First up a .177 black. Wood stock, nice gun, accurate.

Also a .20 cal. picking off spring targets at 47 yds.

Great day. Also got my tractor repaired, buddy with fab plant saved the day. Crow

Iowa Airgunner · Apr 17, 2025

Things are happening fast
Today I did some more stuff for the field target club. I made these bow ties to wind up the strings.
I found 600 yards of yellow and orange Dacron .
I made the targets for the sight in range.
I have three of the five public use targets that will be permanently placed at the range.
And I got the numbers for the lane marked printed up
Tomorrow after work I’ll get the wood to build the shooting bench.
Sunday I’ll build the bench.
Saturday morning I’ll be starting construction of the airgun range.

Franklink · Apr 17, 2025

Yep!

My personal opinion is that the original Veteran came with the most effective OEM shroud/husher of any airgun that I've played with. They're aluminum walled, aluminum baffled, reflex type shrouds, that are essentially moderators. And moderators of a much better (more effective) design than many actual moderators.

Well, I figured out a way to install a shroud from a Vet Long onto my .20 Ghost. Since both the Vet and the Ghost use 15mm OD barrels, it wasn't too tough, just required a thread conversion to go from BRK barrel thread to 1/2x20.

The conversion makes the Ghost about 5/8" longer than an OEM BRK shroud. And my oh my my does it quiet things down!

Ghost isn't ever going to be the quietest airgun around, just too much inherent action noise. But this certainly helped. With this Vet shroud, adding a moderator on the end of the shroud doesn't make it any quieter, so I've got all the muzzle noise contained that is possible to contain. And without making it a big long broomstick like happens when you run a moderator on the end of the shroud.

And the Vet Long shroud that i tracked down is one of the more matte ones, so it matches the matte chassis of the Ghost rather well. Going to run it this way for a while and see what I think. From first impressions, it's seeming like it'll be like this from now on.

Not the greatest photo but this is what I've got....

BBGunn · Apr 17, 2025

Emjay4248 said:
After getting the U2 30 I was so impressed with the out of box performance that I bought a U2 25 within one week. Unfortunately 2 days before the arrival of the 25 the 30 blew its cork. Not sure what it is so it went back. Checked the valve and replaced the breech o-ring. Might be the regulator. I’m not disillusioned, things happen. In the meantime I’m happy plinking away withe the 25. I’m going to call AVS to get slug recommendations. Not spending altaros money and I might try Zam’s once I know the optimum diameter. Considering selling my fx’s and AEA’s Getting a little tired of tuning and tuning and tuning. So far the u2’s shoot almost anything from Jsb and Aea from very well to pellet on pellet @ 50 yrds. I’m also going to keep my 2 25cal Hubens.
It’s time to cull the heard as they say.

It's likely your U2 .30 blew the o-ring that sits on the shoulder of the poppet part of the valve. It's a VERY common issue with the U2s. The latest poppets don't break any longer but the o-rings still break. You have to disassemble the rifle about 50% to get he valve out on the U2 (U3 made access to the valve with no disassembly).

I've tested about every popular weight and brand of slugs in my U2 .25 700. The best shooting slug is the AVS 44gr, dish base in .2513" diameter. Second best is AVS 44gr, dish base in .2530" diameter.

My reg. is set at 155-bar. Hammer is 3-turns OUT from flush with back of block. I have the carbon stock and the spring adjuster plug has room inside the stock for several turns of outward adjustment.

Velocity in Spring/Summer temps is about 950fps. I was getting about 935fps in Winter temps.

Slightly better than average 5-shot group at 50yds with the AVS .2513" from my U2 .25.

KWK · Apr 17, 2025

Sammy25 said:
I just received the black plastic 5mm plugs from Amazon. They are ridiculously cheap (300 for $9), and look terrific filling the two sight screw holes. I've upgraded four of my HW springers with them. I don't like the appearance of a third plug in the metal post holes, however. I'll either leave them open (not a bad look), or try Beeman 22's suggestion with the sunken Ace screws where the post used to be. In all, thanks for everyone's ingenuity on this.

You only need about 146 more Weihrauchs.

cavedweller · Apr 17, 2025

Croxton63 said:
I wonder what the break-even point is? In other words, how many events would a person need to attend before the cost of buying and running a rig worked out to be cheaper than paying for the hotels?

I’ve been thinking about just this:
payback or cost savings are offset by convenience of having all your gear onboard,
being able to get to more remote areas without a rental vehicle,
moving at your own pace, etc.
the more you use it the less it costs or the better the payback.
I’ve considered towing a trailer because I can also leave the trailer on a site with hookups and then drive the truck to the events.
The smaller minivan campers are pretty cool too …
as vehicle size increases so do problems with parking, storage, security and maintenance and insurance.
Definitely lots of things to consider.
At 68 I am somewhat spoiled, thus comfort is a must.
ideally the setup would have to be rugged enough to deal with poorly maintained roads.
This is strictly a retirement/hobby related project, so I’m planning this as a two years to creation project - first trips will be closer to iron out the details and then take trips further away as I get better at this.

Lewis · Apr 17, 2025

I believe that was BigRagu.
Hit him up. I think he has captured the sizes.

JungleShooter · Apr 17, 2025

KnockOut Slugs Falling Out Of OEM Magazine?!?

I was shooting .25cal JSB KnockOut slugs from an RTI Prophet 3. The MKII with the flared skirts.

But many slugs fell out of my OEM magazine when I simply tilted the gun at a 45⁰ angle upwards....

▪ Do the KO's just not like the RTI OEM mags?
▪ Are aftermarket mags the solution to using KO's (because I liked their precision at 100m)?

▪ What .25cal slugs DO work in the RTI OEM mag.?

Thanks for your help!

Matthias

Lewis · Apr 17, 2025

Sadly no. Just a chance to meet some folks face to face. We would love it if you could make it!

igolfat8 · Apr 17, 2025

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igolfat8 · Apr 17, 2025

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RickH · Apr 17, 2025

If I could only use an air gun mine would be a Gauntlet 2 in .25 but would prefer a powder gun.

Rick H.

Emjay4248 · Apr 17, 2025

DougH. said:
My U2 .30 600mm has been perfect, shooting 49.5gr NSA at 886 out of the box with great accuracy. 56gr ZAN BR 100’s at 875. Groundhog (woodchuck), fox and ‘yotes don’t have a prayer with the NSA’s. As far as ballistics go, muzzle energy is a bit more with the BR100’s (95fpe) but the NSA’s (86fpe) start gaining FPE on the BR100’s past 50yds due to a better BC. The early U2’s had a valve issue but they have corrected that with the later models with an updated valve. Even so, the valve is easy to get to if it needs replacing.

Spoke to Bryan @EDgun and he says that it’s the new valve. They received it yesterday so I’ll know soon enough. I’m all set with slugs for the 30 now I’m trying to figure out slugs for the 25cal.

PCPGUY · Apr 17, 2025

2 in working order .25 side shot mags
$50 plus shipping
just sitting collecting dust
pay pal preffered

DougH. · Apr 17, 2025

Emjay4248 said:
After getting the U2 30 I was so impressed with the out of box performance that I bought a U2 25 within one week. Unfortunately 2 days before the arrival of the 25 the 30 blew its cork. Not sure what it is so it went back. Checked the valve and replaced the breech o-ring. Might be the regulator. I’m not disillusioned, things happen. In the meantime I’m happy plinking away withe the 25. I’m going to call AVS to get slug recommendations. Not spending altaros money and I might try Zam’s once I know the optimum diameter. Considering selling my fx’s and AEA’s Getting a little tired of tuning and tuning and tuning. So far the u2’s shoot almost anything from Jsb and Aea from very well to pellet on pellet @ 50 yrds. I’m also going to keep my 2 25cal Hubens.
It’s time to cull the heard as they say.

My U2 .30 600mm has been perfect, shooting 49.5gr NSA at 886 out of the box with great accuracy. 56gr ZAN BR 100’s at 875. Groundhog (woodchuck), fox and ‘yotes don’t have a prayer with the NSA’s. As far as ballistics go, muzzle energy is a bit more with the BR100’s (95fpe) but the NSA’s (86fpe) start gaining FPE on the BR100’s past 50yds due to a better BC. The early U2’s had a valve issue but they have corrected that with the later models with an updated valve. Even so, the valve is easy to get to if it needs replacing.

ChuckInOhio · Apr 17, 2025

This listing has been renewed

OldVet · Apr 17, 2025

jfm said:
Having never worked on an airgun before I took my Stoeger XM1 apart to fix the bolt that would nok lock. By some miracle I managed to put it back together again and it's seemingly not leaking and seems to work. Have to re-zero it tomorrow though I guess that's the real test to see of it still works.

I do need to find some more orings now though. As I used up some of the ones that came with the gun. Is there like a kit of orings you could buy with common sizes in airguns?

There is link to O rings on a post called "Lost Zelos O ring Battle"
It is a link to a master Captain O ring set go to Forums then PCP air rifles then to page 3 the link is there it's $37 , but great.

Ricklin · Apr 17, 2025

Donny FL had good and specific recs for my Hatsan Blitz in .22. The moderator is not .22 cal. they will likely have specifics for your gun as well. Apparently baffle strikes were an issue with full auto, upsizing the moderator resolves that w/ little or no loss in sound moderation, the Ronin is a big can.

Simplemann · Apr 17, 2025

Richely said:
Fake website shows photo of building with ’Closing’ banner. Legit site doesn’t.

Do you believe everything on FB?

Your call.

No I don't believe everything on FB, just pointing out where I saw it..

kromc5 · Apr 17, 2025

Bayward said:
My CS4-i arrived wet and also from the seller. A friend of mine who since has moved had a similar situation with his small farm. He had been there for over fifty years when a large condo project was built across the road. They literally sued his animals away from him. Even had to get rid of his last couple chickens.

That is a sad situation, even to give up his chickens. Hoping that we do not have any further issues. But we plan to redo the back fencing and increase its height.

midwest · Apr 17, 2025

Thanks all, I got notification that it shipped today should be here on Tuesday.

Crusher · Apr 17, 2025

This listing has been renewed

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