My chaser's trigger isn't very smooth but it's predictable. I think the cross bar safety might have something to do with it. I'll check that out.

On rats, I found that head-shots are hard to pull off consistently when they flank you (at least for me), and also found that body shots are very effective. If they look at you or away, head-shots are effective. Bait is the way to go, as mentioned by the beautiful & smart people above. I have good luck with corn, but rats will sometimes grab corn and run off with them. Nut butter hasn't worked for me. I see most rats at dusk, but I have also seen them in middle of the day or at 4am.

On squirrels, the other type of rat, I only do head-shots.

Nice shooting Joe! That is a killer card for a .177 at 40 yds. Looks like that RAW is dialed in. How fast were you shooting the 13.4gr pellets? Also, what scope are you using and at what power? That info helps populate all the info on the leader board. I find it useful to see what other shooters are using and doing to get great scores.

I am still in the tuning process on my DRS Classic 500mm .177. I am having trouble with the 22 round .177 FX magazines from my Crowns sliding out of the DRS. They line up fine but are not held in tightly by the one rubber o-ring. The one mini-Mag that came with the DRS (and uses 2 o-rings) stays in better but doesn't feed the rounds any better. Using my calipers I get 15.3mm for the mag opening on the DRS, but 15.0mm on the Crown MkII. Hum, that's an 11 thou difference. I would think that the computer controlled milling machines at FX should be good to 2 or 3 thou.

Despite that difficulty I am posting, for the Leaderboard, my latest DRS 30 yd Challenge - 196 - 12x



I am going to work on the barrel some more to see if I can get rid of the occasional flyers that keep showing up (2nd shot on #4). Ed has inspired me to spend the effort to really get the barrel inlet and inside well polished with all edges smoothed.

This next photo is of the new stock for the DRS. This is an American Walnut Caro stock from FORM Stocks in the UK. The adjustable cheek riser wes desperately needed and the full length Anshutz UIT rail on the forstock makes it easy to add my palm rest (for HFT) and a Pic rail for target shooting.
I 3D printed an adapter for the butt stock to allow me to use the Saber Tactical monopod.

Cheers,
Greg

rootdude said:

Looking forward to splashdown next week!

Couldn’t be more excited to own this custom made jewel.
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As a reminder, any normal (some oddballs may not), 1911, "full size", grip is a bolt on.

Mike

From web based shop to me, never a problem in 5 or 6 years to SoCal. Other than some "ill" handling a coupla times.

Mike

I do not need to try to buy another .30 Cal.....

Nor .25

Nor .22

Nor a .177

Maybe a .45..... Eventually..... But not sure..... Must probable never.

Centercut said:

EVERYONE is terrible judge of distance. Hunting longer than 50 yards a rangefinder is essential.

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.... and even at relative short range 10m (33ft) vs 11m (36ft) is a 0.5 mil difference in hold-under (with my rifle and scope). For pesting that is easily the difference between hit & miss.

most of the gold filters have a plastic tube which holds the MS or filter material. I have heard that the filter material/MS should not touch the walls of the filter or any metal or it could ruin the metal. Does the filter material inside the new GX filter inside the inter tube touch metal and if so is this a problem? Seems the inter tube does not touch the outside walls but if the inter tube is metal itself is this a problem?

JimD said:

Mine should arrive May 3 or 4 according to Amazon. I asked and the Target Forge guy confirmed that the charcoal was GX's idea. Might help somebody, I guess. There are lots of other filters with it. His recommendation was to leave it out the first time you change the sieve. I wonder how much of a change it will make on a dead head test. Dry air is worth it, regardless but I am curious. I guess I will know soon. It looks like the sieve is in a metal tube. Is there a space between the outer metal pressure barrier and the metal tube with the sieve? That might help water come out so it can be drained instead of going into the sieve. I vent my YH every 5 minutes and get a lot of water out that way. The hot air coming out of the pump can carry a lot more moisture than room temperature high pressure air so it will come out as the air cools. But YH temperatures are significantly higher than GX.

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It won’t make a huge difference. I have been using one of the big gold sieve filled filters from Amazon. It definitely looks bigger than the gx filter and it only takes my cs2 like 3 minutes to pressurize it to 150-200 bar and start filling my guns. My understanding is the charcoal is just there to remove odors from the air. Not much use in air gunning. More for breathing air which these filters/compressors aren’t going to achieve no matter what gx says.

Iowa Airgunner said:

I pulled out my practically new Diana 48. I detuned it with a 19 ft lb vortex kit. Got it below 1100 fps .
Freaking cannon. It still kicks but dang it can shoot. I put a 16x scope in it and sighted it in. Took a couple shots to find the bullseye. Then just started stacking. I have three underlevers for people to try. The Browning leverage, the Diana 48 and a tuned Tx200. All are so totally different. But they all put five shout under a dime.

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Star7 said:

HUH?
Is there something hostile in answering a q?

answer sidelined by mod approval

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Your post was approved in less than 20 mins.

Generally, AGN won't address specific trigger words. The whole "don't talk about fight club..." There is a spam filter trigger that is contained in one of the words in your post. Part of words get caught in the filter, ipso Facto, some innocent posts are delayed for a short time.

It is a very small price to pay to keep the spammers off AGN. When was the last time you saw any of those posts?

ba49 said:

I learned taxidermy as a kid in the 60s from a mail order school called the Midwest school of taxidermy I think. I used a 177 pellet rifle and mostly body shots on any small critter I could get my hands on. The first squirrel I did looked like a weasel when I was done with him. We used to make the form from wire and wrap string around cotton to fill it out and dry it with formeldihyde powder( dangerous stuff forv a 12year old to be messing with. We got the glass eyes from the school in the mail. It took awhile to know how much cotton and string to use as the pelt shrank as they dried, thus the Weasel- Squirrel LOL. Practiced with alot of roadkill too. I once got a visit from a Game Warden for mounting a roadkill Owl. I didn't know you weren't allowed to mount even road-killed ones you find dead. It's much easier mow with freeze drying and premade forms.

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Lol I can see it staring from the mantle. 'll stick to skinning

Bugabob said:

Just bought this airgun new from AOA. My first Daystate and second PCP (FX Crown). Even after researching on the internet, I’m not clear on how to adjust the hammer spring. Could anyone please provide a link, step-by-step instructions or a video? Would be most appreciated. Thanks!

Bob

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Check with Derrick Wall @zx10wall

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It’s too bad that he decided to scrub his video library. There was so much information in them that is now lost. I for one miss his videos and opinions on the various pcp rifles he put through their paces. He probably save many people lots of money and time and gave viewers an education based from his years of trial and error. Am grateful for the lessons and wish I recalled more of them. Thanks SG!

PCPGUY said:

With the reg around 130 I’m at 900fps with the 44.75s I still have room to go on the hammer spring fine adjustment and valve adjustment so I’m sure I can get to 1000 with all things adjusted up. I was thinking of getting the huma transfer port and pin probe

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The split transfer port is good for additional power. The pin style of probe's don't always cycle in ammo well because it allows the back or front of the ammo to shift as it pushes. (Making for inconsistent loading.) A lot of folks didn't have good luck with them, myself included. I ported out the original FX hollow probe to match the brass transfer port and it worked out great, getting more airflow and still seating the ammo squarely into the brass port because of the flat front.

Vetmx said:

You didn’t cause the leak by playing with the first reg. What happened to you is just what Impacts do. You degassed the whole gun and it just decided to leak. Everything is fine. You just need to tear it down all the way and start replacing orings.

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This is classic I guess FX leaves this out of the marketing hype.

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JDR said:

Vortex due to the lifetime guarantee.

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Leupold's "guaranteed performance for life" is a "limited 2 year warranty" for range finders. When my Leupold RX-1200i died after a couple of pampared years, I henceforth replaced it with a Vorex Diamondback HD 2000.