Years of plinking and competition, then stopped 20 years ago. Spent the last 12 years working for an engineering house building and testing prototypes for new products that connect to iPhones and iPads.
Just purchased my RAW HM1000x about a month ago, along with a Hawke Sidewinder 4-16x50. Arken Zulu with range finder is on the way.

Glad to be here.

Hopefully a future dinner strolling through the field off my front porch. Unfortunately it won't be taken with an airgun. I'll get him with my crossbow.

The longest day of the year is coming up soon and apologizing to my dry friends up front, I'm going to pull out a reclining lawn chair, grab an ice cold beer and listen to the wind in the trees until the light is all gone and it's pitch black.

I've been on call for a week, I'm in pain, my honey-do list still takes up my job board and I need to just sit a while and "be".

Testing testing

Im working on a few dozen clamps for an acoustic build.

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Another good year at Raton for the Kid's shooting competition. Littlest one did not make it to the award stage this year, but she did have a breakthrough on the practice range and managed to level-up on three critical skills. She was shooting a new shotgun, a new (to her) Ruger. She set a personal best in Rifle and Muzzleloader and was just one hit each out of the awards. She is already chomping at the bit to go again next year. I was in my favorite place with my favorite group of people, and I reaped the benefits of both being away from work and being able to witness the 37 shooters on our team manifest the skills and knowledge that we coaches have been working toward.

Life is good.

Regarding 'The Giant Killer' thread that was just killed...

His was a life worth knowing about. Particularly at this time.

This is my personal AirForce Texan LSSCF .510 build.
-DG (DeathGrip.US) Carbon Fiber Moderator
-MadDog RJ-6A Recon LSS stock
-Ultra Match CNC trigger
-4,700 psi power up
-Custom machining picatinny scope rail
-ELEMENT NEXUS GEN II 4-25X50 FFP. Also run a Night Force ATACR, or Vortex.
-Scope mount: Larue Tactical PSR-20
-Gen4 MRAD Cold-Shot
-Uncle Ted’s autograph… priceless
*And a few other secrets, I’m not yet willing to share.

600 Yards in the wind, no problem.

Working for Northeast Airguns. If you have a question or concern, contact me.

Links to popular troubleshooting and tuning topics:
Adjusting a regulated PCP and relationship between hammer spring and pressure
Barrel troubleshooting and accurizing for the DIYer and an example
Barrel crowning - brass screw method
Barrel machining
Barrel machining - reamer selection for leade
Bore lapping versus polishing and fire lapping versus cast lap
O-ring material and durometer considerations
Regulator creep, contributing factors, and how to deal with it
Re-sealing a Huma style regulator
Regulator recovery time and related troubleshooting
Regulator recovery time - factors influencing it
Regulator pressure changing with the reservoir pressure
Regulator spring stacking
Scope installation - mirror method
Scope installation - sources of error arising from relying on levels or wedges

Still needs a bunch more work...but it is functionally alive once again!!

You can buy fancy powered sharpening tools and jigs. I usually sharpen by hand, and leather strop after. Either way if it shaves, it's sharp...

Getting tarnish off the shiny bits. Some dull spots on the lever cap will remain where the original nickel plating has worn through.

Looks like I need to look into being robbed by my local woodcraft store. After a bunch of research the plane is a type 4 produced from 53-65, and the knob and tote are made from Goncalo wood(tigerwood). Gonna see if they have a piece i can make both out of so the have nice matching color and grain. The front knob is not in bad shape but upon removal has some cracks in the base.

Starting to show some signs of life...

I also buy and restore old handplanes. Found this Miller's Falls #9 at a tag sale for $6 today. Already started tearing into it. The worst part is the rear handle (tote) that broke at some point and was repaired in ways that are functional only.

FX king. Is anyone have tried to upgrade a bigger air bottle?

Roxi greeted the Amazon guy yesterday. Poor guy...





He sent this "Proof of delivery" pic.

I'm just curious… who was the first person to look at a split open oyster and think "what a nice piece of snot! I'll bet that tastes delicious!"?

Was anyone else in the line of totality today? Pretty neat experience.

I'm just so happy today for good weather Getting 50: yards Zero s and chronograph. Crutches are better for bench shooting.. Hopefully get brushog to other property..200 yard range coming soon Handicap shooting rig for Texan... lol

I came here totally open-minded and hoping to learn from others with vastly more experience than I have. I have gotten great advice from some folks, and I have found many things that were a great read. What is very disappointing to me is how some brands can be bashed, kicked and driven into the ground to no end and with other brands it is inappropriate to find any fault with them at all. That tends to make me feel like I cannot really trust or believe in much of anything, kind of like politics and politicians. I find it fascinating that when new people to Airgunning come on and ask about guns they can reasonably afford, there will always be people completely ignoring what they said and telling them to buy the most expensive guns made. It's okay, they probably really don't need a scope, ammo or any way to fill it, so sure by all means spend twice as much money as you have on a gun so you can hang it on your wall and enjoy looking at it every day and totally enjoy the fact that it will never break. Well, that's not really true, is it? The Savage 110E wasn't the prettiest gun like Browning, but it would bring home the deer. The cancel culture is totally alive and well and by the way, mine is better than yours and you better believe it.

I was afraid it would end like this.
It seem like this site are not strong enough to carry my presence, and in spite of me greatly improving ( if i have to say so myself ) in the past few decades on other fora, it seem like some of my flaws are pushing rules or peoples or admins buttons too hard.
So after several warnings now and post deletions lately it is probably best if i take my leave.

So i will log out now, and only come here as a reader in the future so as not to aggravate anyone.

Best wishes - lead and wind everyone.

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