I miss having a lathe at my place..Long story short I think im going to buy another used metal lathe..My friend loves my Jet13x40 and he does too much beautiful custom work it. Looking on marketplace I saw some nice lathes for sale. The 13x40 jet is great for light work but not heavy turning. So ill get at least a 13x40 or maybe bigger...I,ve only run chinese lathe's..Maybe find a nice old american lathe. I miss doing barrels on the late nights when sleep isn't a option.. I just got a Teslong digital borescope and wow is it good. Much better than my old Hawkeye borescope..Getting my old interest going again.. Thanks for your support

And next in the hit parade... A Cox Bushmaster from 1975. The motor is locked up and it needs a new rudder. I have a few spare engines but I doubt I'll ever run it. It's way too noisy. I had a bunch of different ones. Good times while getting hearing damage...

I have a runable Testors P40 as well. Gotta find the right kid to give them to (along with some earplugs).

It, too, lives! It's a Wilesco D5. It does need a gasket or two. The knocking you hear is the base rattling on the grill. It's slightly bent. Now to figure out the horsepower.

A little more searching turned up the original. From Christmas of '73, I think. Still in the box with the instructions. It's a little rough and was seized up, but a little oil freed up the fly wheel. Decades spent in a damp basement have taken their toll. It runs at a much higher rpm than the other one, iirc. It will be fun to find out exactly how fast it goes.

It lives! I was able to line the fuel-tray with foil and use some candle wax with a paper-towel wick to add heat. The rpms are a bit lower than I remember, but I guess the governor has something to do with that. The cats don't care for it and the dogs don't know what to think.

I ran across this at my folks' house yesterday. It's been a lot of years since it's been run. I used to love those things. Thinking I'll clean it up and get it going. Now where did I put that erector set?

Its that time of year again! 48,000 pounds of mixed hardwood destined for the wood boiler, needs to get cut to 22" pieces and hauled to the woodshed and lean-to.

First time ever, the boys are coming up to make a "wood day" happen!! 20 long cords of wood in one day!!

New WR, okay hurling pointy sticks and not lead.



21 YO Danish kid 13 X in 15 arrows. all 15 of course 10s
Old record of 12 X stood for 9 years.

Seem like i have caught a new addiction.
Shooting pellets.

It never really worked well in my Maverick, well at least at the 86 M distance i shot at back then.
But my past 10 or so hours of shooting at the range have been mainly pellets, and shooting them from 30 M to 123 M ( +130 yards )
With the wind that was there, well a measly little 10.4 or so grain or so .177 pellet get pushed around a lot, so in regard to working the wind a learning experience for sure.
At 93 M / 100 yards, with a rifle zeroed for the occasional 0 wind / very little wind, well if i was quick about it i could put 3 pellets on a 2" target before the wind was back.
With the wind there, well you got blown L / R about 1 - 5 inches when it was bad, and some times you also got blow down on the paper, very few high shots for natural reasons.

So the crossman domed pellets, well 1000 of them gone, and they work really well at the shorter ranges,
The JSB Heavy ones, well lagged a bit behind the crosman pellets, but it might be a speed issue i have NOT touched my regulator in 2 outings now, and my last 10 hours of shooting, unusual i have not had a chrono dangling off my rifle.

But the kicker pellet, the JTS dead centers,,,,, i got to get me some more of those CUZ at 100 yards, distinctive better than the other pellets i tried.

Also on a whim i brought the 10 grain JSB KO / MK 3 slugs,,,,, and daum, in not insignificant wind i was putting slugs on a thin wooden pole at 130 yards,,,,, and many in a row very few misses due to wind.
So i only had 1 tin of those,,,,,, THAT ! will soon change .

My friend shooting his .22 Cutlass, with the 15.something grain JSB pellets, well lets just say he is now a long range shooter too, though due to his old scope he can not hang at 130 yards, but 100 he do just fine with the old rifle.

Here is my first paper of yesterday shot at 100 yards, with the JTS pellets.
Bit of Chaos here, later i got to judge wind better, as in hold my shots to there was less of it, or the 3 wind flags was at least showing mostly the same direction, CUZ in 100 yards the wind was often 3 different directions.



Today i did short range stuff, pruning leaves and twigs of a tree, or shoot 1 hole groups in paper at 30 M
Both fairly easy due to surprising little wind early in the day.

At 53 BAR on the regulator, my long rifle was sipping air, i could get used to shooting like that ( around 930 fps )

Will be adding a video later on.

This pretty interesting

I'm back from vacation, I got everything put away, cleaned up and getting ready for next year's convention.

I'll clean the Airsmithing bench today and start conversions tomorrow once again.

Great to be back, I hope to get behind some glass soon as there seems to be a striped gopher in the garden!

More from the laser shop.. fridge magnets and coffee coasters

I'll be hunting every morning and evening from now until mid-February!

New from the shop....
Custom hat Patches

It's ALIVE!

2 days of nice air gunning over.
Started out rough, having to fix leaks in my old .22 Cyclone, as it turned out it was both ends of the air pipe, though just the valve in the front, the back both had valve and also the outer 22 mm O-ring that crumbled when i tried to remove it.
Then yesterday i hit the ground running / okay then crawling after having unloaded 2 complete kits of air gunning equipment.
Especially the old 12 L 200 BAR tank was a pain.
Then we went to you lumber yard / DIY store to pick up some wood for my friends projekt, and i picked up a handle / latch for the shot shed, and also 2 rubber tiles. which i am sure i will shoot strait thru, well at least where they are only 15 mm thick due to drainage pattern on the back.
While 30 mm thick in other places i am sure this will not be enough for a backstop, will have to brainstorm more on this.

So i installed the door handle / latch, and then set forth shooting my Cyclone, which wouldn't you know can shoot a little faster if you give it the last 1.5 revolutions on the hammer spring adjuster before it bottom out on something, but i gained like 60 FPS

Tested 22 grain Dead centers, and they are not bad, but would probably be better with a little more speed.
My friend not entirely convinced we had already tested the 18.13 Jumbo heavy a decade ago, well he is a believer now,,,,, and very much a potential buyer of a few tins of those.
Same go for the 16.08 grain Dead centers, also pretty sweet shooting pellets.
The 14.35 grain Jumbo express ones though, well topping out over 1000 FPS, they was a bit too fast for their own liking i think, we did not try them on MED transferport setting, everything was high of course.
The 16 grain snow peak diabolos was not a success at the speeds we saw.



So i have already compiled my next shopping list for pellets.
I want:

16.08 dead centers, and i think they also have a 18 grain version i want that too.
And then i need to stock up on 18.13 grain Jumbo heavies.

And as i tried my #2 to last tin of 4.5 mm beasts in my Two today, and the 700 mm CZub barrel liked it very much i have to say, well need me some more of that in 4.5 mm. 25 - 75 M seemed excellent and it will be better when i un- experiment my Two rifle.

Of course i also blew thru a couple of boxes of 16 grain Zan slugs, not at a good speed, and for sure not with the experiment i had going on the Two.

But all in all when i am shooting, its a damn good day, or in this case damn good couple of days.

Sorry. I know what that's like. Hoping you feel better soon.

Well, it’s a sad day for us. Our beloved Sophie who we rescued 13 years ago suffered a heart problem or possibly a stroke. She passed away on the way to the Vet this morning. Gone but never forgotten. RIP Baby Girl….

Help filling my fx king please.
hi guys I’m Feeling really frustrated. I installed huma reg last week was working real good. Today got in the mail a new digital manómetro Here is when I screwthisngs up. I removed the air bottle turn the regulator counterclockwise then shoot a few empty rounds to empty my planum Long story short. Can fill this thing back air is coming from the barrel. I try cocking the rifle and still can’t filled . please help.

Heading out and closing shop...

Going on "vacation" August 1st to the 15th.
If you are in Minnesota or traveling through Minnesota in the Brainerd Lakes Region, the PGI is having its annual convention and its going to be CRAZY!

So China wins the First Gold Medal. And it was in the 10 Meter Air Gun Competition. Think they were shooting FX?

Sort of related.

My computer chair was collapsing on me in spite of only being a year old.



So i went looking for a better used chair, and found this one.



Only adjustable in height, but still able to "kick back" in it, and i often need that when the stupidity of the world overpower me, and i have to push myself a little away from the screen and shake my head in disbelief.

I do like the reto look of the cast ALU frame on it, could also be the blue color that give me a fifties feel about it.

PS. No matter what direction i aim a camera in my living room, a gun case or two will sneak into frame

Seem like next week will be a pew - pew week.
winds down under 10 MPH, so it dont get much better in Denmark.
And i will have the range to myself, CUZ my friend will be playing painter at the owner of a local Land Rover dealership where he still get his cars fixed even if he do not drive land rover any more.

Top graph temperatures in deg C ( so seemingly not a single summer day in view )
Bottom graph is the wind, and in the forecast that is the expected average wind in M/s but 4 M/s = 8. something MPH



My M8 will leave a key for me, so i can say hello to my two doggo friends there.