Corvid_hunter said:

Interesting. What brands are they available for and where can they be bought?

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Most quality guns don’t require us to build a SSG, HDD or install a SSS. Those are all terms that were universally understood when we all had unregulated guns or were installing regs in unregulated guns. I haven’t built one in years. But every Kral or Benjamin I’ve ever owned or still own has one. They are a difference maker when you are dealing with a globetrotter hammer.

AirStryk Industries said:

Love the name of this

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I'm looking for a better grip.
What do you have grip wise for the GK1 - V3?
The one I have is a competitors,
I don't like it.
Any components for
.25 Velox
.30 Blitz
.50 Megalodon 15"
.22 Virtus

If you’re in the market for an FX rifle, why not save a few bucks if the original prices aren’t higher than average?

Gerry52 said:

And they KEY syllable is BASH! Can't wait for Ground Squirrel schwacking season!

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Yes! Dished out my first "dirt nap" of the year the other day to a ground squirrel digging under my burn pile. Saw another on the neighbors property that looked like a small cat! May need to use the Leshiy 9mm on that critter!

Yeah, most rifles today have a 20moa angled top Picatinny rail.
I believe the 11mm and 13mm rails are parallel to the barrel centerline, on most of that type rifle build.

Mike

I’m in the process of clearing a field target range and wanted to gauge participant interest. I still need more targets, so if you have some that would be a good.

The caveat is I don’t have alot of parking and we have to walk down a steep hill to the course.

Send me a PM if interested. I like to have a shoot in late April sometime after the Indiana Airgun Show.

That was a very generous assist from the shooter who gifted you the optic

Michael said:

I wanted a heavy-weight projectile pusher. Lucky for me Utah Airguns has the FX Panthera’s on special right now so I snagged a 700mm . The first thing I did was move over all my Airmarksman accessories (Undertaker Rail & weights, carbon fiber grip, 300b bottle) and of course the Element Optics Nexus, Studmagloader magazines, and Impulse Airgun 1350 moderator.

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This thing is !!!

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Seeing that you don't need that ugly red one anymore my address is ... .Mark

Walnut gunstocks are graded both for color and for figure in the wood. I think Blackdog99's gunstock has somewhat interesting color variation but I agree with him that it has no figure, at least that I see. But that doesn't mean it is not higher graded wood. Not everybody wants the same thing. AirNGasman's first stock looks like about 75% figure, possibly exhibition grade. A very high grade stock. You'd have to be very lucky to get a stock like that on any gun now. It would only happen if you paid a lot or if the supplier is not grading all the stocks, just buying wood and making them and what happens, happens.

I could be more possible in one way to get a highly figured stock these days since they are normally made by CNC machine. A router controlled by a computer. Traditional tools like planes struggle with figured wood and can tear it up. Router bits tear wood too but it is in a controlled manner than can be sanded out later.

I've made stocks for all three of my P35s (5 stocks for the 3 guns), my Prod and my Avenger. I just used scraps of wood from other projects. I may visit my furniture wood supplier and try and pick out a board for gunstocks. The guy I used to go to was closer but he was smart and planed and sorted the wood himself and charged a lot more for figured wood. The guy I've gone to more recently is about an hour's drive away. They sell rough sawn and unplanned wood and do not seem to understand about figure. Furniture makers do not really want it for many parts. So sometimes figured boards are hard for them to sell. For something like a bed rail you don't want a highly figured board because it is not as strong. It would be really bad for the back leg on a chair. So there is a chance if I spend the effort I might get something very worthwhile. Or I might come home with nothing to show for a 2 hour drive in the truck and half a tank of gas. The only way to for sure get a really nice gunstock blank is to pay a lot for it. I won't do that, I'm too cheap.

Pfddi said:

AEA 30.2s are terrible grouping with my Krait L .25 and my PHC .25. With the P3 .25 RPB, I got a turtle at 154 yards the other day. It was on a log but a small one - 4". I shoot them in the head in the water moving all day at 100 to 125 with these slugs. The only slugs I have that group better are the Alteros 60g queens out of my 700mm Epic One. It is a dime group at 100 yards... the shooter is the weak link!

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It’s crazy how different the same gun can be. My p3 loves .249 30gr HN and shoots them amazingly. With the AEA no (consistent) success anywhere between 900 - 970 fps (well, maybe I went I. Too big of intervals…)

Gerry52 said:

The simpler FX guns are THE BEST imho. Not surprised at the accuracy you're getting with your Cat.

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Agreed

Ranchibi said:

That's some crazy accuracy Emu! Great groups

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Imposible to make them with a bad rifle.

I asked captian O-ring to send me the correct size not knowing what it was and the ones he sent were slightly too large. So the consequence is that they also tend to fall out. I still have to check to make sure the O-ring is there and often it's at the bottom of the bucket I keep the fill hose in.

I have made my own ballistic gel and used it. It is cheap if you just buy the powder and dissolve it yourself in boiling water, then pour it into a pan of some sort to cool. It does not dissolve easily, however, so it is a bit of a pain to do. Mine was not perfectly clear either. It needs to be refrigerated or will start to come apart.

10% ballistic gel is kind of an industry standard way to test projectile performance. It is supposed to simulate penetration in an animal but with recognition that the animal is too variable for anything like this to be a great simulation. 10% ballistic gel is easier for the projectile to penetrate than animal muscles and much easier to penetrate than bones but it is probably harder to penetrate than lungs. 20% ballistic gel might simulate muscles better, I've seen nothing that compares them. I use wet paper (magazines these days, I used to use newspapers) to simulate muscle tissue based upon writings of Finn Aagard, a professional hunter and later in life writer for shooting shorts publications.

People use a variety of materials to get some idea of projectile performance before shooting an animal with it. I think that is a good thing to do and I do it (in wet paper and layers of mdf to simulate bone). But whatever you use it is important to keep in mind animal bodies are much too variable for any test media to be a great simulation.

For air rifles and other guns with under 1000 fps velocity it is important to remember that the temporary wound cavity may look cool but it is not damaged tissue and will just snap back in place undamaged in the animal. Much higher velocity pb rifle projectiles expand the animal tissue fast enough that the temporary wound channel is damaged tissue so the damage is greater consistent with what you see in gel. So ballistic gel wound channels (or clay channels) can be misleading for lower velocity guns like our airguns.

6gun said:

Check out nielson specialty ammo too.

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Thank you, I will.

Looking for a compact scope? Check out my post.

Like to hear from you guys .what's the best combo u use for big game ,ie:deer ,bear,ram ,elk and can u get kills hots over 150 yards ?do u go for high fps or heavy slug?

My nephew has one, loves it out in the orchards by the farm. Squirrels on the other hand, not so enthusiastic.

beerthief said:

one problem is shooters ability or just goofing around ?. At my range we built a new pistol 40 foot steel plate range . we made the 3 sided berm 12 feet higher than the targets.
Sounds good right ? NO we found holes in the trees just in back of the new range above the total 17 foot high berm (12 feet higher than the targets )

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I took my brother in law to the range one time and one time only because he was that idiot.

DARKHORSE1967 said:

Looks like a Total War Tactical skeleton buttstock, which is a copy of one of the XLR stocks.

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Pic 1 and 2 are Total War pieces.
Pic 3 came to me a few years later & while similar is different in the sub frame ?

Just what I would do would be shooting one of my Gauntlets in .25. I’ll limit that to 50 yards and nothing larger than a raccoon. Hogs, coyotes or bigger it will be a powder gun in .308. Opinions very but that’s what I’m comfortable with.

Rick H.

I view the Crown as the successor of the Royale, with easier adjustment. I don't think they're at all hard to work on. I can strip and seal a Crown of it's critical orings in 45 minutes or so. Now the Impact....I love 'em, but they're a bit of a turd to work on. There's just so much to deal with going wrong. BUT, when they shoot, they shoot really well indeed. I'd still love to get my hands on an unmolested Mk2 with PP, and I'd be a happy camper.

FX pushes the limits, no question, and that seems to be why they outsell all others.

I’ve almost purchased the HW set a few times, only to be saved by my short attention span LOL

Question answered and thread drift into firearms. Closed.

I’ve got the barrel end ones and a Shooting Chrony knockoff along with my old Shooting Chrony.
The Chinese ones are superior to the Shooting Chrony in that they’re less finicky with lighting.
For the less than $20 price I have no desire for $500 ones. I just read here that Athlon may be
coming out with a Garmin type thats hundreds less. If so I will get it.