Jon, my apologies. Be well, Bandito.

Last weekend I cleaned freezer out of squirrels and made huge gumbo over 25 I deboned feed family and neighbors and still got three gallons in freezer

So, just to double-check, I went to the album and discovered about 300 missing pictures. I had to create a new link and album.


Hope everyone missing is now there (even Burnt) !!! Sorry bout the oopsie

This GKl is the right size for a holster as long as you don't put a LDC on the end, I am kinda looking around for a holster now,,
Mike

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Both are great. I love the impacts, the high capacity mags, very tunable. They both shoot great. The krait is simple, and has a solid barrel compared to the impact. I wouldnt mind getting another krait again, maybe the compact this time

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Great. The compact sounds great.

Ranchibi said:

Congratulations and wonderful group! Sapsan has wonderful in-house made barrels that remind me of CZ for accuracy .

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Thank you, sir! Ya, CZ does make fantastic pieces. I have a CZ 457 Royale in 22LR and it is a jewel of a rifle and supremely accurate.

Hi One and All

Has anyone attempted to fit a regulator gauge (manometer) to a AirMaks Katran LB with a 480cc bottle (early 2024 model) that has a bleed screw? See attached image.

I have been told that it is possible to fit a gauge (manometer) if you remove the bleed screw. You then get an adapter machined-up on a lathe or purchased, if one is available. Apparently, you screw the adapter into the threaded-hole where the bleed screw sat and then screw the gauge (manometer) into the other end of the adapter.

I want to know the precise setting of my .22 Katran's regulator and how well it performs after each shot.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. And is the option I have described feasible?

Matt

More Avenge-X regulator questions:

nervoustrig, in your post regarding making insert out of harder delrin, how did you cut out the new inserts out of .04 plate? I was looking at maybe using delrin round stock and parting them off. Back 50 years ago I worked as an N/C machinist for the shipyard here in VA. We made delrin valve seats for high pressure steam valves and the material was a redish-grey as I recall. Can you get the old one out by punching through the hole on the other (larger) end? I am probably going to polish the original first. Under magnification, I can see a faint imprint from the mating part down in the aluminum body. Looks like a .125 or so hollow pin down in there but I have no idea how to get to that part or if it even is meant to come out, so don't know if I can polish that also. Can't identify that part on the schematic from Pyramyd Air's website.

Also, I purchased a backup regulator just in case I screw one up. I disassembled it to have a look at things and noticed that it has a different Belleville stack than my stock one which is in a .25 cal Avenge-X. The original stack is arranged
))(())(())(())(())((. The replacement stack is ))(())(())(((()(. Mistake or for different spring rate? They do both have the same .023 thickness and .039 height. Stock one has 0.528 total length, the replacement 0.496.

The original was lubed faily heavily with a thin oil on o-rings and in the washer area The new one's washer stack was completely without lube. I see people who are polishing the regulators various parts and areas. From what I see, other than the seat insert, the part that could affect things the most would be how easily the o-rings can slide within their bores. Mine does not slide smoothly at all even with the thin oil. I am thinking polish the bore and lube with silicone grease so it slides smoothly to see if that help my shot to shot constancy. However, the brass shaft with the O-rings may not even see enough travel during operation for lubing to have any impact.

My friends house surrounded by tall trees, but not a single tree rat to shoot there.
My friend shot a single mouse last week but since then our bait station have also been deadly quiet.

I think it is safe to say the entire property is now pest free.

Solved this ages back on several of these DS35 models, set the X &Y to 0 then go through the mag range, if you can see the lazer targeting box in both high and low Mag, there is nothing wrong with the Scope, Its the mounts on the Rifle that are to blame. the Laser pointer stays in exactly the same place, but when you zero the Scope you are effectively moving the picture about to zero, and if that zero setting is on the extremes of the Scopes parameters then you wont see the Targeting Box on High Mag, On the Old Pard 008 every complained about the X hairs not being in the centre of the screen, so when they launched the DS35 models they come up with a different zeroing method, so that the x hairs are always central, But its just image cropping.

I have 2 Notos and a Jet 2 in .177.

I did nothing to the Notos, worked great out of the box.

The Jet had its barrel changed because of the poor accuracy.
The valve stem broke in several hundred shots.
I only bought the Jet 2 because it was on sale and could buy it for about $150, almost a year ago.

The Notos is better all around, not to mention cheaper.

A Notos can be bought new for about $220.
The Hatsan Jet QER is over $300.

.20calguy​

Harold!

Yes, Keith is still making the hand hold for the Sheridan Rifles. I just received mine today and popped them on. They look great!
I now have two of the three Sheridan's in the Classified Forum for sale.
Thanks again!

mike

thammer said:

Any accurate pellet works on squirrels. It's so easy to get a pass through regardless of design you rarely get full potential. Larger game that's a different story.

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This is where something I was reluctant to try seems to work.

A friend made me try them to see if I(my. Guns) like hades/atomic pellets. They seem to do a good job dumping energy while retaining most of their weight and shape and have increased penetration vs my slug choices for that application. They also retain poi and accuracy with popular round nose pellets to a great degree that I had tuned guns for.... Within sane power levels. My favorites for most of my life were crow magnums and later predator polymags if the gun would shoot them.

That said thousands of rodents have met their end with high precision domed pellets. If you can keep your groups tiny with domes, use domes.

My 22 pellet shooter is on regular hades, my 25s are on the sorted fx atomic stuff. My slug gun can digest monster hades but the power level is too high rn to keep them subsonic.

You can poke holes in critters and they die all the same, if you can dump a couple dozen ft lbs into them it works even nicer to anchor them especially when you want to avoid retrieving things from neighbor properties.

Find what your gun shoots precisely, not just accurately and forget the marketing and forum opinions. It took me 30 years to learn that lesson.

I too have a .25 avenger mine likes almost any pellet around 880 to 900 fps. My method is max hammer spring then adjust reg till i get about 8-10% above target speed then back hammer off till desired speed reached. Virtually all pellets grouped sub moa at 50 yards. As for slugs they have a choked barrel and i have not had luck with them. Ive also ported the barrel and transfer port. Ive found over 900 fps i start to get fliers like 3 same hole 2 off a inch

imtrigerhapy said:

I finally made one for my vulcan 3hp .30. I coppied you design principles but made it my own. All the credit goes to hitech for the jump start in the thought process. Thank you Sir

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Very nice!

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I've been back charged using pirate ship a couple times. Sometimes their rate is too low and the end delivery service bills PS, and they just take it out of your funding source.

I shipped a rifle stock to California. Gave true measurements and even added a couple pounds to make sure they charged enough, and got an email about a week after delivery saying I had been charged an extra almost 20 bucks for "shipping partner adjustment".

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commifonia...that explains it lol

You are AWSOME! Thanks so much for doing this! A little back story on why I needed someone to do this and not just buy the part from, in this case, Walther. I shoot field target. I picked up a Walther LG400FT rifle in a trade. I got it set up over the summer to shoot the World FT Championship back in November, kind of a bucket list thing for me. I didn’t plan to win. Just go for the experience. The rifle shot amazing all summer. A couple weeks before leaving I noticed my rifle was shooting low. I redid all my sight settings. I chrono’ed my rifle a couple times (in the afternoon when it was warm) and all was good. I started researching about the issue right before leaving for the big match and found this particular rifle is temp sensitive. Sure enough when I got to AZ to shoot the match I found my rifle would shoot in the low 720fps in the morning when it was cold, 760 mid morning when its was warming up, and 785 (where I had it set) when it was the heat of the day. As you can see I had some issues hard to overcome. Luckily the issue is easy to resolve. Remove all the grease off the hammer, install a valve seat out of Delrin, and a harder valve seat o-ring. I tried for more than a month now to find someone in Europe who might be making some (this rifle is used a lot over there) and came up with nothing. A lot of guys in Europe are switching this part out but nobody seems to sell them. So there you go. This was the one part I needed but couldn’t get and had no way to make one. I appreciate the help.

Will a delta/alpha wolf accept a brk ghost barrel kit ? Are the components the same ? I realize you wouldn’t be able to use the chrono feature but just curious if otherwise they were the same.

Thanks.

My dad used to say there is customized and crushtomized. If you trust a mans work then customization has value. But like someone said, you‘re still playing for a smaller audience. The color scheme on the gun is just a distraction. The extra air capacity, which is needed because the gun is being pushed, and the fact you’re getting a gun with tested settings in multiple calibers could be appealing. But I can’t tell you what it’s worth. It’s just another FX.

Hi Guys,

No worries, I understood all you guy's suggestions and tips.
Luckily, I am able to get the gist of stuff quite fast. I really dive deep in to theoreticals and apply them once I fully understand what and why you do stuff in certain ways.

Anyway,

Good news. I did get rid of this issue!

So, Like I said in the OP, I was using a really el cheapo sight, and to be honest, either the rifle was very crooked, which I did not really expect it to be this bad, or the optic was not in whack, which was the most likely scenario.

So this morning, I got myself a Vortex Venom 5-25x56, and here we are. Rifle shoots as a laser, and all it take me to go from 40m to 25m or viceversa, is 4 clicks on the elevation and it is spot on again. No windage deviation anymore!

God, Im so happy this was the issue.
And lets be honest, this rifle deserves better than a sub $100 optic :ashamed:

Thank you for the post.

I see a lot of complaints about the cheek weld on the airforce guns. Look at a lot of the bullpups. E.G. AGT Vulcan 3. I have one and the pic rail isn't any higher than the dove tail on the condor and talon I also own, if it is it's marginal. Now I will agree the radius of the bottle could make a difference to some.

They are a tough little bird. But marginal hits require a .25. But any .177 or .22 to the upper half of their bodies results in head down feet skyward.

If the scope is over a $1k get a set of Seekins rings, also rings are better than a one piece mount as you can place them where you need to on the tube. With good rings, alignment is not a concern. I have 2 $2.5k scopes mounted with Nightforce and Seekins rings.

Like I said the $50 UTG Pro’s are pretty nice and align correctly, no ring marks etc.

Great job Jeff. You and Scott nailed it. That match was as well run as a match could be. I think y’all are ready for nationals in October. Let me know how I can help for nationals (American flag lane stakes?).