I had a blast as well! The cherry on top was Adam (my son) and I were squaded together (we only had the one gun) and we were within a shot or two of each other the entire match. It came down to the last lane and his last shot on the last target to tie me. No pressure, right? Of course he wanted to beat me but his options were to tie of lose. He squeezed the trigger and Tango down for the tie.
Cost me a chicken dinner at the Chicken Shack too.

Yep, what Tibor said

Awesome, looks like the best option I've found for my next pcp. Thanks for the information Forrest!

Can whacker said:

You make a good point . Got to have the right space for it. Which I fortunately do. I shoot from a second story window while sitting.
I have a 25M range in the corner of my yard ,which is off an alley. It's all good.

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Own wooded lot beside my home so angled off my rear porch I've a range with backstops @ 50 and 66 yards. Next road over has 4-5 empty lots in a row so nothing but woods behind. Angled range puts backstop behind widow's property, on far side of my wooded lot, about 40 yards into woods. She smokes in a screened back porch so "ticking" of pellets into soft wood backstop is most she'll ever hear from me. WM

Ezana4CE said:

About 10-15 minutes ago I thumped a good sized sow

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For members that are interested, you can read about this impromptu hog hunt in my social feed (in my profile) dated November 16, 2024. I didn’t recover a carcass and when you see the photos you may better understand why.

Fixing to order some nsa slugs for my 25cal p3. What size .249 .250, works best?

Two stand-out LW polygonal barrels come to mind...
1- .177/10.34 @915-920. 1:36 twist, prefers Slick 50 One lubed pellets. Clean it around 600-800 shots and it's happy. No fouling shots necessary after cleaning, 1st shot after cleaning goes right where it should.

2- .22/25.4 @ 955-960, 1:32 twist, prefers Gunzilla lubed pellets. Clean it around 300 shots and it's happy. Needs 10ish fouling shots right after cleaning for things to be good again.

Before I arrived at the above regimes, both needed cleaned much sooner. The lube didn't seem to make more accurate, just extended cleaning.

Generally I feel like poly barrels need cleaned more often than traditional 12 land and groove LWs. I've got a couple 12 l&gs that I'll shoot 4+ tins out of, unlubed, and not see any degradation of accuracy.

I have been filling two 30 minute and three 45 min SCBA tanks all the way to 4500 psi for over a year now and my CS4 is running as well as the day I put it into service with nothing more than the required grease knob turning when the hours are reached. I have a large "orange" secondary water trap and it has never had any water get into it, past the water trap built into the CS4 as long as I bleed the water off the CS4 about once every 15 minutes. Note that I do live in the desert. The built in water trap is very efficient to say the least.

I usually fill them first with my Yong Heng up to about 3000 PSI, then finish them off to 4500 PSI with the CS4.

A lot of shooters confuse spring canting with breaking in...

igolfat8 said:

How does your .30 barrel shoot? I had one many years ago and was not impressed with it so I sold it. The new owner wasn't either and then he said he cut the choke off and it started shooting much better. In all fairness I did not experiment with it very much and should have spent more time with it.

I was not aware the .25 was an LR barrel. That is interesting information. I've never been a fan of .25s for target shooting but they certainly have a place as a hunting caliber.

Thanks for bringing up the 20 grainers too. That is one pellet that I have not yet tried in any of my rifles. Is the BC discernably better than the 18s?

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My .30 barrel has potential. I shot it a few times at my brother’s house this spring where I have 100 yards - but it was in heavy wind conditions - April in Connecticut.

I just love .25 caliber - especially the 25.4g .25 caliber pellet. So I “stockpiled” a 2nd .25LR barrel, lol. You can utilize a much milder tune for .25 25.4g vs. .22 25.4g.

Both the .22 and .25 RTI Long Range barrels have the same slow 1:32 twist rate.

They only made the .25LR during the last year of P1 production. Most P1 .25s were produced with CZ barrels I believe.

I’m retiring at the end of this year, so I’m looking forward to spending a bunch of time at 75 yards with the P1 and .22LR .25LR and .30 barrels next spring. Then I’ll move out to 100 - but I’ve noticed that beyond 75, my wind reading skills are not up to truly evaluating the performance of my tuning on the various calibers.

Tomorrow I will not be able to host the end of the month's match. The next match is set for the last Saturday of November which is the 30th

GeneT said:

Get one and see how much you use it. I don't find that I do, but maybe I'm atypical. Also, PLA doesn't like to sit in the AMS, rewind and reload as needed, but don't let it set or you'll be fishing the broken pieces out.

I pretty much only use PLA from the rear spool now, and use other materials (mostly ASA) from the AMS.

GsT

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With 3 AMS's the possibilities are endless. Here is just a small sample of multi colored printing.

DesertSilver said:

If what I read that the valve rod is made from titanium, that's the worst material to have going through rubber Rings. If you look at titanium the surface is very ruff due to what ever it's alloyed with. Pure titanium is very soft and flexible. It'll bend and stretch like a rubber band. I'm going to be trying out mudpro1's Oring kit in the next week or two. I know there's at least 1 person who has used it with great results.

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I would be very surprised if that's true. The rod doesn't look like titanium. Titanium has a matte glow, while the rod is shiny like a mirror. It weighs too much for titanium. And besides that, titanium is awfully expensive.

Richieg said:

Coyotes will see the 850.

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It just occurred to me that they use ir lasers to cut metal. I'm wondering if the coyotes see it or feel it some other way. I really doubt they see it when it's at a color wavelength we don't even see.

grouch-o said:

as a fellow VULCAN 3 .30 HP from krale owner, can i ask you, if you have made similar experiences when adding a moderator to it than i have been reporting here? https://www.airgunnation.com/thread...added-huma-mod40-4-0-severe-clipping.1319941/

can you share the 3d print files for the magazine back plate? not that i have acces to a 3d printer or any experiences with them, but maybe i can ask a friend, too. or are they not good? or why would you want to buy new mags?

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I do have a moderator for my V3, but I rarely use it as I think the gun does fairly well on its own and I don't like all the extra length and weight.
My moderator was made (3D printed) by a friend of mine who is also a member here on AGN. I have not had any clipping issues with it. I think he printed the bore diameter at .35. He also printed my mag plate... He sells his products here on AGN. I can give you his user name if you are interested.
I can send you the file for printing the plate. Just check your messages.
The plate works fine. I had to trim and sand mine for it to work like it should. The only reason I would get new mags is because the newer mags hold an additional round and are deeper, so you don't have to worry about the longer slugs not rotating in the mag, and they look better than having 3d printed parts...

ChickenDumpling said:

I'll let everyone know how this sorts out. Still hope for a happy ending and maybe can move onto raving on how cool Leshiy 2's are supposed to be. Thank you and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

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Youll get it sorted out. They’re easy ish

coastal drifter said:

I would think hunting in Iowa would be a pretty big sport/pass time. You can't please everyone so definitely a hunting/pesting video is

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baranjhn said:

I joined to boost your numbers

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Thank you very much .
I am going to start next week with history stuff just to mix it up. Feel free to post up pictures or anything at all… within community guidelines.

Playing with this ATM, but i am using glowing paint, or in this particular case paint pigment that glow after being hit with UV light, put in a UV light hardening clear coat.

With your own eyes you see it just fine until it hit something at the back of the range at 140 or so yards.
You can also capture it on daytime ( dusk ) recording with a digi scope, but not as clear here, also shooting at night your IR light already illuminate the pellet so on short distance you dont really need it.

I have tried before trying to capture on camera ( picture and video ) filming from the side but i am not able to capture the green streak of light.

Well my spacers have moved. I put them back evenly spaced and put shoud back on. Guns poi doesn't shift. The spacers are made equal. One in front,one in middle,guns shoots in same hole over and over depending caliber and range. My 25 caliber superlite cuts rugged 5 shot group holes at 100 yards. I put gun in car and come back hits same spot as before. Sounds like there's well documented accuracy cases as well as people who don't know how to shot blaming the barrel or gun. I got three,had four,sold the 600mm 30 caliber. Every one worked really well for what it is. A barrel. Superlite. It's made to be lite. They are accurate till people start tampering with them.

I may be wrong and probably am, but I think those guns were bronze.

I don’t think it’s a firearm . I think AEA makes that. I doubt it other than going way inside the trigger and sanding things smoother and such.

It warms my heart to watch a starling get shellacked!

I just found that Alfa precision make a .22 blank in the 650-700mm polygonal so if I can ship this barrel to Canada, it will be this option I guess

Hello fellow shooters,I'm kinda knew to airgunning.Just purchased a 22/700 dynamic and shooting 31.2 nsa.Whats a good starting reg/hammer setting to shoot around 1000 fps

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