coastal drifter said:

Anyone looking for a red dot for their rifle I would recommend this one, it was easy to dial in and amazingly accurate, I been popping expired tins of pellets from 60 yards even when they spin sideways. minute of squirrel all day long

Click to expand...

Um...the sight ISN"T...accurate !
The person doing the initial sighting in, and then USING the sight is !

The...dot...is JUST a...dot ! It moves around where-ever the person holding the gun...tells it to go with his/her hands.

Mike

Justaguy said:

Skout/Smart Parts did the same thing in the paintball community. Sued a lot of good people right out of business. A person doesn't start a business to 'do the right thing'. They don't start a business to be everybody's friend.
They do it for money.

Click to expand...

Yes happens all the time in just about every industry

There really well built with a nice trigger. I had one in .30 & shot some very good groups at 100 with it. The factory grips are excellent for me & feel great. Your goona love it man !!! I ran a long extention for bipod on mine. It had some twist to it using it at farthest setting. If moved back just a bit on the ACRA section it would be better.

All very helpful and insightful replies, my gratitude to you all thus far! Tuning on the knee.. I just gave that a quick scan through and that is fascinating stuff!! Definitely something to dive a bit deeper into and put in the mental toolbox. Thank you for that reference particularly.

I'm not an expert yet on pressure systems and that hasn't been my background, but I can conjure up a bunch of different things in my mind all the way from the diameter and brinnel of the lead pellets I'm using, to some unattenuated harmonic in the barrel system, to an occluded control signal port on the regulator, to... etc, etc... exactly what i didn't want to get into... a science project.

I do "science stuff" all day and airgun vermin patrol was my hope to just mentally check out and eradicate some vermin around the property.

My nephews have got me into playing some video games with them and they are absurdly addictive. Vermin Patrol is that experience to the power of 10! My wife thinks I need professional counseling for it Seriously, the challenge is insatiable to me. Since June of this year, I lost count after 400 confirmed. I have got to be in the neighborhood of 500 of the little critters now. And I only missed once!! (small text... per 2 shots )


I will probably do the science thing tonight though and go see if I can actually record Shot string married to Velocity married to pressure tonight for the "sake of science". And after that I'm probably done with it until I call Crosman Benjamin tomorrow.


mrw

There is greater efficiency of expansion of air into the .22" barrel, turning more of the air's internal energy (U) into flow energy.

Congratulations, Jeff. Such a great performance in all those events at EBR 2024!! amazing job with amazing equipment!

Omg seems to be some serious information overload I got going right now. All good info and understandable why it wasn't as simple as once thought. Thanks to all for your contributions. There are some great minds here that's for sure!


Allen

Ranchibi said:

Finding a grip that fits your own ergos definitely helps with a consistent trigger pull . I am glad Martin is offering more different ones. I am sure you will find one!

Click to expand...

I think I will try this from Martin. Maybe not in red but same grip. He has a few different colors.

Amwolf said:

How many here shoot .30 cal? Looks like most people are shooting .22 or .25

I am new to Airgunning, and wanted to get in to long range, so I went with a .30 cal for the potential downrange energy, but am having a hard time finding much info on .30 tuning. Maybe I should have gotten a .22 .... haha

Click to expand...

i just got a .30 panthera recently. i'm starting out with 70gr slugs at 950. Had my first real outing with it today, i think i need to work on tuning it some more, was getting some wider than expected spreads (40fps). only at 160bar on the reg, i think i need more air on it, or less hammer, to stabilize the tune.

the 70gr are the ones shooting best from the limited selection i had. i ordered some heaviest nsa slugs to try out.

i have a .22 drs pro coming, it should be shooting 33gr slugs at 950fps.


it seems in my limited experience, a lot of guns like the 950+ range for slugs, OR shoot them well in the low 800s. my gk1 shoots some 28.5 gr slugs fantastically at 50 yards, at only 830fps.

I do have a panthera that just as accurate as other guns. I'm looking to sale it to buy a back up gun. Another impact m3. I'm willing to trade also. It's a magnum gun with a 600mm 30 caiber barrel.

Airgunner79 said:

Just got mine three weeks ago. So guess they solved the problem.

Click to expand...

JTS Warranty Department offers plastic spacer to fill manufacturing error created open space between wooden stock and metal action, at the single stock bolt, possible Dealer installed already. If you tighten stock bolt and magazine no longer fits, or becomes jammed, problem still exists. WM

If u say so

igolfat8 said:

As tempting as it is Bob I think you have convinced me to stay put.

Click to expand...

If it wasn't for this weather I'd be out of here in a heart beat - As few of them as I probably have left

I've had a few that I had to put down on the bench and walk away for a day or two.

They like to/don't like to twist. Guess which it is when you pick one up. Good luck!

DeanB said:

That was what I liked about the 4x16 was the illuminated dot, for squirrel hunting early mornings.

Click to expand...

Another thumbs up for just the illuminated dot. I tried a number of illuminated tree reticles and even at the lowest power setting they would wash out my sight picture when shooting in super low light conditions.

Love the Veyron scope on my RTI prophets.

Sodbuster said:

I can use them, for sure and would like to have them if still available.

Click to expand...

Sent you a PM. They're yours!

I’m a long time pcp enthusiast but haven’t done much serious tuning. I have a .22 Avenger that is a dedicated bench gun and is good out to about 112 yards (in the right conditions), and just got an Avenge X in .22 as a groundhog/plinking gun. The Avenger is tuned at 1,800 regulator with approximately a 6 fps spread but I can’t get the X anywhere near that. The manual suggests a regulator setting of 2,000-2,400 for the X with a 1-2 HS. That gives me well over 900fps with 18.13’s. My understanding is that’s too fast for good stability. When I go down to 1800 on the regulator, I can’t get a good ES. Any suggestions from those with more experience than me? I want optimal accuracy with my 18.13’s. Thanks.

Ezana4CE said:

@Echo For scouting purposes does the app help you establish patterns of movement or does it simply act as a digital notebook where you can review what you've seen and made a note of? In what ways does it help you with scouting?

Click to expand...

It can help in many ways. I haven't used all the features but it has several tools you can use.
Some of the stuff I use are layers which I can pick what I want to see. for example I like to use the boundaries of the units, trails, boundaries for wilderness and refugee areas. I also like to use the topo to figure out ways to walk the terrain and to locate good glassing points.
It also has tools that you can use such as measuring tools that will measure distances and areas. You can also build your own paths and measure them to figure out how far you want to go.







These picture are some of the layers you can use.

Justaguy said:

I don't mind the hammer moving. I can just give my gun a little 'shake' and I know if I have already cocked the gun. I can be an idiot. Every little bit helps.

Click to expand...

Im talking about the bolt that moves --> change of hammer spring tension. The bolt that sets the hammer spring has no option to make it tight

This caseless ammunition rifle was discontinued because it was determined to be classified as a firearm, not an airgun.

Airgun Jeremy said:

Does anyone make a cheap and simple range finger that only measures 5 to 75 yards? I just want something simple because I will never shoot out to 100 yards with my air rifles. Most range finders that I find on the market today are clearly for powder burners and designed to stretch out to 600+ yards. I simply do not need that.

Click to expand...

Just make sure it can make angle calculations! Most important feature by far imo.

Both Knockouts 13.43 and Zan 13 are shooting best at around 970 fps. Zan 13 also shoots great at 920-930 range too.
If you can push them fast enough the ZAN 16 gr. is the most accurate at 970 fps in the Superior Heavy liner....

I’ve read some reports online of people getting mediocre accuracy from .22 HW’s, but I’ve never heard anyone say the .177’s aren’t accurate.

This was take 2 as my first video was a small pumkin and not very festive. I really put my time into this and it may not seem it in the final video but for those of you that know the huben K1 I had to reload after each 19 shot round. I have 2 separate vidoes so check them both out. One is the DNT zulus and I ran that on the side next to my DNT ThermNight TNC225R. The zulus was not mount led on the K1 so take note the point of aim and point of impact will not match with the zulus. Zulus is now on sale so head over and use brawler10 to get it at the new low price. Thanks for watching and hope to see some other pumpkin carvings.

25 Yards
Huben K1 .22
H&N Baracuda Hunter 18.21gr
830FPS 27FPE

DNT Optics is actually having a pumking carving contest if you own any of the DNT Optics scopes or the previous zulus scopes check out the
Rules and get to the Facebook groups to post your entry.

so i assume you know the shroud is really a hand protector but it has many parts
now if you just made the profile of the shroud and held it with and grub screw or two that would work
but it has a set screw for the position it has a plunger and spring and a threaded cap
now i know that 3D printing doesn't thread well but that is what i assume so two areas have threads
of course there were two threaded holes for the Barrel weight
is there a market for the replacement YES, at the last when you could get them, they only sold them complete plugger spring the screw and they were about 47 buck plus shipping and that was 10-12 years ago and sooner than later every model 6M and model 10 are going to need them or something that will work
now if Diana had finished the barrels, you could run them without it but the barrels are crude at best
you could take some 14mm ID carbon fiber tube and make a cover cut an opening for the front sight and wear a deer skin glove on your cocking hand and move on
most people that don't own the pistols would not know how sharp the front sight is but they can do damage to your paw
a CNC machine could make them out of aluminum and that would be the way to go and as i said i have seen picture of just that but when they were made and how many is unknow it could have been a one off made by a very handy person