Public forums like this attract a broad range of people who share an interest in airguns. Some of us buy airguns just to try them out. As a retired engineer who only shoots at targets for relaxation, my primary interest in airguns concerns the different mechanical designs and capabilities of the various models. Testing airguns over a chrony to determine power curves with different pellets, balancing that against the size, weight and shot capacity of each model is my primary interest. I'm not especially focused on accuracy because I don't have a way to test for it. But I've still managed to own, improve, Modify, improve, and accidentally break several dozen airguns over a long lifetime. That kind of info can be very useful to people who don't have direct access to different models of airguns.
25 years ago I posted a series of power curves for Helium vs air on the old Yellow forum. And just last year I posted a year of test results on a **** Moderated content removed**** required thousands of dollars of airguns and specialized test equipment and a few hundred hours of tedious testing to assemble and post the results and power curve spreadsheets for each rifle. We see the same level of technical comparisons being posted about optics on the forums, that's often how I decide whether to buy a new scope to try. Technical expertise with scope optics is only loosely related to someone's skill at shooting airguns, but the information they provide is still very useful to the actual hunters and target shooters in the audience.
It takes all kinds of people and information to build a broad community of common interest in a forum like this. I am impressed by the people who hunt are accurate target shooters, it takes them time and determination to get proficient at it. But if they can't explain on a forum how they have obtained those skills, and how they have selected and upgraded their equipment as their skills improved, then they don't offer me much of value, info-wise.
JP
what can i do with all this open space. that was 20+ years ago
No need to be glued to a computer, just our electronic ankle bracelets known as phones.
