Recent content by DaSOB

All suggestions are appreciated. I polished the bore of my rifle with some Flitz, cleaned it good with Kroil, then shot another group. First shot flew high - I'm sure that the oil in the barrel had something to do with that. But the next three "bug-holed", then one went low (might have been...

I'm going to try it, don't misunderstand me. It couldn't hurt!

Thanks. I checked the leade - looks OK to me, but I'll get me a pencil and polish it. I have some 400, 600 and 1000 emery paper that I can work on it with. I really appreciate y'all sticking with me on this and enduring my continued posts! With y'all's help I've managed to bring my groups from...

OK, I got me some valve grinding compound and a #10 x 3" brass machine screw and went in the muzzle. Low speed, rocking around in a circular motion, ground a crown into the muzzle. Check out the group I just shot (left) and compare it with a group I shot with identical conditions and pellets...

It's slip-on. I was able to drive it an inch or so toward the muzzle end, but I buggered up the edge of it doing that. I pushed it back in place and trimmed the buggered-up end off with my pocket knife. No harm, no foul there.

The Talon appears to be the Hatsan 125 with the Walther name on it. I had a look with a flashlight down inside the brake - the muzzle is 1.5" down, there is NO crown, and the end of the muzzle is very rough. I may try the brass screw procedure before I start trying to take the brake off. I can...

Thanks. I have some oak sections left over from a flooring job, so I can use those.

I checked the scope - it's on rock solid, not budging a micron. Seems that the crown may be the culprit, only I can't get the "muzzle brake" off. I trimmed the buggered edges with my pocket knife and got it looking OK again, but I'm still stuck on how to access the crown. Might just be best that...

Well, I tried to get the "muzzle brake" off so I could check the crown on the barrel, but all I accomplished was to bugger it up. It won't come off. I'm not going to pursue that any further.

Well, I put a laser on the rifle (little red one I had on another gun) and shot a couple of groups early this morning before the wind could get up. I zeroed the laser on the scope crosshairs but sighted strictly on the laser each time and just used the scope to see it. I didn't try to zero the...

Thanks. Come to find out that the Pic rail on my Talon Magnum isn't standard - the few crosscuts in it are spaced differently than on a standard Pic rail and the laser wouldn't fit. I decided just to send it back since it appears that the scope isn't the problem anyway. I tried the tissue test...

Yep, those are one inch squares. That's a template I downloaded from MyTargets.com. I've been using a beanbag rest - I'll try the artillery hold using my hand to see how that works out. I'm pretty sure I'm getting a consistent trigger pull - I've conditioned myself not to flinch by just imaging...

You're correct. Getting an apparent beater and working on it until you have a tack driver is immensely satisfying. I've got a beautiful little M1916 Spanish Mauser Carbine in 7x57 that was keyholing and scattering shots all over creation when I first got it. I've dinked around with it a lot...

I played around with some different pellets today. It's a tad breezy so that factors in. I polished the barrel following instructions I found on YouTube, but I don't see that that made a great deal of difference. Anyway, here's today's test targets. For the first three, I used the same target...

OK, today's update - I pulled out a BSA Air Rifle scope that I had tried back before I scrubbed out my bore. I hadn't gotten any better groups with it than I had with anything else. Shot the below groups - I'm pleased! I may have pulled a couple of the shots and there is some breeze, but there...