Recent content by Franklink

@Martin3528, Just want to say I'm really liking the format and scheduling. PERFECT for me and my shooting interests. And for those who have never been to Williams, Martin is 100% accurate about how neat of a little high elevation town Williams is. Tall Ponderosa pines everywhere. My family...

Nice job Dillon. I agree, for a solid and dependable pellet shooter, the first gen Veterans are near the top. Add in the trigger, and the short oal, and the shot cycle, and the OEM hushing, and the never shifting poi, and the non-mechanical magazines, and the anti-double feed, and the ease of...

Give it time. Not implying anything negative about the Huben either, just saying that eventually you'll have a wandering eye. As @Dairyboy recently alluded to, you want to avoid buying new airguns? Stay off the forums. And here you are. Something will tickle your fancy, eventually.

SAZ sent me his yesterday. Yes sir! He's got them all freshly painted up. Zoom in on the left side to see those little chickies....MAN they're tiny. Lol On Friday, early afternoon, we're going to try shooting them with our < 12fpe FT pistols from ft position. Banks of silhouettes @ 10, 15...

I'm in.

Nice big dose of reality in the whole of your post. Sometimes the advertising and hype component of our industry outruns common sense.

Heart on his sleeve, that redhead. He had missed more than he wanted to and was upset in some of those photos.

I was cleaning up my gunroom and came across the notes from the little mock ft match me and my boys had on a Saturday in late January a couple months ago. Just at my house so no cool destination. And we've only got a handful of the Air Venturi Rat on the Run targets, so that's what we used. We...

You're going to have a pretty recessed crown to get past those burrs.

Tom and Rex are having a porta potty brought in for the match.

I was talking about the lapping thread. I just deleted my comment there since it's being discussed here too.

The OEM barrel that came in my Vet Long was excessively choked, even for a Veteran. It didn't have this burring right at the ends of the rifling though. That barrel was fixed by aggressive polishing and fire-lapping. Since I didn't want to firelap the entire length, I did it this way.....Bare...

In the other discussion where you shared this I commented that you got the standard Taipan Veteran tight choke, but on a second review I'm thinking it's more than just a tight choke.

Like the old Crosman premiers, so much tin in their lead mix that they can't be damaged. Try to squish a pellet skirt of a JTS with your fingers and then try to squish the skirt of a JSB.

I cringe when I hear "tactical," it makes me think of militias and wannabe "operators," and that's not me. I own zero molle and don't have anything in military camo. As for functionality, that IS me. Ending up with the three metal guns as my favorites wasn't intentional, it just worked out...