Recent content by JimNM

Welcome to the N50 family! The guys who I have met at the N50 meet are superb specimens of sportsmanship. My buddy and I walked on to the N50 in Raton at Raton the first year with a lead sled, a cat pillow and a couple of squirrel guns. To say we were under prepared and under equipped is an...

Imho, if the threads are so compromised that you are breaking tools trying to remove the valve, then the bottle is beyond safe operation. I applaud the technical exploration, but you are risking a terrible lesson in metallurgical failure modes. Get it apart, Ok! Ever think of using it...

The post I quoted had been removed, and the system picked up your post Instead. I have had it edited to remove the confusion.

MOA and MRAD (aka:MIL) have ZERO to do with accuracy. Accuracy is in the ballistics. MOA and MRAD are measures of resolution. An accurate gun with a crappy scope is still an accurate gun. A crappy gun with a great scope is still a crappy gun. The two variables do not correlate. Sorry to...

You claimed a MRAD scope would "show" POI drift more clearly than a MOA scope. Poppycock says I. All too common for people to confuse POI (ballistics) and POA (optics) - however, that is a topic for another thread. POI drift in center-fire and rimfire has much more to do with heating and...

I do believe your are mistaken. 1/4 MAO at 100y = .26 inch 1/10 mil at 100y =.36 inch Ipso Facto, one click on a standard MOA scope is smaller than 1 click on the standard 1/10 mil scope. It matters not what a scope will "show" in this question, rather how far the cross hair moves for each...

8-22 to 8-24. Make a week of it, bring your big boomers and your scatter guns too. The Center has a lot of things to do and shoot. Disc golf, also if that's your bag.

There is a huge food energy cost to the skunk to spray. They cannot spray more than 2-3 times in a row before exhausting their glands. Verify the veracity of that hypothesis at your own peril 🤢

In August I will be heading to Raton, New Mexico for the National N50 benchrest contest. I was able to attend the first two events, then missed the next two due to Life. I just finished making plans for this year and got some practice in. Light wind was enough for me to re-learn the flags...

Cory is working near Temple, Texas (~10 hours away from Raton) on a power line sub station crew. They are on a 10 on/4 off schedule. As of now, it looks like they are going to be working that weekend, but weather and project managers are notoriously hard to predict - so he might be able to...

Fingers crossed... have signed up for the 2025 contest. I am hopeful that I will be able to make it all the way there, this time.

Airgun Depot has a small selection of NEW Kral stock in .22 and .25 Empire and Empire XS plus a few others. https://www.airgundepot.com/search.html?keyword=kral

They can be trained, to some extent - but they will always be less than 100% predictable. They are kinda cute in a fluffy way. For a couple of years in the middle of my career, I was assigned to "other duties" while on mounted (horse) patrol. During that time, my squad and I were detailed to...

Nice to see the brand again. The Empire has a due date of August. Shoot 'em good! For the guy asking about the Bighorn, get with @thammer , Troy Hammer is a great guy to work with, and he is a hell.of a good airgun smith. Click on the @ to open Troy's profile page. Last order I made through...

Airgun Depot has some models of Kral, currently. I am a happy owner of both Kral and Reximex guns. Nearing 150k pellets collectively through 4 guns. I know that Turkey has been in a tough place in the world for the last several years. Hope they can find some stability and resume free trade...