Recent content by Michigander

MOA at 50 yards is 1/2”. It happens, but not consistently for me. I will take the blame for that.

I’m in Dexter. Been enjoying the recent weather!

I am a fan of SportsMatch rings, I use them on both airguns and rimfire. I have used BKL on 13 mm rails, and they work well also. The scope is an older Bushnell 4-16 Elite from Japan.

I am just a recreational shooter at this point so minor shifts in POI with distance are more a matter of curiosity than anything else. I have done the mirror alignment thing in the past to make sure the elevation adjustment was aligned with the bore. That did seem to help in at least one...

If you want you can overlay these groups to see what a twenty shot group from a cold rifle would look like. I agree, five shot groups don’t tell you much, but in this case I wanted to show changes as the rifle warmed up. When working up loads for centerfire I do shoot ten shot groups and find I...

It was a TX200HC tuned down to around 11 ft-lb. I didn’t warm up the rifle or re-zero for this session as you might for competition. Even for hunting I like to take a shot or two to verify zero before going out. For tiny targets like house sparrows changes in wind conditions can make a...

Hi all. This is my attempt to answer the age old question of what practical accuracy can be expected from a springer, quirks included. With no wind to speak of and my TX shooting well it seemed like a good time to see what it could do from my favorite position, sitting using a set of old Stony...

I agree that except for the hole to hole distance this should be an easy part to make with simple tools. Here is a link to a source for 4142 prehardened alloy steel. Strong, needs no further heat treatment, and at 30 Rc can still be sawn, filed and drilled...

FWIW, the iris with adjustable rear optic gave me less clarity than what I could get with the iris alone. I use a standard iris drilled out to 1.3 mm for shooting 10m offhand. Seems less sensitive to eye position than the standard 1.1 mm. Chuck

Per my friend the high-end gunmaker, he would make a new link from 4140 pre-hardened flat stock, which is available ground to precise thickness (gage stock). He also believes welding to be possible, but would require heat treating to obtain full strength, plus straightening and grinding and just...

I also discovered that the Vortek seals require some time to produce their final velocity. In my case my HW 55 went from an initial velocity of around 620 fps to 680 fps with RWS 8.2 after shooting several tins of pellets. I was warned by Tom at Vortek that this would happen, but of course...

Looks like there is a flat for anti-rotation. The lever could be stuck because the flat on the lever is not lined up with the flat on the shaft. If that is the case, tap the lever to line the two flats up before trying to remove or push the lever back on. You definitely don’t want to force the...

Anybody else save old pellet tins? I did because I thought they might come in handy for storing small items, but now they offer a window into the early days of “adult airguns” in the US. They are also a testament to the marketing genius of Robert Beeman, with special properties ascribed to each...

Just out of curiosity I spent some time looking for an ultra compact scope that could be fitted to a pumper that would not extend past the receiver, allowing full access to the grip area. I ran across this unusual option, a zero eye relief scope for non-recoiling airguns. Since it can be mounted...

My last two purchases put me over the brink, a new cabinet was needed that at least was child proof. After looking at all the less expensive gun cabinets, I decided I could get more storage space for less money by modifying a cheap storage cabinet from Amazon. The cabinet I bought was the Yizosh...