Recent content by Sawney Bean

The pellet version is really a completely different gun. The BB version is excellent if what you're looking for is a training pistol that operates and feels almost identical to the real thing, it will never be very powerful or accurate however. The pellet version on the other hand is really...

It’s interesting that you slowed the action on the MP40. I hadn’t noticed that mine seemed unusually fast. The M1A1 on the other hand definitely is. When it’s on auto I’d guess it’s firing at around 1700 rpm. The firing behavior of it is what makes me like the MP40 more. I’ve got the...

That's been my experience too. I actually find them to be some of the fastest guns to load and shoot overall. Sure, you can blast away faster with magazine fed PCP's, but then you have to stop and reload the magazine and eventually recharge the gun. When you think about it, just pulling...

I don't know about that. I can go through a lot of pellets with a springer, especially with a break barrel. 100+ in a session is pretty typical. The guns that I have found this to actually be the case with are muzzle loaders. If you fire 50 shots out of a muzzle loader that's a marathon...

Road signs don’t bother me too much. It gives us a bad image, but they can be easily replaced. When I see a mature Douglas fir that’s dead because someone thought it would be a convenient way to stop bullets though it just pisses me off. It probably took 70 years for that tree to grow and...

My personal pet peeve are the idiots that use trees as backstops. What exactly do they think happens to a tree after they fire 50 shots through it?

I'm fortunate in that I have nearby family with acreage where I can shoot and hunt. I only shoot airguns on their property though as I dont want to wear out my welcome. When I want to shoot a powderburner I'll usually drive out to the Capital Forest or up around Green Water or out to the...

I think it's more about retail therapy. They buy something nice that they've wanted for awhile and they feel good when they buy it. Then they feel good when they're anticipating it arriving and for those first few times they use it and while they accessorize it or learn about how to use it...

I have a "pistol stock" called a One Shot that is designed for Glocks and complies with the law by not actually being attached to the gun. It's molded plastic that just fits very cleanly around the grip and your hand is what actually holds it in place. It works surprisingly well and it also...

The earlier generation swarms were well known for having this problem, but it was supposed to have been fixed on the gen3.

I'm pretty sure the Swarm mechanism was clipping the pellets as they loaded. Its the only explanation that makes sense to me. I probably fired over 500 shots through it before I removed the Swarm mechanism and what I eventually noticed was that although the velocity varied by up to 150 fps...

Neither one is clearly superior from my POV. You can't actually use the same holdover at any magnification with a FFP, because for the bottom third of the magnification range the dots are not clearly distinguishable. At low power they essentially become duplex reticles and even above that...

The thing I like about Macabe Speed is that he doesn't try to hide the half-assed nature of what he does. He's not an expert and he doesn't try and pretend that he is. I remember reading in the comments of one of his videos where someone remarked that the gun didn't seem to be very...

I don’t have a blitz, but what I’ve found with my sidewinder on full auto is that shooting small groups is all about having very firm control of the rifle. If you set it up with an Arca rail and a tripod and pull it tight into your shoulder the groups will start to approach what you can get in...

If you’re going to pay twice as much then I’d probably step up to a Sidewinder or a Mordax, but those unfortunately only have a 12 round capacity. I’d really like to see someone else get into the select fire game. Maybe Evanix? They’ve done it before. Epoch certainly could do a good job of...