Recent content by Tonykarter

Cardboard box, filled with your old socks, underwear and tee-shirts. Works. Ask me how I know. Quiet too.

Where is the download file for this target? I wanna' get a dog in this hunt. I haven't shot in almost two years. I've been taking care of my wife. Sadly, she passed the day after Christmas, on our 39th wedding anniversary. Seeing those targets is the first thing that has peaked my...

I have mine tuned to shoot 800-810 and you are right: They are a pleasure to shoot and even more precise when you tune them down.

Yes, the Taipan and the Kalashnikov, neither are optimal designs. I don't see either of them surviving long...

Time and money wasted on modding three Marauders, always chasing POI around paper. Almost drove me away from the sport. Then three Taipans. Love 'em. Benchrest no less! UNLIKE the Marauders, I kept my cotton-pickin' hands off of them, didn't change a thing, except to slow them down to about...

Taipan: Shoot, smile. Repeat.

Own three here too. For almost five years. Not one single problem. Buy one. This forum is slowly becoming woke about Taipans. Better investment than money in a savings account.

All this Taipan worship has given me a woody. I've got three, a .22 Long and two .25's, a Std and a Long. You'd think with two .25's there would be two chances to outshoot the .22. They won't. The CZ-barreled .22 will out-shoot the .25's at any distance. Maybe it is just the pick of the...

Ukrainian Taipan Long in .22. CZ barrel. Head and shoulders more accurate than the Ukrainian .25's I shoot. They are quite accurate, but they can't come close to the .22 Long's repeatable precision at extended ranges. The CZ-barreled .22 is heads and shoulders above them in accuracy at any...

Right on JM. Relax and focus. The slower I go the tighter my groups. If I could, I'd rather shoot one 5-shot TIGHT group a night than five mediocre 5-shot groups. I am an expert at shooting mediocre groups. I only shoot stellar groups when I slow down. Apparently, my Taipans like lethargy...

Reasonable minds could easily identify a preference among the opinions offered above.

One of the so very few Longs to ever be shipped to the Western Hemisphere from the Ukraine, a bone-stock Ukrainian Taipan Vet Long .22, as it came out of the box, except tuned down to 806-810fps. Pellets inspected/sized/weighed. That 0.93" is an eight-shot group of 15.89's, even though it says...

Taipan Long of Ukrainian origin. Either .22 or .25. Both are incredibly accurate, but truth be told? The CZ-barreled .22 outshoots the .25 at 100+. Every. Time. So make mine a .22 I guess.

He has made it full circle back to a Taipan! I think that BB is the scope for the shorty. I too am going the short route, just to try one out to see if I like. Bought some no-name $36 8" 40mm scope on Amazon. If I like I'll wait for a sale on the BB. I remember then being about $69 late...

Scalesdini, How have you been? Recovered from the amputation? I sure hope so. Just checking into see if you ever came up with a good design. There is a download on the net for a version of a holder: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4359551 I'm thinking more along the lines of an...