Peashooter

Peashooter · 2025-09-24T13:57:31-0500

Lost my lead again.
Never found my sanity so bare with me.
2 really nice shooting days have passed, and learned a bit.
I learned that given 0 wind and a good tune, sure you can shoot groups at 75 M with .177 JSB Heavy pellets.
And might i add in total darkness, spent a few splatter targets to stretch yesterdays range session way past midnight and so it was a massive 10 hours of range time.
Of course this did make a dent in my pellet and slug supply

No doubt had a little mice been a smart ass at any distance up to 75 M, it would have been in mortal danger as we do not take kindly to smart asses, no matter their size and make.
And i can quick zero with the4 scope range finder that is now working excellent using a alternative BC value for the Heavy pellets ( 0.028 )

Today was strait up slug fest shooting the Two, also enjoyable even if i couldent really find a good speed, so had to settle for a So / So setting.

Played a little Annihilate the Red Base at 100 yards, no problem holding most shots on the 2" targets, Red base still damn small so often just did damage to it.
On a side note i got a nice 5 shot group, but really just luck the rifle wanted to perform the same 5 shots in a row ( not the norm for the day )

Also mentioning in video, we are planning to put artificial lights up for some of the target distances, so got a little wind turbine charging batteries to power that.

Peashooter · Sunday at 9:35 AM

Ok it would seem like in a previous post of mine i have been a politician, i applogise for this.

Fortunately i have video evidence that at least prove i was not completely lying, or as i call ir " running for office "

So yes i did #1 shot the top paddle and then go take pictures, but while there i must have reset that paddle CUZ the next video clip of my scope have me #1 shooting the top again, then aiming for #2 i get the 3 paddle and then i #1 shot the 2 one too, and then things really fall apart, i mis the 4 paddle several times before i manage to hit it and not flip as it come back to its original place.

Evidence:

PS. i applogise for my French, but like the "F" and "S" words from English i think this French word are also in the Danish dictionary, and we do have actual free speech here, so sorry if i hurt your censorship where ever you live.

Peashooter · Sunday at 9:08 AM

+1 week old video of shooting killer snail or Spanish slug as they are called in English, but way up north in Denmark they are pests and not at all a friend of the gardening / farming people.

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2 time shooting it for MAX fun, holding low here CUZ first shot sailed right over it but didn’t want to re-zero.

Peashooter · Saturday at 8:13 PM

So got the new heat source installed in the shot shed, and insulated 50 % of the back wall.
After the initial smoke out / burn in which i understand is quite normal with a new oven, we started with a quite modest load, and worked up to a not at all full load,

Well all i can say is OMG

, today saw a comfortable16 deg C outside and quite windy, and with 2 lanes wide open and the door to the shed wide open too, it was so warm inside i wanted to strip down to my underwear.
MAX inside temperature on a weather station mounted by a open lane was 27 deg C
There is no doubt the 9 Kw oven is not under dimensioned for the task at hand, and come winter i am sure we will see a high degree of comfort, and a much lower level of firewood use VS the old heat source.

Peashooter · Sep 14, 2025

Been to the range again.
Saturday was supposed to be trip to lumber yard for supplies but that closed very early so no dice.
Instead i sort of got the range finder & ballistic calculator on my oneleaf scope dialled in.
Zeroed at 56 M and range shorter or longer distances just fine, and pul lead close, closer had it not been for that plentiful SOB wind on Friday.
But it calmed down as sun also started to set, so managed to put .177 Hades pellets on / near small things at extreme distances.

The 100 Yard " thread the needle " target, got banged up a little, and a few marks close to the 8 mm hole i can NOT see in my oneleaf scope even if i have the 50 mm lens.

To its right is the duelling tree, i managed to flip its top smallest paddle in the first shot, then i had to go take pictures, and even more cool getting back to shot shed i also first shot the next 2 paddles from the top.
Also hit the 4 from the top in first shot, but not enough smacking power in a .177 pellet at that distance.

later i broke out the Two to get a few shots in on that before the light was completely dead.
Previous outing the Two had been shooting damn well at 990 fps with the 13 grainers, but today not touching anything it only shot like 970 fps, and it was no good, so i amped up regulator to give me the 990 fps again, but today that did not work.
So gave the temperamental Huma regulator a slight twist in the hope of landing on 980, but alas i landed on high 60 ties / 970 fps again.
BUT ! that suddenly worked just fine.
So i shot a little of this and a bit of that before as the light was giving its dying breath i finished up with a group at 75 M

Now there is a few fliers here, but guess how many shots it is.

In that corner and a lot in growing hole, is between 40 and 45 shots, i got a few off before i zeroed my chronograph and it had 38 shots on it when i was done.

Today Sunday, while the wind was good, it was swirly, and as my setting from yesterday did not work again i went searching for that sweet speed spot, and today it was 960 - 955 fps.

Mind you still a bit messy shooting 75 M 10 hole groups, did not feel like that last group from yesterday, but at least i got to burn through another tin of 13 grainers, so again this time 800 of them shot, and about 400 Heavy pellets.

Peashooter · Sep 10, 2025

There is almost no stopping a dry and warm shooter.

Peashooter · Sep 7, 2025

Got to the range, shot maybe 50 shots, and Pssssssss air constantly leaking out my barrel.
So valve clearly not able to completely close, several air shots did not help, that have once worked but no help yesterday, will replace entire fire valve with spare and overhaul.
Changed to the Maverick and kept shooting.

Peashooter · Sep 5, 2025

Picked up the huge haul of construction materials at the sign guys place yesterday.

Not going to be put to use anytime soon, CUZ the focus now is to get new heat source in shot shed installed, and insulate roof and wall behind heat source.
Got the new oven.
Got the new chimney.
Got vapour barrier.
Need to modify shot shed rear wall a little due to where chimney will pass through it, no big deal though.
Have to make some fixtures to the chimney to hold it in place, but just one i think is needed, M8 have new welder and should be able to whip that up.

Also got some money to burn on insulation ( 50 mm for roof and 100 mm for rear wall )
Need to buy dry wall sheets for rear wall, the roof the insulation will be held up by thin fiber ( wood ) plates.

Hitting the ground running tomorrow, though also have to shoehorn in some pew - pew time, sadly my LRF have only made it to Bremen Germany 380 KM from where live in Denmark.
So will not get to play with that, i hope Tuesday / Wednesday will be the days for that, and probably more shed work.

Of course putting in new oven mean taking out old oven, even if they are not going to be in the same place.

Peashooter · Sep 4, 2025

In Denmark we have a saying, okay we have like a gazillion sayings, but this is one of those for wishful thinking.
And it goes ( translated literally ) If and If my " behind" is pointy.

Yeah. It do not make much sense not even in Danish, but it do rhyme a little in Danish.

BUT ! i do wish i was able to shoot groups like this at 50 M instead of the 10 I have shot here across my 2 room apartment.

Not able to put any blame on rifle / regulator, it is doing just fine for the 25 shots., even if i could probably have gotten it a little flatter working the hammer more.
But seated behind rifle ( propped up on a PC tower case ) and sitting on a rolled up mattress ( thick one that go between the bed and the actual bed sheet you lie on )
Well my old body do not at all like a position like that any more.

This is just about the good speed for my CZ barreel pushing JSB Heavy pellets.
REG at 47 BAR

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Some times at 50 / 56 M with the same pellets it do sort of look like this, at least the most ragged group of the 5 above, but it is not a performance me and my rifle are able to keep up, so when i shoot groups it is often a good one here and then a little later a good one there.

Peashooter · Aug 25, 2025

Well my friend have gotten his permission and so picked up a Himicro alpex 4K lite with the LRF package.
Unfortunately for him he got it days after i took the rat, so he had to settle for a mouse that conveniently showed up as the idiot ( me ) had set up his LRF ASO.
CUZ M8 technically challenged, so this is a very big deal for him to deal with.

But today ( he got scope yesterday ) after he fixed the idiots wrong scope over barrel height entry, the rifle are now laying down the 13 gr JSB KO smack at any distance, or that is out to the 60 - 75 M where the performance of the Snowpeak M30 taper off.
And with the correct scope height, there is no misalignment popping up at longer distances. it would seem a scope height 20 mm off is also a big deal, at least when you get 20 M past the 24 M the zero is made at.

So the mouse he missed yesterday, it made the mistake of returning today, and again in the afternoon, so a daylight kill.

Now i am thinking i want to buy the LRF for my oneleaf scope,,,,,, but i really really want to wait with that until i can also order the big lens ( 10 X or whatever it is )

On my part, after SAT / SUN at the range, well again down a lot of ammo 2 X 400 13 grain Zan ( again ) about 200 20.5 grain NSA, about 300 16 gr H&H, my last tim of 10.4 JTS Deadcenters, and a few Heavies to finish off on CUZ i was not yet there.

Also HUGE + today.
Having a new windscreen installed in my car, i took a walk while waiting, but did not get far, CUZ i saw a huge stack of interesting stuff at the neighbouring company’s dumpster.
So there was like 15 - 20+, 10 mm thick PVC plates and several 3 mm ALU and also a few steel plates.
All in a nice size CUZ it is a sign maker, so these old signs are nothing small, plenty of the 10 mm to cover our shot shed i think.
And the steel and ALU i reckon will do excellent for pellet traps in the oversized flavour i like so much.

Best of all talking to the guy, he was extremely cool and the price,,,,,,, 0 DKkr
Only one but, someone else is coming to take a few of the 10 mm PVC boards, but as i understood it it is not like a lot that guy will get.

So come next week, my M8 is coming with the big trailer and we score a major haul.

Peashooter · Aug 17, 2025

So.

It have taken 8 months, but finally a rat showed up at my friends place, unfortunately for it, i was there too with all the bells and whistled needed for taking out things in complete darkness.

So it got a JSB heavy to the back of the brain and that assured a fairly short " dance of death "

Naturally i also enjoyed 2 days of plain old lead slinging.
So i am down 800 13 gr slugs - 350 16 gr slugs - 300 or so MRD pellets, and a couple of JSB heavy as aside for the rat i also shot a few pest slugs, slugs with the Danish name ( translated ) Killer snails.

New heat source for the shot shed en route, this coming winter should be pea shooting in even higher comfort, even if yesterday my friend examined the shot shed from a distance with his new thermal spotter, and fount it leaking heat all over ( we had the old oven on last night as it was only 10 deg C outside but a nice comfortable 25 deg C inside the shed )

Also a visiting FX shooter, well guess who had the things ( O-rings ) to get him going.
AND ! i am not even a FX shooter, at least my Maverick with the night scope see little action these days.

Peashooter · Aug 13, 2025

In case you have plenty of time ( 5 min or so )
And dont have super high expectations for your entertainment.

I might have a video for you.

Featuring:
The peashooting Dane
The new moving target " system " briefly.
Really not good pea shooting at 129 M distance with 13 grainers, before the video camera came out things worked much better, so dunno what happened here.
Also briefly featuring new DING target at 100 M, this do have to be reinvented as it have a design error.

Then some more splitting cards at 118M distance, with a twist ( revealed at the end ) compared to last attempt.

Peashooter · Aug 12, 2025

The 50 M pellet trap have now been fitted with pellet,,,,, and slug stopping powers.
I then put up a BR50M ( M as in Meters CUZ i use these yard papers on Meter distances ) paper and hit it "hard" with 13 grain slugs, and then after that i changed to 10 grain slugs and carried on hitting it, shooting at least 20 shots at the same " hole " to verify stopping powers, and the semi tire seem to hold up fine so far.
But i metal absolutely stop will probably be added soon, we will soon go metal shopping.

The BR50M paper hung sideways up CUZ this just a prelim test, the target holding contraption have not yet been installed.

Really i am no good at these BR fiddy papers, i will try them again later in the week shooting my pellet pushing Maverick instead.

Peashooter · Jul 26, 2025

If you are a female American 50 M / 3 position shooter, and want to take on the best from over there in EU ville.
Well you will have to go though Rikke then, CUZ she just took the European championship again in that discipline.
She can probably give quite a few boys a run for their money too.

Peashooter · Jul 25, 2025

A couple of play & work days.

Play = slinging lead, even did some micro pesting.
While shooting some 2" splatter targets at 100 M, a fly did not see the no trespassing signs on my backing material, so after 30 - 40 warning shots, some uncomfortable close i am sure even if the damn thing did not flinch.
At one time i put a hole in the cardboard 5 mm in front of it and 5 mm behind it, and the damn thing just sat there taunting me.
I even finished my targets and moved on to other things, but then later i got back to it, and it was still there sitting astride a old hole to taunt me.
And so i finally managed to convert it into a hole.

Also managed to whip up the " Lead" part of a lead trap up,
Next outing it will be equipped with lead stopping / catching material.
Put up at 50 M CUZ i do have a stack of BR50 papers, and there are room for 2 of them i think.

It will of course also be fitted with near miss reinforcements so it do not get all shot up, even if only accomplished shooters visit our range.

Peashooter · Jul 9, 2025

By the way i am now officially Manu loading my two, i got a batch of 4 18 shot Manu loaders made for the Two, and it have not taken long to get used to manually indexing the Magazine to have nice ammo insertion into the breech.

Work fine it seem, this is 10 shots at a already there hit on a steel plate at 100 Yards ( shooting 13 grain )

EDIT WEEKS AFTER POSTING:::::::::::
Just noticed i wrote 100 M, that is a mistake on my part it was just 100 Yards / 93 M.
Our range have two 100 yards target sets to satisfy the imperial inclined, really we should only do Metric but we are too kind.

I will end this post on a LOUD note.

I needed that taking my bottle all the way down to 150 BAR having a pretty good Ol time shooting 20 grainers out to 127 M ( using 130 BAR on the regulator )

No idea if the slugs still arrive out there sideways, but they do generally arrive pretty damn accurate all things considered, both H&N and Zan,,,,,,, AND of course NSA 20.5 grainers that do fly a tad slower at same regular setting ( tight fit )

Mind you i still favour the 13 Grain Zan slugs, but always nice to know the option for serious smacking power is there if needed.
+1200 slugs,,,, and pellets dispatched in 2 days at the range.

Peashooter · Jul 8, 2025

Seem like trying to split playing cards at 75 M with a Maverick shooting Heavy pellets is too hard.
Tried hard for a while, only able to guesstimate from wind flags as impacts was not visible on the Oneleaf digital scope at full zoom.

I did put a "dent " in a single card but really with the number of shots fired to do that i could have split 5-6 cards at 118 M shooting slugs in my Two.

Peashooter · Jul 1, 2025

Taking the shooting into the night.
Can be done though with a scope only having 40 mm lens, well targets do have to be some size.
Also Hold as dictated by previous shot, well hard to do CUZ often you cant really see where previous shot went.

Still i managed to get the reset scope zeroed for 55 - 75 and 118 M ( new firmware update ) and get some shots off, though i started at sunset ( past 10 in the evening )
But a little later and i had to go full IR to throw it down.

Targets shooting gallery chalks about 30 X 10 mm visible, and then the 1.5" paddles on the little 4 paddle target.
Distance 118 Meters.

Peashooter · Jun 26, 2025

So got around to test my DIY playing card holder today, and since the wind was sort of ok, well i decided to stretch it out.
So started out at 50 M, then moved to 75 M and finished off at 118 M which i think is a tall order as it took too many shots to cut the cards.

It was done alright, TBH i had little faith, but seeing as i cut the first 2 cards fairly fast i figured i would do the last ones too, and those really messed with me, seeing my slugs sail right past on either side, so even if minding wind ( CUZ if you dod not you would be like a inch if not a little more off )
It was a struggle and i think more luck than anything else.

Good fun though, i will for sure do this again, maybe for 118 M transition to a larger target like say Tic Tac mints or something like that.

The video LONG, even if i speed most of it up to 6X, so if you sit though it THX, if you do a little skipping well bless you.

Peashooter · Jun 21, 2025

Finally got around to shoot a little fire, however this time not the right fule ( gasoline + gasoline lamp oil mix )
There need to be alcohol in the mix ( not drinking it ) instead of gasoline.

Also it might have been a error shooting 13 gr slugs, i think it would be better shooting a larger head domed or maybe even wadcutter instead,,,,, new experimenting coming up.

Anyway we had fun, only 4K / 120 FPS video captured this time.

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