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I've often heard some of you advising people to cut 1 - 1 1/2 coils off a spring to bring the power level down. If a person was to do this, how would he close or flatten the end? Just grind it to be a ground open end? Or do you you just leave it open? (That sounds barbaric to me.) I...

Has anyone ever tried simply removing the Front Guide from a ProSport, and reassembling it with the stock FAC spring without it, to bring the power level down? If so, did it cause any problems? How much did it bring it down to? I'm wondering if this is a cheap and easy way to bring our .177...

They're about 26" apart, and are approximately 4" wide by 3" long. In a pine tree grove in the Colorado Rocky Mountains at ~9,000' ASL.

I'm getting ready to finish the walnut stock on our ProSport. It looks like Air Arms didn't put any kind of sealer at all on it. It looks like it's just bare wood. I've been planning to use Birchwood Casey Sealer & Filler, followed by Birchwood Casey TruOil finish on it. But in looking at...

These may be stupid questions, but I'll ask anyway... I'm planning to refinish a couple of air rifle stocks this winter using Birchwood Casey Sealer & Filler and Tru-Oil. The butt pad is not removable from either of these air rifles. I'm thinking that if I use masking tape to mask them off...

I shoot primarily chipmunks and other small critters about that size with a .177 cal spring piston airgun. Most of my shots are 20 – 35 yards. It’s rare for me to shoot beyond that, though I do occasionally engage small critters as close as 2 or 3 yards. I use a 3x9 power scope. I keep it at...

Some years back, somebody was asking for advice about rebuilding his Benjamin Sheridan 392 or 397. And I told him that if he had any problems getting it back together, to feel free to call me and I'd try to walk him through it. Well, apparently, that old post is still out there, and somebody...

A few of you might remember me asking for some advice last Fall about shooting with a 12 year old. That post is here: https://www.airgunnation.com/topic/parents-child-shooting-expectations/?referrer=1 Due to a variety of challenges, today was the first time I was able to get together with...

Hey guys, I'm looking to make a gun rack for our air rifles. I have limited space to put it in, so the rifles need to stand up vertically. The rifles' lengths vary from 36-44" -- which is quite a bit. Both scoped and unscoped. We have some 2x4's and 2x6's I can work with. Maybe even some...

I have an odd question for you folks. I had a Nikon PROSTAFF P3 TARGET EFR 3-9x40AO PRECISION scope on our Weihrauch HW97-K underlever spring piston air rifle. This scope would work fine for a while, and then the POI would abruptly drop 2" and 1 1/4" to the right. I'd re-zero the scope. It'd...

I need a reality check, please, from some of you parents out there. I'm an Orthodox Christian priestmonk. I've never been married or had any kids that I know of. But we have an 11 year old boy who comes to the monastery when his parents are able to bring him here for services, and he likes...

My (biological) brother told me about pdfdrive.com today. As I was looking through the free books on the site, I stumbled across these DIY plans for making a fully automatic BB machine gun. https://www.pdfdrive.com/diy-compressed-air-bb-machine-gun-amazing-diy-projects-e4058346.html I didn't...

My health isn't all that it could be. I try to go out "on patrol" with our air rifle at least once or twice a day in a golf cart as a way to get me out of bed and out of the house, but I don't really care all that much if I shoot anything or not. It's done wonders for my attitude and mental...

2 1/2 YEAR UPDATE: I DO NOT RECOMMEND ANYSLING FOR MOST AIRGUN USE. PLEASE SEE MY JULY 2022 UPDATE BELOW. There seem to be a lot of folks on this list who buy an airgun, use it for a while and then sell it to help finance the next latest airgun that grabs your interest. But many of you also...

If you don't need mil dots, this is a great deal on a really decent scope. $126.95 on Amazon. I paid $200 this summer. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FLZJZYQ/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_10?smid=A2Y393PKQ60P3Z&psc=1 Lightweight. Very bright optics. Nice reticle. Shows up great in low light...

Don't go thinking that if there's a ton of snow on the ground and it's cold as can be outside that your chip monk season is necessarily over. I've gotten five chip monks (plus a rabbit) in the last six days when there was 4 - 6 inches of snow on the ground. The chip monk I got today, I got...

I know most of my posts on this list have not been particularly useful to anyone, and that's a large part of why I've been trying to stay off the list for the past few months. But I learned something today that some of you might find helpful, and I thought I'd share it to try to pay some of you...

I've been kicking around the idea of putting a sling on our HW97K for quite a while now, but I haven't come up with what I think would be a decent way of going about it. If I attach the front swivel to the cocking lever, as heavy as this gun is, I'm concerned about it causing problems with the...

Does anybody know how far rabbits range? We live on the top of a mountain. We always have rabbits down by the gate where our driveway meets the county road because there's a creek there and a lot of brush. It's about 2/10ths of a mile straight line distance, and about 180' drop. We try to...

I've been having the worst time with the .177 cal Weihrauch HW97K we bought in February. It does fine at ten yards. If I stretch it out to twenty, my groups go to pot and it seems that the pellets don't have enough energy behind them to penetrate even a single layer of cardboard. They often...