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As I understand it, there is a cap thingie that fits over the bottle, which has a foster fitting that one can connect to a pump; see here: https://www.pyramydair.com/blog/2024/10/reviewing-the-airforce-talonss-precharged-pneumatic-air-rifle-part-one/ If you don't have that cap, try calling...

At that distance a lightweight pellet loaded and shot backwards might still be accurate enough, and will both lose energy fast if it misses and expand if it hits.

Jim, that is a boldly soft statement! How did you get the trigger so light? I put a light coating of a Slip2000 product (the regular stuff, not the airgun specific, and the key was then to wipe OFF as much as possible otherwise it was floating dirt and getting stuck), on the trigger linkages of...

The stock valve may be a little hot for .177, and so an o-ring slipped over the valve top-hat will help reduce power (and increase shot count), if you need to keep it subsonic: https://www.pyramydair.com/blog/2014/03/the-airforce-top-hat/ That and heavy pellets, like 10+ grain. Enjoy!

So what would get one to try a ground squirrel? I ask not because I hunt them (oh never, no... t yet), but because they are obviously tasty (view any coyote or hawk disembowling and devouring them without reservation), and so out of a... healthy curiosity of what might otherwise be wasted...

Does the tank have any certification or testing done at all? What are the letters and numbers stamped into the tank, if any? Forget transporting it, I'd be concerned with a untested, pressurized tank sitting next to my head, regardless how new or nice looking. Maybe that would be the...

Ah, so the frame or "stock" is attached to the firing mechanism or "receiver" by three bolts, typically one on each side towards the front and one underneath, near and perhaps just behind the trigger, correct? I can't say if firing it is any more dangerously than with the bolts intact, but for...

I'm interested in what Jim replies, because like you I've noticed that on some scopes the marks on the parallax adjustment bell or side-focus were quite a bit off from what actually nulled parallax, as seen by no reticle movement on target while bobbing my head around like the Butabi brothers...

Jim, what you wrote is backwards to most of what I've read, but as I lack your experience I beg to reconfirm. To keep the terms standard, I'm using this NSSF page: https://www.letsgoshooting.org/resources/articles/rifle/understanding-the-parts-of-a-rifle-scope/ As I understand their standard...

Welcome to the AGN! So do you still have the Surgemax, and if so, how is it broken?

Quick question, about what was the ambient temperature during this smallest game safari? CO2 power is temperature dependent. You got guts shooting yellow jackets at 2 feet. Yeah, my 2.5 pump BaS is good for around 1 foot on flies using salt, and only 6 inches using sand. A Shredder with sand...

I use a version 2.5 to incapacitate flies to feed to a terrarium of tree frogs. A good shot or two with sand can stun the fly or wound it enough that I can grab it and throw it into the terrarium. I fill it with well-sifted and sized sand instead of salt, so that the froggies don't eat too...

At that distance might not open sights be most reliable?

Wow, as a shooter of tin/pewter that caught my attention. Would you put even a guesstimate on how substantial are we talking about, like say if it takes a million shots to wear out a barrel with soft lead, it is now down to half a million shots with hard lead, or are we talking only 100...

Frank, thanks for these write ups and notes! I too think the SS frame Airforce guns are a lot easier to handle, the full length Condor with the Talontunes ginormous suppresser is 46" long. I'll post below what I have as a working model of thought for the utility Airforce guns (Condor, Talon)...

In my zeal to get a given breech to accept ALL pellets, I may have sanded/reamed a few barrels out to where my thumbnail can't seat short pellets snugly. I find that these don't shoot as accurately as when I push them in snugly. I use another pellet to push them in. But my pellets are hard...

"Will work for cookies." Lay a few gun ground rules, like eye-pro and which directions not to shoot; heck I'd have spent many an afternoon on that job when I was 10.

Kwaping does back up the legal point about IR hunting in another thread: https://www.airgunnation.com/threads/we-need-to-save-california.1337357/

Well, I'll be danged... yes, there is such a law https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=468.&lawCode=PEN The text reads "designed for or adaptable to use on a firearm", which reminds me of the moderator language. My guess is that a lot of IR scopes would...

Where did you read this? My read is that night hunting of pests (defined in the Code) is OK on property where one has permission to take such pests, and that a license is not required (not that I advocate NOT having a license, after all, license fees feed the Beast), not required when taking...