The Legendary: Red Ryder

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iAMzehTOASTY1

iAMzehTOASTY1

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As some of you know; my lady has been getting into slinging with me using a daisy buck at first(found in literal trash but i got it working as a tinkering project, it works but its got a horrible rust inside the barrel that im slowly working out of it). So I got her a brand spanking new red ryder 1938. She was so surprised at the difference a little rust could make bc her accuracy skyrocketed using the ryder vs the buck.🤗
After letting her try the Lothar and her hitting the 100yard club with me; she said: I like the scope.
Note taken! Order placed.🥴
Enter the scope mount!
Got it and thought; now what scope?...
👀A simple Daisy!
So bam, on it went and she shouldered it.
It looks funny she said while holding it weird.
🤔I said hold it like your gunna shoot it.
Now stay like that.
I explained eye relief.
We got it where she could see and I leveled it off, then set it. Too windy to get it sighted in(would do it inside but in-laws are present)🫣🤣
I've got some more goodies in store for this build; so if you are a fan of the "ryder" stayed tuned🎩🤪🤙

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You probably already have DIY pellet boxes, but in case you haven’t used this as pellet stuffer/stopper material, give it a try: Old magazines inside a box of about the same dimensions.

My husband had a pile of old college alumnus magazines and old calendars that are slightly shorter than the box I put them in. Pellets from targets placed in front of the box end up in the box (I open it, peel apart the shot pages, and shake out the pellets to count them). The two shots that went barely above the top of the magazines left holes in the box front and rear, exactly matching the paper target that I had taped slightly too high (above the magazine height). If I put a nested steel can in front of it, some of the pellets stay in the can, and whatever does not ends up in the first magazine or two. The magazines in the back are still hole-free even after multiple uses.

Those pages stop pellets much better than multiple layers of cardboard do, at least with my 880. Can’t vouch for results at more than 8 pumps, because I never went beyond that and mostly pump 4 to 6 times.

I also lined the inside back wall of another cardboard box with magazines and filled the rest of it with rubber mulch. Haven’t used that box yet.
 
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Bear-of-Grayling said:
DO NOT forget to mention, “be careful not to shoot your eye out”!
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She has seen the movie🤣
jetpopt said:
You probably already have DIY pellet boxes, but in case you haven’t used this as pellet stuffer/stopper material, give it a try: Old magazines inside a box of about the same dimensions.

My husband had a pile of old college alumnus magazines and old calendars that are slightly shorter than the box I put them in. Pellets from targets placed in front of the box end up in the box (I open it, peel apart the shot pages, and shake out the pellets to count them). The two shots that went barely above the top of the magazines left holes in the box front and rear, exactly matching the paper target that I had taped slightly too high (above the magazine height). If I put a nested steel can in front of it, some of the pellets stay in the can, and whatever does not ends up in the first magazine or two. The magazines in the back are still hole-free even after multiple uses.

Those pages stop pellets much better than multiple layers of cardboard do, at least with my 880. Can’t vouch for results at more than 8 pumps, because I never went beyond that and mostly pump 4 to 6 times.

I also lined the inside back wall of another cardboard box with magazines and filled the rest of it with rubber mulch. Haven’t used that box yet.
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I've got various setups for different powerplant setups🤗love the recycling ideas!
 
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Treefrog said:
Shoot us some groups! I'd like to see what that bad boy can do!

J~
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I've been itching to do so🥴
I think the wind might give in and let us go out for some slinging(the wind also being if the lady wants to go)😅
I don't mind it but enough wind and I gotta tie bricks to her feet(she is only like 98lbs)🤣🤣
 
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