What did you do airgun related today.

Made a rubber-mulch pellet trap for the garage. The previous plumbers putty trap wasn't doing a good job with the 23g .25 pellets and several dented the steel pan.

The rubber mulch is lighter, the plastic bin is deeper (6"plus). Two magazines into it this evening and no escapes. (y)
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Tried hades and polymags in the p35x
great success and a guest decided to show up and volunteered itself as a terminal effect media/fridays stew.


shot some KO 13.43 from the Katran
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also great results.
2x the group size of the mk3 10.03 gr. But that’s not saying much. You’d be tickled to death by anything 4x and under the size of the miracles this gun performs with the light KO slugs.


all groups at 50y .177 and .22


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Well today I got a couple of mice hanging out around the chickens. Got this one as it ran by trying to take food home to snack on. Lights out

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While adjusting the trigger on my notos I knocked it off the shooting bench, no harm done to gun or scope.Checked zero and all is well. Mark
 
While adjusting the trigger on my notos I knocked it off the shooting bench, no harm done to gun or scope.Checked zero and all is well. Mark
Sounds like a subconscious action. Some part of you was trying to justify a new lead slinger. Hmmmm? Hehe really Glad you didn't damage your gun. Not much fun in a busted gun.

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Sounds like a subconscious action. Some part of you was trying to justify a new lead slinger. Hmmmm? Hehe really Glad you didn't damage your gun. Not much fun in a busted gun.

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It was a cold rainy 58 degrees this morning and I had put on a light coat. When I got up I think the coat caught the gun and pulled it off the bench. It was a slow motion nightmare as I watched it land upside down on it's scope. Got lucky nothing was broken. Mark
 
It was a cold rainy 58 degrees this morning and I had put on a light coat. When I got up I think the coat caught the gun and pulled it off the bench. It was a slow motion nightmare as I watched it land upside down on it's scope. Got lucky nothing was broken. Mark
I have a visible cringe when I graze a branch with the barrel so I can only imagine the amount of slow motion dread you must have felt.

Don't hurt to get lucky once in awhile. No harm No foul.
 
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Just swapped my Maverick back to the factory pellet probe and hammer weight, and adjusted trigger to hair 0 stage trigger, so if you do not want to shoot anything do not touch it.
Learned that the hard way so shooting APPROX 10 M across my apartment into kitchen, well one shot i put too high so went in top of pellet trap where not much to catch it ( before trigger change ) and after trigger change touched trigger when i was too low so that one went through cardboard box the pellet trap is placed on.
So there now are 2 holes in the wall in my kitchen,,,,,, mind you this is not modern dry wall, these are old school plastered brick walls with wallpaper on so with a little paint it will be barely visible.

Also just shot the Hades pellets that was immediately within reach.
Super bad position sitting on floor, and wobbly " bench " so even if i did film a little CUZ using DIGI scope, nothing worth sharing.
 
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I haven’t done much lately CUZ not good weather here.
My friend though, he got more paint in new colours for the range steel, and Boy are the range colourful now, especially the new Orange is popping.

I am however preparing to pull the proverbial wallet on a 7Kw wood burning stove for the shed, will need that installed before i proceed with insulating the roof.

Also about to restock my ammo box, CUZ i will be shooting a airgun Tuesday / Wednesday, probably my Maverick, unsure if i will also bring the Two.

There is people shooting today, why i dont know, the gust wind speed is 24 - 25 MPH and the average winds half of that.
Tuesday and onwards things look much better, so by then i am ready to sling some lead.
 
NRL22 match about to start! Will report back about how bad I crap the bed!
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Ended up taking top air gunner.......out of 1. 😆. The wind was a killer today, I got a 1 on one stage due to not paying attention to the wind coming feom directly behind the shooting line. So just barely missed targets. Bonus stage shooting from a large tank trap and a mini trap....snake charmer at 65 yards one gopher at 115 and one at 165.....missed two shots out of 12.

After figuring out the wind the HM1000x shot great! All other stages were 8 and 9's. My biggest issue was the idiot behind the trigger, and not trusting the dope.
 
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hope you never have to use a single wipe
Funny enough my kid was dancing because he had to do just that. Well he learned how to do a pop-a-squat and thankfully one of the guys had tp with him.

1 stage I screwed the pooch......all others were good and got some of the guys asking about air. So all in all not a bad match.
 
Cutting up cardboard for backers.
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Tried out the new rubber mulch bucket (the one in the pic) in the workshop range. This one has a snap-lever locking top ($10 from Home Depot yesterday) so hopefully it won't pop open and mulch the garage floor. The other one's lid just clipped on...and while I was buying Duct Tape to solve that issue, I saw the better bucket.

It works great!

Now I gotta build a shooting bench. The guy in the Home Depot plumbing dept will cut and rethread black iron pipe to any length. I see three legs in my future...
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Obviously, those aren't black iron pipe...just prototyping to get the height right. I think 32" pipe, angled 10° (out and forward up front, 10° back for the back leg).
I'm currently cutting the 10° compound blocks on the tablesaw.
 
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Talked to dozens of people about airguning and the use of it for iguana removal. Our company had the opportunity to have a booth again at the South Florida Outdoor Expo this year as we did last year and we were side by side with @PalmBeachAirguns again. Sadly I didn't get to take any pictures but we will have to make sure that we post a banner for next year's South Florida Outdoor Expo. In this video we're only at the last 20 seconds.


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It was actually last night, but I mocked a bipod mount for my Taipan Vet 2. I also like to shoot it off of a bench rest set up, so I didn’t want to just screw a picatiny rail or a sling attachment to the stock where it would be in the way. I did the mock up using a piece of 1/2” wide x 1/8” thick piece of flat bar thst I had laying around and it’s a little springy. Now that I proved the concept, I have ordered some 1/2”x 1/2” and 1/2”x 5/8” aluminum bar stock. The homemade jig and a trim router did a great job of inletting the stock.
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