What springer did you shoot today?

[jkingrph]

Tried out the new Caldwell Stable Table BR today. It's much heavier and steadier than the standard model. I was shooting a FWB 602, range at about 10 meters, using a 10 meter target and the standard diopter sights. Off a rest bullseyes are a cinch with that gun. Then was trying some little square and diamond swingers out to about 30 yards, had to use a little hold over but even with the double diopter sights really easy, then onto a heavier swinging turkey target at 40 yards and a little trickier. Had a light breeze gusting a bit, so it was more changelling, Took a couple of shots to figure out my hold over there. That would certainly be easier using a scope with either mil dot or moa hash marks. actually boring with that gun. I have a couple of older FWB 150's coming and one has a mil dot scope , Accushot I think, not the best scope but will give it a try, and leave the other with the diopter set up.

My plan is to later have some competition with my son and almost 14 year old grandson this summer with the two FWB 150's and my older FWB 300s. I'll set the front sights up the same way so we can have a level playing field.

 

[beerthief]

Got some more practice shooting the HW77 long in .22. I have had it for a few years . but just don't shoot it much , probably not more than 100 pellets and that includes the 30 i shot yesterday . Today was trying to cut a steel can in half . much harder than you would think . IT is a very heavy rifle with a scope .

 

[Steve Milbocker]

My FWB 300S

 

[beerthief]

My FWB 300SView attachment 558945

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i am very envious of off handers rifle or pistol .

 

[.20calguy]

I don’t know if I could live with having to shoot .177

Especially if your hands were cold. Lol

 

[.20calguy]

Happy Easter everyone. Shot a HW98 .177. this morning. Sweet rifle. Need some colour. View attachment 556739I’ve been cutting trees and branches for last 3 days. I own 3 chain saws but I’ve been using this amazing saw.View attachment 556740Thats a 4 inch Oak 30 seconds and cuts on pull. So easy. 24 inch blade. Copy of a Silkie. Lee Valley has them. Going to shoot this after noon. Crow

Chainsaw, Sawzall, and heavy clippers for me.

 

[.20calguy]

Took the grandson out on the (under construction) range for the first shots down there with the Daisys. He out shot his sister by one shot. His sister did really well because she was sitting shooting from her knees, and the little guy seated shooting off a front rest. No one taught her that shooting position it was instinctive.

 

[crowski]

Took the grandson out on the (under construction) range for the first shots down there with the Daisys. He out shot his sister by one shot. His sister did really well because she was sitting shouting from her knees, and the little guy seated shooting off a front rest. No one taught her that shooting position it was instinctive.

Natural born shooters.
If you’re cutting a lot and I know you are. I highly recommend one of these.

Thats Maple. Cut with ease. I won’t pump a Benjamin Discovery. It cuts so easy on the pull, and cuts straight. Blade is 24”. No noise. Very handy.

It’s a copy of a Silky which is 3-4 times the dough. I know Lee Valley has the in Toronto.
Ironically I cut 4 Burch trees this morning all with the Baek Ma. Amazing saw. Good luck. Crow

 

[jkingrph]

My new to me FWB 150. It was shipped without the rear sight installed, along with a scope . I installed the factory scope and at 10 yards did not need any adjustments. As I settle in with it will probably need some fine adjusting. I did put a Gehmann 510 adjustable iris on it and still find it is too far away from my eye for my liking, unless I crawl the stock so I ordered a 35mm Gehmann anti glare tube which can be reversed to extend the diopter back.

 

[crowski]

My new to me FWB 150. It was shipped without the rear sight installed, along with a scope . I installed the factory scope and at 10 yards did not need any adjustments. As I settle in with it will probably need some fine adjusting. I did put a Gehmann 510 adjustable iris on it and still find it is too far away from my eye for my liking, unless I crawl the stock so I ordered a 35mm Gehmann anti glare tube which can be reversed to extend the diopter back.

I’m finding these Diopters are a whole new ball game. Crow

 

[crowski]

Shot the 300jr. but found it had like a double image.

I brought out the 300s to see if it was me. The rear sight I put on I think is defective, on thr Jr.

Too bad these guys stopped making springers. Crow

 

[Mycapt65]

Shot a couple hundred pellets through the peep sighted Hw30. Tearing up a vitamin bottle and spinners as the sun dropped. A nice calm Arkansas evening with the chickens and dogs.

 

[jkingrph]

Shot the 300jr. but found it had like a double image. View attachment 559547I brought out the 300s to see if it was me. The rear sight I put on I think is defective, on thr Jr.View attachment 559548Too bad these guys stopped making springers. Crow

What do you mean by double image. If the fixed aperture or adjustable iris aperture fits I do not know what could cause an image problem. To me defective would be not adjusting vertically and horizontally and being repeatable in adjustments. The diopter sights are really rather simple. I agree I have 7 FWB springers now, and like them better than the HW or Diana offerings, even if they are much older.

 

[jkingrph]

I’m finding these Diopters are a whole new ball game. Crow

I think I currently have 14 air rifles equipped with diopter sights, and probably 16 firearms. Way back in my jr high or early high school days I made a peep sight from a piece of sheet metal for a lever action Daisy target BBgun, then when I hit college I quickly tried out and was accepted for the ROTC rifle team and learned to use a top quality Redfield International receiver sight one Winchester 52d and Remington 40x target .22LR rifles, shooting 50 foot smallbore match. I then got a Lyman receiver sight and put on a Marlin 39a, .22LR rifle dad had got me back when I was in the second grade. He liked it so well he got on the Marlin 336 rifle he had.

I guess you could say I like diopter sights.

 

[crowski]

What do you mean by double image. If the fixed aperture or adjustable iris aperture fits I do not know what could cause an image problem. To me defective would be not adjusting vertically and horizontally and being repeatable in adjustments. The diopter sights are really rather simple. I agree I have 7 FWB springers now, and like them better than the HW or Diana offerings, even if they are much older.

It’s not the same vision as the 300s. Looks like double vision. Blurry. Moved my eye different distances. Can’t eliminate the blur. Crow;.

 

[crowski]

I think I currently have 14 air rifles equipped with diopter sights, and probably 16 firearms. Way back in my jr high or early high school days I made a peep sight from a piece of sheet metal for a lever action Daisy target BBgun, then when I hit college I quickly tried out and was accepted for the ROTC rifle team and learned to use a top quality Redfield International receiver sight one Winchester 52d and Remington 40x target .22LR rifles, shooting 50 foot smallbore match. I then got a Lyman receiver sight and put on a Marlin 39a, .22LR rifle dad had got me back when I was in the second grade. He liked it so well he got on the Marlin 336 rifle he had.

I guess you could say I like diopter sights.

Yes you do. I know Jack about guns. Parents bought me an air gun mid 60’s. That’s about it. Very little. Last 7 years with these guns. Crow

 

[jkingrph]

Yes you do. I know Jack about guns. Parents bought me an air gun mid 60’s. That’s about it. Very little. Last 7 years with these guns. Crow

From what I have seen on your posts you seem to know quite a bit about air guns. I have been shooting rimfire since the early 50's possibly some in the very late 40's but was so young I cannot remember much back then. Mid 60's dad got me a centerfire, 30-06 when I finished high school and I learned to shoot it and reload for it so I could afford to shoot it through my college years. Two years in college I was on a rifle team as mentioned. I can do some very minor gunsmithing, but learned years ago I do not want to fool with taking down a spring air gun with those strong springs, My shop, really a diaster area now is more set up for woodworking and would take a real cleaning to have a good place to work on guns any longer,

 

[jkingrph]

From what I have seen on your posts you seem to know quite a bit about air guns. I have been shooting rimfire since the early 50's possibly some in the very late 40's but was so young I cannot remember much back then. Mid 60's dad got me a centerfire, 30-06 when I finished high school and I learned to shoot it and reload for it so I could afford to shoot it through my college years. Two years in college I was on a rifle team as mentioned. I can do some very minor gunsmithing, but learned years ago I do not want to fool with taking down a spring air gun with those strong springs, My shop, really a diaster area now is more set up for woodworking and would take a real cleaning to have a good place to work on guns any longer,B

Back to your "double image" Take the aperture off you 300s and try it on the 300jr and see if the problem persists, If so it is the aperture disk, the pinhole may not be round, or have something it in or see if they are same distance from your eye. Think of the diopter as the part with the micrometer type adjustments, and the aperture the part you look through, either a fixed hole or and adjustable hole(iris)

 

[jkingrph]

I’m finding these Diopters are a whole new ball game. Crow

If you look back in the history of shooting, and even some today, diopter sights ruled. Did you see the movie Quigley Down Under, those old sights were outstanding. I have a modern reproduction of a Winchester(Browning) high wall rifle in 45-70 with one of those long range sights called a Solue sight. It is tang mounte and the aperture is mounted on a folding slide and is calibrated to go out to around 1000 yards. The US NRA holds matches where they shoot at silhouette targets out to that range, large cut outs of larger game animals, starting with turkey up closer then bison out at the long range, 1000 yards. Back in the late 1800's early 1900's there were what was called Shutzen matches with single shot rifles, rather elaborate with those type sights, I think the range was usually 200 yards and position was standing, so hook buttplates and palm rests were not unheard of . I would love to get one of those old rifles, in good condition and take up that kind of shooting. I think the closest thing woud be to find something like one of the FWB 150 rifles with a Tyrolean stock, or an HW similarly stocked.
Should be a lot of fun.

The closest thing I have seen was about 40 years ago. We went up to the central US, acutally south Missouri and the attraction, Silver Dollar City and they had an old style gun shop on the premises . Went in and looking around I spotted a big muzzle loader on the counter and asked if I could handle it and was given the ok. I then shouldered it using the offhand or standing position I had learned years earlier in college and the owner said I was one of the very few people he had seen who knew how to hold it. It had a rather uncommon feature, a false muzzle where it slipped in place, held by two little pins, so a conical or cylindrical paper patched bullet could be aligned perfectly parallel to the bore to insure top accuracy. Unfortunately it was way out of my price range. I think it came with the false muzzle, a bullet mold properly sized for the bore and a pattern to cut paper patche the proper shape and size to wrap around the bullets , and a powder meaure for the correct black powder charge.

 

[Chuck-in-Ohio]

@crowski
Try an adjustable iris eyepiece the first chance that you get to try one!

It sounds like the aperture is too small for your eyes in one of your eye pieces. You can gauge them both and see if there is a difference, and open up the smaller of the two with an appropriately sized drill bit.
DO NOT forget to blow out the inside of the rear sight where the eyepiece screws into, then are notorious for collecting dust, stray hair, dead bugs etc.