Mac 1 USFT ???

Hi LD,

Would not want to give someone the wrong impression about the rifle and that's what I may have done. It was more of a "just in case" for me. The rifle shot was very accurate. More so than I was. Most are. I wish I still had it, but with the TM1000 and a very nice EV-2, I had to cut back.

Good to hear from you.

Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year,

Pat

FireMarshal

Hi Steve,

You have that kool one with digital camo treatment right? Well for sure your gun has won lots of matches for you, but I know you do your part for it to happen too!

Hi Steve,

You have that kool one with digital camo treatment right? Well for sure your gun has won lots of matches for you, but I know you do your part for it to happen too!

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Yep that's my rifle and thanks for the compliment. Gonna have to take a pic of my USFT and post it here on AN.

It took me a while to figure out Therealld was you, so sorry I didn't say Hi sooner. 

Lot's of fond memories! Some of the funnest FT matches was at your place, man I miss them and wish I had come more often. 

All this USFT talk and I had to jump in. Shooting Steve's digital camo and Bobbies early 1st (?) gen red and silver one, coupled with their tales of what amazing rifles they are, lead me to call Tim up and order one in the fall of 2017. I'd started field target that spring and decided, over that summer, that the USFT was where it's at. 

I echo Steve's sentiment that it has been my best PCP purchase. It has been a stellar performer, requiring nothing but air and pellets. 

While I don't have the long track record of FT successes that Steve does, it has served me well. My high points with it in competition are my first and only clean course, a 40 shot match back in August. And getting to take home the annual (Oct) Founders Cup trophy for the year. 

Cannot even begin to recall the hours of shooting joy it has given me, both during matches and just shooting at home for practice/fun.

It can sit for weeks, only to be pulled out of the gun cabinet and shoot hole in hole, with the same scope click data it did when it went in. Same thing applies for transport to and from matches. 

Thank you, LD for inventing such a cool airgun. It has many desirable PCP feaures (quality trigger, direct loading into barrel, ease of cleaning, low fill pressure, no regulator to act goofy, consistent fps, efficient, good ergonomics, large guage in a logical location, no fill probes, no wandering poi, ease of barrel swaps, etc). 

I posted an entire shot string worth of chrono #s a few weeks back, here on AGN. Crazy how consistent the fps can be. 

Here's mine (technically a "Hunter" with non-canted grip). 



(Steve, I beat you to the picture posting ).

Yes you did, lol!

It's clear that between your new 50x scope, and now coupled with a USFT, that you are the man to beat! Darn, you should give that poor USFT a rest for a while and shoot the old Brocock instead,  lol.

Club AOA'ers are glad you joined us and we value your friendship as well! 

Handsome gun you have there! Sadly, my guns always look like handmedown roaches! I guess I'm too impatient to put together a nice clean one, and end up with a mismatch of oddball parts because i'm always cutting, welding, grafting and fiddling with the ones I have made for myself. Kinda like "Bobber" style motorcycles I guess.

This is one of the most accurate and consistent rifles I’ve ever owned. Shooting JSB heavies at 880fps mine was good for 50 plus good shots but I always refilled halfway through a match. I remember the first time I cleaned a FT course back in 2011...it was a golf scoring match where I won with a score of zero. One of the guns that I regretted selling. Kudos to Larry (LD) Duram for designing it and to Tim McMurray for building it. IIRCC mine was numbered in the fifties and had LD’s signature engraved in the metal under the cheek piece....evidence that he had blessed it with a final tune. I remember telling Tim about the guns performance in cleaning a course and that I wanted to make a modification. His response was to ask me why, isn’t it shooting good enough for you?


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Thanks jamdon for the info and the pictures. The Hunter that I have coming is blue/silver with offset grip as well. The big difference is that I don’t expect to look any way near as good when holding it. 50 shots from 1500 to 1250psi is just fine with me! Uj

 

I very much enjoy my USFT, mine came to me as a bottle gun and I installed an even larger bottle on it. The reg is set right close to 1400psi and shooting around 17fp with AA8.4 scope is a Hawke 10x50/60. 

I would like to find a Hunter with the straight grip unregulated. But there many guns I would like find ! I tend to shoot the USFT better than I do either of my RAW's both .177 one a TM the other a HM.

if you can get over the looks of the USFT they are a pleasure unless your carrying them a long way. they are Heavy ! Thus my shooting cart, yes I am that lazy. 

Hairsmith

 

Here's mine

Steve123 that is a nice looking finish on your USFT ! 

Is that paint, hydro dip, or some kind of tape ? Looks very fitting on the gun.

Hairsmith

Test post of a USFT shot target. 35 yds from field target shooting position. A member PM'd me saying he seemed to be locked out of this thread.

Wow, Playing cards on edge from 35yds is darned good shooting! I've heard of it, but not tried it yet. But I think now I will! Being too old and stiffened up to shoot from a "sitting on the ground" FT position, I have shot Hunter style for a good many years now. I also shoot a lot off the bench nowadays. I'm pretty sure cards on edge are doable with my Hunter style USFT, but I'll guess easier for me from the bench!

A couple days ago, when breeze was mild, I shot three five shot groups at 55yds outdoors with my current "Hunter USFT" , which is shooting about 16fpe with 10.3's. Best group was around 3/8" and worst around 9/16". Drift was very manageable at around 3/4" so though I couldnt hit a card edgewise, I be I could hit the Spades and Hearts out of the faces of em.

Though most all older USFT rifles used HW barrels, and they worked pretty decent, they mostly only shot well with good Crosman 10.5's which are a thing of the past the last eight or ten years, so Lothar Walther is what most folks use now for FT in .177 because they do well with the JSB type ammo. I'm liking the new "slow twist" ones with polygonal rifling.

LD, 

The poly LW is what Tim put in my USFT and it is phenomenal. Very good wind resistance and reliable accuracy. It does prefer that I clean and lube the pellets to prolong cleaning intervals. But, I can shoot unsorted pellets and be pretty competitive in FT, if I do my part.