What have you done with your airgun today?

Didn't have much time, but I played around with the shims on my PARD, then realized I had put them on the wrong side of the mounting bracket and they weren't shimming anything at all, since that side of the bracket hangs free in the air. Doh! Put them back on the right way, on top, but then had to start dinner and now it's a project for tomorrow.

Also put up a couple of pieces of plywood at 25 yards, that I'll put some more sticky targets on tomorrow. It can be very hard to see where a .177 hits a target unless you are using splatter targets!

Am surprised how loud the Avenger .177 is. Haven't shot it with a moderator yet, though. Sounds like a nail gun basically. Probably just because I'm a newbie. I see videos constantly where you can hardly hear a shot no matter what the rifle, and then my Marauder pistol and this Avenger sound like a .45 in comparison.

The old circular sawblades did'nt ding like I was hoping and the 18gr pellets actually dented them alittle from 35yds.

I set up a bunch of targets in the back yard and took my 2240 for another spin. At 25 yards it seemed to like the 14.3gr Crosmans better than the 15.89 JSBs. Maybe the pistol just shoots better with the lighter pellet.

Ok back to more shooting. ​​

I glanced in my airgun's general direction. That is all I could do: Broken washing machine, new one about to arrive today. Broken kitchen sink faucet (Saturday morning). It's replacement also on the way, FedX overnight from Moen. (Hint: Don't think those expensive faucets last any longer than the $27 faucets in Walmart. They don't. They just have a lifetime replacement warranty, but they break JUST AS OFTEN, as I just found out.) Commandant Momma is not happy. So the LAST THING I need is for ReichsFuhrer Robin to catch me fiddlin' around with my airguns right now.

On a whim I decided to figure out how much farther out I could push my backyard range keeping my shooting table in the same spot. Had been just shooting 25 yards since I got back into air rifles a couple of months ago, and decided to try benchrest shooting.

But now I have 45 yard target range as well!

Oh nothing much just put in a regulator fiddled around with hammer adjustment,will be chrony testing first light

Today I decided to test out some old .177 caliber pellets I have not used in a long time. Shooting was done at 20yrds off a rest with a Crosman springer.

First up was some ancient Daisy flat nosed pellets that shot pretty good. Then some Gamo Match Diaoblos that shot even better. Last and the least I tried some Daisy Pointed pellets which were absolutely terrible. I'd say the group size was about 8". The pellet tin does not even list the weight. Fortunately I have only one tin of these so I'm not stuck with a whole bunch of them. Any of you guys ever try these? They are the worst pellets I ever tried to shoot.

Well......I started seriously testing the 4.52mm 8.4 grain Air Arms Domes in my .177 HW95 vs the boxed 7.9 drain die lot marked and dated Crosman Premiers.

The 4.52mm AA domes fit rather loosely in the larger leade of my .177 R9 but are snugger fitting to the tighter HW95 leade. I've shot a few 18 yard groups with the AA domes and they do look promising...........



Here are a couple groups shot sitting on a bucket resting the gun on cross sticks.......



I haven't tested them at 30 and 50 yards but will before winter.

Just this so far today. It's a score of 86.

Daisy 747 pistol, one handed, 10 meters. Pretty good for me as my pb is 87.

Getting more consistent with a current average of 81.5 over the last 4 months or so.

Certainly not Olympic level, but I'm happy with it.

I added a (relatively) inexpensive CF tank to my FX Dreamline Lite Compact and now can shoot 4 (18 round) mags before refilling instead of just 2.

I knew that the Compact had the larger OD shroud, so the FX (and many other) standard 480cc CF bottles would not work.

Bought an FX ALU 500cc bottle since it had a smaller OD than the FX CF bottle, and was much cheaper ($99). Just barely contacted the gun's shroud just distal to the shoulder of the bottle. And anyway it was too heavy to be right for the lightweight gun.

Found a 370cc CF bottle on eBay, shipped from CA instead of from China, $133 plus ship, and with a smaller yet OD than the FX ALU bottle. No valve, but heck, I've got an FX ALU bottle with valve which didn't work for the gun, maybe I can just swap it to the China CF bottle?

Yup, valve was correct threads, screwed right in and held air. So now I have a gun which is still relatively lightweight and compact, where I get 72 full power shots off a fill instead of 36. China CF bottle clears the shroud easily. Just barely clears a mounted Tanto.

Could have saved the fiddling and just purchased a compatible (55mm dia or less) CF bottle with valve from Best Fittings in the U.K. (theirs is 300cc volume), but I am currently having issues with another shipment from the U.K. (stuck at USPS LAX since 8/21), and I already had what I figured would be a compatible valve. eBay China CF bottle was delivered in 3 days.