Hunting for a .45 cal 400+fpe hunting rifle

There is almost no stopping a dry and warm shooter.

Got to the range, shot maybe 50 shots, and Pssssssss air constantly leaking out my barrel.
So valve clearly not able to completely close, several air shots did not help, that have once worked but no help yesterday, will replace entire fire valve with spare and overhaul.
Changed to the Maverick and kept shooting.

Is this an engine knock? I swear I hear a knock. In a near new and well maintained engine. Still under warranty.

Picked up the huge haul of construction materials at the sign guys place yesterday.

Not going to be put to use anytime soon, CUZ the focus now is to get new heat source in shot shed installed, and insulate roof and wall behind heat source.
Got the new oven.
Got the new chimney.
Got vapour barrier.
Need to modify shot shed rear wall a little due to where chimney will pass through it, no big deal though.
Have to make some fixtures to the chimney to hold it in place, but just one i think is needed, M8 have new welder and should be able to whip that up.

Also got some money to burn on insulation ( 50 mm for roof and 100 mm for rear wall )
Need to buy dry wall sheets for rear wall, the roof the insulation will be held up by thin fiber ( wood ) plates.

Hitting the ground running tomorrow, though also have to shoehorn in some pew - pew time, sadly my LRF have only made it to Bremen Germany 380 KM from where live in Denmark.
So will not get to play with that, i hope Tuesday / Wednesday will be the days for that, and probably more shed work.

Of course putting in new oven mean taking out old oven, even if they are not going to be in the same place.

In Denmark we have a saying, okay we have like a gazillion sayings, but this is one of those for wishful thinking.
And it goes ( translated literally ) If and If my " behind" is pointy.

Yeah. It do not make much sense not even in Danish, but it do rhyme a little in Danish.

BUT ! i do wish i was able to shoot groups like this at 50 M instead of the 10 I have shot here across my 2 room apartment.



Not able to put any blame on rifle / regulator, it is doing just fine for the 25 shots., even if i could probably have gotten it a little flatter working the hammer more.
But seated behind rifle ( propped up on a PC tower case ) and sitting on a rolled up mattress ( thick one that go between the bed and the actual bed sheet you lie on )
Well my old body do not at all like a position like that any more.

This is just about the good speed for my CZ barreel pushing JSB Heavy pellets.
REG at 47 BAR



Some times at 50 / 56 M with the same pellets it do sort of look like this, at least the most ragged group of the 5 above, but it is not a performance me and my rifle are able to keep up, so when i shoot groups it is often a good one here and then a little later a good one there.

One of my best friends buys and restores antique motorcycles. Last year he bought a 1922 Harley Davidson JD model, when he got it, it looked like this, minus the paint.


Actually, he had to source most of the parts, he had a new frame fabricated using powdered metal spray technology. His intention was to ride the transcontinental endurance rally, which starts today in Nags Head, North Carolina. There are about 50 riders, the endurance rally ends on September 19 at a lighthouse in Oregon..
Here is a link to the ride and it’s route.


Anyway, how I fit into this grand scheme is my buddy knew that I sprayed automotive paint on guitars. I have sprayed dozens and dozens of custom guitars, but never a motorcycle. My friend asked me if I would take on painting his motorcycle and it’s parts. I didn’t know what I was getting into but I said yeah, sure I’ll give it a shot. Evidently, he is getting a lot of compliments on the paint job out in North Carolina. Here is a pic of the completed project, it took me two sessions to do the primer color and clearcoat on the frame and all the other parts.


So if you happen to live close to any of these points between North Carolina and Oregon, and see a bunch of antique motorcycles on the road, my buddy is number 31, give him a honk and a thumbs up!

Anybody here have guitars, either factory or custom?
Here are a couple that I have recently completed, I used to be a full-time Luthier.

Just passed 60 subscribers on youtube if any of them are on here as well, thank you for the support.alot more ahead from new sentry arms you will have to tune in and see

Well my friend have gotten his permission and so picked up a Himicro alpex 4K lite with the LRF package.
Unfortunately for him he got it days after i took the rat, so he had to settle for a mouse that conveniently showed up as the idiot ( me ) had set up his LRF ASO.
CUZ M8 technically challenged, so this is a very big deal for him to deal with.

But today ( he got scope yesterday ) after he fixed the idiots wrong scope over barrel height entry, the rifle are now laying down the 13 gr JSB KO smack at any distance, or that is out to the 60 - 75 M where the performance of the Snowpeak M30 taper off.
And with the correct scope height, there is no misalignment popping up at longer distances. it would seem a scope height 20 mm off is also a big deal, at least when you get 20 M past the 24 M the zero is made at.

So the mouse he missed yesterday, it made the mistake of returning today, and again in the afternoon, so a daylight kill.




Now i am thinking i want to buy the LRF for my oneleaf scope,,,,,, but i really really want to wait with that until i can also order the big lens ( 10 X or whatever it is )

On my part, after SAT / SUN at the range, well again down a lot of ammo 2 X 400 13 grain Zan ( again ) about 200 20.5 grain NSA, about 300 16 gr H&H, my last tim of 10.4 JTS Deadcenters, and a few Heavies to finish off on CUZ i was not yet there.


Also HUGE + today.
Having a new windscreen installed in my car, i took a walk while waiting, but did not get far, CUZ i saw a huge stack of interesting stuff at the neighbouring company’s dumpster.
So there was like 15 - 20+, 10 mm thick PVC plates and several 3 mm ALU and also a few steel plates.
All in a nice size CUZ it is a sign maker, so these old signs are nothing small, plenty of the 10 mm to cover our shot shed i think.
And the steel and ALU i reckon will do excellent for pellet traps in the oversized flavour i like so much.

Best of all talking to the guy, he was extremely cool and the price,,,,,,, 0 DKkr
Only one but, someone else is coming to take a few of the 10 mm PVC boards, but as i understood it it is not like a lot that guy will get.



So come next week, my M8 is coming with the big trailer and we score a major haul.

I'm dense and I posted about my pup in the wrong category. My apologies to the moderators. Anyway thank you to those who commented about my big beautiful boy. He is so kind and gentle. Love that boy

Hanging out with my buddy Baloo

A few bowls for today. Cedar, Great Basin figured Poplar,
and Walnut...

I love to tinker and repurpose. I saw this thing standing in the weeds when we moved here and I avoided my wife's suggestions to scrap it. I knew I could make something useful out of it. I spent a couple years looking at it until I finally saw what it could be. I have a half acre of woods that I plan to clear and it will be done manually. I got more time than money.
I spent the past couple days converting it into a usable log drag trailer. I'll use it to drag the logs out of the woods to an area where I cut, split and stack firewood. I have new 10" run flat wheels coming for it and that's the only money I will have invested in it.

My Brocock Ghost arrived and all I can say is, wow. I swapped out the stock grip for a FAB Defense Gradus AK and really like it (not shown).
Scope is a Ares BTR Gen1 2-15x50 - nice glass.

listen to this guitar sing

So.

It have taken 8 months, but finally a rat showed up at my friends place, unfortunately for it, i was there too with all the bells and whistled needed for taking out things in complete darkness.

So it got a JSB heavy to the back of the brain and that assured a fairly short " dance of death "




Naturally i also enjoyed 2 days of plain old lead slinging.
So i am down 800 13 gr slugs - 350 16 gr slugs - 300 or so MRD pellets, and a couple of JSB heavy as aside for the rat i also shot a few pest slugs, slugs with the Danish name ( translated ) Killer snails.

New heat source for the shot shed en route, this coming winter should be pea shooting in even higher comfort, even if yesterday my friend examined the shot shed from a distance with his new thermal spotter, and fount it leaking heat all over ( we had the old oven on last night as it was only 10 deg C outside but a nice comfortable 25 deg C inside the shed )

Also a visiting FX shooter, well guess who had the things ( O-rings ) to get him going.
AND ! i am not even a FX shooter, at least my Maverick with the night scope see little action these days.

Wish I was at the range.

In case you have plenty of time ( 5 min or so )
And dont have super high expectations for your entertainment.

I might have a video for you.

Featuring:
The peashooting Dane
The new moving target " system " briefly.
Really not good pea shooting at 129 M distance with 13 grainers, before the video camera came out things worked much better, so dunno what happened here.
Also briefly featuring new DING target at 100 M, this do have to be reinvented as it have a design error.

Then some more splitting cards at 118M distance, with a twist ( revealed at the end ) compared to last attempt.

The 50 M pellet trap have now been fitted with pellet,,,,, and slug stopping powers.
I then put up a BR50M ( M as in Meters CUZ i use these yard papers on Meter distances ) paper and hit it "hard" with 13 grain slugs, and then after that i changed to 10 grain slugs and carried on hitting it, shooting at least 20 shots at the same " hole " to verify stopping powers, and the semi tire seem to hold up fine so far.
But i metal absolutely stop will probably be added soon, we will soon go metal shopping.

The BR50M paper hung sideways up CUZ this just a prelim test, the target holding contraption have not yet been installed.



Really i am no good at these BR fiddy papers, i will try them again later in the week shooting my pellet pushing Maverick instead.

Made some bacon
5 day cure was 1 day too long
A bit salty to my taste

I took my Big .510 Texan and .222 Condor High Power to Southern West Virginia to give a lil air power demonstration and fun!!! Well they all love the big Texan and Donny FL with quick disconnect...It was there fist time seeing a digital scope..pcp...moderator.....They all want a powerful pcp...lol....They want Sightmarks Wraiths ....Well it pretty good...Wv has Big Bore Airgun Hunting...One of my old neighbors there form wv that i help out at had a big bear problem last year...A 500 lb nusience bear was removed...She is elderly and has a severly handicap son...500 lb bear tearing through buidings...Had a good trip...Glad to be in the Mountains...

New project

If you are a female American 50 M / 3 position shooter, and want to take on the best from over there in EU ville.
Well you will have to go though Rikke then, CUZ she just took the European championship again in that discipline.
She can probably give quite a few boys a run for their money too.

A couple of play & work days.

Play = slinging lead, even did some micro pesting.
While shooting some 2" splatter targets at 100 M, a fly did not see the no trespassing signs on my backing material, so after 30 - 40 warning shots, some uncomfortable close i am sure even if the damn thing did not flinch.
At one time i put a hole in the cardboard 5 mm in front of it and 5 mm behind it, and the damn thing just sat there taunting me.
I even finished my targets and moved on to other things, but then later i got back to it, and it was still there sitting astride a old hole to taunt me.
And so i finally managed to convert it into a hole.




Also managed to whip up the " Lead" part of a lead trap up,
Next outing it will be equipped with lead stopping / catching material.
Put up at 50 M CUZ i do have a stack of BR50 papers, and there are room for 2 of them i think.

It will of course also be fitted with near miss reinforcements so it do not get all shot up, even if only accomplished shooters visit our range.