Recent content by AmosBurton

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    Air Venturi POI Shifting

    +1^ My solution was a little unorthodox. Since I use mine to hunt, it gets banged around, leaned up against trees, where it sometimes falls over....I needed to add stability. First step was the Donny FL barrel shroud adapter. Then I used a barrel band from Black Arts Design in addition to the...
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    Umarex "Umarex Notos Update HUGE power Upgrade!" Or is it?

    My grand total is $650. I paid $215 for the Notos, the gauge block, plenum, plenum extension, barrel kit and cut and crowned FX barrel liner makes up the rest. Will I get it back? I don't know/care but I also wasn't ever planning on selling my 5lb(6+ with a scope) woods walker. It's simple, not...
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    Head shot thread

    A .22 to the dome out of the BRK Sniper XR gave him a very bloody nose.
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    Brocock/BRK Brockcock Sniper XR Sahara, newbie friendly?

    If you get one, just go ahead and stock up on Crosman Premier Hollow Points (CPHP). They are the cheapest pellet going and the gun shoots them really well. Also order a Carm magazine or 2. The stock mags are sweet just expensive. I also own a highly modded Notos, which I love, but the Notos is a...
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    Hollywood level reaction

    Maybe he saw Fall Guy...
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    Head shot thread

    Chipper taken with a Notos and a 14.3gr CPHP
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    I Experienced The Infamous POI Shift On FX Maverick VP

    It looks like the crosshair sweeps right to the POI on the trigger pull. I had a terrible trigger habit that took some training to get rid of. It never showed itself until I started to shoot smaller game and paper targets. A firearms instructor saw me shooting and offered a tip to improve my...
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    Squirrel season in two days but...

    I'm across the river in IL, no decline here. They are definitely harder to find with leaves on the trees and underbrush. I always see the most in the early morning around sunrise when I walk the dogs.
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    Umarex I sipped the Notos Kool-aid

    Well, with the help of C88machining parts and @Firewalker cutting and crowning an FX barrel for me, here we are. The parts list : plenum and extension, gauge block, and a 385mm barrel kit using a cut down 500mm FX slug liner. I still have the reg set at the stock setting of 1900. I've been...
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    What got you started?

    I started as a kid shooting mice and rats in a barn with a pump action BB gun. Shot plenty of red squirrels trying to live in my log cabin as an adult with my dad's old 10 pump Daisy. And yeah I know no shooting inside but this was war, I took precautions. I also won that battle. Finally moved...
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    What Paper Target Did You Shoot Today

    I'm more of a resetting metal target kind of guy but went to an Appleseed Project 25M event this past weekend and shot a lot of these targets. The rectangle represents a wood shingle at 250yds and the others are a man at 100, 200, 300, and 400yds. I managed to get the shingle and 3 rounds in the...
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    N/A MOS

    I'm going after grey squirrels (and the occasional fox squirrel). Greys are fast and rarely sit still. They can run down a tree as fast as up. If they do sit still, it's best to aim and shoot as soon as you're on target, because they won't be there long. In other words, I miss a bunch. They're...
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    N/A MOS

    All my guns are MOS. It's me that's the problem! :ROFLMAO:
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    FX Is this fixable?

    Time for a new gun? Always, but not because that one is broken. And it won't be the same? That makes no sense to me, other than they didn't know how to fix it and wanted to sell you a new gun, or both! For the record, I'm no gunsmith but I have bent a lot of copper and I did all the copper...
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    Daisy The old Daisy 25

    I have one with a bakelite grip and butt stock, I'm guessing it's from the 50's, it was my dad's. It's currently my shop mouse gun.