I was Shooting Sunday in really good weather, so my expectations was HIGH

But then upon unpacking i saw i forgot my hex tools at home, so not able to dial on the "rough" setup i had from home, so for sure not a flat shot string, but also not knowing how uneven i was CUZ i did not even bother putting the chrono on the rifle.

Still ! It was not half bad shooting the 2" Shoot NC targets at 75 M ( shooting 13.43 gr KO slugs )

First i put up 9 targets, and started to shoot 5 shot groups, which was sort of OK, and then after that i just hammered each target / Swiss cheesed them.

Then for the upper 3 targets i switched to shooting 3 shots after the 2 numbers and the red dot on each target,,,,,, and then Swiss Cheesing them after that.
But one of them i just had to pass on turning into Swiss cheese as the 3 shots was pretty damn good.



Then i put up 9 new stickers, and went to town again with the 5 shot groups, and again i was lucky so i just had to not Swiss Cheese one of them as aside for that one damn shot i got close making a 1/2 inch group.



TBH i think the #2 regulator on my Maverick,,,,,, it might have to forgo its location in favor of a Huma made one, i still have that one shot every 10 shots that just come off lower / slower than the other ones.

Clearly something was not quite as it was supposed to be CUZ i had to chase the POI with 1 clicks now and then on my turrets. ( no wind to blame )

I've got only a few hours of run time on mine but I'm still very pleased with it. I use secolube oil and I manage to keep it under 45C when filling my two 68cc tanks from 2800 psi to 4500 psi back to back.
At $110 price I just bought another one for a backup spare.

Got home this arvo Ms bought me something
She does prac pistol so likes her powder burners, not that I dont
unexpected and the weak point IMO in the fx Impact is its rail

RTI Prophet — Extended Scope Rail?​

I feel the RTI Prophet scope rail is pretty short....
Because I'd like to mount the scope farther back (yupp, I'm already researching cantilever mounts).

And it's too short for me because I'd like to attach other accessories on it: maybe a laser, maybe a contraption to attach a sling, maybe a flashlight (nope, the kitchen sink is already attached to the counter, my wife insisted that it stays there).


What options have you found to extend the rail?

How much would it cost if I asked someone to make me a longer replacement rail?


Thanks!

Matthias

Let me know what you have.

So I’ve had an M3 for a few months now. Been shooting 15,18, and Hades jsb pellets. awesome accuracy with the hades at 50 yards.

Decided to turn the gun up and get the fx 25.4 grn pellets moving and give them a try.
1st reg at 160ish
2nd reg at 140-145
macro at 14
Micro just a tad over 4.5
valve is 1/2 a turn past the 4th line

I didn’t shoot over the chrony today but I’m somewhere around 950 - 955 fps, at least that’s where it was when I turned it up.

Today I wanted to see if I was ”on paper” — could only get 37 yards where I was today. Shot 15 pellets. Holy sheet.

There’s 10 shots here. The flyer was my 1st shot for this group. I gotta try this on the 100 yard range.

So, I've been meaning to get a Thermal Monocle for some time, but I was going back and forth on features vs. price. Having an ATN THoR 4 384 scope already, I was hesitant to go lower in the resolution department, but I also didn't want to spend almost the same price as a thermal scope. After much thought, I pulled the trigger on the AGM Taipan.


This probably wasn't the Taipan you were all thinking of. But it's a great Taipan nonetheless!

It was the same price as an ATN OTS XLT 2-8x, it's is lighter and higher resolution (256x192 vs 160x120), but its half the optical zoom as the ATN (10mm vs 19mm), less detection range (670 yards vs 460 yards), and less battery life (8 hours vs 10 hours), and it doesn't have as nice of a housing (to me anyway).

Although that list of cons seems to be kinda long for the AGM, I much rather have the higher resolution than anything else.

Kodiak extra heavy. 25 Cal took already a javalina (30 yards) and a coyote (60 yards) with head shots. 60 foot pounds.

JSB Hades. 30 took already two coyotes (55 yards) with chest shots. 75 foot pounds.

JSB 81.02 grain. 357 Cal took two whitentailed deer (35 yards) with chest shots. And one with a front head shot(40!yards). Took three javalina (40 yards) with head shots. 130 foot pounds.

JSB 44.7 grain . 30 Cal took two javalina (30 yards) with head shots. Two coyotes with head shots (50 yards) .

I have a brand new, never mounted Airmax Compact 6-24x50. Sold the gun it was purchased for. Only out of the box for inspection and pics. My loss your gain. New retail is 449.99 + tax & shipping. My price, WAS $400, NOW $380 TYD, FIRM. PP F&F or USPS MO. Thanks for looking.

As I get older my reading speed and comprehension have certainly gone down. Today I was just surfing randomly for some airgun articles and came across a few that were real head scratchers. I had to read them a couple of times to make sure that I wasn't having any medical issues. I don't know if someone is writing these in a foreign language and then using a bad translator or if it is AI written or what the deal is, but it ended being a game, here are three of my favs:




Hope you enjoy them as much as I did!

LNIB DonnyFL Tatsu .22/.25 for sale for $110 OBO shipped to your door. PayPal FF prefered.

i have a very nice, accurate and powerful snowpeak/artemis m16, formally known as the
Airmax dominator and currently the Diana Outlaw.
this rifle is very accurate with H&N 30gr slugs and JSB 33.95gr pellets
this is a very nice lite weight hunting rifle. and barrel is unchoked for slugs.
included is a fill probe, 3 mags and factory moderator which does a nice job.
produces 51FPE with the JSB pellets.
scope, rings and caldwell rest are not included.
included are spare orings and parts for various areas.
this is a HUMA regulated gun. its very consistent with velocity.
comes with owners manual and double boxed for protection.
$300 + 1/2 shipping to east of MS river, add on your end $15 for west side.
conus only
paypal friends or add 4% for the fees.

thanks for look'n.....

Mods please check out the sightron and 30 hades adds the scope pic.s look familiar to a previous scam. User name zitrffritz

This is a brand new rifle that hasn’t even had a scope mounted to it. All I I did was mount he 580 bottle and tune it for the25.39 redesigns. While I didn’t have a tin of redesigns, I had it shooting 18.13 at 960fps with a deviation of 2.2. Pretty darn consistent. Comes with everything It came with from the factory in hard case.

only reason I’m selling is to accrue funds to buy an evol.
asking $1650 shipped with bottle or $1450 shipped with factory 480 bottle.
thanks for looking.

Looking for a trade for my avenger .22. Want it to be a fair trade. Am really not trying to move down in value or worth. I know some people think these are just cheap guns and other people understand these are great shooting guns and easy to upgrade.it holds air great and shoots great the stock is my problem I don’t like my thumb placement. Comes with bipod barrel band donnyfl extended adapter. I also have Donnyfl shogun a discovery vt2 4x16x50 and a bsa 6x24x40 first focal plane these things could n will be included depending on the trade

Bought on here a while back and decided not to use it.
Born on date of 2020/07.
No scratches, dings, gouges, or imperfections.
$225 shipped conus. Paypal preferred. F&F or add 3.5% for fees.

edit: dropped price due to not having a valve.

Nice Kalibr .25
Shoots great, nice condition
Likes FX & JSB pellets
Filler probe and magazine included
Small scratch on barrel
Sells without scope , rings and bipod
Would trade for LEUPOLD 6.5 X 20 EFR or larger power
U.S. Postal Service® money orders

i have a gamo urban 22cal with a cut down stock & barrel adapter that was professionally installed.
i also have (3) OEM mags - which cost $50 each (for some reason) + OEM barrel band
it holds air and has been a very good shooter for me but i am moving on to other things...

$149 + buyer covers shipping (the 3 mags alone pays for this deal)

willing to straight trade for high quality moderators in 22cal and/ or fx mags in 177 or 22 cal that work in dreamline series

1st and 2nd in Pellet class (Mike S. and Ben S)


Had a turnout of 10 shooters: 2 Rimfire, 7 Pellet, and 1 Slugger. Colorado Chris (I think) was the lone slugger. I was not sent his score card so don't know how he did (I WAS sent the sign up sheet and his name is on it, looks like he shot his Impact and .25 slugs from NSA). There's been mucho mucho mucho airgun comps here in AZ in the past few weeks and I think that factored into only 10 shooters. I know that was personally why I couldn't make it down to the match, well, that and my current overnight work schedule. Other than Gabe that came in from San Diego, I think everybody that made it are local PHX shooters.

From the Xtreme Troyer factor, the shooters had their work cut out for them, and that's not even factoring in the wind, which by NWS data, looks like it was rather nasty.
The highest Troyer was a 56.3!!! and was a 1.5" kz @ 75 yards on lane 3. Next highest was a 1.75" kz @ 61yards on lane four with a T of 45.8. There was also a T of 42.8 (2.25" @ 77 yards on lane 2). Typically the 3" kzs @ 100 yards on lane 3 and 10 are the highest T's (@41.7), but not this match!

The overall Troyer factor for the course was a 36.4 and a 72.8 if adjusted for wind, based on a measured gust of 21mph, and as discussed here: https://www.airgunnation.com/thread...un-report-from-sept-2022-night-match.1274312/

That unadjusted-for-wind Troyer of 36.4 is the hardest overall T we've seen in a while. The average wind looking to be about 8-12mph during the match time, only made matters worse, by the looks of the scores. Furthermore, those switches from ssw to sse would be tough, as that would be switches from quartering in from about 1 oclock to quartering out from about 5 o clock from one gust to the next, at least on some of the targets. And it seems to me that those quartering wind shots are the worst for messing with elevation, in addition to drift. Anybody ever thought of some windicators downrange for these matches? I kid, I kid.




Boxscore and equipment list



Mike S came out on top again. At the next match, somebody's gonna have to give the windage turret on that Kahles of his a good twist or three when he's not looking. Good shooting Mike. Keep an eye on your rig next month, or don't, and see what happens .

I'd like to point out that Steve M and Tony P were the only shooters to go 4/4 on lane 3. Dunno that all of us feel this way, but lane 3 has been my bugaboo since Ben added it. There really isn't a "close" target on that lane, with a 75 and 100yard target. And it was set even harder yesterday, with a 1.5" kz on the 75 and a 3" on the 100yarder. Great shooting to you two for cleaning it.

Nobody went 4/4 on the offhand lane. Practice up folks, lane 9 is typically a good opportunity to pull ahead, or fall behind, lol.

From what I was told, sounds like it was another fun, but challenging match.

Ben wanted me to add that he was sent a demo scope from Falcon, their new "Endura" model. Most of the shooters were able to take a good look through it and it sounds like the typical with scopes, pros and cons. I looked through it last weekend and it was okay, but not quite as good as their X50. Seems like the main negatives that some pointed out were the somewhat mushy turrets, and the minimum focus distance of 13 yards. That min focus distance would be fine for XFT, but would present a problem for regular ft where targets are as close at 10 yards, and many of us shoot both disciplines. I would suspect field target shooters are a relatively small portion of the market for scope manufacturers, but I keep hoping one (or more) of them will realize that most of us are willing to throw some money at scopes in the search for the holy grail ft scope.

Thanks to Ben and crew for another great match (so I was told).

17 fpe did the trick

I had my complete Avenger package listed here with everything but I'm going to split it up instead.

New model AVA in wood stock and .25. Has the barrel clamp with the plastic bearings. I have between 5-700 shots through it. Comes with 2 mags. DonnyFL Adapter and Scope Rings are included.
Asking $350 plus shipping. CONUS only, Paypal or Venmo. Venmo preferred.

This is the gun with no scope, but all the additional upgrades and accessories for for it are left on.
Includes:
Rifle (Wood Stock, .25cal)- $420
DonnyFL Adapter- $50
Saber Tactical Scope Rail- $40
Barrel Band- $20
Barrel Stiffener- $30
Lightened Valve Spring- $15
Gauge Covers- $10
Cheek Riser/Butt Pouch- $20
Scope Rings- $30
=$635

This is a big discount off of what everything would cost outright, and everything is already installed and functioning as it should.
Internal (free) mods are:
-polished hammer
-polished barrel
-barrel crown
-expanded block and barrel transfer ports
-added a third screw to attach the stock to the action

This gun was previously offered with a DonnyFL Sumo and a Custom 16cc Power Plenum as a package. If you are interested in either of those, hit me up and I'll sell those as well with no extra shipping. The stock was modified to accept the plenum upgrade but it looks ok, it's just a hole above the bleed port. If you don't like it, you should just buy the plenum from me. Problem solved.

Have been playing with my pelletgauge for a few days and getting use to using it. Was showing it to a few other shooters and one claimed "nobody uses those stupid things" and that "all the top shooters don't worry about the head size".

So for those of you at the higher levels....how many people use a head sizer to help minimize groups? I'm still going to test with my RedWolf to see if there is any difference, but wanted you guys to chime in as well.

Anyone have a JSR Raptor 22 they’d consider trading? I’ve got a NF complete in box Br scope, complete resealed/cleaned pre AF action w minty BLK Lam Sp stock (no barrel kit) and more to offer for a minty or custom working JSR Raptor in 22 w Moderator. Please have pics, history w/ specs ….Mini, standard, R, B or BLK or custom cerakote/paint job (no sniper or gold). Thank you, Keahi

Yesterday Spector the 3rd arrived And today I decided with perfect weather see if it can actually live up to the hype.

Before heading out I mounted the Brocock Ranger XR 22 cal with a Vector Optics Veryon 4x16 IR with eagle Vision rings, and the Atlas bipod.0dB supplied moderator the Tatsu rubbed and the rti hush won’t fit (For the spec geeks) (cleaned barrel too)



I arrived around noon and decided to do the sight in first because this minor thing helps your pellet hit its target.

I decided on Hades to give them a try and they are one of my favorite pellets. The gun came shooting hades at 710 fps so around 18 fpe. I sighted in at initially 25 yards.

While playing with targets I see I have a shot on a staling in perched on a fence post in the paddock. I tried to find an angle I could use the bipod from, no so I did a 35 yard freehand. Whack, well Spector III was deflowered by a starling and any day you kill a starling is a good day.

I did a lunch pause with a ham and cheese sandwich and real carrots





I spent a total of 4 hours at the permission and did some w plowing and the sparrows see don’t reflect the number which is more like 10, I was too lazy to go retrieve them in the thick brush or manure piles, sorry Sadly only one starling.



Hades on a sparrow at 25 yards icky

We all understand that at some point “all” PCPs will eventually leak somewhere. We also know that “some” might tune their new guns into a state of unbalance. Like many other shooters I like my chosen brand. So it was very interesting to hear in an interview of a very prominent person in the airgun business by the Airgun Geeks. That a certain percentage of returns was the norm, “regardless of make or manufacturer”. The second part of the statement was, that a business has to be able to deal with that reality. This was an eye opening statement for me. Which gives me a new appreciation of the efforts involved in putting out and supporting these wonderful PCPs.



PS: Winter is coming here in NYS, so please all you “year-round” warm weather shooters? Send warm thoughts out East, while sending pellets.