Not exactly a squirrel hunting post, but I have mentioned these things to a couple of guys that have never heard of them. So, here are photos taken of one that lives in my backyard. We have a large population of these critters. Exactly how and when they first showed up here is a matter of debate. One story has them imported here around 135 years ago and another story has them brought in over 150 years ago. The ones here are actually albinos, but many of them have dark eyes. That causes a huge debate as to whether they are albinos or just white colored squirrels. As you can see in the last image, running over one ACCIDENTALLY will net you a $750 fine. If you are found guilty of intentionally shooting and/or possessing a stuffed white squirrel, you are at the mercy of the court with fines ranging from $2500 and WAY up. We have a "squirrel count" every year to keep tabs on the population. In the 1940s, there were between 800 and 1000 here. The last few counts have the population estimated at just over 100.

One of my real sore spots with this town is that you get fined $750 for accidentally running over one, but there is no penalty to residents who allow their cats to roam freely and kill squirrels. Yes, we have an ordinance that specifically prohibits cats and dogs from roaming at large. Even though there have been a few photos taken that clearly show cats eating white squirrels or dragging one down the street, the town just will not do anything about the free roaming, feral cats in town. That population has been estimated at somewhere between 3000 and 5000 free ranging cats. I'm thinking I might help reduce that population in the very near future.

Anyway, here are a couple of photos of a squirrel that lives in my backyard. I keep a couple of ears of corn out for it., but some folks in town have HUGE backyard feed stations with everything imaginable for them to eat.

Been 3 months in the making fitting in a few minutes here and there. Removed the shim in the reg and dropped the pressure to about 2400psi. Added a sidelever. Made a new hammer with a longer stroke so the bolt locks back and I can mag swap without holding the lever. 28" TJ hammerforged barrel 1-26 twist (Same as Factory) but only 6 grooves. Polished the bore and shortened the hammerspring 5 coils. Now getting over 50 shots at 850fps with JSB 44.75 pellets. Polished and adjusted the trigger and set the overtravel for a very light single stage. Just in time for EBR! What are you bringing?

Here are the top 3 pellet scores!!!
L to R: Wes C, Van T. Mike S.






I believe Mike's 45/48 is a new Phoenix Rod and Gun Club XFT record @ 93.75%. CONGRATS!!! I skimmed through some past match reports and the next highest I came across was Ben's June 2022 night match score of 29/32 (90.6%) and Steve M shot a 37/40 (92.5%) with a rimfire in January 2022. If somebody has a higher knockdown % please let us know as it's kinda cool to keep track of that.

And the scores and equipment.....
(I always say it, and it's always true: live and die by the forced position shots).



48 shot match so Ben used all the lanes he carved out of the desert for this match. He told me the summer rains had washed out the main road/path connecting all the shooting pads (in multiple places) and he had to spend some time shoveling dirt and raking gravel to make it a nice (relatively) smooth path again. Sent me photos of blisters on his hands from the rake and shovel, dang guy puts a ton of work into seeing that this is enjoyable for all.

Sounds like it was a bit humid for us Arizonons, lol 30% isn't much, but we prefer single digits. They're telling me there were times they wanted a breeze to help with the humidity but I also got a report of needing hold an entire mil off while one shooter was on Lane 3 (75 and 100 yard targets there). On that note, here are the distances, and they're quite literally set in stone because the mounting points for the targets are mostly drilled into bedrock! Shooting mats could be slightly moved for slight changes in distance, but lights and shooting pads complicates all of that.

Yellow highlighted are the targets past 70 yards, which is one of the columns in the data above.
Pink highlighted is offhand lane.


TROYER
There's been some discussion about how to better account for the wind in the Troyer (difficulty) calculations.
Original Xtreme Troyer table here: https://www.airgunnation.com/threads/extreme-troyer-factor.868700/
Some more recent conversations here: https://www.airgunnation.com/thread...ec-2021-through-sep-2022.1273383/post-1318343

In that second link I suggested the following as a way to account for the wind:

"The wind really is the great confounder, both on the shooting, and the analyzing sides.

The issue is that's it's so subjective, just like Art has noted in his data.

Here's where I'm at with it right now.....for AZ, the fall matches have kinda become the start of each new XFT "season." So I think starting with the Oct night match I'll start using difficulty factors for wind? But instead of just subjectively saying "windy" or not we can do a graded system? I mentioned something similar in Ben's night match announcement but I thinking we can use NWS reporting of wind speeds to figure out the highest wind speed measured during a match, recorded as close as we can to where the match happens.

So maybe multiply the course average T by:
1 if highest wind speed 5mph or less
1.5 if highest wind speed 6-10mph
2 if highest wind speed 11-15mph
2.5 if highest wind speed 16-20mph
3 if highest wind speed 21+"


I've since pondered on this and I think it needs to come down in scale. For example, with what I originally proposed, we'd double the overall course Troyer for a wind of 11-15mph. That just seems too much, b/c 11-15mph will make a course harder, but I'm not sure it makes it TWICE as hard.

So, going forward, I propose this scale instead:
Multiply the overall Troyer factor for a course by the following:
1 if 5mph or less
1.25 for wind speeds 6-10mph
1.5 for wind speeds 11-15mph
1.75 for wind speeds 16-20
2 for wind speeds 21mph or greater

"wind speed" defined as the highest wind recorded by NWS during the match using their location pinpoint feature

Using last night's match as an example.....
The lowest Troyer was 24 and was the near target on lane 6 (1.25" kill zone @ 30 yards)
The highest Troyer was a 41.7 and was the far targets on lane 3 and lane 10 (both 3" kill zones @ 100 yards)
Average Troyer for the course was a 33.3, with no wind adjustment, which is how I've reported it for matches up to this point. To arrive at 33.3 for last night I DID multiply the 2 offhand targets Troyers by the 1.75 difficulty factor applied to forced standing shots.

Went to NWS website to pinpoint location.....


Then clicked on the three day history to get this data table.......



I'm arriving at a max wind speed of 12, taken at 7:05pm (circled in red).

That would make the non-wind adjusted average Troyer of 33.3 be multiplied by 1.5 (wind adjustment factor) for a Troyer of 49.95.

That will represent an entirely new scale/reference point from previous matches but I'll do the 2022/2023 PHX winter season reports in that manner if shooters would like to tentatively adopt that method of calculating a course difficulty level. And if they're not, I'm open to suggestions.

Congrats again to Mike S for the course record.
Thanks to Phoenix Rod and Gun Club for having us.
Thanks to Ben for MD duties, and to all who helped set-up and tear-down.

With the USD gaining 20% and 30% on the GBP and the EUR from a year ago, seems to be worth to pick up some airgun things cheaper from Europe?

For example, the FX Maverick Sniper is USD1800 at Utah Airguns, but EUR1320 (USD1275) at Krale (shipping excluded) and GBP1400-1500 (USD1481-1587).

SOLD

98% New
$95 Shipped

Great stable gun rest for maintenance and shooting, works with all kinds of guns

In Monty Python's Holy Grail It was suggested that coconuts migrate.
Then reading odenwald's thread about his unfortunate experience, it was suggested that
he purchased thousands of dollars of equipment so he could bash and complain about the vendor, and that it was all
just a ruse. My first thoughts without knowing all the facts were that's nuts. Who has that much money?
But then I recalled [ NOT TO GET POLITICAL I won't use names] a certain party is spending millions of tax payers
money to bash and complain about a certain [name to be withheld] person! So MAYBE COCONUTS DO MIGRATE
Opinions are usually based on experiences!

mint condition .22 dreamline compact for sale
barely shot
donny fx moderator included
hogue collapsable buttstock and grip
2 magazines
will include near full 500 ct. jsb exact 15.89 tin of pellets
scope(uag swat 3-12x44 mil dot lit recticle) and ccop usa bipod
owners manual included
$1050 plus shipping
paypal f&f or add the 3%

Please delete duplicate post

Brand new uragan 2 for sale, has different butt pad but comes with factory one. Thought I would like the 22 cal but all I do is hunt with air guns and I'm going to stick with 25 cal. Will likely sell all my 22 pellets also later.

Would trade for a impact m3 in 25 or sell for 1900.00 shipped. No scope or rings unless you would like a package deal the way it sets.Has 4 mags also.

Up For Grabs is a Very Nice FX Dream- Tac.

This is/was my wife's gun, she has since moved on to a a different platform.

The gun is Cerakoted in FDE and it is a Straight up dead nuts shooter with FX or JSB 18.13"s, Sub MOA all day if you do your part

What's included:
FX Dream-Tac .22 cal with 500mm Barrel w/1/2x20 Threaded end for Moderator
Hogue FDE Adjustable Butt Stock with Rubber Cheek Pad
Hogue FDE Grip
Folding Stock Adapter
3 x 18 rd mags.
Bottle Adapter
480cc Carbon Bottle
FX Hard Case

Now Includes
FX Moderator
1 x Centerpoint 6-20x50 Illuminated scope
QD Lever Scope Mounts
1 x Jense Bipod

I am asking $ 1175.00 shipped within the lower 48, Payment via Paypal FF or add 3.5% , I can also do CC over the phone , add 3%


Will ship insured, signature required

Checking interest on a very lightly used RAW hm1000x .22. Have 2 and possibly 3 magazines. If local purchase in NC I have a couple scba tanks with fill station, a pellet air gauge for sorting, a set of A&D FX 120i scales, and a shooting bench that I built. Also have quite a few pellets to go with it.

Aztec 5-25x50 target scope. $250

RAW HM1000x SOLD with target scope.

Mark Buchanan Air pellet gauge SOLD with Lee press

A&D Scales $450.00

stikman fill station $125.00

Shooting bench is free to anyone local who wants it. SCBA tanks will be free to local who purchases gun.

Prices are OBO as I’ve been out of the game for a bit and may be off. Shipping is available at buyers expense.

What do you say in your head? Or what do you do?

When I first got into this sport I woulda thought about it all night. Now that I utilize them in the field I try to avoid them but realize that they happen.

Accidently put a little nick in the new caiman stock today, barely noticeable , but I did say "Kevin you dumbass!"

Then said, we'll it's gunna get more most likely ...

SOLD

Hardly used and need to thin the herd. Includes the Accushot scope pictured. Nice compact rifle.
$450 using F&F PayPal to [email protected] includes shipping to CONUS.

I have an large amount of JSB exact .30 exact kings .25, and .22 jumbo heavies. Selling 7 tins for 100$ obo for 7 tins. Check out the pics. I bought a lifetime of pellets but barely shoot anymore.

We're moving so I'm selling most of my steel range targets.

Two of the AR500 six swinger targets, Action Armour bunny and quad targets, a 9mm dueling tree (22 20 fps swings em). target stands and a whole slew of little targets, some newer, some older. A few field target type, cheap Crosman, etc. Also will include some Caldwell rests and bags that have been outside but are fine.

Everything has wear, paint and weathering. Everything works and isn't broken or junky.


$400 gets it all or we can haggle over a single target, figure 50% of new price in general

Local pick up in Brockport, NY 14420 only, West side of Rochester, NY

I decided a few months ago to build my own scopecam. I had watched lots of YT videos and researched lots of threads looking for information and options. I decided to use a cheap $89 action cam from Amazon that would film 240FPS at 720p. Similar to the Firefly but less than half the price. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09LH8JFVF/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Yes, I love watching Orion's video's smacking iguanas in slo-mo with tracers! One more thing about the camera. The 170* lens will not work, and has to be changed out with either a 12mm or 16mm lens. I ordered one of each off of Amazon for less than $25. Some cameras the lens is easily removed and others it is not. (I have an old GoPro 2 that it is impossible to swap lenses in, so do your research.)

Next I ordered a prismatic cube from Aliexpress that would turn the images 90* and reflect images to the camera. It has a 70/30 split, so I directed 70% of the light to the camera for better images. It took over a month to arrive but was less than half the price of ebay items at only $28. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256...cs6yMVr&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa&_randl_shipto=US

Here I'll say that I am not a machinist. I wish I had machining skills, but everything I know (very little) I've learned watching YT videos. I made several mistakes the first of which was cutting my mounting bracket into two pieced diagonally first thing. I should have cut a square, then drilled/tapped the holes for the mounting screws, bored it too size and then cut it diagonally with a slitting saw on the mill. I faced the 2 cut edges on the mill, then mounted it in 4 jaw on the lathe, drilled and bored to the proper dimension to mount on the scope. I left a lip on the back to hold the prismatic lens housing and keep it from slipping out.

Less than a year ago I bought and Alkin compressors. It is a great compressor. But now the college that teach at is building a new building for the trades and one of the programs that will be in the new building is structural fire fighting. They are installing a cascading (not sure exactly what that means) HPA system for their bottles. So know that I recently invested in a high quality compressor myself I have easy access to free air. Should I keep/sell my compressor? Any unforeseen disadvantages to relying on their air? Even though my compressor is very good certainly their system will be even better, meaning even drier air, right?

Hello all, brand new to the forum! I have been watching a ton of videos on PCPs for many years now and I think it may be time to dive in.

I currently shoot 1000yd BR, have shot .22 NRL matches, and am a big predator hunter. But this Airgun stuff is new to me.

If you were to get one gun, that you could shoot squirrels, woodchucks, fox, other vermin, and still take to the bench for a few matches….is the Impact a good choice?

I like how you can change barrels, and all the upgrades and mods you can do. I recently bought a compressor from a local guy that strongly recommended FX, so now I just need my first gun!

Thanks for any guidance!

I have ONE .30 Huggett Astille Moderator with an extension and ONE .25 Huggett Astille moderator for sale
($115.00) compare at $179.00
and extensions for .25 or .30 cost $20. more.

I have 1 zero DB in .30 ($150.00) compare at $269.00

I'm the original owner. All my guns are shot minimally off a bench from inside my garage, so the moderators are very clean and minimally used as .30 is too big a pellet for my backyard plinking.

Nothing has been dropped or been sliding around under the seat of a truck.

texting me is always going to get a faster response. 251-610-8582 - i can send pics easy via text.
Also to verify something hasn't sold.
Paypal = [email protected]
Venmo = rudy-smith-15 (you should see a picture of a white dog smiling)

I will ship USPS priority mail and request a signature confirmation - it will cost me $10.00 to ship it properly.

It’s a good day when you find a brand new FX Chrono that you put away for later and subsequently lost happy happy joy joy now can anyone offer me any IPhone / FX Chrono tips?

First post....

From our Southern permission today. 55 ground squirrels met their maker between the two of us. That brings the total on this property to 279 in the last couple of months.

On the white ground squirrel. There is a few of them on this property. I had never seen one before hunting this property. To date, we have taken 5. Seen a couple more today that were too far out to shoot at. Kind of different...

I made a DIY scopecam with a $90 action cam and some scrap aluminum in the garage. Oh, almost forgot I used one of those prismatic cubes also, and changed the lens out for a 16mm lens.

I was after a used Steyr 110 or an Air Arms HFT 500, no luck. I’m impatient so… Then I almost had a BSA gold star Union Jack edition - but it was lost in the mail any of these platforms would be a nice way to get started in HFT. Two days ago I caught wind of a website called Ransony. They had one BSA gold star edition FT model in black pepper laminate available at <$300 less than anywhere else; $980. They are also a seller on Amazon. I Took a chance and less than 48 hours later I have a beautiful new BSA HFT platform to begin my HFT journey with. It arrived without damage and It charged right up and held air. I cycled a magazine through it without even putting a scope on it. All good. Now I have to wait on some dovetail to picitinny adapters so I can scope it properly with my FT specific scope. Does anyone know if I need to add some elevation to the scope mounts for FT?
Although only.177 and <20 FPE, It does bark. I tried to put a 0DB moderator on it’s pre threaded barrel but the moderator is a millimeter or two, too fat and unless I remove the charging port cover the moderator causes the barrel to deflect upwards ever so slightly - I’m wondering if the barrel is slightly tweaked downward or ??? It comes with an air stripper but it’s not a quiet thing. Any sage advice welcome!

BOTH SOLD
#1-Ergo Air tac Deluxe grip Zero angle as new $35.00 SHIPPED


#1-Ergo Air tac Deluxe grip. As new $35.00 SHIPPED

I am looking to buy an HW100 and theres a bunch of good deals on them in the UK. I never bought anything from the UK from a private seller.
Any advice on how to safely make a purchase from a private party is appreciated. Thank you.