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Orion the Iguana Hunter DRS Magazines and Zan ELR Slugs

I was hoping they had the .25 ELR available to try on my buddies V3 .25 pushing 80fpe at the moment. 40gr going 950fps. I'm not seeing either on utah but I did see the .22 elr on zanprojectiles.com
The link says they are 35gr.
I haven't found any .25 caliber ELR slugs.
I am really interested in the Zan hyper line slugs.
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Shooting bench NOT portable.

I am going to build the bench without a seat. That is a really good suggestion.
I will also build two seats. One that is 17 inches high. And the other at 19 inches.

That should be good enough for the public to use. I will suggesting people have a bucket for field target use. But I need to have permeant seating available. I’ll have the scraps from the bench to build the seats. So it’s no big deal.

TJ barrel on Evol 3 circular indentations near muzzle…

As long as you pour a lead lap to the barrel you will be fine.. The other option i use on my Airforce plarforms is Air lapping...Stupid simple..Put the valve lapping compound on your pellets or slugs and then shoot through your perfectly clean barrel..I buy the lapping compound on ebay.. Sometimes a barrel sucks and you waste your time roll of the dice... I drilled 1000,s of .177 and .22 cal barrels that were all kind of off center..I often wondered if those barrels ever shot..Production grade is hit or miss.. It sucks getting a barrel machined for Airguns expensive..Out the labor and time.. Ive lapped quite a few barrels know and getting the feel for it. I also have the Tyslong digital borescope..Im not to good at uploading vidoes.. Im disabled and have time. I will hand lead lap your barrel for free .. I have casting pots set up for casting in the garage , and i have a good tipton rod i can use for 30 cal... Here to help
Really appreciate your offer and insight!!! I may trade the gun back (my trading partner is very sorry, he didn’t know and got the rifle used a bit ago as well so offered to trade back immediately). If I decide to trade back I’ll let him know that you made this generous offer!!
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FWB  The 10 meter SSP pistol still exists

I may have to break down and get one of those Hill pumps along with a good pcp pistol. Currently I have a HW75 which I find rather difficult to cock and charge a couple of IZH 46m which are a dream to shoot and several Daisy 747 and777 models.
A cheap China one off Amazon is what most people are buying . and for a pistol it should last , look up "how to hand pump a PCP " you mostly use body weight and pump slowly ! Even pulling the handle up Slowly .
Pumping faster is what kills a pump Pumping a larger container , not letting the pump cool , kills the pump . You can get rebuild kits .
Best thing to do is top off your air don't shoot down to the bottom . I have the same pump for 10 years now , Hill brand , but i only pump my pistol Morini .
Stan in KY . .

Other  Which 30 cal

I second BARS slugs. Great stuff he puts out. Also i agree with a texan for reliable air power. People can talk up AEA all they want, but at the end of the day, reliability is not there, they are built too cheaply. I will not spend money on another ever. Crap triggers, heavy as a damn boat anchor and every one i have owned developed problems sooner than later. If yours is good a d has been, good for you, you are one of the few. The rest are a disappointment.

22cal Airgun for Wildboar Hunting!?

I shot a boar years ago right behind the shoulder with a 150 grain Corelok from a 30-30 at 20 yards. Complete pass through, he flopped in his tracks, laid there a few seconds and jumped up and ran full steam right at me. Another one between the eyes dropped him a few feet in front of me. That’s a hunt you don’t forget. Think hard about a .22 airgun.

Because of a similar story I now always hunt with my 12 gauge shotgun at ground level when hog hunting. And the last 2 rounds are buck shot.

When shooting from high up or inside my truck I use rifle. 30.06 in my case.

Would never use my .22 airgun for a hog. Only if its in a trap or something similar. Like many have said, its not the right tool. Hogs are incredibly resilient.
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Slugs for .22 Stoeger Bullshark

The p35(x) bull shark barrel loves the javelin 217 21 and 23
the 23 At 815 I won’t bother with. It did shoot them very well.

the 21s at 860.
858.8 low
to a high of 863.4

the groups at 60 were fantastic. Every bit as good as the 217 21 HN hp slugs.


the middle group you’ll see what appears to be one true flier low and right a half inch. I can’t explain that. My hold was right. Top right that was me holding .2 mil low. I held .8 instead of 1.0. Do we just write that off as the sole true flier? Or write off the jav g2 217 21?
the top right was the first I shot the 21 the slightly right impact directly next to the group, call that a lead in error
which corrected for the next 6 shots.

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Skout  ManuLoader solves a magazine problem

The Skout Airguns Epoch / Evo has an open - faceted magazine design which uses a relatively short torsional spring to index the magazine after the bullet probe is retracted from the rifle chamber. Because the magazine capacity is higher than average and the spring is unloaded to begin with, this means the the rotor is turned from 1.5 revolutions (light pellet) to 2.5 turns (heavy slug). As the pellet/slug leaves the magazine and as it is pushed from the magazine to the rifle chamber, the spring exerts a side force, wedging the pellet/slug between the magazine and the rifle chamber. In addition, the open face design of the magazine pockets exposes the rib between adjacent pockets and this rib, representing a considerable multiple of pressure, can easily deform the skirt of a pellet and score the front of a pellet or side of a slug, See the photo.This is not cosmetic but rather a design issue. The Stud loading system ameliorates this issue by using a longer torsion spring that does not load the rotor as much as the Scout magazine but it does not eliminate the problem. The Stud loading system also will not accommodate slugs.


The ManuLoader from Shortcut and his colleague in Denmark solves this problem by eliminating the torsional spring and indexes the magazine manually. It lacks the polished and machined finish of the the attractive Skout magazines: the printing looks crude, and it has the cachet or rather lack of - of most 3D printed products but it works as advertised and is an effective solution. In fact, an argument can be made for those who hand feed their rifles, the Manuloader is less likely to deform pellets than hand feeding… It does require an extra motion as you pull the bolt back, index the magazine, and then push the bolt closed but I found it has a nice rhythm and may possibly reduce inadvertent double loading of pellets/slugs.


Eventually, I think Skout will redesign its magazine; in the meantime, the ManuLoader is a perfectly acceptable workaround. Lest anyone think I am throwing shade on Skout Airguns, that is not the case: I think Skout is a bright light in a chaotic and disorganized industry. I admire their innovation and their customer service is second to none. I own two Evo’s, both dedicated slug rifles, in 25 and 30 cal.
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I agree 100%. As a bench shooter, I'm a traditional hand loader. However after I received the prototypes of the Manuloader at RMAC last year, I've been using it ever since. Really innovative and time saving. I highly recommend it.

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#Manuloader
#Skout Airguns
#Vector Optics
#AEA Pellets
#STUD Speed Loader
#Sub-MOA Barrels

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HW/Weihrauch  Is This the HW30s’ Biggest Weakness?

I agree, I've never been a fan of the poor selection of inserts HW offers for their front sights, and their diameter and side tab pattern is proprietary - no other brand will fit. Seems to me the market is wide open for some enterprising sort to offer some photo-etch alternatives.

I use ring inserts for target work, but my personal fave for old-guy all-round plinkerating is a tapered post with a bead on top (FWB and Diana ones seen here):

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I like the thin Diana sights , Maybe i should buy a few HW sights and reshape them ?

Airgun Technologies  Cheek riser for AGT

Hello all 👋

After more than a few DIY cheek riser projects, some better some less good, I discovered one aftermarket solution that goes well with Uragan2, but it should fit all AGT airguns that have the same plastic cover piece above the barrel.
It holds really firmly, only if I want to clip it above the magazine- I have to dremel the magazine slot on it. But for now- I don’t need to do that.

It’s the AK Zhukov S stock style cheek riser, hight 0.25” and it fits perfectly with medium size accu-X adjustable elevation scope mount rings (32-38mm).

Here’s the link:

PS. I have never found lower scope mounts with adjustable elevation, so the cheek riser was mandatory for my setup.
If anyone knows some lower yet adjustable rings- I would appreciate it.

All the best,
S.

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Anyone with Snowpeak M50 experience

I bought one awhile back off ebay and have regretted it ever since. It loved to always mash a pellet in the stock magazine and always had to use a carbon rod down the barrel to unjam. Unfortunately nobody like Carm makes better mags for it.

Currently have had it disassembled and I actually took out the plunger-like thing off from around the barrel and detached the silver bar connector from the left side of the receiver. Seeing if I can just convert it into a more reliable bolt-action style airgun.

Bad thing is the pellet probe and cocking lever has a weird design due to it being for a semi-auto, you can cock it back however its designed for the tension from the barrel plunger to bring it back forward. The brass connector of the cocking arm slips onto a groove thats cut in the pellet probe that can slide back and catches onto the end, however going forward theres no edge on the groove to stop it, so it will just slide completely off and cant bring the probe forward by itself.

Now I'm brainstorming ways to either get the stock pellet probe to be able to lock forward, or find a different one to swap into the m50

Tuning  Taipan Compact .25 - lead free - sub 15 fpe

Did it come at 13fpe, or did you have to tune it? Can an average Joe adjust the reg and hammer spring on the Vixen, or does it take involved airgun surgery?

Thanks,
-pg
I have a vixen in .177 that I bounce around from 860 to 580ish fps with just the hammer spring adjustment. I know this isn't the best way to get the very most out of a pcp but it's working well and I get consistent results throughout that range. The last 10 shots over a chronograph using JTS 10.4gr averaged
FPS 591.2
SD 1.03
V 1.06
ES 3
FT,LBS 8.05
and 1.375 bar per shot averaged from 80 shot.

Solid suggestion for a barn gun.

Daystate  Daystate BlackWolf TAC .177 HP

I have to visit my mother every Tuesday and Saturday, so weather permitting i am shooting Mon - Tue or Tue - Wed and either Fri - Sat or Sat - Sun.

This way i combine 2 things as my friends place / our range is only a Km or two from where my mother live, and most times i bring a overnight bag and spend 2 days there.

Events  DIFTA 1st match of the season Saturday 19 April 2025

A 60 shot match will be held on Saturday April 19 at DIFTA at the IWLAWAC chapter, 26430 Mullinix Mill Road, Mt Airy MD 21771.

The course is 10 lanes, with one kneeling and one offhand lane, with three targets per lane shot twice. The Troyer value for the course is 28.90 (Moderate Difficulty AAFTA 2025 handbook); with five targets > 40T, six targets with 0.375”or 0.5” kill zones and nine targets set out at > 40 yards.

WE NEED A FEW HELPERS AT 8:30 AM TO SET OUT STRINGS. The sight in range will be open from 9:00 – 9:50. Mandatory shooters and safety meeting and squad assignments at 9:50. Match starts at 10:00 am sharp.

We have two loaner rifles setup for FT with Hawke scopes that are available for use if you bring a buddy who would like to try their hand at FT. Please let us know in advance if you plan to take advantage of this.

Match fees are $10 for IWLAWAC members and $15 for guests. We need a minimum of 4 shooters to run the match, SO PLEASE SIGNUP IN ADVANCE. If we don’t reach a quorum by 10:00 pm on Thursday 4/17 we will post a cancellation notice that evening.

Mark & Paulo
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