Recent content by Oddhawk

The Girandoni rifles I believe operated at about 800 psi I don't remember the fps but it was pretty decent for the pressure. I have been wanting to experiment with building lower pressure higher volume airguns, time just hasn't permitted it at the moment.

I shoot round balls out of a Hatsan 130, I tapered the lead so the ball half fits in and closing it pushes it the rest of the way in, I also lightly wax the balls with a bullet lube. You can smell it burning but it doesn't add to velocity it is a very light coat. I melted some wax in the bottom...

I would be great to have something like this with at least pesting power! There was something I recall of a Remington rolling block style air rifle! the cartridges were the pressure vessel, but it was plagued with problems. Something set up like that with a cylinder like the Russian naganet...

I will, thank you for the heads up.

Absolutely! I am not just slinging slugs everywhere, the last thing I want is bad attention to airguns and such. Yes it was a bit excessive! Lol

Thank you, yes, it's my woods running rig but what was the closest to me with a flashlight attached. It was a downward shot that went pretty much straight in to the ground, I was practically on top of it when I took the shot. I am going to be looking into a specific set up just for this...

The half inch PVC pipe sticking up is where I got it, there is quite a bit more cover around it too.

Thank you! There was quite a bit of luck involved! Lol

That's pretty much how I figured! There is so much cover and food naturally and introduced that it is going to be difficult to get them to show themselves! and I am going to have to get creative. My scope has illuminated recital and I have a flashlight with red lense tape over it, not as good as...

So out watering pumpkins at night a big rat came slinking along the shed that they are growing by and slipped under the tin wall where I had suspected there was at least one living. It popped it's head back out looking at me like I am a UFO! So I walk away and go to the house to get my air...

Shot placement, accuracy, expansion, I would go with the softer of the two as long as the accuracy is there.

I like the young grey squirrels that have been eating black walnut, the fat on them has a walnut taste, cooked in a Dutch oven with some morels or even oyster mushrooms! Their diet is important, rats will eat all kinds of things each other included.

I don't know the platform but if it were me I would start with cleaning the works looking for debris and burrs, hammer spring bind, trigger return spring, surface engagement of sear and hammer, that's how I would start. Just be extremely careful with sear engagement as tht is a touchy area if...

There is a 880 mod of filling the plastic stock with caulk, I did one once and it no longer felt like a toy

My father who long ago departed to the happy hunting grounds, used to say that crows could tell the difference between a man with a rifle and a man with a stick.