Peashooter

Peashooter · Sep 21, 2024

Okay so i tested my sawed off FX maverick today ( 700 to 600 mm )
And i will have to admit so far not a success, clearly i have a issue as groups are erratic, with a few really bad " fliers "

SO as i am not the surrendering kind, i have restored both barrels to a clean end, and i am now ready to proceed with trying ghetto crowning once again, and this time i will try others solutions VS the one i came up with myself.

Not able to blame my groups on the weather, it was excellent range weather.

Still think it is a crown issue VS saying that a FX barrel with no choke are not at all able to shoot, i am quite sure it should at least be able to shoot better than what i saw today, i just have to do a better job.

PS: i have looked at prices for a 600 mm Heavy barrel, but i would prefer to save those money for other things.

PPS. when not throwing erratics the STD FX liner was able to put dents / holes in a Metal plate 134 yards away and within acceptable distance of aim ( 2 " ), but it for sure was a POI chase.

Peashooter · Sep 19, 2024

Feeling frisky, so i think tomorrow i will bring the Maverick to the range and do some more testing in its sawed off state ( 700 mm to 600 mm )
Also need to redo the business end of the Heavy barrel, though crowning it will have to wait until i get home.

Not bringing any of the really heavy stuff, i think i will test with 13 grain i know very well performance of in 700 mm form, but i do also have some 16 grain in the ammo box if i like what i see.

Peashooter · Sep 17, 2024

Peashooters pruning service hard at work.

The branch i started working on Saturday have now fallen.

The fallen was swiftly propped up, so additional pruning can be done.

3 pieces cut to size for convenient removal, or compost,,,,, probably the latter.

Peashooters pruning service do not stop before big yellow friend leave..

Peashooter · Sep 4, 2024

Church got hit by lightning.

Note the build year on it, 1123, and that's not even the oldest church here, in use too i believe.
I do wonder why they have not made the two 1 numbers alike, but trust me its not 1723

Parts of it is "new " 1371 - 1450.

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Peashooter · Sep 3, 2024

Aside for ghetto fixing a snowpeak today.
I also managed to pull quite a few old obsolete wires from my car, shuffle around 1 piggy back fuse adapter for my hard wire setup, so i can draw more power when charging.
Remove a lot of power sockets in my glove box, and replacing them with a power source instead, so one of my cameras do not have to leech on the little battery in my little car while parked.
Not a huge power pack, none of them really are as is, but as i only use parking guard for 4 hours on timer it is just fine, the rest is up to permanent CCTV equipment.

Peashooter · Aug 30, 2024

Did one of my plate capture videos today.
The 70mai A810 do just fine capturing front plates on oncoming cars at highway speeds.

Peashooter · Aug 19, 2024

New WR, okay hurling pointy sticks and not lead.

21 YO Danish kid 13 X in 15 arrows. all 15 of course 10s
Old record of 12 X stood for 9 years.

Peashooter · Aug 18, 2024

Seem like i have caught a new addiction.
Shooting pellets.

It never really worked well in my Maverick, well at least at the 86 M distance i shot at back then.
But my past 10 or so hours of shooting at the range have been mainly pellets, and shooting them from 30 M to 123 M ( +130 yards )
With the wind that was there, well a measly little 10.4 or so grain or so .177 pellet get pushed around a lot, so in regard to working the wind a learning experience for sure.
At 93 M / 100 yards, with a rifle zeroed for the occasional 0 wind / very little wind, well if i was quick about it i could put 3 pellets on a 2" target before the wind was back.
With the wind there, well you got blown L / R about 1 - 5 inches when it was bad, and some times you also got blow down on the paper, very few high shots for natural reasons.

So the crossman domed pellets, well 1000 of them gone, and they work really well at the shorter ranges,
The JSB Heavy ones, well lagged a bit behind the crosman pellets, but it might be a speed issue i have NOT touched my regulator in 2 outings now, and my last 10 hours of shooting, unusual i have not had a chrono dangling off my rifle.

But the kicker pellet, the JTS dead centers,,,,, i got to get me some more of those CUZ at 100 yards, distinctive better than the other pellets i tried.

Also on a whim i brought the 10 grain JSB KO / MK 3 slugs,,,,, and daum, in not insignificant wind i was putting slugs on a thin wooden pole at 130 yards,,,,, and many in a row very few misses due to wind.
So i only had 1 tin of those,,,,,, THAT ! will soon change .

My friend shooting his .22 Cutlass, with the 15.something grain JSB pellets, well lets just say he is now a long range shooter too, though due to his old scope he can not hang at 130 yards, but 100 he do just fine with the old rifle.

Here is my first paper of yesterday shot at 100 yards, with the JTS pellets.
Bit of Chaos here, later i got to judge wind better, as in hold my shots to there was less of it, or the 3 wind flags was at least showing mostly the same direction, CUZ in 100 yards the wind was often 3 different directions.

Today i did short range stuff, pruning leaves and twigs of a tree, or shoot 1 hole groups in paper at 30 M
Both fairly easy due to surprising little wind early in the day.

At 53 BAR on the regulator, my long rifle was sipping air, i could get used to shooting like that ( around 930 fps )

Will be adding a video later on.

Peashooter · Aug 3, 2024

2 days of nice air gunning over.
Started out rough, having to fix leaks in my old .22 Cyclone, as it turned out it was both ends of the air pipe, though just the valve in the front, the back both had valve and also the outer 22 mm O-ring that crumbled when i tried to remove it.
Then yesterday i hit the ground running / okay then crawling after having unloaded 2 complete kits of air gunning equipment.
Especially the old 12 L 200 BAR tank was a pain.
Then we went to you lumber yard / DIY store to pick up some wood for my friends projekt, and i picked up a handle / latch for the shot shed, and also 2 rubber tiles. which i am sure i will shoot strait thru, well at least where they are only 15 mm thick due to drainage pattern on the back.
While 30 mm thick in other places i am sure this will not be enough for a backstop, will have to brainstorm more on this.

So i installed the door handle / latch, and then set forth shooting my Cyclone, which wouldn't you know can shoot a little faster if you give it the last 1.5 revolutions on the hammer spring adjuster before it bottom out on something, but i gained like 60 FPS

Tested 22 grain Dead centers, and they are not bad, but would probably be better with a little more speed.
My friend not entirely convinced we had already tested the 18.13 Jumbo heavy a decade ago, well he is a believer now,,,,, and very much a potential buyer of a few tins of those.
Same go for the 16.08 grain Dead centers, also pretty sweet shooting pellets.
The 14.35 grain Jumbo express ones though, well topping out over 1000 FPS, they was a bit too fast for their own liking i think, we did not try them on MED transferport setting, everything was high of course.
The 16 grain snow peak diabolos was not a success at the speeds we saw.

So i have already compiled my next shopping list for pellets.
I want:

16.08 dead centers, and i think they also have a 18 grain version i want that too.
And then i need to stock up on 18.13 grain Jumbo heavies.

And as i tried my #2 to last tin of 4.5 mm beasts in my Two today, and the 700 mm CZub barrel liked it very much i have to say, well need me some more of that in 4.5 mm. 25 - 75 M seemed excellent and it will be better when i un- experiment my Two rifle.

Of course i also blew thru a couple of boxes of 16 grain Zan slugs, not at a good speed, and for sure not with the experiment i had going on the Two.

But all in all when i am shooting, its a damn good day, or in this case damn good couple of days.

Peashooter · Jul 26, 2024

Sort of related.

My computer chair was collapsing on me in spite of only being a year old.

So i went looking for a better used chair, and found this one.

Only adjustable in height, but still able to "kick back" in it, and i often need that when the stupidity of the world overpower me, and i have to push myself a little away from the screen and shake my head in disbelief.

I do like the reto look of the cast ALU frame on it, could also be the blue color that give me a fifties feel about it.

PS. No matter what direction i aim a camera in my living room, a gun case or two will sneak into frame

Peashooter · Jul 25, 2024

Seem like next week will be a pew - pew week.

winds down under 10 MPH, so it dont get much better in Denmark.
And i will have the range to myself, CUZ my friend will be playing painter at the owner of a local Land Rover dealership where he still get his cars fixed even if he do not drive land rover any more.

Top graph temperatures in deg C ( so seemingly not a single summer day in view )
Bottom graph is the wind, and in the forecast that is the expected average wind in M/s but 4 M/s = 8. something MPH

My M8 will leave a key for me, so i can say hello to my two doggo friends there.

Peashooter · Jul 13, 2024

I dont know who the joke is on.
BUT !

Huma just posted that they made a O-ring kit for the DRS barrel kit.

So ?????? this many O-rings for just the GD barrel.

Complete o-ring replacement kit for the FX DRS Barrelkit

This complete o-ring replacement kit for the FX DRS Barrelkit allows you to do the perfect maintenace on your FX DRS Air rifle

huma-air.com

Peashooter · Mar 28, 2024

I was afraid it would end like this.
It seem like this site are not strong enough to carry my presence, and in spite of me greatly improving ( if i have to say so myself ) in the past few decades on other fora, it seem like some of my flaws are pushing rules or peoples or admins buttons too hard.
So after several warnings now and post deletions lately it is probably best if i take my leave.

So i will log out now, and only come here as a reader in the future so as not to aggravate anyone.

Best wishes - lead and wind everyone.

Peashooter · Mar 21, 2024

It is generally not easy to really impress me ( in a good way ) as a person, and i absolutely do not have too high thoughts about my own people in their current state.

BUT ! Some times i am forced to bow my head in respect, for instance to a guy like Asbjørn Bruun.
The guy just finished as the first ever on ski the Iditarod Trail Invitational.

There are people with a team of dogs pulling them that do not finish that race.

Danish guy: Dogs ???? we dont need no stinking dogs.

Peashooter · Feb 3, 2024

Put a smile on my ugly face.

Peashooter · Dec 11, 2023

@OldSpook
December 7 have always been a sort of holy day for me, even if i have no dirent national or other tie, then that day is of significance to my people none the less, well the few remaining honorable and caring ones of us.
Mind you most other here are clueless even though they are big on things like Halloween and Denmark have for decades hosted the largest outside of the US July 4 celebrations, though that too are now just a small thing as our two countries have drifted apart and many dont care where they come from or where their family members went back in the day.

Peashooter · Sep 9, 2023

Seem like i am also a pretty decent long distance pellet slinger.

After playing a little today with the slugs, and the wind dying down a little, i figured why not try pellets too.
But i did change from 86 M to the even Steven 80 M distance.

Mind you, you still had to pay attention to the wind, at least if you wanted to hold all of your shots on the 2" target.
As it can be seen in the picture that was also true with the slugs.
Also you have to remember my wind indicators are leaves on trees at targets and then the tall grass in the field.

So i paused long range for a hour focussing on 50 M where a shot a 50 yard BR paper, but i am not going to share that as really it was no good at all.
So when the wind had died down a little more i changed to 80 M again for the remainder of my targets, and i quickly learned that the speed i shot 50 M with, it was no good at 80 M.
Actually i ended up shooting the JSB heavy pellets as speeds i dident even think worked for them, but at 80 M it was sort of OK.
Sort off, CUZ i still had the wind to work with and the ever changing POI on my Maverick i have to chase around with the scope.

BUT ! all things considering i am still pretty happy with the 400 slugs and few 100 pellets i spent at the range today.

I still wish i was able to shoot heavier stuff, even if it was just the next up caliber of .22

Peashooter · Aug 19, 2023

At first horrible day at the range today, mainly to blame on the wind that was not at all nice, so as i shoot a little up hill and the wind was spiraling my shots would drift sideways or also up and down.
The latter compounded by the Damn FX regulator, which i now just can not get to shoot the same speed, or i can get it to do that within very few FPS, but then 3-4-5 shots and BAM and i get a shot that is either slower by 10 - 20 FPS or faster by 10 - 20 FPS.
So i am getting one of the new FX regulators, and when it is installed i am so over FX rifles, and heading for another brand.

Mind you once the wind died down as it began to rain a little, well i think i shot my best BR 50 card with the maverick.
But it took more shots than are on the paper as i had to go off target now and then to get past one of those god damn randop sped shots, and then i could go back on the paper for a few shots / sighters.
So i have no ides how long you have to shoot a BR 50 paper in competition, but i took a long while compensating for the random speed shots, and then of course i also had to pay attention to the wind / the 1 wind vane i put up ( right next to target and made up of a strip of duct tape on a stick )
Anyway the paper look like this.

I will update with a video of a few 82 M shots at 2" shoot N see targets, not really nice in the wind, but it what it is.

Peashooter · Jul 13, 2023

Not pneumatic.
But still for a gun shy nation like Denmark, having a guy that can shoot 125 clay pigeons in a row in competition, thats not half bad CUZ it do not happen often for any shooter as i understand.
Same guy got silver in the last Olympics, and he is shooting for gold the next time.

Peashooter · May 23, 2023

Okay, got my picks in and have changed a couple of O-ringe on my Maverick, one in the regulator and the bottle one too.
On the face of it that seem to have worked, but i do not throw my arms in the air just yet, maybe tomorrow then the rifle have been overnight and the gauges still say the same pressures.

I will say who ever at FX that install those O-rings in such silly places, well they do not pay the person enough.
I will encourage FX think more about the people that are to maintain their rifles when they design in the future.
The 10X 1,5 mm ring at the base of the regulator hole, that should not be there, it should be on the regulator body itself, and so be 10 X more easy to replace.
Same go for the bottle O-ring, why is it down there in the hole in the bottle fitting, it should be on the male part on the rifle.