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  1. Jonnyroy

    Ear protection while filling gun

    Answer: It depends... Many people sustain a lifelong condition of tinitis (ringing in the ear) if injury to ear components (nerve endings) are significant enough. I was in a bicycle accident 52 years ago; I have had continuing tinitis in my right ear ever since, right down to this moment :-/...
  2. Jonnyroy

    Ear protection while filling gun

    I would put on your differential diagnosis list...tinnitis from inner ear nerve damage :-/
  3. Jonnyroy

    Other Which pumper did you shoot today?

    Originally my older brother's 1960 Sheridan Silver Streak. It shoots as well today as it did back then.
  4. Jonnyroy

    Physics of hitting a tin can target filled with water...

    This can is jumping about 10" straight up from the dark brown bench below it. It was shot (from left to right...at a 90 degree angle to the front of the camera...from 10 yards by a GAMO Magnum GR .22 cal with JSB 18.13 pellet. The can was a 28oz. can of beans filled with water.
  5. Jonnyroy

    Physics of hitting a tin can target filled with water...

    Say 20 ft. lbs. at 20 yards would make an obvious jump. Whereas sub 12 ft. lbs. at 50 yards may get only an inch or less of a jump.
  6. Jonnyroy

    Physics of hitting a tin can target filled with water...

    That helps. My hypothesis starts with a vacuum-like void, or cavity, forming in the body for water as the pellet passes through it; thus pushing water above it to spout out of the can, and forcing water below it to compress (or more accurately, just increase in pressure). THEN, it’s the collapse...
  7. Jonnyroy

    Physics of hitting a tin can target filled with water...

    Why does a tin can (not necessarily aluminum, but heavier metal) filled with water, and is open on top, fly straight up (3 inches to 3 feet) when struck by a fairly powerful pellet?? Sure, the water inevitably shoots a spout upwards...but why does the can jump "up"? I can't quite figure out the...
  8. Jonnyroy

    What is your "Go-to" rifle? in like survival situation and of course no powder burner.

    Beeman R9 in .20 cal. Superb accuracy, with fine knockdown energry at 20 to 40 yards. Medium weight to carry. Durable.
  9. Jonnyroy

    N/A Let’s talk Safety

    I witnessed another type of weird cocking mishap/injury when someone was cocking a Hatsan 65: He was sitting on a bench and put the butt of the verticle rifle on the bench between his legs (at his crotch). His right hand was cocking the barrel by forcing it down at the muzzle, while his left...
  10. Jonnyroy

    What is considered a safe distance downrange?

    I would love to know others’ opinions on safe downrange distances on airgun ranges. How much hay and pastureland should be considered unsafe beyond the last targets’ backstop…should any pellets (no slugs used) escape over the backstop? 180 yards of my range are on my property; with targets with...
  11. Jonnyroy

    Beeman First ever .20 cal springer: "among some the most desirable collectors’ items of adult airguns" (Dr. R. Beeman)

    I love .20 cal (just ordered an HW97K in .20); so to me it's not that it is rare due to low production numbers... I love that it was the first production lot of .20 cal springers ever made ;-) Kind of like a pioneer, or pathfinder. BTW--I bought my older brother's Sheridan pump rifle from...
  12. Jonnyroy

    Beeman First ever .20 cal springer: "among some the most desirable collectors’ items of adult airguns" (Dr. R. Beeman)

    No, it's meant to be an old airgun hobbyist exploring his nostalgia, and exercising his imagination. I've never sold an airgun; I own 50 or 60.
  13. Jonnyroy

    Beeman First ever .20 cal springer: "among some the most desirable collectors’ items of adult airguns" (Dr. R. Beeman)

    Thanks Sqwirl57, yours is just the very down-to-earth take on this gun I was looking for.
  14. Jonnyroy

    Beeman First ever .20 cal springer: "among some the most desirable collectors’ items of adult airguns" (Dr. R. Beeman)

    Here's what I got from an article, this gun is before the RWS 45: The straight story on the Beeman R5 (by Robert Beeman, Ph.D.) (excerpt) "The R5 and R1/5mm were not Beeman’s first excursions into the world of precision 5mm. Beeman had been production the fine 5mm pellets, most notably the...
  15. Jonnyroy

    Beeman First ever .20 cal springer: "among some the most desirable collectors’ items of adult airguns" (Dr. R. Beeman)

    I bought a Beeman 250 in .20 caliber in 1982 at the Beeman San Rafael, CA location for $162.42. It had been discontinued and sitting for sale in their showroom/office. I had recently bought a FWB 124D, loved it, and was trying to follow the hype that Beeman was making over new guns in .20...