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  1. Sawney Bean

    Apolo .30 Air Boss. Dirt cheap .30 pellets

    Just putting this out there because they are available at Pyramyd for $10 per tin of 100, or 7.5 cents a piece once you include the free fourth tin. That’s the cheapest I’ve found for .30 pellets yet, but be warned, their skirts are seriously oversized. I fired about 50 of them from my...
  2. Sawney Bean

    Maximum velocity and the speed of sound

    So we know that the speed of sound is the upper speed limit of any gas powered gun, but also that the speed of sound will vary depending on the gas being used, the temperature and it's pressure. Under normal conditions however the speed of sound in air is about 1125 fps. Just sticking with...
  3. Sawney Bean

    Barra 400E accuracy. 8 and 10 yards.

    These are all 50-53 shot groups. Basically one full magazine each. They were all shot scoped and from a tripod just to get an idea of the potential accuracy of the gun. One group was shot with copperheads the others with blaster. Any accuracy difference between them seems minimal, but I...
  4. Sawney Bean

    Daisy Wide vs narrow frame Daisy's.

    I've become somewhat fascinated by Daisy lever action BB guns and have been slowly building up a Red Ryder. I'm just wondering if there's any performance difference between the two other than the width of the frame itself. A wide frame would be much easier to make a good looking stock for...
  5. Sawney Bean

    N/A Springer bench rest contraptions

    I'm just wondering what experience people here have had with them. One of the really nice things about evaluating a PCP is that you can shoot it from a rest and remove 90% or more of the human error from the equation. It doesn't matter if you got 2 hours of sleep last night and compensated...
  6. Sawney Bean

    Brocock TAC pistol at AOA

    There's one for sale there now. These things have fascinated me for years, but I've already exceeded my airgun spending for the month due to other used guns they had for sale. For those of you that aren't familiar these were extremely realistic replicas that fired precharged air cartridges...
  7. Sawney Bean

    A friendly little Craigslist ad.

    I try and scan through Craigslist every few days and occasionally I spot a bargain. Today I found this. Decent looking guns, but I think I'm going to pass on this one. https://seattle.craigslist.org/oly/spo/d/olympia-very-nice-older-pellet-air/7825332166.html
  8. Sawney Bean

    Benjamin Benjamin 392PA @ 50 yards

    Did some shooting with the Steroid 392 at 50 yards today. This group was 5 shots and measured a bit over an inch using Norma Heavies and five pumps. I’m sure it could shoot under an inch if I tried a variety of pellets but I only had the scope on it to get a better idea of what it was capable...
  9. Sawney Bean

    Kudos to Zan and AOA for excellent packaging.

    I took advantage of their Black Friday sale and purchased a large order of .30 Zan pellets. These are the best packaged pellets I have ever purchased. Each box contains 2 trays of 77 pellets each and they all sit in their own individual pockets within the tray. Whats more, the lid of each...
  10. Sawney Bean

    Seneca/Sam Yang Has anyone tried to modify a Dragonfly?

    People do all kinds of mods to just about every other multipump, but I havent been able to find a thing about people doing anything to these particular rifles and it seems like they'd be an ideal platform to build on.
  11. Sawney Bean

    Umarex M1 Carbine rear sight replacement

    Pyramyd marked down the price of wood stocked M1 Carbines $120 and I couldn’t resist and ordered one a week ago. I just got a chance to shoot it today and am pretty impressed overall, but there’s one thing about it that just niggles me and that’s the rear sight. It looks correct, but it...
  12. Sawney Bean

    New Crosman M1 Carbine full auto

    Just picked this up yesterday for $140 and I’ve got to say they really knocked it out of the park with this one. So far as replicas go, it’s pretty meh. It’s not terrible, but it’s got a plastic stock, no magazine and it just doesn’t really look or feel that close to the real thing. So far as...
  13. Sawney Bean

    Maximum Pressure?

    One thing that seems to have been a so far unstoppable trend in airguns has been the ever increasing maximum pressure used. Antique pneumatics operated at pressures under 1000 psi and while CO2 might exceed that on a hot day it was mostly under 1000 psi too. When more modern PCP's came out...
  14. Sawney Bean

    Best and Worst Cheap Pellets

    Just wondering what everyone's experiences have been. What have you found to be a bargain, what should just be melted down for lead and what are they selling for per pellet? I've had very good luck with H&N FTT's in .177, 8.64 gr. and .22 Baracudas in 18.1 gr. I get great accuracy out to 50...
  15. Sawney Bean

    Indoor pistol/carbine/BB gun range

    I've got a 10m range in my basement currently, but it's basically just a metal rimfire trap on the far end of my garage which I shoot through the doorway from my basement. I'm thinking I'd like to turn it into something better with a backstop about 4' x 4' with spinners and swinging...
  16. Sawney Bean

    What cheap guns are actual bargains?

    I thought I'd ask this after seeing a reply in the "guns you regret buying" thread from rokonman, saying basically "all the cheap guns I wasted my money on". I'm pretty sure everybody here has had that experience multiple times, but every now and then you really do find a diamond in the rough...
  17. Sawney Bean

    Larger caliber CO2 revolvers?

    There are plenty of .177 and BB CO2 revolvers, but the only larger one I am aware of is a Schofield with a .22 barrel kit that produces velocities in the low 200’s. It seems to me that it shouldn’t be that hard to make a CO2 revolver in .22, .25. .30 or 9mm and get the velocity up to between...
  18. Sawney Bean

    N/A Best Multipump Pneumatic

    I'm just curious what people's opinions are, going by accuracy, power and efficiency, cost, handiness and looks. Myself, I've owned a Crosman 760, 766, 362 and 1377, a Sheridan Silver Streak and a Seneca Aspen. I also just recently acquired a Crosman 101, but I haven't shot it yet as it...
  19. Sawney Bean

    N/A Brass barrels

    I had always operated under the assumption that brass barrels were inferior and that the only reason they were used in certain airguns was because of their soldered construction, then last night I was reading an old review and comparison of a Sharp Ace vs a Sheridan Blue Streak where Tom Gaylord...
  20. Sawney Bean

    Tuning Tuning and noise

    For those of you who have either tuned several springers or owned several tuned springers, what is your opinion on the effect of tuning on the overall sound of the report? I don't mean will going from 20 fpe to 11.5 make things quieter, as that will obviously have an effect, but rather if you...