Thanks Peskadot671... you helped guide me to this decision!
As for a second PCP for me... I still have an itch for a Wildcat II. But there will be much enjoyable time spent researching the alternatives!
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Red Wolf .22 hits the desert
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Thanks Peskadot671... you helped guide me to this decision!
As for a second PCP for me... I still have an itch for a Wildcat II. But there will be much enjoyable time spent researching the alternatives!
Thank you, Hookster. Having a RW in .25 caliber would be awesome. For myself with this gun, I don't need the power or the range. I wanted to focus on very quiet backyard target shooting. And perhaps the occasional pest prairie dog who like to eat cacti and roots.
I guess I may need to become familiar with replacing the breech O-ring?
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Took the Crown and the Redwolf with the walnut stock to the range tonight! after 100 or so shots with the Crown I pick up the Redwolf and shoot it and its like driving a rolls royce after getting out of a Ford Escort!
I had an Atlas rail fitted to the Walnut Redwolf stock today as I cant bear to have the laminate stock drilled! I absolutely love that gun!
I had an Atlas rail fitted to the Walnut Redwolf stock today as I cant bear to have the laminate stock drilled! I absolutely love that gun!
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I traded in a few air rifles to offset the cost of my new .22 Red Wolf (RW) High Power. Trade in price unfortunately, was reduced by a lot because of stock modifications I made. Modifications that added cheek rest to two guns and an accessory rail to a third.
Who would have thought that my "improvements" would negatively impact trade in value................I write rhetorically. Lesson learned. On to the point.
After shooting my new RW, I determined that I needed something to hold the airgun upright in my mechanical rest. I decided however, that adding a rail might hurt future RW trade in value. Likewise, I was not enamored with the thought of spending $500 to $1000 on a custom bench rest stock. After hours of thought, countless sketches, and many feeler gage and steel rule measurements I came up with an idea.
My idea was to mill a pocket on the inside of the stock below the air cylinder to hold a 1/8 X 1 inch x .125 piece of steel. A steel piece that I could a fit a 3X5 shoe to. The shoe would sit in my mechanical rest for use during 50 to 100 yard bench rest competitions. I was pretty impressed with myself (which should have been my first warning) for coming up with such a great idea. So impressed in fact, that I mentioned the idea to another shooter. A shooter who is actually mechanically inclined.
His alternative idea (offered within seconds of my idea share) was a cantilevered piece of metal attached to the gun, via the screw that holds the stock to the action. Duh!!
Armed with rational guidance and a napkin based sketch I a.) turned an 11 mm long stand off out of a 25.4 mm piece of round aluminum stock, b.) center drilled the standoff for the stock bolt, c.) milled a .250 x 3.0 X 6" piece of flat aluminium stock (to include a bolt hole and a rectangular opening to access the air refill port), and d.) purchased a longer stock bolt.
The assembly seems to hold the rifle steady in my mechanical rest. I'll take the gun to the range Friday for a field test.
Note by the way that .250 aluminum flat stock in excess of five or six inches in length flexes. Hence I need to fabricate another bench rest widget out of steel flat stock to see how that may - or may not - flex. I may also look into .375 aluminum flat stock or aluminum U channel for something that might flex less.
Hmmm. Perhaps if I now spend more time shooting than I'm spending on puttering, I'll see what the RW can do in my hands. No. That can't be it. How could actual practice help my score? What a crazy thought.
Ben: I made a spare device for you if you want it. You gave me the idea after all.
Finally, I threw in some metric dimensions to show solidarity with sister and brother shooters in the rest of the world.
Best wishes to all.
Who would have thought that my "improvements" would negatively impact trade in value................I write rhetorically. Lesson learned. On to the point.
After shooting my new RW, I determined that I needed something to hold the airgun upright in my mechanical rest. I decided however, that adding a rail might hurt future RW trade in value. Likewise, I was not enamored with the thought of spending $500 to $1000 on a custom bench rest stock. After hours of thought, countless sketches, and many feeler gage and steel rule measurements I came up with an idea.
My idea was to mill a pocket on the inside of the stock below the air cylinder to hold a 1/8 X 1 inch x .125 piece of steel. A steel piece that I could a fit a 3X5 shoe to. The shoe would sit in my mechanical rest for use during 50 to 100 yard bench rest competitions. I was pretty impressed with myself (which should have been my first warning) for coming up with such a great idea. So impressed in fact, that I mentioned the idea to another shooter. A shooter who is actually mechanically inclined.
His alternative idea (offered within seconds of my idea share) was a cantilevered piece of metal attached to the gun, via the screw that holds the stock to the action. Duh!!
Armed with rational guidance and a napkin based sketch I a.) turned an 11 mm long stand off out of a 25.4 mm piece of round aluminum stock, b.) center drilled the standoff for the stock bolt, c.) milled a .250 x 3.0 X 6" piece of flat aluminium stock (to include a bolt hole and a rectangular opening to access the air refill port), and d.) purchased a longer stock bolt.
The assembly seems to hold the rifle steady in my mechanical rest. I'll take the gun to the range Friday for a field test.
Note by the way that .250 aluminum flat stock in excess of five or six inches in length flexes. Hence I need to fabricate another bench rest widget out of steel flat stock to see how that may - or may not - flex. I may also look into .375 aluminum flat stock or aluminum U channel for something that might flex less.
Hmmm. Perhaps if I now spend more time shooting than I'm spending on puttering, I'll see what the RW can do in my hands. No. That can't be it. How could actual practice help my score? What a crazy thought.
Ben: I made a spare device for you if you want it. You gave me the idea after all.
Finally, I threw in some metric dimensions to show solidarity with sister and brother shooters in the rest of the world.
Best wishes to all.
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Other_Mark... very creative, my friend.
Show us some pics of how it all came together, if you would.
Show us some pics of how it all came together, if you would.
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A few impressions after a day with the new Red Wolf:
Three things really blow me away about the Red Wolf, besides the expected amazing accuracy:
1) unbelievably amazing trigger pull that takes little more than a breath of air to release,
2) exceptionally quiet operation - whisper quiet. Possibly the quietest air gun extant, and
3) effortless side lever operation. The most effort required with this lever is pushing the pellet into the chamber. Yeah... that is a job! Pretty much effortless... and virtually silent, as well.
I think the rifle that I will have to buy, next, to replace the Brocock Bantam .25 (my hunting gun that I traded-in), is going to have to be the Pulsar .25HP.
After a Red Wolf .22 for targets, doesn’t the Pulsar .25HP for small animal hunting seem like the next logical choice?
Then again, the Wildcat II in .25 would really be a sweet, non-electronic alternative to the RW.
Three things really blow me away about the Red Wolf, besides the expected amazing accuracy:
1) unbelievably amazing trigger pull that takes little more than a breath of air to release,
2) exceptionally quiet operation - whisper quiet. Possibly the quietest air gun extant, and
3) effortless side lever operation. The most effort required with this lever is pushing the pellet into the chamber. Yeah... that is a job! Pretty much effortless... and virtually silent, as well.
I think the rifle that I will have to buy, next, to replace the Brocock Bantam .25 (my hunting gun that I traded-in), is going to have to be the Pulsar .25HP.
After a Red Wolf .22 for targets, doesn’t the Pulsar .25HP for small animal hunting seem like the next logical choice?
Then again, the Wildcat II in .25 would really be a sweet, non-electronic alternative to the RW.
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Were you able to handle/hold a Pulsar HP when you were at AOA? I never handled one but some say it's top heavy and heavy in general with a scope and all but that could be subjective depending on the user. What is your hunting style? "Walk and stalk" or would you be shooting from a fixed position? Also, would a rear cocking side lever bother you? Somethings to consider.
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Hi DHart, unfortunately I had to buy another Redwolf with a walnut stock, I am sure Daystate will offer sprare stock in the future once the demand for the RW has dropped off but currently they are at capacity building new ones! hey ho I now have 3 Redwolfs, lucky me! (oh and unfortunately an FX Crown as well).
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I haven’t yet handled a Pulsar. I did handle the Wildcat II and really liked it. Looks great too.
The look of the Pulsar isn’t as appealing to me as the Wildcat II, And if it’s really top heavy, perhaps the Wildcat II is the way I would go. Much more affordable too!
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Why do you say “unfortunately”? Do you not like the walnut stock? I can’t decide which stock I like better.
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No I dont like the walnut, wooden stocks are exactly the reason I took up shooting AR15's LOL! I bought the walnut because I can tolerate drilling holes in a stock I dont like!
Couldn't bear to do that with my laminate ones!
Couldn't bear to do that with my laminate ones!
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Pictures were asked for so.................
I'll know tomorrow whether or not my engineering master piece is a keeper. I greatly expanded upon the design concept shared with me and so I'll take credit accordingly - IF it works. Alternatively, I'll claim that I just did what I was told if the device fails the test, or perhaps I'll claim I just "made it to print".
Best wishes to all, and a tip of my hat to real machinists.
I'll know tomorrow whether or not my engineering master piece is a keeper. I greatly expanded upon the design concept shared with me and so I'll take credit accordingly - IF it works. Alternatively, I'll claim that I just did what I was told if the device fails the test, or perhaps I'll claim I just "made it to print".
Best wishes to all, and a tip of my hat to real machinists.
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I would have thought you will get some really bizarre reverberations or harmonics with that linked directly to the gun!
PS dont go out if there is a lightning risk!
PS dont go out if there is a lightning risk!
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I did not. But our son did serve in Iraq and Afghanistan with the US Army. His life was ended, instantly, by an IED in Nuristan province of Afghanistan. We are a Gold Star family.
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