N/A Who shot their .177 today ?
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What do you do with those iguanas? Can they be skinned and tanned, made into watch bands and belts? I understand they're delicious too.
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Yes to everything that you mentioned and more. I'm friends of a guy who is making and selling bic lighter covers out of them as well as rings.
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@dgeesaman - all said and done, how would you change the stock now that you are cohabiting with it? You said weight wise it’s a porker.
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1) Shorter length of pull to get the weight closer to my body and better allow Open style shooting positions with my arms and shoulders wrapped around the gun. About the only way to do that without fully butchering the GRS adjustable features is to shorten the butt plate itself, but that should get at least an inch.
2) Cut about 3” off the stock fore end. It serves me little purpose in field target.
3) Purchase new or modify my scope mount to shift the scope further rearward. First to put the eye box comfortable. Second, to get the substantial weight of the scope closer to my body.
I would have gotten some of this by starting with a lighter and more compact GRS design like the Sporter. But this was also a crime of opportunity because EuroOptic had this flat top Hybrid blank at closeout pricing and I already had a couple of Hybrids that I could line up and envision how the Thomas would fit. The wide cylinder wasn’t going to fit within most stock fore ends.
The 3” block is only for bench shooting. The entire adjustment butt assembly is also currently removed. I should sit down now and work up the 3D model of a suitable butt plate.
Edit: added closeup showing the adjustable butt plate in place.
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It’s a local guy who doesn’t have a public-facing business. He’s done stock work for a local short range BR gunsmith. He’d never done anything with airguns before. I got connected to him as a favor.
While his work is excellent I do believe any good gunsmith who does stock inletting would have little trouble doing the same.
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Well, the prototype barrel that I am testing at the moment in my Daystate Red Wolf GP .177 HP is actually a slug edition 28” or 711 mm barrel, buuuut it will also shoot pellets very well 
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Anyone else been stupid busy at work this summer? Work and weather have kept me away from the triggers lately. But I got out today and shot the Mrod with aperture sights and 13.43gr JSBs. That thing is just magic to shoot! There's a lot of "gut feeling" or intuition that goes into picking off bottle caps at 20 to 30 yards. But once you "get it", it is both simple (which isn't to say easy) and highly satisfying. I can see the target, but generally, not the hits. Bottle caps make a nice muted "tap" noise when hit but sometimes I'd swear I missed for not hearing that noise, only to find out I was putting two or three pellets through the same hole. Like I say, magical. Sadly, she's a hunter and not a light drinker, so I left her half full in case I need to whack something. Then I switched to the Dreamtac worked out the kinks in my 8.44gr JSB tune. Before packing it in, I managed a mag dump (22 shots) group of about 3/8" at 25 yards. Hope you other .177'ers are doing well!
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I had to reevaluate some .25s this week so Zero .177 shooting. However I’ll return to it tomorow
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I shot my HW100 today in the backyard. It's tuned to a bit over 11 fpe, and is the perfect urban yard rifle. Every time I shoot it, I realize how badly we have screwed up the US market by demanding high power. We have bastardized a perfect system by forcing it beyond its intended purpose. As a result, we will soon have a class of firearms, air powered, that are so classified, and subject to all the same regulations. Sometimes we outsmart ourselves.
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Same go for the CZub barrel in my Two, shot A LOT 1 hole 5 shot groups at 30 M in the past 2 days, got boring very fast.
Also a couple of 1 hole groups at 55 M, but much harder, not least as by yesterday i was down to secondary pellets ( the Two seem to like the JTS dead centers very much )
But crosman domes and JSB Heavy also work sort of OK at shorter ranges, just my regulator are at Min setting ( 53 BAR ) and so i can not get under 930 fps with the " lighter " 4.5 mm pellets.
Slower i am sure would NOT hurt, but all i can do is choke off the valve so it close faster, and i dont want to do that for a pit of pellet fun.
Now shooting 93 M with 10.something grain pellets,,,,,, that is not easy, well if you aim to hit a 2" target in the wind, but in a lul you could get a few in there, that be a few in a row,,,,, with 4.5 lines hold over.
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I have the 3D printed butt plate that saves both weight and length of pull.
Next month when I’m available I’ll order a setback scope ring set because the scope still doesn’t come back to my eye. I’m also going to cut off some excess forend from the stock.
I think the Thomas FT stock balances better. What’s the shortest length of pull on those?
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Using a new electric pump.
Pumping the sh… heck out of my .177 Benjamin.
It’s always fun shooting this one
Pumping the sh… heck out of my .177 Benjamin.
It’s always fun shooting this one
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