All of us are not great nerds . I can remember a time when there were no stupid questions ! Now people are a bother for asking .
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Walmart, grocery stores, maybe even the hardware store. Simple plastic drinking straws in a box for $1. Get the flimsy ones so you can make them fit in the .177's.any idea where i would find straws to fit .177 ? the only item i find are Hobby store brass tubing ,so i just remove the pickle .
Agreed. I thought that was the point of a forumAll of us are not great nerds . I can remember a time when there were no stupid questions ! Now people are a bother for asking .
If you cut a 2" lengthwise slit in any straw and get one edge under the other you can make them fit into any barrel.any idea where i would find straws to fit .177 ? the only item i find are Hobby store brass tubing ,so i just remove the pickle .
I love helping people out so it's not a bother, that's not what I was saying. Just thought it would be a good info sheet to refer to. "A picture is worth a thousand words" kinda thing.All of us are not great nerds . I can remember a time when there were no stupid questions ! Now people are a bother for asking .
I got tired of one-finger-typing so my list stopped there. I thought of that and many other things.That’s a great start. For nomenclature:
Foster fitting, coupling or fill probe. An air fitting for filling your air reservoir.
Wind flags, visual indicators of the wind direction and approximate speed. Used to determine the amount of hold off to allow your projectile to reach its intended target.
POA, Point of aim.
POI, Point of impact.
8 years in I'm still an "old newb" learning things.dang newbs OH yea i was one two ! kind of still am !
EXACTLY !Excellent idea Gerry but even in your first post I think that you have overwhelmed a newbie.
As a college professor, I taught an accelerated Information Technology (IT) course to a groups of people with widely varying backgrounds. The biggest challenge was to teach without overwhelming the students.
A newbie doesn't know what they don't know. They don't have framework in which they can put the information and have no perspective on how important a bit of information is relative to everything else.
I agree totally with what you are trying to do, it's just a very difficult to take a very complex subject and present it to someone in a manner simple enough that a newbie can understand it without an experienced person there to answer all the questions that come up.
So, before we overwhelm a newbie with all kinds of information, we need to know where they are coming from and where they want to go to.
A casual backyard plinker needs an airgun, pellets and a backstop. A cleaning kit and tools to keep the hardware snug would be good. That's it.
At the other extreme, is someone who wants to mod/tune airguns and compete. That person is facing a huge learning curve and needs to make a serious investment in time/money to get where they want to be.
Who do we want to make this thread for? Not an easy job eh?
Having worked in high tech my whole career, I often had to learn complex processes, heavy duty software and then teach others.
From personal experience, I found that having a good overview and understanding of the flow through the process was the critical. To understand, I'd make myself simple flowcharts to sketch the process and (eventually) detailed flowcharts to address the nitty-gritty stuff.
I've been asked to recommend airguns many times and there's a whole series of questions I ask to determine what the person wants an airgun for. Frequently, I find out that they don't know what they (really) want.
As I said, great idea but very difficult to summarize "airguns" without writing a (big) book.
As experienced users we sometimes forget what it's like to be a newbie. Just as a reminder of how a newbie sees a new totally new subject/process, I've attached one of my work flows (my son called them "spider drawings"). I had simple flowcharts for each facet of the process.
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i have a bag of common drinking straws (bought at a major food store (Kroger) and the straws do not fit ,even in a .22 barrel .If you cut a 2" lengthwise slit in any straw and get one edge under the other you can make them fit into any barrel.
Cut a longer slit and it should work. Don't understand what you're saying.i have a bag of common drinking straws (bought at a major food store (Kroger) and the straws do not fit ,even in a .22 barrel .
in reference to post #19Cut a longer slit and it should work. Don't understand what you're saying.
I use pieces of carbon arrows. What diameter do you need and how long?any idea where i would find straws to fit .177 ? the only item i find are Hobby store brass tubing ,so i just remove the pickle .