What airgun related did you do today?

[Whirligig]

After pouring hydrogen peroxide down the sink drains to kill them where they live, I went on a Rambo-esqe drain fly killing rampage with the bug assault salt 2.0 loaded with table salt and cinnamon. I think I must have burned through at least a tablespoon of the mixture.

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Ha ha ha ha ha that’s awesome. All I did was make bases to mount my spring compressor then pull my Diana 52 Luxus apart. About to install new breech seal and put it back together.

Love the 52, but it is, without any doubt on my part, a beast!

-W

[avator]

Yep, I had a 48 in .177. Way too much gun for the return in .177. I felt like I was launching marbles with a Howitzer.
YMMV and that's just fine with me. Imagine what the World would be like if everyone liked the same thing. 

[cjtamu]

Yep, I had a 48 in .177. Way too much gun for the return in .177. I felt like I was launching marbles with a Howitzer.
YMMV and that's just fine with me. Imagine what the World would be like if everyone liked the same thing. 

That’s funny. And a good description of why this one is tuned to 12-14 FPE range.

[Back_Roads]

 Shot some cans behind the shop, with the Jet1 .25 and the Notos.

[2A Georgia]

Went on a 2 mile Notos Safari after work till sunset.  Added 1 Turkey chick sighting and another fawn sighting to my OnX Map for the USACOE Hunting Area.  Sat for an hour under a tree and survived the last ten minutes of treerats lobbing Chestnut grenades at me without being seen....Just a few more weeks of green leaves then the playing field equalizes...lol

[bantam5s]

I made a spring spacer for my slavia 618.
It's a fun little rifle that I enjoy for it's low power, but the power is a bit too low and it'll often barely fire a pellet if it even leaves the barrel even after replacing the piston and breech seals .I didn't measure but it was around 3/8" or so.
I don't have a chrono to measure but this gave a noticeable increase in cocking effort / power, not a lot but it's noticeable and just enough that it seems to be firing reliably now.
It would have runs of reliable fire before, so time will tell if I've actually resolved the issue.

[Bicycleman]

Remember that hunt with an air rifle Tuesday when I killed a squirrel?
That squirrel was my lunch today.  After that, a nap had my name written all over it.  (Is it okay to call it a NAP if it lasts 1.5 hours?)

[buellm2]

Cleaned, lubed my IZH46M.   There was a some accumulated dust and animal hairs around the breech.   Not enough to matter but it deserved to be cleaned.   Probably at least 5000 pellets thru the tube since I last ran a patch down the barrel.  Trivial amount of residue there.   Cleanliness is one of the things I love about airguns.

[techted]

Got OEM spring coil and piston seal replacement from dealer's shop for my Hatsan 125 .22 which I bought 2 weeks ago or so. Rifle came with wrong spring and damaged piston seal from factory. Got them parts for free because it's under warranty.

[triggerfest]

Shot some cans behind the shop, with the Jet1 .25 and the Notos.

hah, actually which one of those two would you prefer more (if you leave the regulator of the Notos out of the question) ?

[Blowpipe Sam]

The dogs and I went back in the national forest to the old sand quarry.  They can run and play in the water and I can plink.  I took the Crosman fire and the C362.  They both like 14.3gr Piranhas.  I shot old shotgun hulls at forty yards with both guns.  For accuracy there isn't much to choose between the two but the Fire has a definite edge on power.  It's possible to shoot out to several hundred yards and the white sand shows pellet strikes very clearly.  Even without a Mil dot scope I can hit soda cans at sixty five yards once I get the hold over figured out.

[2A Georgia]

Remember that hunt with an air rifle Tuesday when I killed a squirrel?
That squirrel was my lunch today.  After that, a nap had my name written all over it.  (Is it okay to call it a NAP if it lasts 1.5 hours?)

Yes I'm gonna say under 4hrs is not sleep....cheers

[Back_Roads]

Shot some cans behind the shop, with the Jet1 .25 and the Notos.

hah, actually which one of those two would you prefer more (if you leave the regulator of the Notos out of the question) ?

Notos 1000% Thought the Jet did well on an indoor HOSP this week in the shop at work, just a small dent in the hanging heater where it perched, for Nick to get a shot at it, so there is something to be had with a low power .25.

[Kragman1]

Hit the local GS on my way back from the Vet, found 7 older 500 count tins of RWS .22 Superpoints and Super H Points.  Made the deal, left happy.

[airgunaut]

Shot some bullseye targets and then some cans. Bullseye results were MEH, probably because my eyes were acting up (cataracts).     Can practice went better despite being farther away.

At night I pulled out several kinds of used paper targets that incorporate a fluorescent layer to show shots brightly, and I shone a UV flashlight on them. Yeow. They outright glow like phosphorescent paint. Some targets use multiple colors to indicate rings of accuracy. But best of all was what I thought was just plain white background surrounding a Darkotic “Primal Cuts” zombie. That white background (also an underlying/splat layer in some areas of the zombie) glowed brilliant white when UV light was used. Other shot areas glowed neon green.

It’s making me want to buy a blacklight bulb for the front porch, for some night shooting. I don’t know if the white dot on my front sight would glow, but if it did it should stand out against the dark (nonfluorescent) zombie silhouetted against the white background. As would the shot holes in the zombie.

I know...easily amused.

[Blowpipe Sam]

Shot some bullseye targets and then some cans. Bullseye results were MEH, probably because my eyes were acting up (cataracts).     Can practice went better despite being farther away.

At night I pulled out several kinds of used paper targets that incorporate a fluorescent layer to show shots brightly, and I shone a UV flashlight on them. Yeow. They outright glow like phosphorescent paint. Some targets use multiple colors to indicate rings of accuracy. But best of all was what I thought was just plain white background surrounding a Darkotic “Primal Cuts” zombie. That white background (also an underlying/splat layer in some areas of the zombie) glowed brilliant white when UV light was used. Other shot areas glowed neon green.

It’s making me want to buy a blacklight bulb for the front porch, for some night shooting. I don’t know if the white dot on my front sight would glow, but if it did it should stand out against the dark (nonfluorescent) zombie silhouetted against the white background. As would the shot holes in the zombie.

I know...easily amused.

I repurposed an old fluorescent ballast with a Black light tube.  It will illuminate my 4'X5' backstop.  Works great with Shoot-n-see targets.  I haven't done it in a while cause those targets are darned expensive!

[cjtamu]

Finally got the steenkin’ cocking rod pin back in my Diana 52 Luxus. Re-mounted scope. Went out and fired about 10 test shots. Realized it was 98 degrees and 107 heat index. Came back inside.

[Oldgringo]

I re-sighted my red dot HW30S and shot a few 25 and 30 yard spinner spoons before emptying a 10 round cylinder with my Crosman .357 at a couple  of coke cans. It was just too hot and muggy to stay out any longer.

[BanjomanMI76]

I took mt newly acquired T200 MKIII and an HW50S to the range today for two hours. I have put BSA Outlook 3-9x40 AO scopes on both. Got the TX200 hitting the bull finally and like a hammer when I realized I hadn't put the detent down and the scope was creeping back making me look like a rookie. The Weihrauch was no slouch either shooting AA Heavy 10.3 grain pellets.
Can't wait to shoot the TX200 again after re-scoping the rifle.

[threesuns]

Finished rebuilding my introductory 1984 NRA members Daisy 953 today. https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php/topic,210295.0.html