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All Springer/NP/PCP Air Gun Discussion General => Back Room => Topic started by: Alan on July 12, 2010, 03:02:24 AM
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Do tell...
Toss em? Wallpaper? Targets? Jewelry? ::)
I stuffed four CPHP tins with Duct Seal, one for each gun. Have not shot them yet.
Might even add one to my Flava Flav turbo-tuned clock chain - just need to figure out what to keep in it. ???
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Personally,
I stack them in my basement next to my shooting area as a monument to my addiction LOL.
I think there is somewhere around 7000 or 8000 pellets worth of tins stacked up. And that's just since the hobby started last summer. :D
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Shoot them..lol! Then see them ting off when they get shot, than i usually shoot them once or twice when they are on the ground.
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I like to fill em 3/4 full with candle wax, tape the lid on, and shoot 'em. The wax catches most pellets and you get that satisfying "tink" when they hit.
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I take the empty tins from crosman that are threaded and put the European pellets in them. Just put a new paper label on them. No more spills.
snookman.
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Good idea snookman! I hang on to 'em ( I don't know why ,just am a saver ;) )
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I put small parts in 'em when working on one of my guns.
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I spray paint the lids with gray automotive primer. When dry, I can write the contents on the lid with a sharpie. I mostly use them to store parts of whatever I am working on at the time. Also use for ear plugs, odd screws etc.
I turned two of them into small alcohol stove burners (for emergency cooking if the power goes out), but they have too much mass as compared to ones made from soda cans, and they did not work too well.
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ones with screw on lids I use them for small bits and peices and such,to hold pellets that dont come in screw top cans etc etc...
non screw top lids sometimes get used for small trays mostly just get shot up though :)
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I make emergency candles with them. Small and with a lid, easy to carry. Use left over wax from other candles with a new wick.
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They make nice containers for Tannerite when I am shooting explosive targets. Tins are so thin that there is not worry about schrapnel.
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melt em down and make new pellets,, cost effective...... shoot better :D than gamo pellets, either way !!!! ha ha
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I put them in a drawer and wonder what to do with them..
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Basically, everybody has already named the several things I do with mine...but I would like to share the funniest thing.
I can't let go of them. I've got a bunch of empty tins that have no function, other than sitting in a box and inside of an end table...taking up much needed space. Some of the dented ones I threw away, and even that was hard. Some of the screwtop ones are housing other pellets so there's no spills. Some of the bigger ones like the JSB .22 tins I use for parts containers while working on my airguns. But the other ones....I just cant bring myself to throw them away. I suppose that once my wife finds them someday...that she'll probably be instrumental in throwing them away. But for now, they just sit there. I guess thats part of my addiction.
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Throw them away, ...
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Gee I thought everybody knew you put them under your pillow and the pellet fairy comes at night and refills them ;) ( I keep 'em like Jonny)
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Pillow? You sleep with a pillow? I used all my pillows for pellet traps ages ago.
Seriously, if you don't have any use for them and they take tin cans in your area, recycle them. I'm still hanging on to mine, trying to figure what they are good for, but, then, I'm the child of Depression Era parents. You who are know what I mean.
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I save em use the to keep count on rounds
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I shoot them ;D
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i shoot em and dump em
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WOW!!! A pellet fairy!!!! My wife is in bed reading a book. I read that post, grabbed an empty tin and walked into the bedroom and put it under my pillow.I get the,"What are you doing Honey?" I said, " I just found out about the "Pellet Fairy" on the GTA..... She laughed and said "You guy's are crazy"
We shall see......
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Well, it's been a couple of days now. The only thing under my pillow is an empty pellet tin. :'( But I'm off Friday, so I may be my own Pellet Fairy.
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Well, it's been a couple of days now. The only thing under my pillow is an empty pellet tin. :'( But I'm off Friday, so I may be my own Pellet Fairy.
Hmm maybe the pellet fairy is off with the credit fairy ;)
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screw on lids i save for "reloading" with pellets
the others i fill with cottonballs that are soaked in lamp oil and then vaccum sealed set on the basement shelf ready to go incase i need to leave in a hurry they make a nice fire starter/ torch
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i buried a dead gecko in one....
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If you load em with black powder they make great firecrackers! 8)
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If you load em with black powder they make great firecrackers! 8)
lol i know
i made some black powder once and then used the tin as a "shell" bad idea the metal acts as shrapenal
wont do that again
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Fill them with ballistic gel and shoot em!
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I tend to save them. Makes my wife mad when she sees all the empty cans!
If I'm working on a gun or something with small parts that can get lost, I stash them in an empty tin. Then I have to put the tin someplace I won't lose it! ;D
Some of the tins get shot.
Got to thinking one day about old muzzle loaders with the patch box in the buttstock and how handy that would be for pellets. Now I want to try to figure out a way to mount a pellet tin in the stock of an air rifle and have it still look good. Not just a tin tacked on the outside of the stock.