What airgun related did you do today?

[avator]

I highly doubt the issue is on your end since it happened to a number of us at the same time.
That said, about all you can do is report the issue and be patient until the problem is solved.
No sense in letting it raise your stress level.

[Ronfiveo]

I highly doubt the issue is on your end since it happened to a number of us at the same time.
That said, about all you can do is report the issue and be patient until the problem is solved.
No sense in letting it raise your stress level.

That's true.
Thanks, Bill.

Ron

[fireslinger]

Been testing average velocity with the Gauntlet 2

14.3g - 1050fps
18.1g - 980fps
25.4g - 890fps

Wish this rifle had the power adjuster like the side lever model so I can get cphp down to 850fps but it just destroys cans with water in them at this velocity

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

I'm still trying to solve the email / notification problem.

I did get contacted by an administrator and he's going to try to help me resolve it.
It's by email, so the fix may take some time, if we can fix it with out the web techs
making the changes internally.

Ron

For me it seems like the same issue we had October or 2023 again. https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=210671.msg156481420#msg156481420

Maybe the fix is the same again?

[triggertreat]

Been testing average velocity with the Gauntlet 2

14.3g - 1050fps
18.1g - 980fps
25.4g - 890fps

Wish this rifle had the power adjuster like the side lever model so I can get cphp down to 850fps but it just destroys cans with water in them at this velocity

That's some decent power.  They don't call you fireslinger for nothing, lol.  I don't know anything about the Gauntlet II.  I would imagine a custom hammer spring swap might enable you to reach your goals.

[buellm2]

Went to a gun auction preview.  Lots of interesting and amazing stuff including some AGs.

[2A Georgia]

Playing with tools for the PID posted over in new to casting thread

[Bicycleman]

Yesterday, I disassembled the Marauder .25.  I clean all the parts [not very dirty], changed all the o-rings, and put it back together.
This morning, I pumped it to 2,000 PSI.  Now, I am going to just watch it for any leak-down.
I really like that rifle - it was my #1, goto rifle last squirrel season!

[Ronfiveo]

I dispatched a couple of coke cans and some home made pellet tin spinners.

Ron

[Back_Roads]

 I tore back into a Blue Streak I am repairing for someone, last weekend I ended up with it retaining air.  I compressed the valve spring to coil bind in a vise, then put everything back together with new seals. Power is up dumps all air, even at 9 pumps I get 605 FPS with Benji 14 gr .20 pellets. Pic below is 8 pumps after an hour rest. I will get some pump number- fps readings and send it off on Monday.

[buellm2]

My indoor pellet trap was gettin' a bit shot up.  So I pulled out and replaced the internal cardboard stuffing and collected some more lead.   Since December I've been using the trap almost exclusively for 10M practice with the FWB 601.  I'm almost always using a standard 10M target and hanging it in almost the exact same spot on the pellet trap.   The tunneling into the layers of cardboard caused by thousands of pellets hitting almost the same spot is very interesting.   A few inches into the tunnel, there's a mass of compressed cardboard fragments and pellets.   Nothing penetrates beyond this mass.

[avator]

Bubba texted me from down at the barn today. He said he brought his Stoeger break barrel and asked if I would shorten the trigger pull. I picked it up and brought it to the shop. All his stocks and the trigger adjustment screw were floppy loose. It wouldn't have been long before they fell out and lost. I adjusted the trigger screw and told him if he wanted it any shorter I could put a longer screw in it.
He shot it and like it as I set it. I also showed him how to check and tightened his stock screws.
I let him shoot my Hatsan 1KV that has the RC bearing mod. Very short and light. He didn't like that at all.

[2A Georgia]

Mounted the Mizugi floating scope rings on the jumper.  I will need about 2-3" added to the but stock to adjust length of pull and eye position (maybe I can shoot like Ron then).  I had to float the jumper about 1-2" off my shoulder to eliminate parallax.  Very nice groups when IDMP.  Mustered a 170 practice casual target with three X's.
Tested shims on the SPA800 which I will post in that thread.  That was the morning.
Evening I worked on the PID posting that in the Casting thread.

[Blowpipe Sam]

I applied a third coat of my bee's wax, turpentine, and linseed oil mix to the Turkish walnut stock of my recently acquired Hatsan mod 135.  The stock was looking distinctly unloved when I got it but it is shaping up very nicely now.  Hatsan stocks come just barely finished and the thin finish wears rapidly.  Since I had the goop out I slathered another coat on a couple of guns that were looking needy.  When it's all dry in a couple of days I'll buff all the stocks with a chamois and then polish with a coat of Old English furniture wax.

[avator]

Made a little casting video and posted it to my casting thread.

https://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=207107.msg156522868#msg156522868

[Madd Hatter]

Well, I got the Aspen to stop leaking from the fill probe fill check valve but the pump check valve still leaks.😡😡.

[kbstingwing]

Mounted the New Arken Zulus 5-20 LRF scope to my HW100BP and sighted it in, was a lot of fun getting the Ballistic Calculator set up, it helps to have a computer next to you to look up ballistic data while inputting data into the phone app, not much instruction in the manual so I had to play with it, I should have looked on youtube for a video....? Doh.... oh well I got it figured out and it works.

[Whirligig]

I applied a third coat of my bee's wax, turpentine, and linseed oil mix to the Turkish walnut stock of my recently acquired Hatsan mod 135.  The stock was looking distinctly unloved when I got it but it is shaping up very nicely now.  Hatsan stocks come just barely finished and the thin finish wears rapidly.  Since I had the goop out I slathered another coat on a couple of guns that were looking needy.  When it's all dry in a couple of days I'll buff all the stocks with a chamois and then polish with a coat of Old English furniture wax.

Do you make this polish yourself?

If so, what commonly-available (Amazon) would you suggest for Hatsan stocks to achieve results similar to the effect of your polishing "goop?"

Thanks,

-W

[avator]

The Hatsan Flash QE .22 has spent the last couple days at the shooting window. Time to rotate something else in. I'm feeling the Fortitude.

[Blowpipe Sam]

I applied a third coat of my bee's wax, turpentine, and linseed oil mix to the Turkish walnut stock of my recently acquired Hatsan mod 135.  The stock was looking distinctly unloved when I got it but it is shaping up very nicely now.  Hatsan stocks come just barely finished and the thin finish wears rapidly.  Since I had the goop out I slathered another coat on a couple of guns that were looking needy.  When it's all dry in a couple of days I'll buff all the stocks with a chamois and then polish with a coat of Old English furniture wax.

Do you make this polish yourself?

If so, what commonly-available (Amazon) would you suggest for Hatsan stocks to achieve results similar to the effect of your polishing "goop?"

Thanks,

-W

Yes I make it myself.  I got a 1 lb. block of Bee's wax from Hobby Lobby.  I melted enough to fill a cup in a large Pyrex  cup.  I mixed it with one cup of Artist linseed oil and one cup of turpentine.  It congeals to a paste when it cools.  I store it in an old Mayonnaise jar.  It is a traditional gunstock formulae.  I have no idea what modern concoction equates with it but I have heard good things about Tru Oil.

I mounted an antique JD King full buckhorn rear sight on my 3rd model Crosman 1400 today.  The sight notch insert has multiple sizes of rear notch so I chose one that fit the stock Crosman front sight well.  The elevator is missing from this classic so I made a small brass quoin and wedged it between the sight and the barrel.  It worked well enough to establish    that the sight is a definite improvement over the stock Crosman irons.  I can order a reproduction elevator from Numrich for $7.00 so I think I will make that investment.