What airgun related did you do today?

[avator]

I have one of my "lego" guns that leaks down overnight. It's a 2k gun that uses , a 2260 tube and trigger group, a disco pinned valve and fill assy. and a vintage 180 wood stock. It sports one of my chopped and crowned 18" .22 barrels that is surprisingly accurate and a Challenger power adjuster. I think I'll take that into the walk in cooler (the casting shack) and tear it down for a reseal. I recently bought the large SAE and Metric oring kits from Harbor Freight so I should have what I need.
This should be a great candidate for tethering to my 2k 30 minute scba tank.

Well, that was a short lived project. The leak is coming from the fill QD check oring. Of all the orings I have around here I don't have that one    and the one that's in there is as hard as a rock. No breathing life back into that.
Oh well, I'll replace all the other orings and put the gun back together. I'll put some of those orings on my next Crosman order.

[Lt. Dan]

I rough zeroed my Umarex Buck Mark .177 pistol with a reflex sight.
I'll be playing with that today torturing coke cans at 50'.

Ron

I'm planning on doing that the first chance I get.

[avator]

I have one of my "lego" guns that leaks down overnight. It's a 2k gun that uses , a 2260 tube and trigger group, a disco pinned valve and fill assy. and a vintage 180 wood stock. It sports one of my chopped and crowned 18" .22 barrels that is surprisingly accurate and a Challenger power adjuster. I think I'll take that into the walk in cooler (the casting shack) and tear it down for a reseal. I recently bought the large SAE and Metric oring kits from Harbor Freight so I should have what I need.
This should be a great candidate for tethering to my 2k 30 minute scba tank.

Well, that was a short lived project. The leak is coming from the fill QD check oring. Of all the orings I have around here I don't have that one    and the one that's in there is as hard as a rock. No breathing life back into that.
Oh well, I'll replace all the other orings and put the gun back together. I'll put some of those orings on my next Crosman order.

Had a skeleton stock 2240 C02 carbine that I had put together with take parts. It had a plastic factory breech on it. So I did some swapping around with stuff from the leaky 2260 hpa gun. Now the 2240 has the 2260 trigger frame, the vintage 180 stock, a steel breech and a .22 362 take off barrel on it. It has a Ruger 10/22 flip up peep and the FO front sight but it's scoped right now.
It will be interesting to to run it side by side with my original 180 and see how they compare. They are also another pair of guns they Betty Lou and I can shoot together.
All the leftover bones will go in the parts bin for the next build.

[Frank in Fairfield]

Initial zeroing of the scope on TX200 #3.
It shoots exactly the same speed as TX #1 with H&N FTT 8.64s, so it will be my FT 2 at 13.5fpe.
#2 is shooting 100fps faster at 16.5fpe.

[Back_Roads]

 Long day at work was rewarded with another project, the Buck
Rail

Chaser goodies made it to my door, and with my last bit of energy put them on and shot it about 10 times. Not sure if I will put a reflex on it or some sort of peep would be ideal.
 Parts are solid and installing them was just as easy as watching the how to video.

 A before pic or it didn't happen LOL

[SpringerGuy]

Bought a Daisy model 25 BB gun.  The straight stock is a Variant 7 made only 1927.  It is my 2nd mod 25!  Really funny for gallery plinking due to the fast follow-up shot.

[airgunaut]

Still oppressively hot, but last night I fired a whopping 7 pellets from the Blue Streak. I was too lazy to set up a riser and pellet trap, so I hung the clang-a-lang on a tree branch and also shot upward at a dead tree. It felt good just to stay in touch that little bit.

Wind has been extremely variable, and precipitation forecasts have been way off, as they often are in monsoon season. I’ll try to do some pistol shooting tonight if weather is not bad.

[Frank in Fairfield]

I put the R1 back the way it was (see the German Gate) with a peep sight.
Now I have peeps on:

R1
HW35
FWB601
C9a
Daisy (Avanti)499b
Daisy Model 25

[sekiar]

About a week ago I took my new QB2 for a shoot and ended up with an intermitting problem.   At times it would shoot just fine and then when the trigger was pulled it only made a dull click and no pellet exited.   Finally it quit all together and I couldn't get the end cap off due to too much pressure.  Rather than work on it I was not in a good mood and in the safe room it went.  This is the second new QB rifle I've had this problem with and the first one even though new I took the trigger plate off and removed about six or so pieces of lead.  It came new that way.  So I had a good idea this one was having the same problem and it too had some lead particles restricting the trigger function.  Removed the junk and now after about 6 carts of 2 hours fun shooting I'm super impressed how well it shot with open sight with Daisy pellets!  Targets between 12 and 20 yards didn't have a chance.  Also it now has one of the best factory trigger of any gun I own and that's a bunch.  Charles

[Back_Roads]

About a week ago I took my new QB2 for a shoot and ended up with an intermitting problem.   At times it would shoot just fine and then when the trigger was pulled it only made a dull click and no pellet exited.   Finally it quit all together and I couldn't get the end cap off due to too much pressure.  Rather than work on it I was not in a good mood and in the safe room it went.  This is the second new QB rifle I've had this problem with and the first one even though new I took the trigger plate off and removed about six or so pieces of lead.  It came new that way.  So I had a good idea this one was having the same problem and it too had some lead particles restricting the trigger function.  Removed the junk and now after about 6 carts of 2 hours fun shooting I'm super impressed how well it shot with open sight with Daisy pellets!  Targets between 12 and 20 yards didn't have a chance.  Also it now has one of the best factory trigger of any gun I own and that's a bunch.  Charles

With hot weather and CO2 comes valve lock , make sure they are not in direct sun for any amount of time.

[Back_Roads]

 Took the Executive Chaser outside and did some can killing.

[Ike the GSD]

Built a quick and dirty target stand out of scrap wood I get from the welding shop near me👍

[avator]

Built a quick and dirty target stand out of scrap wood I get from the welding shop near me👍

Good job... I make all kinds of stuff out of recycled junk.

[Ronfiveo]

Built a quick and dirty target stand out of scrap wood I get from the welding shop near me👍

It looks just fine to me. Nicely done on the cheap.

Ron

[Ike the GSD]

Thanks Bill and Ron🙂👍!

[2A Georgia]

Built a quick and dirty target stand out of scrap wood I get from the welding shop near me👍

Looks great...now if they had a decent sized scrap of plate metal....enjoy

[Ike the GSD]

Built a quick and dirty target stand out of scrap wood I get from the welding shop near me👍

Looks great...now if they had a decent sized scrap of plate metal....enjoy

They make big air units for buildings, I assume the pallets and scrap wood come from how the steel is shipped to them. They must have shipping material  for the assembled units as well because every once in a while there will be a big framed wooden skeleton of a shipping crate, they're big enough that with a little work you could make a deer blind out of one, if I ever snag one I'll pm you a picture of it👍😉

[2A Georgia]

Wes looking forward tp your improv blind photos.

Today I took the 5/16 drill to the NOE68 Mold I've been polishing.  The BoatTail was only .255.  Drill took us to ,292 and then wrapped some 600 grit steel wool around the 1/4 inch bit and polished to .305.  Then added toothpaste to the steel wool and got everything shiny.  I was careful to only enlarge to the first driving band.  My Backyard machinist work left a .308 bevel on the base.  Pushed through the Lee sizer and a big FAT .3034 continuous driving band (similar to NSA Slugs but with a broader nose).  The GXPump is down so not sure when I can get 4100psi in the Challenger for grouping tests.

Also the AliEx (prewired) thermocouple is added and seams to be doing a better job keeping temperature consistent.

[Frank in Fairfield]

I took the 4-16X Hawke Sidewinder back off of the TX#3 and put it back on the R1 where it i supposed to be.
As it turns out TX#3 has some issues that will require examination by Motörhead or CameronK.
It was not cocking at the range on Wednesday after about 20 shots.
It had this issue when it first came to me but it somehow corrected itself..
I installed a complete factory rebuild kit because it was suggested that piston seal might be worn.
It looked good to me but as long as I had it apart, I rebuilt the whole thing.
One thing that is a puzzlement to me.
The rod inside of the piston easily unscrews….all the way out..
Took, it looks like the factory tried to peen it at the pistol seal end so it would not unscrew??
I don’t know if that was the case or not.
I will have it checked out as the issues are above my pay grade.

[avator]

Nothing today.