What airgun related did you do today?

[Matchstickshooter]

My parts came for the Crosman 66.   
Went from having a pellet clip feed back to an earlier one, but I'm happy,... won't have clips to worry about losing!!

It was a bear getting it back together; but I tend to get ahead of myself.

[UlteriorModem]

I probably wont shoot anything except maybe the M17 indoors.

It is currently 94F with 35% RH outdoors. I broke into a sweat just walking from the store to my car!

[Madd Hatter]

Drilled and taped the cheap CiCom Diana ZR knock off for set screws to take the play out of the rails. So far looking good. Ended up using some 10-24 screws with some loctite to keep the screws from backing out. Going to mount up the cheap no name 4X scope that came with my Aspen on my model 48 and see how it shoots and if it will hold zero.

[Oldgringo]

I received my HW35E spring with Motorhead custom fitted guide and top hat.  Tomorrow, we'll see if I can get the rifle put back together?

[avator]

Resealed and put a 2nd variant Crosman 766 back together that had been in pieces on the bench for like.... forever. Very impressed with the outcome. Got caught up in other things and didn't get to the chrony. I'll be in the shop again today so I'll try to get some numbers on it.

[Scratch]

I joined GTA. 

[SteveP-52]

I joined GTA. 

Now just hide your wallet, checkbook and credit cards...lol

[Hoosier Daddy]

Welcome!

[avator]

I joined GTA. 

Now just hide your wallet, checkbook and credit cards...lol

Exactly.

[bear air]

Welcome Scratch. +1 on what Bill and Steve posted!

[avator]

Yep... and steer clear of the Classified and Bargain gates.

[avator]

Walked down to the shop to fire up the A/C for the day's activities. On the way out of the barn I couldn't make it passed the zero turn. I jumped on and fired it up and proceeded to mow the 5 acres we live on. Then I headed for the 1 acre garden that I am converting to a shooting range. I mowed half of it at the highest deck setting (it's still a bit too rough to lower the deck). I mowed half of it before I got hot and had to come in to cool off.

[mikeyb]

Pulled a couple of my older Striker/Edge rifles out of seasonal storage and "exercised" them.

Had about 3 pellets through a .177 Edge Spring refurb before I became really ANNOYED with the factory trigger return spring force. THAT needed to be changed ASAP!

Then I "aired out" out a .25 Striker 1000 Spring (Walnut stock). THAT had the same trigger problem! Interesting how it didn't seem to bother me when I initially shot them last year and put at least a couple hundred pellets through each one to determine if they were "keepers" or "returns". I guess my tolerance for poorly adjusted cheap triggers has been significantly lowered over the last year. Might be that insidious GTA forum is affecting my behavior

The Striker had also acquired a little barrel lock wiggle (up/down). Some sloppy machining, loose swarf, and burrs were now preventing a solid barrel lock so that needed some work. The lock spring was intact so a little filing, deburring, polishing, cleaning, and new lube cured the barrel lockup problem.

Then I modified both triggers to feel "real nice".

Have a selection of "High Carbon Steel Wire Full Hard Temper" from Amazon. Chose the 0.026" wire (top) to wind replacement springs for the trigger blades on these Hatsan Striker/Edge air rifles. The stock trigger blade return spring uses 0.040" wire (bottom) and is far too firm IMO. This makes the trigger feel like one long endless hard pull until the primary sear is released. Very unpredictable and detracts from the rifles full accuracy potential.

It is fast and EASY to wind in the same shape as the original spring (close is good enough!) and cuts the trigger blade return force in half. Now there is a light trigger blade pull up to a very noticeable "stop" as the primary sear is contacted, then a short firm "snap" to release the primary sear. Break-barrel air rifles are difficult enough to shoot accurately so even small improvements can have a significant impact.

If you have never wound your own springs before, it does take a little practice until you understand how far the wire "relaxes" after you form it. Every wire size and spring shape will need a few "test" winds that WON'T work.  Don't panic, there is a LOT of this size wire on a 1 lb spool. I usually end up with 1 too large, 1 too small, and third attempt is usually quite good!

[fwbsport]

Put two scopes on two air rifles: Trijicon.
I'm leaving my R7 with thin iron post and the HW30 with it's original irons.  They are very enjoyable open-sighted!

I had the 2 Trijicons from years ago for my .257 Weatherby and my 6mm Remington--they have higher power scopes now.

[Hoosier Daddy]

Cursed the rain... Been a long time since it was fit to take a gun outside.

[avator]

Got that right.... my cell phone says it's 93 outside. I had to stop mowing. I'll get the other half of the one acre shooting range and Killer's 5 acres early in the morning. Had to take a 2nd shower when I got done. It's so dry and the dirt made a nice batter on my skin when it mixed with the sweat.
Gonna make a fast break down to the A/C shop and hang out. Guns to work on and the fridge is fully stocked... 

[bear air]

Put a different hand grip on the Armada. Just got another plastic ammo can at Walmart and a nice tool box. I'm going to do some organizing of tools and parts and ammo. Then I might put another breech seal in the armada and see if this one agrees with the cothran transfer port. Then of course go shoot the armada over the chrony and see what the velocity looks like and see if it improved.

[unionrdr]

Yup. Beer in the fridge, bottle of bourbon, 5th coat of Tru-Oil on the 95 stock. Ordered my first pistol yesterday, and a nice classic 19th century style holster for it today. Site also has men's & women's 19th century cloths as well. Hm. So they'll be here next Wednesday & Thursday so far. SAA, aka Peacemaker, has a 5.5" rifled barrel, nickel plated with satin black grips, Colt Peacemaker medallion set in them. A collaboration between Umarex & Colt to copy there SAA to modify into air gun form. Uses one 12g Co2 cartridge and .177 pellet cartridges as well. Very nice sort of brushed nickel finish on it? Holster is like a pecan brown to me. Again, 19th century styled. Made to fit, among others, the .45 Colt revolver with 4-6 inch barrel. They'll go nicely with my 3 1894 30-30 saddle guns!


  The site I got the leather from;
https://www.historicalemporium.com/

[Arch_E]

Decided to get my oldest grandson (turns 7 soon) his first real BB gun (Daisy 880). We'll keep it here so the he learn gun safety under grandparent supervision. I got it unboxed and set up today, shooting water bottles at 8-10 yards. Wow, what a fine little shooter with accurate open sights. It was shooting light Wadcutters (7.48 gr.) with authority, once I pumped 6 or more times. Don't have a chrony, so I don't know what speeds it is shooting. I'll have to mount a scope (for my older eyes) if I'm to see what I'm hitting at over 10 yards.

This is almost like a third childhood!

Archie

BTW, I single pumped it before putting it away; is that a good practice?

[Mole2017]

I fixed a leak on my 2 gallon compressor that I use to feed my hand pump. It had recently (I think) taken to loosing its air over a couple days. A little soap water easily found a tiny leak in the sealant on the pressure relief valve threads.

When I first started to disassemble to reseal that, it acted a little like non-drying pipe dope, but on getting it apart I instead found a tiny little "crust" of some sort of sealant that had completely squeezed out of the joint and dried hard (and chipped). I think the soap water had must have made some sort of mud of the dirt and whatever there.

Teflon tape took care of things after chipping loose the rest of the sealant.