What airgun related did you do today?

[Frank in Fairfield]

I left the dark side.

[bReTt]

I left the dark side.

Sold the Marauder?

[Back_Roads]

 Was on a dog driven rabbit hunt with the wing shot, after the hunt, I let my friend shoot the Wing Shot and the .25 Vectis, he had seen modern air rifles on youtube, and has been a life long Dan owner, this was a hands on eye opener.

[avator]

Was on a dog driven rabbit hunt with the wing shot, after the hunt, I let my friend shoot the Wing Shot and the .25 Vectis, he had seen modern air rifles on youtube, and has been a life long Dan owner, this was a hands on eye opener.

Hook, line and sinker pellet.

[Hoosier Daddy]

Had a brain storm.
I have about 4 lbs of reclaimed pellets from the first one of my traps.
 I wanted to melt them down into ingots that would fit in my furnace pot... but what to use for a mold?

AH-HA! old pellet tins, I knew I was saving them for a reason!
Gave the interior a wipe down of silicon oil and poured the molten lead into the tin.
 The first two were the smooth sided short tins from Meisterkugeln's that went well.. but when I used the taller tin from 500 count H&N .22's that have the knurled bottom edge that was an EPIC FAIL!
 Stuck like glue...
 I tried peeling if off with a pair of side cutters but it just comes off in slivers.
 This morning my hands look like I was in hand to hand combat with a straight razor and the bottom is still intact.
 

[avator]

Can you heat them up with a torch and knock them out?

[singleshotcajun]

Had a brain storm.
I have about 4 lbs of reclaimed pellets from the first one of my traps.
 I wanted to melt them down into ingots that would fit in my furnace pot... but what to use for a mold?

AH-HA! old pellet tins, I knew I was saving them for a reason!
Gave the interior a wipe down of silicon oil and poured the molten lead into the tin.
 The first two were the smooth sided short tins from Meisterkugeln's that went well.. but when I used the taller tin from 500 count H&N .22's that have the knurled bottom edge that was an EPIC FAIL!
 Stuck like glue...
 I tried peeling if off with a pair of side cutters but it just comes off in slivers.
 This morning my hands look like I was in hand to hand combat with a straight razor and the bottom is still intact.
 

I did the same thing a few years ago. Got a dollar store mini muffin pan for the job and it does the trick. Crosman tins work well for holding RWS pellets since RWS does not have the sense to thread their lids. Love Meisters but hate the tins.

[Hoosier Daddy]

Can you heat them up with a torch and knock them out?

Tried that... I think it stuck even harder.

I did the same thing a few years ago. Got a dollar store mini muffin pan for the job and it does the trick. Crosman tins work well for holding RWS pellets since RWS does not have the sense to thread their lids. Love Meisters but hate the tins.

It was late.. I eye-balled one of Hoosier Momma's cupcake pans but the the ramifications would have been "not good".
 Today I am going to chuck it back in the melting pot hoping the lead melts first and I can just pluck out the remainder of the tin.
I think I will throw in the remainder of the Piranha's I have... those shoot like poo in any gun I own.
  This is boarder-line Alchemy now. 

[Whirligig]

Had a brain storm.
I have about 4 lbs of reclaimed pellets from the first one of my traps.
 I wanted to melt them down into ingots that would fit in my furnace pot... but what to use for a mold?

AH-HA! old pellet tins, I knew I was saving them for a reason!
Gave the interior a wipe down of silicon oil and poured the molten lead into the tin.
 The first two were the smooth sided short tins from Meisterkugeln's that went well.. but when I used the taller tin from 500 count H&N .22's that have the knurled bottom edge that was an EPIC FAIL!
 Stuck like glue...
 I tried peeling if off with a pair of side cutters but it just comes off in slivers.
 This morning my hands look like I was in hand to hand combat with a straight razor and the bottom is still intact.
 

I've done the exact same thing, with the same results. Pellet tin completely undetachable from the molten, then solidified, lead. I drilled two holes in it and hung it up to use it as a swinging target. Waste not, want not!

[Back_Roads]

If you have a hot plate for heating/conditioning molds, just put the tin on the hotplate on high it will melt the lead and you can use a plyers to hold the tin and pour out the lead.

[Hoosier Daddy]

I set it butt first in front of the space heater early this morning and gave it another try just now.
SUCCESS!
The bottom peeled off in one piece
 Much easier when you're sober.
 

[avator]

LOL... leave it to Scott for putting a new spin on "Get the lead out"

[DIYengineer235]

Last night, I 3D printed a newer, better, rear sight for my Fuioin 2. Since I can't go shooting it (too cold), I figure I'd try my hand at putting a decent iron sight on it. My first version failed miserably because I was trying for a design that was far more complicated that it really needed to be. THis time, I kept it simple and it came out great. Not perfect. There are still some improvements that need to be made. Its not holding the peep hole steady and it wobbles inside the housing a bit, but I can fix that. A few holes need to be changed. The rail mount is amlost perfect, but there's some gap that I can fix. I did have to make one compromise and raise the height of the peep hole more than I'd really like, but that just means I'll need to make a few adjustments to the front sight, which I was planning on anyways. The two knobs, windage and elevation, both need to be bigger too.

Overall, I'm happy. It's a little blocky right now, but once I get a good test piece made up and proven, I can smooth it out and make it look sexier. For now, form follows function until I can get the function working well.

[Wayne52]

I'm reloading a laptop to live in the Red Shed.

Well, that didn't work out well... 2 junk laptops. Good news: they make great reactive targets. 

Moving right along... There was an old decorator wooden wishing well on the property It's old and very weathered. It makes a great place to hang card stock targets. The little roof keeps the target dry in the rain. I screwed a couple gator clips to it to hang the targets with. I have it set out to 20yds. for low power paper punching. I could also run a light cord out to it for some night shooting. Or even a solar powered flood light.

Bill I've been working on them laptops for years, I recently put Mint21 on the one that I bought for my truck.

Anyway today I took my 357 Challenger apart just far enough to put it in the original box, after that I put the scope that I had on it on my 30 cal Challenger, I will be shooting the 30 cal pretty soon hopefully because we're supposed to be getting some weather over freezing temps.

[singleshotcajun]

Good work Matt. There is a lack of sights these days. I would like to see options for a clamp on target front sight for PCP rifle shrouds . Stay at it brother.

[Insanity]

LOL... leave it to Scott for putting a new spin on "Get the lead out"

I knew there would be helarity to follow in his debacle lol.

[DIYengineer235]

Good work Matt. There is a lack of sights these days. I would like to see options for a clamp on target front sight for PCP rifle shrouds . Stay at it brother.

I know it. I like scopes as much as anybody, but sights just seem more satisfying sometimes. Nobody appreciates good sights these days.

[avator]

I did an overdue upgrade to the Nissan Titan this morning.
Courtesy of one of our valued GTA moderators...

[Insanity]

Got one on my S10 also.

[Hoosier Daddy]

hehehe...
I have given away a dozen to members... literally.
Would be nice to see them all
Time to make more.