What airgun related idea did you cook up today?

[Blowpipe Sam]

The Beeman Raider proved to be particular about what scope it likes but I finally got it sorted out.  Now I'm watching videos about the Bstaley O-ring mod to control hammer bounce.  I have a rough idea based on another members description of how it ought to work on the Beeman.  Right now I've reached a sweet spot through a combination of a 2,500 PSI starting fill, a 20.06gr pellet and some hammer spring adjustment.  Going much above 2,500 PSI doesn't help as the hammer bounce eats into the efficiency and a heavier pellet aggravates it.  I'm hoping the O-ring mod will let me pump the gun up to 3,000 PSI, adjust the hammer spring for more power, and go up to a heavier pellet.  Hoping for a longer, flatter, shot string with heavy pellets and no hammer bounce. Time to go shoot the gun down and de-gas it

[WobblyHand]

Trying to come up with a viable shroud concept for a Huben GK1.  Kind of hard work for me, having never seen a lot of pictures of good working shrouds.  Idea is to pull off the aluminum "shroud" which has no sound deadening, and replace it with a CF tube and baffles.  Picture of my current noodling in the PCP gate.  The idea is still half baked, but slowly making progress.  CAD work is not my forte.  But it's darned helpful to see how things go together, and even more useful to generate drawings to make parts.

[Blowpipe Sam]

O'kay.  Train of thought here.  I watched a flock of Starlings flying over today and thought about what would happen if they hit a drone (bird strike). Then I thought about mounting a full auto BB gun on a drone with a HD camera and going Starling hunting. 

If you are familiar with what they are doing in Ukraine right now you will realize that this Fisher Price stuff.

[Ol'DeadEye]

Sounds to me that most folks prefer the current hi-tech options for their tinkering.
I'm just the opposite as I like simplifying my "toys", such as putting AR15-A2 irons on my TalonSS,
Falls right to my eye on that straight "comb" tank/stock.  Much better than the AirForce open sights.
Little bit of adapter work to do yet on the front sight dovetail-weaver riser.
I like the lighter weight of the rifle without a scope. No lenses to fog, break etc. No batteries to go dead, etc, etc, etc.
Most of my shooting is on the south side of the house, the sunny side of course.  Red dot not visible most of the day.
But my red dot cowitness's with the irons for the times I can use it.
That's my walk-around favorite. 50 yd and under, offhand.
For loong range ground squirrels I have my FX Maverick Compact 25 cal., benched of course...

I'm rolling over my lifes odometer, in three weeks, to 79.
P.D. has me by the "how-you-sayits" so my hunting options are limited to bench shooting, in the shade.

So to complete the picture, I enjoy driving a  standard transmission car rather than an automatic, except in heavy stop-and-go traffic.

Also prefer working from the terminal on computers, except browsing web and pictures.

Prefer Linux to Windoze which I quit 21 years ago.
 

[splitbeing]

O'kay.  Train of thought here.  I watched a flock of Starlings flying over today and thought about what would happen if they hit a drone (bird strike). Then I thought about mounting a full auto BB gun on a drone with a HD camera and going Starling hunting. 

If you are familiar with what they are doing in Ukraine right now you will realize that this Fisher Price stuff.

President Kelly of Allegheny County Labor Council energetically stated when Amazon moved in that the day a drone delivers a package to his door (thereby displacing a postal worker) is the day he blows a drone out of the (expletive) sky.

I don't know much about drones, but if they can deliver Amazon packages, an electric bb gun might be DIYable. What might putting that together look like?

[splitbeing]

Sounds to me that most folks prefer the current hi-tech options for their tinkering.
I'm just the opposite as I like simplifying my "toys", such as putting AR15-A2 irons on my TalonSS,
Falls right to my eye on that straight "comb" tank/stock.  Much better than the AirForce open sights.
Little bit of adapter work to do yet on the front sight dovetail-weaver riser.
I like the lighter weight of the rifle without a scope. No lenses to fog, break etc. No batteries to go dead, etc, etc, etc.
Most of my shooting is on the south side of the house, the sunny side of course.  Red dot not visible most of the day.
But my red dot cowitness's with the irons for the times I can use it.
That's my walk-around favorite. 50 yd and under, offhand.
For loong range ground squirrels I have my FX Maverick Compact 25 cal., benched of course...

I'm rolling over my lifes odometer, in three weeks, to 79.
P.D. has me by the "how-you-sayits" so my hunting options are limited to bench shooting, in the shade.

So to complete the picture, I enjoy driving a  standard transmission car rather than an automatic, except in heavy stop-and-go traffic.

Also prefer working from the terminal on computers, except browsing web and pictures.

Prefer Linux to Windoze which I quit 21 years ago.

I gave my buddy my 2240 with a buckrail moderator to learn to shoot while sitting out back by the fire. I also gave him one pf those pinwheel metal targets with 8 or so arms. We call it Clocktopuss. He let the cart get too low and shot the moderator off, leaving him with no front sight.

He now claims he is shooting better without sights. The above post about going lower tech reminded me of my buddy getting better shooting sightless... at least supposedly [chuckling].

[Hoosier Daddy]

An Umarex T4E HDS  double barrel .68  CO2 "sawed off shotgun" shooting a wad of BB's encased in wax is still rolling around in my head.

I held one at Kalamazoo a couple years back and shoulda bought it then.

[Blowpipe Sam]

O'kay.  Train of thought here.  I watched a flock of Starlings flying over today and thought about what would happen if they hit a drone (bird strike). Then I thought about mounting a full auto BB gun on a drone with a HD camera and going Starling hunting. 

If you are familiar with what they are doing in Ukraine right now you will realize that this Fisher Price stuff.

President Kelly of Allegheny County Labor Council energetically stated when Amazon moved in that the day a drone delivers a package to his door (thereby displacing a postal worker) is the day he blows a drone out of the (expletive) sky.

I don't know much about drones, but if they can deliver Amazon packages, an electric bb gun might be DIYable. What might putting that together look like?

I'm thinking the Umarex/Legends M712 attached to a quadcopter drone with a paintball style gravty fed hopper full of BBs tethered to a paint ball tank full of HPA.

Battle climb to 100 feet to intercept a flock of starlings!  Fly the curve of pursuit to bring you into a zero deflection six o'clock attack position!  Pick your target.  Dive into the flock, close to ten feet and open fire!  Maintain your closing speed and break upwards to regain your altitude for another pass.

Keep your eye on YouTube.  Someone is going to do it eventually.

[avator]

O'kay.  Train of thought here.  I watched a flock of Starlings flying over today and thought about what would happen if they hit a drone (bird strike). Then I thought about mounting a full auto BB gun on a drone with a HD camera and going Starling hunting. 

If you are familiar with what they are doing in Ukraine right now you will realize that this Fisher Price stuff.

President Kelly of Allegheny County Labor Council energetically stated when Amazon moved in that the day a drone delivers a package to his door (thereby displacing a postal worker) is the day he blows a drone out of the (expletive) sky.

I don't know much about drones, but if they can deliver Amazon packages, an electric bb gun might be DIYable. What might putting that together look like?

Give it a couple years and you'll be able to push "play" on your personal robot to build one for you. 

[Blowpipe Sam]

It's AirSoft but it's essentially the same thing.

[Back_Roads]

Sounds to me that most folks prefer the current hi-tech options for their tinkering.
I'm just the opposite as I like simplifying my "toys", such as putting AR15-A2 irons on my TalonSS,
Falls right to my eye on that straight "comb" tank/stock.  Much better than the AirForce open sights.
Little bit of adapter work to do yet on the front sight dovetail-weaver riser.
I like the lighter weight of the rifle without a scope. No lenses to fog, break etc. No batteries to go dead, etc, etc, etc.
Most of my shooting is on the south side of the house, the sunny side of course.  Red dot not visible most of the day.
But my red dot cowitness's with the irons for the times I can use it.
That's my walk-around favorite. 50 yd and under, offhand.
For loong range ground squirrels I have my FX Maverick Compact 25 cal., benched of course...

I'm rolling over my lifes odometer, in three weeks, to 79.
P.D. has me by the "how-you-sayits" so my hunting options are limited to bench shooting, in the shade.

So to complete the picture, I enjoy driving a  standard transmission car rather than an automatic, except in heavy stop-and-go traffic.

Also prefer working from the terminal on computers, except browsing web and pictures.

Prefer Linux to Windoze which I quit 21 years ago.

I gave my buddy my 2240 with a buckrail moderator to learn to shoot while sitting out back by the fire. I also gave him one pf those pinwheel metal targets with 8 or so arms. We call it Clocktopuss. He let the cart get too low and shot the moderator off, leaving him with no front sight.

He now claims he is shooting better without sights. The above post about going lower tech reminded me of my buddy getting better shooting sightless... at least supposedly [chuckling].

Hey I shot a chipper in the head DRT with my 2240 before I mounted sights, I think it shot better then too LOL

[Blowpipe Sam]

Or how about this?

[Back_Roads]

 And now for something completely different, I am making changes in my gun room and need to stack guns neatly, this looks like my best option on the cheap, I'm thinking pallet wood hardest part is reclaiming the pallet wood, I do have one of them fancy pallet board removal tools too 

[airgunaut]

Not my idea, and the method might not be legally defensible. But how I would love to catch the idiots who dump, vandalize, loot, deal drugs...

[Matchstickshooter]

Or how about this?

Have seen these guys! (watched last year)  They are great.     They had a video of shooting one down with air cannons shooting apples for ammo.lol

[Back_Roads]

 Them Warthogs' are my kind of Fugly, they just look so fun

[Back_Roads]

 Back on topic 
I was given Nicks old Chaser stock that was missing the rubber butpad, and discovered it fit my pp02 4.45mm .177 cal. pistol. Hmm it did need a 1/4 inch shaved off to nest in the pp02's grip.
 Now it has been laying around in the shop at work,"still holding CO2 for months". and I kept forgetting to bring it home to scope it and see what it can do.


 Well it did this after sight in the holes up and right are from initial zeroing shots, then I let the Ruger .177 hollow points fly.  10meters sotra rested.  Next time I will try off a bag.

[SpindleB]

didn't like the lack of gauge for the older Airforce bottles. So I made one for filling the bottle from my tanks.

-- Matt

[ER00z]

Instead of using pumpers to shoot 16gr to 21gr pellets at shorter range, I was thinking of a pcp shooting 30gr to 40gr+ projectiles at shorter range (with similar velocities)... Toss on a red dot or "See All" sight to the Umarex Origin I've had collecting dust in the safe and it should be good to go.
     
Alternatively, taking that Origin add a 20MOA compensation rail (use single shot tray after), no limit rings, free float the barrel and practice at further distances for NUAH... When the weather allows. Also need a bigger tank. Thought about somehow mounting twin 700cc bottles but one big remote air supply is more practical. 

[ER00z]

I've thought to make a stubby 13xx gun, just not sure this would work... Or would be safe... Basically get rid of the pump assembly, cut the pump tube down so the valve cone is exposed or have easy access to. Drill & tap the valve end/cone to fit a quick fill fitting, fill via hand pump (1100-ish psi). Chop barrel to desired length, add barrel band, steel breech and sights...