More Umarex Octane Elite Mods
One of our Umarex Octane shooters group members came up with an idea for a simple common sense mod for the Umarex Octane Elite break barrel air rifle. It was one of those simple ideas that make one wonder why we didn't come up with it.
The guys' name is Chris Petrov from down in New Zealand. He uses his Octane Elite to cull the rabbit herds in his part of the world. I think that it's just simple enough and common sense enough to be of help to any other Octane Elite critter hunter if they are needing a picatinny short rail to attach a light or a laser or even a sling of some type.
For those more inventive Octane Elite shooters they can even be used as anchor points for a set of specialty bipods with independent legs that could be attached on either side of the fore stock via the short picatinny rails.
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1st-Generation Umarex Octane Picatinny/Weaver rials
Here are the computer renderings of the newly designed Picatinny/Weaver rail segments made to fit the 1st-Generation Umarex Octane air rifle. I'll be using mine to mount a set of cheap bipod legs but they can also be used to mount laser lights, flash lights or side mounted rifle slings.
These aftermarket addons will be offered only as 3D printable STL files. I'm not really sure how I'd go about machining these out of aluminum. The last set I came up with I'm pretty sure I can do it but this set has some geometry that's a little more complex along one of the edges.
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My dusty air rifles wearing my 3D printed gadgets.
Here are a few pics of my two very dusty air rifles wearing the 3D printed Picatinny/Weaver rail sections I recently printed out. Everything fit exactly as I'd hoped they would. The bipod legs themselves are woefully lacking in tight tolerances but for the purpose of showing how they are intended to work I'm pretty sure these quickly taken photos will bear that out.
I'm going to have to take these inexpensive bipod legs apart to see what I can do to tighten them up a bit. As they are, they are a little to rickety for my liking. The 3D printed rail parts on the other hand are very secure with virtually now slop or movement whatsoever. I was afraid that with the torque that might be applied to them when the bipod legs were folded in or out, it might eventually cause the little securing screws that hold these rails in place to loosen over time.
Because of the way these inexpensive bipod legs are folded one way or the other, they offer no torque against the 3D printed components so it turns out I was worried about nothing.
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