About 40 years ago I repaired the Crosman M1 that had belonged to my little brother. He died young in an accident and the gun had been in my older brother's basement for decades. It was completely...
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Forum: AirGuns
About 40 years ago I repaired the Crosman M1 that had belonged to my little brother. He died young in an accident and the gun had been in my older brother's basement for decades. It was completely...
Forum: AirGuns
Most of my shooting is with .22 T38 CO2 revolvers so I use wadcutters with these, but I have found the Crosman hollow point to be very accurate in my customised 1322 rifle with 22 inch barrel and...
Forum: AirGuns
I've found that multi pump air rifles are a good choice for several reasons. They aren't that expensive compared to some that give comparable performance and have a distinct advantage in allowing one...
Forum: Military Rifles
A early production No. 4 belonging to a friend had a problem with the trigger always catching in the half cock notch.
Turned out the sear leg was bent, probably from someone pulling hard on the...
Forum: AirGuns
I preferred to use a large shaving mirror and focus the sun's rays to melt the little buggers.
The older style concave shaving mirrors were awesome fire starters.
Forum: AirGuns
Some early .22 air guns used a round ball with a greased felt wad glued to the bottom to provide a gas seal and keep the bore clean and lubed.
The lubed felt wads used for C&B revolvers should work...
Forum: Hunting Accessories
Bought the last one they had apparently. Got a bit of a discount on mine due to a bit of shop ware.
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Sold out for now, I'd guess they went fast at such a low price for such high quality.
If...
Forum: AirGuns
Heres one I got a sale notice for. Might fill your needs....
Forum: AirGuns
The less it looks like a firearm the better if you have skittish neighbors.
The 1377 would probably serve you well if you can handle the lousy balance and low quality sights.
Personally after...
Forum: AirGuns
I can't remember ever finding an airgun at a pawnshop. Around here stuff like that is found in salvage stores, mainly stuff left behind abandoned in storage bins or scavenged from roadside dump...
Forum: AirGuns
In any industrialized country its impossible to prevent those who want guns and aren't concerned by breaking the law from having them.
Not just zip guns and pipe shotguns either.
Very sophisticated...
Forum: AirGuns
In these smaller heavily restricted countries there has been a lot of experimentation with liquid and gaseous fueled rifles, some very advanced in design, though home made using repurposed parts.
A...
Forum: AirGuns
While not the best choice I suspect ten .177 diameter holes that go right to the bone in a would be home invaders face would be a deterrent.
The thug would be easier to beat down when bleeding like...
Forum: AirGuns
Its a downloadable digital catalog of all the fine new cell phones available today.
In ancient times they carved names and phone numbers on stone slabs. these made much better pellet stoppers.
Forum: AirGuns
IIRC during WW2 Crosman couldn't get the type of plastic they needed to make the exhaust valve seals for their products, it being a strategic material, but a manufacturer of screwdrivers was still...
Forum: AirGuns
Probably either a bad exhaust valve or the spring pre load on the hammer is too high. If its the preload try pumping while the gun is at full cock.
The rebuild kits usually have a solid plastic...
Forum: AirGuns
For any .177 rifle or pistol you should give the Beeman coated wadcutters a try. They group best in every .177 gun I've used them in.
They are especially good in revolvers or rifles with a revolver...
Forum: AirGuns
I bought a 70's version of the Daisy Red Rider years ago at a salvage store for 10 bucks.
I had got it as a wall hanger though it does shoot about as good as it probably did when new, meaning about...
Forum: AirGuns
A big disappointment for me was when Daisy brought out the .177 BB reboot of their older .118 shot air pistol. The air cylinder and piston just didn't have the power to give the standard BB enough...
Forum: AirGuns
I hear you. I cobbled together a custom 880 from a new plastic receiver version to which I mounted the metal receiver and pump arm from an old worn out early model.
By wrapping the barrel with tape...
Forum: AirGuns
One great thing about the Umarex replica guns is that original weapons no longer need be sacrificed at motion picture props.
I saw an old war film years ago where a dozen or so MP 40 were...
Forum: Military Rifles
Silver nitrate staining is removed with hydrogen peroxide.
I've never heard of nitrate staining from primers, but who knows.
Forum: Military Rifles
The Ishapore .308 rifles were designed to handle the 48,000 CUP NATO standard Ball loads. The .303 equivalent, in pressure, would be the Mk 8Z loads.
I commonly use a .303 load with a 150 grain...
Forum: AirGuns
I put some large diameter surgical tubing on a wrist rocket frame I found. Draw weight was pretty stout. Incredible power when using .375 lead round ball ,but the recoil working through the arm brace...
Forum: Military Rifles
I like the idea of a shortened 03, ala the "Bush Master".
I wouldn't mind having a repo of the cutdown M1917 rifles used in the India China Burma theatre. About the same OAL.
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |