Just recently I re-discovered that I owned two Daisy Red Ryder BB guns. I bought the first of those two a few years back to use as a feral cat and feral pigeon deterrent.
Those feral animals are fairly smart and it just took a couple of hits for them to figure out that if they stayed out of range of these BB guns they'd be OK because beyond that range the accuracy and the sting of those BBs was no longer as much of a concern. It was at that point that I decided to step up to more powerful break barrel Umarex Octane pellet rifles.
The same thing happened with the more powerful and longer range pellet guns. Those feral animals soon figured out that if they stayed beyond fifty or sixty yards their survival rate and pain threshold would not be as apt to be tested. Then came the Umarex Gauntlet PCP air rifle. There is now a 100 yard no fly zone around my place but, the odd thing is, now that I mainly shoot the PCP air gun it seems that more often than not any feral pigeons or cats that I see now are being seen at close range. The scope setup on my PCP is generally set up for from 50 to 100 yards so by the time I find them in the cross hairs, they're gone.
So back to the Daisy Red Ryder BB guns. I was cleaning out my work shop and I found one sitting in the corner behind a bunch of other stuff that I had set in that same corner of the shop. It was covered with dust from a year or so of just sitting idle. The other Daisy I found in parts still in the box I had put it in when I decided way back when to convert or retrofit it with a gas spring. That project had been on the back burner for about the same time that the first Daisy had been sitting in the corner of my shop.
I decided to rekindle those project and that's what this long winded thread is about. Since part of my problem with accuracy with that first Daisy BB gun was due to the fact that my eye sight isn't what it used to be. The iron sights were just a blur to me now. I modeled and 3D printed a dedicated Daisy Red Ryder scope mount that I could utilize the same screw holes on the reciever of the little Daisy. I did have to run down and pick up some slightly longer screws but that was the easy part. Also, it took me the usual two or three tries till I got the final results I wanted.
My first successful and fully functional Daisy Red Ryder print was done on my recently acquired resin printer. I did try printing them with my FDM filament printer but those were the ones that didn't quite work out. Those were also the ones that I used to tweak my CAD models until I got the fit just right. My first successful print had a 3/8" rail to accommodate the old school BB gun scope I planed on using. The second print has a standard picatinny rail on it.
After I got the 3D printed Scope mount to print out the way I wanted I painted it black. Both of my functional sample were printed with the only resin I had on hand. (Siraya Tech Blu Resin) It's a semi-transparent resin. That's why I painted them black. I then went about modeling and printing a replacement front cap/front sight with integral outside threads. Those threads would be securing a dedicated resin printed 4" long moderator. It worked. Now I have a scope mounted and suppressed Daisy Red Ryder BB gun that's the envy of every little kid who owns a Red Ryder BB gun.
(I'm just a 64 year old kid at heart)
The range and the accuracy has now been extended by another ten or fifteen yards and I can actually watch the BBs as they impact the target. I'm writing this thread on my desktop computer so I don't have access to the picture files to upload at this moment but I'll come back on and upload the photos I've taken of these Daisy Red Ryder BB gun mods either later today or in the very near future. In the mean time here's a link to the CAD rendering I uploaded to my Instagram pages. I still have to edit the photos of the BB gun suppressor renderings. I'll be back with those later.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAbv2noBcEa/
In regard to my second Daisy Red Ryder BB gun -the one I'm retrofitting with a gas spring- I'll have to create a whole different thread for that one.
I'll be back.
HollowPoint