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I saw mention of the Maruzen Hammerli APS-3 on the UK-based airgunbbs forum the other day after a fellow had asked about quiet indoor practice in an apartment. Looks a lot like a modern PCP AP.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w73gMp0m_R0

But let's make acquiring the pistols easier and avoid possible criminal prosecution of AP owners. Which is my main point that you seem to be ignoring. Can you link to any case where a competitive air pistol owner has been subject to even mild harassment by the RCMP for having a 10m AP which shoots ...

I see I'm amongst the mature adults here. /sarc You protest against V76's persistence on the muzzle loader question, while apparently still ignoring your own oversight regarding the law. You stated this: All matchlock, flintlock and wheel lock long guns or guns produced before 1898 are antique. All...

I know. I'm constantly reminded of that little moment in Basil Fawlty's wretched life where he says... http://youtu.be/Lle9QD93kA0 It's alarming how quickly the years go by, how fast he grows. He's not into anything serious with shooting, no, just enjoys plinking most of all (especially dynamic stuf...

Doing well enough, and hope the same for your adventures. I've not been training in AP since the fall of 2013 unfortunately. Still intend to get back into it at some point, but while my shoulder and then elbow are injuries have healed I'm still not strong enough to put in the sustained hours every w...

A valiant effort though Victor, you tried. Some folks don't bother reading all the words we put in front of their eyes. Pity luthier isn't easier to predict when that might happen.

No intention to condescend, and I'm sorry if you took it that way. Just trying to help out in a small way with precise numbers and current law as enforced by the authorities. Individual shooting enthusiasts are unlikely to want to take the personal risk inherent in facing off against the government ...

Canadian law defines an air gun as a firearm if it fires a projectile at greater than 500fps or with greater than 6 joules of muzzle energy (which is a .177 cal 8 grain pellet travelling at 500fps). First, I think the only important measure should be muzzle energy. Because it's the only thing that ...

To my ears the Moroni 162ei has been one of the loudest with factory settings, followed closely by the Steyr LP-10. Those were set to between 530fos ajd 565fps. My Pardini K12 was fairly loud as supplied to me, shooting at about 535fps with 7.56gr pellets. I turned it down to about 490fps (making it...

Someone several years ago posted here that in Germany at match pistol trigger weight check it was common for FWB pistols to be dry fired with a thumb held firmly over the muzzle, to provide some resistance for the piston. I doubt anyone's thumb could duplicate the resistance of a properly fitted pel...

Except that dieseling is only likely with a spring-piston type. There's nothing suddenly compressing the air/oil with an SSP such as the 46m. Nor with the Anschutz, which is a PCP. One needs rapid compression for dieseling. These airguns have only rapid expansion.

During my first month with a Baikal 46m I saw sparks a couple of times, when shooting from a darker hallway into a lighted room with lighted target. I asked about it here, and was told by 'experts' (know-it-alls) that it didn't and couldn't happen. So I was hallucinating, apparently. But teasing asi...

Damned if I know. It's not my country. But they're a security organisation, right? As in policing and such? So wouldn't 'less lethal' ammunition seem to be a good thing for domestic purposes, as compared to the fictional 1.6billion rounds of fmj hollowpoints?

kevinweiho wrote:You should worry why the DHS had purchased more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammo and when the dollar will collapse.

Um, no.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/ssabullets.asp

Debunked, along with a few other infowars.com myths. But hey, freedom of propaganda equates with the truth, right?

If you have a chrony, or know your velocities and weights etc, then just plug your numbers into Chairgun and look at the resulting graphs and charts. It's free. Bhutan if a learning curve with all the tools hidden in various menus, but really not hard to use. http://www.hawkeoptics.co.uk/chairgun.html

I bent my F1's rods and hot glued them into the plastic diffuser strips, crazy glued the plastic strips together so they wouldn't fall apart so easily. All that just to offer a place to stick a couple of LED pucks with magnets. Works reliably. No errors if I'm shooting over both sensors. Pictures: h...

That's the plenum volume of which Wasatch spoke. The design of the pistol may not allow for increasing that volume. EDIT: Sorry, Brian, was on my phone as I was leaving my kid's science fair... Of course porting isn't plenum volume, silly me. And indeed, porting could also be a limiting factor. You'...

Not an SSP. Slightly more demanding I suspect; a bellows rifle. Can't find a picture of the actual function of the bellows, but apparently works on the principle of a blowpipe in conjunction with a popgun, where a mechanical bellows hidden in an overly-large hollow wooden stock is used to compress t...

If swapping something out for a delrin plug isn't irreversible then why not try it? As I understand the anti-recoil function of the Steyr it is much like that of the Pardini K12, with a portion if the air being redirected backward to drive a tungsten rod opposite to the pellet travel. Plugging that ...

'House of the Rising Sun' isn't Mozart. And all that finger on steel string squeaking and squawking, dang, that's just far too annoying to accompany something so meditative as AP shooting. By the way, did you know Wolfgang was an airgunner? Painted his own targets too. Darts, not pellets, and in fan...