Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Holiday Fun
I managed to spend some time over the weekend playing with my airgun targets and shooting a bit. We had a very nice Thanksgiving and I ate a good bit of turkey. I saw a very interesting TX200 on my classified ads page that had a Dragon target stock and contiplated buying it but, alas, I was too slow and another airgunner got it. I kept the pictures of the stock, it was beautiful but the thing I noticed most about it was the way the forearm was slanted and not flat like most other target stocks. I thought this very interesting so I decided to try a slant on my FT rifle.
I took a piece of 2x4 and cut it to about a 10 degree angle and taped it to my red target stock. I ran out back to give it a try and found that it seemed to offer a bit more control of the rifle. One nice thing with the slanted forearm is that I could slide forward or backwards on the forearm to raise or lower the aim point. It was an interesting experiment and I may make a removable piece to fit the stock and try it for a while.
Over the weekend I also managed to get some time playing with a couple of my targets. Since it was the end of the shooting season for our club I had all of my targets sitting on the garage floor. So I took the opportunity to sort through them all and sort out any that needed some attention. I reorganized them all and put them away. I now have a whole bunch of targets sitting on shelves in my garage! I still have whole shelf full of wood targets I made about 8 years ago.
I found an old gravity fall target and decided to try a new target design that Wade Sutherland turned me on to. This design is the same basic design as my wood target design(http://www.airguns.net/woodtarg.html) except that instead of having a spring from the face to the base the spring is placed from the rear back bottom of the target arm to the face. I tried this design on an old prarie dog target and it worked out really well. The nice thing with this design is that a reset string doesn't have to go through the face plate to the paddle arm. The face can be pulled up and the spring will pull up the paddle arm. I may write more on this target later after I test it some more.
All and all it has been a fun holiday weekend. I had a good 4 days off for the holiday, I had to work a bit around the house but I didn't have to go shopping! And to top it all off I got to play with my toys!
I took a piece of 2x4 and cut it to about a 10 degree angle and taped it to my red target stock. I ran out back to give it a try and found that it seemed to offer a bit more control of the rifle. One nice thing with the slanted forearm is that I could slide forward or backwards on the forearm to raise or lower the aim point. It was an interesting experiment and I may make a removable piece to fit the stock and try it for a while.
Over the weekend I also managed to get some time playing with a couple of my targets. Since it was the end of the shooting season for our club I had all of my targets sitting on the garage floor. So I took the opportunity to sort through them all and sort out any that needed some attention. I reorganized them all and put them away. I now have a whole bunch of targets sitting on shelves in my garage! I still have whole shelf full of wood targets I made about 8 years ago.
I found an old gravity fall target and decided to try a new target design that Wade Sutherland turned me on to. This design is the same basic design as my wood target design(http://www.airguns.net/woodtarg.html) except that instead of having a spring from the face to the base the spring is placed from the rear back bottom of the target arm to the face. I tried this design on an old prarie dog target and it worked out really well. The nice thing with this design is that a reset string doesn't have to go through the face plate to the paddle arm. The face can be pulled up and the spring will pull up the paddle arm. I may write more on this target later after I test it some more.
All and all it has been a fun holiday weekend. I had a good 4 days off for the holiday, I had to work a bit around the house but I didn't have to go shopping! And to top it all off I got to play with my toys!
