ironman andy

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I bought a 3-9 x 50 mill dot from jsr with mounts for just under £30 inc postage. It's under the heading "credit crunch special" in "airgunner" magazine, but it does not show them on the website. Ordered it mon morning received it tues morning, that's service! Optic clarity is very good for the price, and they are parallax fixed at 30 yds. Great Value for money, (dont mind getting it bashed about in the field for that price!) Hope this helps, Andy

I used blue curlers on the one I made, better sound reduction For the wadding I used scotch brite pad (70 pence a pack of four from ASDA). Regards Andy

I made up an excell spreadsheet where you enter the fps and pellet weight and it tells you the ft/lbs. I will try to attach it . Cannot upload this type of file, p.m me your e-mail and I will send it to you. (only works if you have excell! Andy

It sounds daft, but when hunting at very close ranges, i.e. 10-15 yds, put your normal ammo in back to front. At this range there is minimal loss of accuracy. Then you dont need to buy two lots of pellets. Aerodynamicly, round nose pellets are more ballistcly efficient at sub-sonic speeds (99.9% of all air rifles), than their pointy nosed friends. Just look at jet planes, sub sonic, i.e boing 747 etc =round nose, super-sonic i.e. concord = pointed nose. I think more money has been spent on the aerospace research than on air gun ammo, but no doubt this research is used by pellet manu

Has anyone got a cheap chrono for sale Have posted in wanted section with no replies cheers Andy

For Sale Genuine World War 2 Italian Rifles. Never Been Fired, Only dropped once!

Just thought I'd post photos of my best evenings shooting so far. One of my customers owns an old military station which consists of 14 acres of fenced in, and razor wired land, with his bungalow in the middle. (No military buildings exist on it anymore) He comes into work last week complaining of his rabbit problem, jokingly (but realy meaning it) I say "let me come and bring my air rifle and blat some for you!" "Anytime Andy" he says. RESULT!! So that evening I spend two hours wandering arround and get 12 rabbits. Everything I aimed at I hit (Never usually that easy ) I even

Below supersonic speeds, round nose have the better balistic coefficiency, whereas, above the speed of sound, pointed noses have the best coefficiency. Look at aircraft, jet liners,ie 747 etc= rounded noses=below speed of sound. Fighters, ie Tornado, Euro fighter etc. pointed noses= above speed of sound. (ths space shuttle kind of f**ks that argument up though, hope no one will realise ) I believe it is down to there being a greater surface area on pointed pellets, so more friction. Also as said earlier, pionted pellets would have to be very accuratly made which they are not! Sti

No need to heat as air rifle barrels are quite soft (compared to full-bore rifles), (don't suppose the chap heated it up to bend it in the first place ) Steel dosn't take too much to bend or straighten, just clobber it once then check, then a little more brute force if needed. Andy p.s if there is a fly-press in the super-shed it will make the process very easy (BUT BE WARNED, BE GENTLE!!)

I had a Webley Hawk Mk3 which someone had fired without the barrel being returned to the breech, result, barrel bent upwards (so much so, you could see the barrel in the scope picture). All I done was to take the barrel off then rest it on two blocks of wood (one at each end of the bend, centre of bend facing upwards) and gently smack the bend out using a rubber mallet or hammer and wooden block) (Easy for me to say being a blacksmith, and bending metal for the past 20 years) Dont worry about it being perfect, as long as you can zero it, no matter how bent the barrel is, the pellet will

I can see my error in thinking ft/lbs only being tortional energy Here is the wikipedia definition of a Joule: "One joule is the work done, or energy expended, by a force of one newton moving one meter along the direction of the force. This quantity is also denoted as a newton metre with the symbol N/m. Note that torque also has the same units as work, but the quantities are not the same. " Cheers to all ironman.

The question that I am about to ask has been puzzling me for some time now. Why do we use Foot/Pounds as a measurement of pellet power? As an engineer, I know Foot/Pound, (Newton/ Meters in metric), is a measurement of Torque! WARNING GEEK STUFF BELOW! In physics, a torque is a vector that measures the tendency of a force to rotate an object about some axis (center). The magnitude of a torque is defined as force times the length of the lever arm. Just as a force is a push or a pull, a torque can be thought of as a twist. The SI unit for torque is Newton meters (N m). In U.S. customar

No probs Millet . Mole catcher is correct in saying that certain springers and certain pcp's react opposite to pellet weights, ie a heavier pellet may push a springer over but the same weight pellet may make a pcp lower powered (haven't worked out just why, yet ). On answer to the actual thread question, fill gun with air, check the gun over a crono (average fps over a dozen or so shots), turn screw 1/2 turn (any direction) re-check readings over crono with the same pellets. If readings are higher then obviosly the way you turned the screw increases velocity. If no change in veloci

Looks like you hadn't changed the pellet weight on the crono millet. Formula is velocity(fps) x velocity(fps) x pellet weight (grains) Devided by gravitational constant(450240) equals muzzle energy in ft/lbs 733x733x10.6 devided by 450240=12.64 ft /lb (over powered) if you change the pellet weight for the lighter one, keeping the velocity the same you get:- 733x733x8.4 / 450240=10.02 ft/lb (incorrect pellet weight) this is your reading from your second picture! Clear as mud Andy