Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Squirrel Hunting with a FX Royale 400

This years Michigan winter was one of the most severe winters we have seen in a long time.  Just being able to take a walk outside this past weekend was a joyous occasion. The first time I was able to fire an airgun outdoors in 3 months!  Apparently a couple of  pesty little barn marauding red squirrels had the same idea.  One of my favorite squirrel guns, my FX Royale 400 and a couple of JSB 18G's lead for a quick double tap and an end to these pesty little creatures fun in the sun.  With the weather breaking here and the option to actually be able to walk outdoors, look out guys, there is a new sheriff in town and he is looking to more sun and fun shooting.  


Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Vortek TX200 Installation

Tom Gore from Vortek visited the shop, showing some of Vorteks new kits.  


 We took advantage of his visit and installed a 12fpe kit in a Nice Walnut Stocked .177cal TX200.

Factory Receiver with factory spring 

Factory Spring (top)
Vortek Kit with O Ring (bottom)

Factory piston with seal

Factory piston with Vortek O Ring conversion

Vortek Duel Guide system does a great job of absorbing unwanted vibration
 and providing a smooth shot cycle


Final assembly complete

Vortek 12fpe with O Ring kit shot JSB 7.9's @ 875fps = 13.4fpe
Not only does this TX have amazing shooting potentional
The stock is amazing also

Thanks Tom, it is always a pleasure when you come by the shop.
Keep up the good work




Sunday, March 9, 2014

Indoor Bench Rest Event

Heavy snow, cold weather and a touch of cabin fever seemed like a good reason to hold an informal indoor bench rest competition.  
Cake Dave and Robert showed up with their sporter guns. Dave was shooting a tuned .22cal Marauder and Robert shot a Dominator in .177cal. They also kept busy wheeling and dealing finding some nice Used Guns that had just arrived in the shop the day before, a  Beeman .22cal R1 and an older Santa Rosa labeled Beeman R1. 

Dave (Grumpy) Goldstein made it out with his Steyr .22cal AZ tuned rifle.  He set up with borrowed bag and rest and had no problem shooting a clean 250 with 13 X's.  Dave finish the match with a total 746 - 35X.  
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Rod and Ryan Parks - father and son team, both shooting Steyrs had a great afternoon.  Ryan only dropped one on his first card, not satisfied, he then proceeded to shift to an alternate pellet which allowed him to achieve  clean 250's on his next two cards.  Ryan's third and final card had 21X's.  Congratulations Ryan on a new shop record! 

Rod's first card was a 245-6X. He made an adjustment on the velocity of his Steyr, basically turning up the velocity to approximately 875 with JSB 8.4's.  Wow -what a difference. Turning up the velocity was definitely the right move. His second card was a clean 250-19X,  third card another 250 - 22X!  Sorry Ryan, as they say records are made to be broken.  Your dad now holds the high card record for the shop.  

Rod's target shot at 50 feet indoors
250-22X

Mark Maher shooting a .177 Steyr had his rifle dialed in perfectly from the start.  Consistently and effortlessly shooting 250 cards.  A 10X, 17X and a strong finish with a 20X on his third card.  

Shawn Henn shooting his AZ tuned TM1000 shot a 249-10X,  249-15X, and a 248-8X.  Shawn helped organize and run the match.  He also managed an interesting side shoot. An air pistol running bore event.  Participants fired a few practice shots at a stationary target, then each shooter was allowed four shots at a moving target.  Target was a 1" orange dot and made two passes at slow speed (5 seconds) and then two passes at the fast speed 2.5" seconds crossing speed. Everyone including myself found out this is tougher than they thought it would be.  Mainly because of the open sights on the pistol.  It is normal for your eyes to want to focus on and follow the rapidly moving orange dot.  You then need to go the pistol sights front and rear, in which case you momentarily loose the dot, then when you reacquire the dot you loose the site set on the pistol.  At the end of this challenging event, I was lucky to be the only shooter to put a pellet in the orange dot.  This entitled me to the $10.00 cash prize. Yeah!


I also held my own on the bench rest.  Slow and steady gave me the high over all score. Shooting 250-16X, 250-16X and 250-18X.  Looking forward to finding some time to tweak my Steyr in hopes of matching or bettering the current shop record.  Is a 250 25X in the horizon, we can only hope.

I would say our group is really progressing well in the sport of airgun bench rest.  
1st - Jim S.: Steyr LG110 FT .177 - 750 50X
2nd - Mark Maher: Steyr LG110 FT .177 -  750 47X
3rd - Ryan Parks: Steyr LG110 HP .177 - 749 51X
4th - Dave G: Steyr LG110 Hunter .22 - 746 35X
5th - Shawn Henn: RAW TM1000 .177 -  746 34X
6th - Rod Parks: Steyr LG110 HP .177 -  745 47X
7th - Cake Dave: Benjamin Maruader .22cal -  713 15X
8th - Robert: Dominator 1250 2 cards 441 4X

Thanks to my wife Nancy for setting us up with chili and cornbread for the event.  Thanks to Shawn Henn for all your help running, providing targets and scoring the event.  Thank you to everyone for coming out and all your help with the set up and take down. Always a days fun with the great commendatory and conversation. Looking forward to our next April event.  











Sunday, March 2, 2014

Kahles K 10-50x56 – THE PERFECTIONIST with DD Reticle

We are excited to be offering very soon
 Kahles K 10-50x56 – THE PERFECTIONIST
 with DD Reticle Scope.
Top mounted parallax allows for an easy loading from left to right
Scope can also be rotated 90 degrees to set parallax on left side
Both wind-age and elevation turrets have color coded pop up indicator
Never end up one revolution off -This feature is worth the price of admission
Makes it extremely easy to see which revolution when setting for different ranges


$2,495.00

Since 1898 Kahles has continuously been setting milestones in optical performance. This pioneering spirit over generations has for more than a century been blazing new trails in scope design, durability and performance.
Today, closer to the edge of physics than ever before, KAHLES is still keeping with its old-established principles: To create optical instruments of highest quality standards for serious outdoor enthusiasts. Innovative and sophisticated yet user friendly and extremely durable. With a clean ergonomic design and craft perfection that is standing out in our modern world of mass production



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