New Daystate Wolverine C and Daystate Hi Lite

 New Daystate Models arrived at the shop this week
Daystate, building on the success of the new Wolverine mono-block breech system has developed the new C model. Daystate replaced the bottle with a 300cc air cylinder and added a tactical sleeve made from PA66 ballistic polymer. This tactical sleeve incorporates a Picatinny rail for bipod and accessory mounting. The C model shares the same Lothar-Walther match grade barrel, Turkish walnut Italian stock and adjustable trigger as its Wolverine stable mates. The ten shot magazine and bolt action cocking and loading are over-built for smooth function and prevent double loading. The new Wolverine C is a great addition to any shooters battery of high end, precision pcp air riflesSpecifications:
Overall Length: 44.75 inches
Barrel Length: 17 inches
Calibers Available: .177 or .22cal
Magazine Capacity: 10 Shot
Air Capacity: 300cc
Shots Per Fill: 35
Weight: 7.85lbs
Safety: Bolt-open Mechanical
Action Finish: Satin
Brain Miller from Illinois drove up to pay us a visit and was able
 to check out the new Daystate Wolverine C Model.

Mark Maher displays Daystates New Wolverine B HiLite

Wolverine B HiLIte:

Weight: 7lbs 44oz.

Length: 44.75 inches

Carbon Fiber Bottle

 Mark takes a break from using his Daystate .25cal Air Wolf Extreme and gives the FX Royale 400 Bench Rest Model a shot.
 Great Rifles - Nice Weather - Great Shooting

Also recieved the Daystate Wolverine .303 HiLite

Daystate has long been a leader in top end, precharge air rifles. Over engineered for long service life and customer satisfaction is a tradition that the masters at Daystate will not deviate from. Without sacrificing quality or elegance Daystate presents the new Wolverine 303 Hi Lite. This new high power, long range air rifle gives maximum performance with the new Carbon Fiber bottle air supply reservoir. We have tested this rifle at 103 ft/lbs with 17 very accurate and consistent shots per fill and 3 more in reserve if needed. The Carbon Fiber bottles helps in weight as well. The Hi Lite tips the scale at a mere 7.5 lbs, which includes a Huggett sound suppressor as standard and makes the 303 a whisper on report. The Italian made stock is gracefully contoured to accentuate the lines of the air bottle as well as provide a very comfortable and stable hold when shouldered. The high grade walnut is stippled in key areas for grip and aesthetics. The Minnelli made stock has been crafted for both right and left hand shooters with a thumb up or through position that gives the shooter the best chance for proper trigger control. The trigger is a two stage adjustable match quality unit that will please the most discerning shooter. The Daystate Wolverine 303 Hi Lite sports all the sophistication of the original 303 with the added benefit of more high power shots per fill and much less weight to carry in the field. Sometimes less is more. SPECIFICATIONS: Overall Length: 50 inches Barrel Length: 23 inches Calibers Available: .303 Magazine Capacity: 5 shot Air Capacity: 480cc Shots Per Fill: 17-20 Weight: 7.5lbs Safety: Bolt open, mechanical Action Finish: Satin Scope and Rings Not Included

Informal Bench Rest Event 5/22/14

Precision Airguns hosted an informal 50 yard Bench Rest Event on Thursday May 22, 2014.  Giving the strong and variable winds that were present the guys voted to shoot a round of 25 yard bench rest first.

As usual always a good time that flew past quickly.  After a dinner break of sub sandwichs, potato salad and munchies a couple of shooters needed to leave which left three of us to battle the wind for the 50 yard challenge.

It was a pack of Wolves as all three of us were shooting our Daystate Air Wolfs.  No fancy rests, just front and back bags.  Many creative comments were strongly expressed while shooting the next three cards.  Just keeping the pellets in a score able section was a challenge.  The 10's and better yet 10x's were far and few between but extremely gratifying when they appeared on paper.  

Thank you to everyone that came out.  Thank you to Mark M. and Dave L. who stayed late and helped with the scoring and clean up.

25 Yard

Jim Stanis - RAW BM500 .22cal 30fpe- 728/29X

Dave Goldstein - Steyr LG110 .22cal 30fpe - 723/13X

Ryan Parks - Steyr LG110 .177cal (12fpe) - 719/12X

Dave L. - Daystate Air Wolf .22cal 37fpe - 696/9X

Mark Maher - Steyr LG110 .22cal 20fpe - 696/6X 

50 Yard

Jim Stanis - Daystate Air Wolf .22cal - 657/10X

Mark Maher - Daystate Air Wolf .22cal - 634/10X

Dave L. - Daystate Air Wolf .22cal - 589/12X

Shooting Event April 26, 2014

Michigan's unpredictable weather caused us to move our Postal Bench Rest Competition indoors on Saturday April 26, 2014.  Actually worked in our favor, as the indoor ranged  with zero wind allows us to bring out the accuracy these rifles truly have, however we were not able to shoot a sanctioned Postal Event.  Postal Bench Rest Competitions are required to be shot at 75' and the indoor range only allows for 50'.  Just a year ago, we were excited to see a fellow shooter obtain a 250 card. These days with top notch rifles like Steyr, FX, Daystate and RAW, 250 cards have become more of the norm,

with high X counts becoming the new challenge.

Shawn shooting his RAW TM1000

Jim shooting Steyr LG110 stock out of the box
Mark shooting Steyr LG110
 Ryan shooting Steyr LG110

 Rod Parks was our recent shop record holder shooting a 250 with 22X.  For those who follow my blog, you will notice that I like to shoot a different brand/model for each event.  This Saturday I chose a new 2014 model Steyr LG110 FT 24J/18FPE with the new Kahles K1050 Scope.  Shooting JSB 8.4 right out of the tin.  This turned out to be a winning combination for me.  It actually set a new club record of a 250 with 25X - it doesn't get any better than that.  I believe the 50X magnification of Kahles really helped achieve the precision necessary to zero in on these pin size targets.

1st Place: Jim Stanis  250 22X, 250 21X, 250 25X = 750 68X

2nd Place: Mark Maher  250 16x, 250 20X, 250 16X = 750 52X

3rd Place: Ryan Parks  25017X, 250 16X, 250 9X = 750 42X

4th Place: Rod Parks  250 17X, 249 14X, 250 16X = 749 47X

Rod switched on his last card to a .22cal Lother Walther barrel that he had machined to fit his Steyr

5th Place: Shawn Henn  250 14X, 248 13X

Shawn was not able to finish as he was called away early

Shawn and Mark were playing with their higher powered .25cal sporters, having a shot count competition.  Both the Daystate Air Wolf Extreme and Regulated FX Royale 500 have proven to be capable of 90 -100 shots at 40+FPE.

Top: Daystate Air Wolf Extreme
Bottom: FX Royale 500 Reg'd

Thank's to Shawn's pulled pork and Dave's bundt cake,

these have become the shooters favorites at the events.

The day continues with a random Fun Shoot Event.  This week it was decided to use our bench rest guns from the shoulder - off hand.  This was challenging due to the fact that these guns are not designed for off hand shooting. You will notice some rifles do not offer rear stock assemblies attached.  To make these more difficult/fun? the target was a very small rifle primer.  Some decent groups were fired at the 50' range, however only one shooter Ryan hit one of the primers and took home the $10.00 cash prize. Good Shooting Ryan!  Mark Maher built the metal back stop that held the primers.

Mark Maher

Ryan Parks

  Shaw working on fine tuning his FX Royale 500 Regulator

Shoot Safe - Shoot for Fun - Shoot An Airgun
Jim Stanis

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.  

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

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.  

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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