jdmidwest

Its a Centerpoint Scope, should hold up, they are one of the few that are designed for springers and goofy recoil. Looks like $68 at Wally World, great price for a Nitro Piston.

I have a whole lot of living to make up for that lost year to do this summer.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Reseal-Repair-Seal-Kit-for-Benjamin-340-342-347-Air-Rifles-/262703459125 That should do the trick. Look for a you tube video to walk you thru it. There was another trick the other day with some kind of lube that improved the seals but can't remember what it was. Pretty simple. Or, you could just send it to Baker and let him do it for you. https://www.bakerairguns.com/repair-restoration/

Then there is the temp thing with CO 2, it gets colder and power drops off. Straight air is the way to go, all of my hi power stuff is that. Either pumpers like the Crosman 140 or the AR 177, Springers with the one stroke. Nice to see what you did with the 1322. I have a 1377 that used to get that kind of performance. Gotta love the net. You could never get this the ole fashion way of trial and error.

Sorry Wrench, I thought that was the 2240 you ordered. The pump arm did not look like the 1322, because of the mod. Looks like I need to do the same with my 1322. I bought one a couple of years ago and was unimpressed with it. Tossed it into the closet after one afternoon. No power or accuracy.

I almost dropped some coin on a Umarex Gauntlet yesterday. A dealer from Kansas City was set up at the gunshow. He specializes in Air Guns and Black Powder, I have had a few conversations with him in the past. He had the 177 and 22 at the show, and I got to put hands on them. They look like they weigh a ton, but shoulder and balance real well. His price was the same as online, so I decided to wait. We did discuss the hand pump thing in pretty good detail. It takes about 40 pumps to fill the empty tank, then about a pump a shot to top it off. The Gauntlet has a regulator and is pretty efficient on its use of air. I was always assuming there would need to be alot of pumping with a hand pump to charge the tank, seems like it does not take very much. He had a couple of the 2240's on the table used, one was already tricked out with the Walther Lothar barrel, but I don't need a CO2 gun. There were some nice long barrel 32 and 36 cal squirrel rifles that drew my interest, something on my short list is a black powder in that design and caliber. I ended up walking out without buying anything. My grandson is sporting a new Crosman AR 177 pellet rifle that I got him for his birthday last week. Good looking rifle, durable like the old 140 powerplant. Adjustable stock so he can grow into it. 5 shot clip. I put a 30mm red dot on it and a rifle sling. I bet there will be a squirrel die this fall from it. I also ordered another AR receiver, going to build a nice little 22lr AR for him this spring too. That Modern Sporting Rifle has turned out to be the berries for me. Adjustable stock and soft recoil has made things easy for my kid and now grandkids to adapt to them. To bad a turd had to use one at a mass shooting.

Its on my schedule and looking forward to it. Deja Vu, back to where I was at this time last year.

My garden last year was pretty simple. I put it in and it did its thing without any help from me, no weeding, pruning, watering, or even picking. Wife mowed the yard and picked the garden. Today, I dug up 2 five gallon buckets of strawberry plants that run out of the cells in the concrete blocks into the main bed and made fresh plants. I just let them run last year because I did not feel like trying to keep them out. So, I have a bunch of new plants. I transplanted new sets into my 2 strawberry beds today. Then I turned over both beds with a shovel, added more dirt, then planted spring garden. Snow peas, lettuce, and spinach are in the ground. Spring garden 2018 is off and running.

But it really sucked for me. Friday marked the first year anniversary of finding the tumor, it was day my grandson was born. 2 weeks from Tuesday will be the first anniversary of being cancer free, the day the tumor was removed. Its been a long year, the surgery and recovery. 37 days of radiation, and the 4 months recovering from it. The lymphadema and treatments for it. 2 false alarms, and biopsies to go with them. A nite at Barnes back in January when the lymphadema developed an infection. The choking, dry mouth, stiff neck, ringing in my ears, and all of the aches and pains from damage due to radiation and surgeries. Needless to say, I did not get much done in the last 12 months. I did some fishing, mostly from a boat. I did one easy float trip in the kayak last fall. Very little wade fishing. I did not do much hunting, just a few days rifle season for deer, no ducks or small game. The yard, garden, house, and all other outside work did not get done by me. I returned to work at the end of September and have worked since. My wife had a stroke back in January a week after a minor surgery. She came home with a walker and not able to raise her left arm. With therapy and prayers, she has regained the use of her arm and leg for the most part and has returned to work also. She was not allowed her full recovery time due to the 5 weeks she was off with my radiation, they counted those weeks because it was still in a calendar year. But, I am in better shape than most that have went thru what I had. And have a body back to the size I was in my late 20's, lean and mean. Had to buy some new clothes. My stamina has returned and I am almost back to normal. Just in time for this little guy's birthday. And I have 2 more coming in April, both the daughter and step daughter are due around the same time. Lots to live for and look forward to. 3 grandsons and a granddaughter to train in the ways of the outdoors.

Screen door, private parts, slamming motion would be more fun than trying to fish an opener ever again. I have not done one since the 90's and those were not done sober. I can't take weekends any more till about 11am.

I want to see how this goes, I wonder myself. I hate carpet, especially light gray and muddy banks or worm fishing.

Nice

Or you could just stand behind Trump as he rushes in.

The irony of this post is all of the attacks on police in the past few years for using too much force, corruption, being too heavily armed and buying surplus military weapons. From Ferguson to all of the other riots. Now we pile on them for not doing enough. If gun control happens, this is the police force we will have left to protect us from crazy.

Because of privacy laws, crazy does not get reported to authorities or ever leaves the office. If it is not in the FBI Database when it comes to legal gun background checks, crazy buys a gun. In most of the last few shootings, red flags were up all around before the shooting happened. The system failed to work and crazy did its things. I only use crazy as a common thing among all of the shootings. None were done by normal minded individuals. All were thought out and planned ahead of time. They were not done spur of the moment.

33 years in law enforcement. And I assume his only weapon was his sidearm. He may have had access to more in his vehicle, depending on what his department let him have. Probably no personal weapons. Muzzle energy of 12 ga 00 buck is closer at around 1100 lbs of force, but still around 30 ft effective. Will not defeat body armor of most types. Nobody knows yet if he had any armor and he could not tell by looking. None the less, the second he entered a 100 ft range, he would have been under gunned and odds would have been against him even armed with shotgun and slugs. Almost all of law enforcement today walk around with handguns, either 9mm, 40 S&W, or 45 ACP. The rifle, or shotgun is in the vehicle. This is not the article I read that stirred me up, but one that seems to support him. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-bz-florida-school-shooting-scot-peterson-20180223-story.html

I ran across this post this morning reading my news feeds. What a statement. How can you call a man armed with a handgun who was reluctant to face a superior armed individual with a rifle a coward? An AR 15 in 5.56 creates about 1300+ foot pounds of energy and has an effective range of several hundred feet. It may or may not defeat most personal body armor. Shoulder fired, it is very accurate and deadly even under stress. And was probably capable of firing up to 30 rounds without reloading. Then you have a well seasoned officer in a nice relaxed job, very low threat probability. Maybe a kevlar vest, surely no chest plate or heavy armor. Armed with a handgun that produces a third of the energy, a third of the capacity, and a very short effective range. David and Goliath, in a round about way. You can arm chair quarter back all you want, but don't call him a coward. We will never know what went thru his mind, but unless you have someone ordering you to push on, it would be a hard life decision. One he will live with all his life. If he had been armed fully for the threat with superior firepower, it may have been a different call. But his chances of survival in an encounter with the crazed killer would have probably been pretty slim. I am ashamed and saddened as always by this ordeal. We can never face the common denominator, the crazed person with an axe to grind. They are going to grind that axe with a car, a bomb, a knife, a sword, poison, or a gun. Laws were in place that should have caught him. Law enforcement was aware of him. Someone dropped the ball. The gun did not lead him into the school and kill the people, the crazed individual did it with his own axe that he picked up to use that day. The anti gun war machine was cocked and ready with its senseless agenda. Attack the real cause of the situation. Society. Bad parents or lack thereof. Reality TV. Morality in general. If you want to attack the real case, I have my axe in hand to start chopping away. And for God's sake, lock down a school, prepare for a threat, and protect our kids. Surely all of the tax money they suck down could accomplish that. Watch over my kids like I do. Give them at least as much protection as we do our common criminals in jails and prison. Control access and stop this nonsense. __________________

And, all you have to do is lean to one side to roll her out when she gets out of line.....

Stealth seems to fade with age. You can't hear yourself make noises like you did when you were younger. Turkeys don't seem to age much or loose their eyesight and hearing. I have noticed that game seems to pay more attention to me now than the younger days. I get busted alot more now than when I was young. As far as putting a red dot on a scattergun, I have never really seen the need. Blinds and decoys work, but a smart Tom can pick them out pretty fast. I think the global warming has pushed the mating season back, MDC has not adjusted accordingly. The season seems to run too late now. Youth season seems to be spot on. I drove past a field the other morning after a ice storm and there was several toms in full strut slipping around on the icy ground. First thought was wow, they must be numb to the world. Second thought was that cold north wind blowing on his exposed butt must be pretty chilly, the ice chunks surrounding his toes, and ruffled feathers losing all his body heat, man he wants to breed worse than I did that morning. Imagined tossing myself out of bed, naked, into that mess of weather. Sex would be the last thing on my mind. May have been different at 18.

Almost sounds like something is blocking his specific MAC address.

Those old Cox planes would whack the piss out of a finger starting up. I had several of those too. Probably too dangerous now.

Being the smallest kid in my class, I was the object of many a torture. I would fit in a locker. They proved it a few times. But I never let that stop me, nor did I once carry a gun to school to do anything about it. I carried a pocket knife daily to school, but never harmed a person with it. I was also the smartest in my class, so I did not run into many bullies in Chemistry, Trigg, and Pre Calc. But when I did, I would think things thru and usually come up with some sort of revenge. I could dish it out pretty good for my size and learned a few tricks. When I got to college, there were those clicks too. Since I could pass a test without much effort, I had plenty of time to do other things. Now, that is outlawed too. They call it hazing. But I never considered shooting anyone because I was being "picked on". There are no emotional scars. But all of my best friends are the ones I have made since College. I hardly ever see any of my old classmates. I never worried about getting shot while I was in school. And that was a time when most of the parking lot had guns in the vehicles for hunting before and after school.

It is on the roof. The ladder thing was what I was dreading in a snow storm.

Just came up with one, switched over to rain and solved problem. Snowflakes were so big that the digital antenna signal even cut out a few times before the rain started. I am ready for spring. I was wanting to be on Pickwick this weekend tossing my new flies. Pickwick is spilling all gates at over 200,000 cfps. At that point, current in lake parts we fish is too strong for good fishing. River below is over the ramps and dangerous for many many miles. KY Lake at Jonathan Creek Thurs was a nice shade of brown and rising, assume Pickwick is the same. And it is raining heavy there too.

Here are some good answers to the gun control issue for those that wonder about it. http://blog.cheaperthandirt.com/5-top-gun-control-myths/?utm_source=emarsys&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Chronicle+021718-5+Top+Gun+Control+Myths-2018-02-17+09%3A10%3A31&sc_src=email_2988448&sc_lid=158339564&sc_uid=ZMq35qBQCu&sc_llid=662909&sc_eh=c66e9fb459906f041 I support background checks, it has prevented many felons and ones with criminal past from getting guns legally. It does nothing to stop the real problems, mental health and stolen guns. Hipa policies and the general public seem it is not needed to spread info around about the mentally ill that normally commits this kind of crime. Until something cures this problem, it is bound to happen again. Back to the Tide pods.