Re: Check in

[Bob La Londe <none@none.com99>]

On 5/14/2020 8:16 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
> On 5/14/2020 6:41 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>
>> On 5/14/2020 1:30 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>> Â > On 5/14/2020 3:22 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>> Â >> On 5/14/2020 12:20 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>> Â >>> On 5/14/2020 9:56 AM, ABLE1 wrote:
>> Â >>>> On 5/14/2020 10:20 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>> Â >>>>> On 5/12/2020 5:13 AM, ABLE1 wrote:
>> Â >>>>>> On 5/11/2020 10:58 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
>> Â >>>>>>> On Monday, May 11, 2020 at 8:58:18 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote:
>> Â >>>>>>>> On 4/4/2020 1:47 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
>> Â >>>>>>>>> Hey!
>> Â >>>>>>>>>
>> Â >>>>>>>>> How's everybody doing?
>> Â >>>>>>>>
>>  >>>>>>>> I had a gnat fly in my mouth the other day.  He tasted like
>> mosquito
>> Â >>>>>>>> repellent.
>> Â >>>>>>>>
>>  >>>>>>>> HACK!  HACK!  HACK!
>> Â >>>>>>>
>> Â >>>>>>> Let's see now -----
>> Â >>>>>>>
>> Â >>>>>>> If you had a choice between eating a gnat that tasted like
>> mosquito repellent and a green horse fly that tasted like horseshit
>> Â >>>>>>>
>> Â >>>>>>> Which would you choose?
>> Â >>>>>>>
>> Â >>>>>>> Sorry Bob, I just couldn't resist
>> Â >>>>>>>
>> Â >>>>>>
>> Â >>>>>>
>>  >>>>>> Jim,  Your resistance was futile..................
>> Â >>>>>>
>> Â >>>>>> Oh and Bob, think about it!! There has to be another choice.
>> Not!!
>> Â >>>>>>
>> Â >>>>>> ROFLOL
>> Â >>>>>
>> Â >>>>>
>> Â >>>>> My place is surrounded by citrus and alfalfa, so gnats are a
>> regular hazard.  Mosquitos for some reason not so much.  Several of my
>> neighbors have horses as well, but no horse flies either.  Never heard
>> of a green horse fly, but we have a big black one that I see out on
>> the river fairly often in the summer time.  They will but a nasty bite
>> on you, and are hard to hit with anything.  One anglers I used to knew
>> kept a badminton racket in his boat for taking them out.
>> Â >>>>>
>> Â >>>>> Anyway, not the first gnat I've wound up eating or spitting
>> out. Just the first one that tasted like deet.  FYI:  Mosquito
>> repellent seems to have no affect on them.  I tried back when I first
>> moved to this place back in 2005/06.
>> Â >>>>
>> Â >>>> Many Many years ago when I was the Maintenance Supervisor for a
>> Plastic
>> Â >>>> Extrusion Company I had a very small office near the shop.
>> Â >>>> (maybe 11' x 9')Â  One summer there was this standard housefly
>> that got
>>  >>>> into the office.  Since he was young he was very fast and I
>> could not
>>  >>>> get him.  Buzz buzz buzz around and then would hide for a while.
>>  >>>> Myself in and out of the office all day.  Drove me nuts for 3
>> days.  Now
>>  >>>> the fly is 3 days older and getting slower.  He sat down on my
>> desk and
>> Â >>>> I very quickly reached out and caught him in my hand.
>>  >>>> Yahoo!!  Gotcha sucker!!
>> Â >>>>
>> Â >>>> Due to the torture he bestowed on me for 3 frickin days there
>> had to be some appropriate punishment that was needed for this now
>> captured fly.
>> Â >>>> So I pulled off a bit of Scotch Tape and gently stuck him to
>> it.  His
>> Â >>>> legs were wiggling and his wings were trying to get loose but
>> the sticky
>>  >>>> Scotch Tape adhesive would not let him go.  I walked him out to the
>> Â >>>> shipping dock and gently stuck the tape with the fly to the
>> floor.  He
>>  >>>> continued to try and get free but he couldn't!!  I then went
>> over to
>> Â >>>> the walk-behind forklift and positioned the left front wheel in
>> line
>>  >>>> with the fly.  I the slowly (ever so slowly) moved the the 4,750lb
>>  >>>> forklift forward.  Once the tire rolled over the fly I went back
>> and forth a couple of time just make sure he was DEAD.  I then pealed the
>> Â >>>> Scotch Tape with squished fly off the floor and returned to my
>> office
>>  >>>> where I pinned it to my bulletin board.  I did not have another
>> fly enter my office for the rest of the summer.
>> Â >>>>
>>  >>>> Wow, just typing that, made me feel so good!!  LOL
>> Â >>>>
>> Â >>>> I hope you all enjoyed reading my little fly story!!
>> Â >>>> You may now resume your normal activities................
>> Â >>>>
>> Â >>>> Les
>> Â >>>>
>> Â >>>>
>> Â >>>
>> Â >>> Did you cackle and rub your hand together as you dreamed up your
>> revenge?
>> Â >>>
>>  >>> A few years ago I tried to grow a winter garden.  Black birds and
>> grackles were eating my seedlings as fast as they would sprout.  I
>> looked them up.  There is actually an international treaty protecting
>> both of them, but there is a clause in that treaty where I can
>> exterminate them with extreme prejudice when they are causing
>> substantial harm to crops.  I broke out an air rifle and spent the
>> next several weeks shooting anything with wings that came near my
>> garden. I'd go pick them up and toss them in the garbage, but one day
>> I popped two crackles  and a customer called.  Those two grackles got
>> left at the end of the rows of broccoli for several days, and as long
>> as they laid there not another grackle came near my garden.
>> Â >>>
>> Â >>> FYI, If a grackle happens to bend down towards you a properly
>> tuned .25 Marauder will put a 25.4 grain pellet though his beak and
>> exit his asshole at 30 yards without hardly slowing down.
>> Â >>>
>>  >>> P.S.  I am sure when you were a kid somebody said they had a
>> Benjamin/Sheridan/Daisy/ etc that they could pump up a hundred times
>> and it would shoot like a .22.  They were full of shit.  LOL.  My .25
>> Marauder develops about half the energy of a .22 long rifle.  There
>> are air rifles that develop as much energy (or more) as a 45 acp, but
>> they sure aren't doing it with a .177 caliber 7 grain flat nosed cast
>> lead badminton birdie.  My Marauder is charged to 3000 PSI with an
>> SCBA compressor or SCBA tank and gets 28 shots at a little over 900FPS
>> before velocity starts to drop, and I go refill it.  Its an awesome
>> medium range game bird killer.
>> Â >>>
>> Â >>
>> Â >>
>> Â >> PPS:Â  When I was a kid my Daisy 880 did a number on horse flies.
>> 2 pumps with a steel BB would take one off the side of an aluminum
>> drop tank without leaving a dent.  It would leave a pretty healthy
>> dent on the side of the feed shed though.
>> Â >
>> Â > I have a Beeman Silver Kodiak X2 single pump will move a .177 pellet
>>  > at a speed of 1000fps.  Unless I am having a bad day, all targets are
>> Â > sent to ~~~~~~~~~>>>>>>>> another place.
>> Â >
>> Â > Yes, those good old Daisy steel BB's will also shatter A-L-L the glass
>> Â > windows that are located in the neighbors chicken coop............
>> Â > Don't ask me how I know!!!
>> Â >
>>
>>
>> If that's what it said on the box it may and it may not, but they post
>> their bragging speeds with a light weight pellet under ideal
>> circumstances with their best guns off the line.  I wouldn't believe
>> it unless I saw it on the ProChrono, (Chronys suck) and I wouldn't
>> expect to see it except with a 7-7.4 grain pellet.  It might even go
>> super sonic with a light alloy (5.4gr if I recall) pellet, but it
>> would have little energy if it did hit its target.
>>
>> If you are getting 1000FPS with a 7 grain pellet that is still about
>> 15.5 ft/lbs at the muzzle.  Almost twice the legal energy for an
>> airgun in the UK.  If its making the kill shots you need then its more
>> than adequate, but I bet if you bumped up to a heavier round nose your
>> terminal energy would increase dramatically even though your velocity
>> would drop.  I can't speak about accuracy.  I always found spring
>> piston guns to be problematic to shoot due to the double recoil.  Some
>> people love them though.  I went with PCP and love it.  Its like
>> shooting a light powder burner.  I've got a .177 Marauder also.  It
>> shoots about 120 shots out of it regulated and tuned for a hair over
>> 20FPE shooting 10.65 grain copper plated domes at 940-950 FPS (over
>> the ProChrono). Its made my longest airgun kill shot at 94 yards.
>> (gopher)
>>
>> My favorite though is a Chinese BAM-50 .22.  I never got it tuned for
>> a great shot count, but at the range I'll shoot it tethered to an air
>> tank with 14.3 grain Crosman hollow points.  Yeah, the tins from the
>> discount store (if they are in stock).  I have it adjusted to shoot
>> 1035-1050 at full pressure.  If there is no wind and I can have a
>> couple ranging shots I can put shot after shot on a golf ball size
>> target at 135 yards. Â Â That's how far it is to the mountain back stop
>> at our local small bore range.  I do have to look for the pellets that
>> are clean without flashing to do that though.
>>
>> If you want to play with other pellets I favor the JSB Exact in all
>> calibers.  They have a nice range of weights in most common calibers
>> too, although you will probably have to order them from an airgun
>> supply.  You won't find them at WalMart.
>>
>> The .25 Marauder is putting out a consistent 45+ ft/lbs at the muzzle
>> with JSB Exact Kings.  Its no toy.  (.22LR generic is about 110ft/lbs)
>>
>> I ran a .25 Kalibre Cricket regulated bullpup for a while.  Its was a
>> little more powerful, very accurate, much higher shot count, and to
>> damned expensive for me to leave by the back door of the shop.  I sold
>> it before I scratched it.  LOL.
>>
>> If you want to have some fun (and annoy your neighbors) look into
>> dieseling.  That will get you super sonic with a bang in a spring
>> piston gun.  I've heard its hard on seals though.  Used to do it with
>> my Nitro Piston gun since it wouldn't hold a group anyway.  I both
>> loved and hated that thing.  Light and easy to hold.  Would group for
>> about 5-7 shots and then the group would move.
>>
>>
>> I almost forgot.  I have a Hatsan .22 underlever also, but its on
>> indefinite loan to my dad.  Shoots a consistent 940fps shot after shot
>> with 14.3 Crosman pellets.   That might be with a heavier JSB pellet.
>> I forget.  Its a beast.  Underlever spring piston, and if the lever
>> gets away from you it could very well break your fingers. Recoil on it
>> is crazy for a pellet gun.  Its also heavy, which does help with the
>> recoil.
>>
>>
>> I still have a Daisy 880 in the closet.
>>
>>
>
> Bob,
>
> Thanks for the lesson in the Air Gun stuff!!
> Actually I needed something with more power since the
> Daisy Powerline 880 pump I had left the furry tailed rat
> laughing at me, and it became more than I could bear.
> Something had to be fixed.  The single pump with
> whatever true velocity or ft/lbs made a huge difference
> since I got no more laughing rats.
>
> It seems that the rats have learned the rules of the property.
> Haven't had to train one on the rules for quite some time.
> But, it is spring and that may change.  Some are just born
> stupid.  :-)
>
> Have a good weekend all!!  For some, the area may be opening
> for business shortly.  Can't say if it is good or bad at this
> time.  Only time will tell.  Be safe out there.
>
> Les


Sorry about that.  I did go off a bit on one of my hobbies didn't I.

P.S.  Yer a bad influence.  After posting here I went and looked at the
various new air guns coming available soon or recently available.  I
just barely retrained myself from ordering a new Hatsan Bully 9mm at
150FPE at 910FPS (claimed).  I did look a the .45  at 290FPE, but I am
used to the trajectory of an airgun that shoots just over 900 FPS.  Then
I looked at the new Hatsan pile driver.  Its the new (claimed) most
powerful production air rifle on the market, and its priced to match.  A
whopping 800+ FPE in .50 and still over 700FPE in .45.  I just don't
have any use for an airgun like that.  Not even one tiny justification.
Well unless the Bloomberg assault team does to Arizona what they did to
Virginia.  Yes, they have targeted Arizona next.