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Small-bore target rifles are a fetish of mine. The gun below was bought by my Dad in the early '50s, when he and his best friend, Alfred, used to shoot in the NYC small-bore leagues. Dad eventually tired of the gun and sold it to Alfred. It was the first rifle I ever shot (in Alfred's basement) at the tender age of 6. When Alfred passed in the early 2000s, another old friend bought the gun from Alfred's widow. When I found out that Bruce now had the gun, I made an offer to buy it. He gave it to me for what he paid, which was $225. My kids and I shoot this gun off our deck quite often. Super accurate with CCI CB Longs. The Parker-Hale sights are original to the gun.

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Here's one of my newest acquisitions. It's a canik tp9sfx, pronounced janik. It comes from the factory with the slide ported, and machined for mounting a red dot. I was going to put a red dot on it, but the factory sights are awesome. Comes with 2 20rd mags, and a bunch of different mounts for optics. It's a tack driver, literally. My friend stuck a thumb tack in the bullseye, and I hit it first try from about 35'. 9mm, 3.5lb trigger, it's supposed to be for competition. Easy to shoot quickly and accurately.

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Here's one of my newest acquisitions. It's a canik tp9sfx, pronounced janik. It comes from the factory with the slide ported, and machined for mounting a red dot. I was going to put a red dot on it, but the factory sights are awesome. Comes with 2 20rd mags, and a bunch of different mounts for optics. It's a tack driver, literally. My friend stuck a thumb tack in the bullseye, and I hit it first try from about 35'. 9mm, 3.5lb trigger, it's supposed to be for competition. Easy to shoot quickly and accurately.

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Nice!!
 
This thread had me wanting another firearm until I go upstairs and take a look at what I don't use. No need for more. Just get out and shoot. I need more ammo.
 
Small-bore target rifles are a fetish of mine. The gun below was bought by my Dad in the early '50s, when he and his best friend, Alfred, used to shoot in the NYC small-bore leagues. Dad eventually tired of the gun and sold it to Alfred. It was the first rifle I ever shot (in Alfred's basement) at the tender age of 6. When Alfred passed in the early 2000s, another old friend bought the gun from Alfred's widow. When I found out that Bruce now had the gun, I made an offer to buy it. He gave it to me for what he paid, which was $225. My kids and I shoot this gun off our deck quite often. Super accurate with CCI CB Longs. The Parker-Hale sights are original to the gun.

BSA/Martini Model 13:

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You could do small scale Zulu reenactments with it.
 
So, I went to buy a small box of .22's yesterday.
I didn't expect the rectal exam, and anal probe. I was shocked, and walked out without any.
California truly sucks anymore because of the safety pins.
 
So, I went to buy a small box of .22's yesterday.
I didn't expect the rectal exam, and anal probe. I was shocked, and walked out without any.
California truly sucks anymore because of the safety pins.

I have several friends in Shasta county, one of the shrinking number of gun friendly areas in CA. Even they are saying it sucks and one going out of state to buy.

Background checks on ammo will likely be pushed next in MA, IL, NY, NJ, CT, CO and other like-minded states.

For CA residents only, be sure to register your assault weapon by July or face the consequences.
 
Opinions requested,..
.22cal long rifle bird shot rounds, and ground squirrels at around 30' max, more like 25'. Clean kill power?

and another question,..
gun powder and the threat of wild fires from the powder. threat?
the 30' shot has a firewood pile as a backdrop. So, I'm thinkning along those lines.
 
I'd recommend two brands for your .22LR shot shells:

1. Federal Game-Shok No.12 bird shot, 25gr.

2. CCI No. 12 bird shot, 31gr.

I would not recommend either round for squirrels as there is not enough mass to the individual BB's inside the shell to kill one. I'd stick to a FMJ or HP round for squirrels.

Yes, there is a threat of fire when shooting in the woods or at a wood backstop. It's not the gunpowder so much as it is the hot bullet.
 
I wouldn't have guessed hot metal.
Does the air compression from air rifles cause any such threat due to heated metal? I was reading about the phenomenon of dieseling with air rifles, which concerned me.
 
Air rifles don't use a combustion process to fire the pellet unlike a powder loaded round of ammunition.

I know nothing about dieseling in air rifles.
 
The only time I've caused a fire shooting stuff was with exploding targets. I know tracers can cause fires, and dragons breath rounds for the shotgun will definitely cause a fire. I wouldn't worry about it with a pellet gun.
 
Air rifles don't use a combustion process to fire the pellet unlike a powder loaded round of ammunition.

I know nothing about dieseling in air rifles.


I knew nothing about it, prior to using this one, referring to the Ruger .22
While awaiting arrival I read about it, and studied it a bit more in-depth. It is a phenom that occurs from the sudden and extreme compression of air behind the pellet, with both spring, and nitro-piston types. It is supposed to get hot enough with that instantaneous compression that it ignites vapors from the guns internal lubrication, in the same process that drives diesel motors, sparkless ignition due to compression.
I did witness this when I was sighting the Ruger. It only happened after shooting several rounds in a row (was shooting 5, then inspecting the group, and changing targets). I opened the breach, and, out came smoke. I've not seen it in one-off rounds.

explained:
Spring-piston air guns (or simply "spring guns" or "springers") operate by means of a coil spring-loaded piston pump assembly contained within a compression chamber separate from the gun barrel. Before shooting, the user need to manually cock the gun by flexing a lever connected to the pump assembly. The cocking drives the pump piston backwards and compress the spring until its rear engages the sear. The act of pulling the trigger disengages the sear, allows the spring to decompress and release the elastic potential energy stored within it, and pushes the piston forward thereby compressing the air in the pump cylinder. Because the pump outlet (located to the front of the pump) is directly behind the pellet sitting in the barrel chamber, once the air pressure has risen enough to overcome any static friction and/or barrel restriction holding back the pellet, the pellet is propelled forward by an expanding column of pressurized air. All this takes place in a fraction of a second, during which the air undergoes adiabatic heating to several hundred degrees and then cools as the air expands. This can also cause a phenomenon referred as "dieseling", where flammable substances in the compression chamber (e.g. petroleum-based lubricant) can be ignited by the compression heat like in a diesel engine, and lead to an afterburner effect with (often unpredictable) additional thrusts, as well as combustion smoke coming out of the muzzle upon firing. Most spring-piston guns are single-shot breechloaders by nature, but multiple-shot repeaters with magazine feeders have become more common in recent years.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_gun
 
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