May have discovered another reason for the scarcity of rats under the bird feeder between this guy and the Cooper's hawk that keeps showing up, the rats may have changed their feeding times
Unfortunately I'm well aware of that age thing. Been dealing with it more and more lately. " What was that Dear? I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've mentioned it!! "
I did a low tech penetration test with my Hatsan Flash QE .25 last 4th of July. It involved 7 beer cans full of water(couldn't waste that much beer!) Anyway, the JSB 25.39 pellet went completely through 6 cans and 1 side of the 7th. When I dumped the pellet out of the last can it looked a lot...
I bought an old Chrony F1 years ago....don't even know if they're still available...but it's worked fine for both my powder burners and air guns. Also, being the basic model, very inexpensive.
Since I just received my new Notos I'll probably go through about 500 cphp's this month and a few odds and ends after that. My .177 and .25 usage will likely be much less.
I've never bought or sold any airguns....still have the first couple I got and they go back over 60 years....suppose I'd take into consideration any knowledge I could glean from the more experienced air gunners on this forum. That being said, going with the used ones being handled by reputable...
I've been keeping my eyes peeled on the bird feeder but no rats since I popped the pregnant female about 2 months ago. Can't imagine that they'd be shut down completely due to that....suspect it's more likely that they've just gone nocturnal.
Checked my new Notos to see if it's holding pressure (and yes it is) but had to go grocery shopping with the wife. Checked the bird feeder-lots of birds but no rats....I'll keep checking...
Showed up Wednesday while I was away repairing a wall mounted heater for my sister-in-law. So I had to wait a bit before I could unpack it. Everything in good shape and went well until I discovered that I didn't have any scope rings that were tall enough to work with the scope I have available...
Sorry to hear about your wife's health situation but your pill bottle/ammo solution may work wonders for me. Those JSB and AA slide on lids give me fits!! My blood pressure and cholesterol pill bottles are about to be repurposed!
I should look into a similar camera set up. Day light opportunities for rats under the bird feeder have pretty much dried up. Figure they must have wised up and gone nocturnal. Time to up the ante....
I've never had any "pretty" air guns. I guess the closest would be my old Beeman C1....and that's only due to the quality of the bluing of the steel.
Dang!!! Can't get the picture to download.....just early 80's vintage Webley bluing...