nightplinkers
HAM Shooter
Really happy to be a part of the HAM community.
My Airgun Background - Back in the 70s, I honed my shooting on soda cans, lizards, beetles, and the occasional gopher with a Red Ryder BB gun in the hills of Thousand Oaks, California, USA. Then came a Daisy Powerline 880; both of which I left behind when to join the USAF back in '85. Decades passed before I picked up a Daisy 880 again, then another 880, then a Crosman I found at an estate sale. But that nostalgia collided headlong with today’s modern airgun tech. The evolution was staggering. I was hooked. Being a nerd by nature, that meant getting into the science and "attempts" for predictability. There is no shortage of "everything you ever wanted to know about airgun" videos out there. However, what I felt was missing were easy to follow guides on using airguns as tools of a trade, wildlife damage management of invasive, nuisance animals such as rodents, rabbits, coyotes and feral hogs. I like the small targets, so my focus is on ethical and humane (not overkill, attempt at single shot dispatch) rodent control using airguns and non-lead pellets where possible - multi-pump and PCP.
I started Night Plinkers out of the need for something different. A field-capable, legally defensible, publicly documented, and humane solution for pest control in sensitive environments. Night Plinkers is a Texas non-profit in the making (incorporation in progress). We do not charge for services, nor do we offer any paid for services. Permissions to carry out our field work supports our research. Our field work validates various use cases for airgun dispatch, verifying our homework and range testing. The results are published in Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) written for easy understanding. If you're a backyard plinker or a pest management professional, these SOPs aim to give you standard, easy to follow processes. SOPs are also no cost.
Since I'm already documenting, I'm also writing various magazine articles, the first coming in the next Airgun Hobbyist Annual Hunters edition. I plan to follow up with a four part series focused on the "Tune Down". Looking to get more involved in Pest Management periodicals.
My Day-to-Day - I'm not retired yet. I've been in IT for 41 years; at the same tech giant for the last 27 years. I have been involved in AI, Machine Learning and Data Science for the last 3+ years and am currently working on my GenAI Black Belt.
Do they cross over? Absolutely! For example, in addition to the above work, I've started testing AI Pellet and Slug inspection.
Let's nerd up something cool like hunting together ;-)
@nightplinkers
#nightplinkers
My Airgun Background - Back in the 70s, I honed my shooting on soda cans, lizards, beetles, and the occasional gopher with a Red Ryder BB gun in the hills of Thousand Oaks, California, USA. Then came a Daisy Powerline 880; both of which I left behind when to join the USAF back in '85. Decades passed before I picked up a Daisy 880 again, then another 880, then a Crosman I found at an estate sale. But that nostalgia collided headlong with today’s modern airgun tech. The evolution was staggering. I was hooked. Being a nerd by nature, that meant getting into the science and "attempts" for predictability. There is no shortage of "everything you ever wanted to know about airgun" videos out there. However, what I felt was missing were easy to follow guides on using airguns as tools of a trade, wildlife damage management of invasive, nuisance animals such as rodents, rabbits, coyotes and feral hogs. I like the small targets, so my focus is on ethical and humane (not overkill, attempt at single shot dispatch) rodent control using airguns and non-lead pellets where possible - multi-pump and PCP.
I started Night Plinkers out of the need for something different. A field-capable, legally defensible, publicly documented, and humane solution for pest control in sensitive environments. Night Plinkers is a Texas non-profit in the making (incorporation in progress). We do not charge for services, nor do we offer any paid for services. Permissions to carry out our field work supports our research. Our field work validates various use cases for airgun dispatch, verifying our homework and range testing. The results are published in Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) written for easy understanding. If you're a backyard plinker or a pest management professional, these SOPs aim to give you standard, easy to follow processes. SOPs are also no cost.
Since I'm already documenting, I'm also writing various magazine articles, the first coming in the next Airgun Hobbyist Annual Hunters edition. I plan to follow up with a four part series focused on the "Tune Down". Looking to get more involved in Pest Management periodicals.
My Day-to-Day - I'm not retired yet. I've been in IT for 41 years; at the same tech giant for the last 27 years. I have been involved in AI, Machine Learning and Data Science for the last 3+ years and am currently working on my GenAI Black Belt.
Do they cross over? Absolutely! For example, in addition to the above work, I've started testing AI Pellet and Slug inspection.
Let's nerd up something cool like hunting together ;-)
@nightplinkers
#nightplinkers
