Well, Well, Well......
Again, many thanks to Mags! I got the AK/Matrix shooting decently this morning. It's no "Powerhouse" from 10 yards, as it struggled to knock over empty spray paint can targets. But it actually is fairly accurate. Needs some trigger work, but is still fun to shoot. It still has "issues" sometimes lifting the last pellet from the magazine
, but I
*think* I may have that figured out. I'm scheming on a DIY airsoft pellet trap, and this gun will likely become my indoor/basement rifle.
The Umarex Legend lever gun got here today!
That thing is FUN!!!! I cannot thank Daytime Dave enough for recommending that rifle!
I've read that co2 guns lose some velocity when it's cool-ish outside. But we had an unusual dry day here today (we get somewhere upwards of 70" of rain here in Sandy
), so even with mid-40s temps, we went outside and shot the new rifle. Here's my wife havin' some fun with the first shots outta the rifle.
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My wife has a little antique/furniture refurbishing & reselling side biz. I was building solid body electric guitars, but have slowed down some on that. Because of these 2 hobbies, we have a
ton of empty spray cans. If we just take them in to a landfill as they are, with wet unused paint inside the cans, here in Oregon/Clackamas County we pay a good bit for "Hazardous Waste" disposal I'm told. However,
IF we can poke a hole in these cans (or take the lids of of gallon buckets of paint) and allow the paint to dry, our local transfer station accepts them for free as scrap metal. So, these empty cans become Candidos that need dealin' with!
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Four shots from "Jannie Oakley", and 4 dead Candidos!!!
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Some of the Krylon Candidos died a rather spectacular death; spinning and spewing. The Rustoleum cans died kinda "mediocre" deaths (little puff of spray paint/propellant, and fall over), and that bothers me. We've both had more troubles with that Painter"s Touch 2X Ultra Cover spray paint. It has given us more headaches when painting a guitar or furniture, and the goofy nozzle clogs during "the Money Coat", spewing globules of paint or clear coat........
They deserve to get shot, I tell ya.....
Here's the "wound channels" of some sorta off brand paint, and a can of high-temp paint (shot with lead pellets, most of 'em):
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Here's the rifle after sending a few rounds down at the Candidos (also, the high-tech spent brass catching tarp):
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We each had a lotta fun shooting this rifle. It has a great trigger. Good sights. It shoots lead pellets as well or better than BBs. The lever loading of a new round in the chamber and ejecting of spent rounds worked flawlessly, and selfishly for me, seemed nicely "realistic". You can put your thumb on the hammer, pull the trigger, and ease the hammer down as you'd do on one of our Henry lever rifles. (Added in EDIT: It has a "shotgun style safety on the tang behind the hammer. For a safety, it was easy to deal with). We were giggling like 6th grade school girls when a Candido would die a swirling/spraying death. It was a fun time of shooting, and both of us like this rifle. I spoke to one of nieces this morning before I received the rifle, and she said she'd love to shoot a BB gun. To me, that's fantastic, as she really doesn't want much to do with shooting a real firearm.
I was
supposed to go to my local range to shoot and keep working on some handloads for my .30-30 today, but got sidetracked needing to move a bunch of furniture for my wife, and couldn't go. After we got back home from dealing with the furniture, the Umarex was in an Amazon box on the front porch. I'm kinda glad I stayed home to shoot the new rifle this afternoon........