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Your absolutly right. For the intended purpose, the Scandi Grind is PERFECT!!! 😀
Tom and I are old Friends. Tell Him the Mike and Manuela say Howdy There Tom!
Love the Atlanta show. Wish we could still go. But with my Wifes illness,– 😥
Mike
THE SCOPE – it’s Bushnell AR 1-4×24 with BDC reticle. Optics – very good compared to the Leapers, clear improvement. The reticle is much finer in the middle. 30mm tube gives a lot of adjustment space, good light transmission and optical resolution. However it’s still 4x scope so it’s my fun-shooting scope, I really like the look of it and the look through it. The magnification is not big enough for serious target work, but it’s still plenty for weekend fun. I can nail with it a plum @ 50m so it’s good enough for me… and for my daughter as well 😉 YES, I still plan target scope (the new Super Sniper 3-15x is one of the options) but I need to wait a bit. So far this gives me fun like hell! Man, when I grab this combo with my hands it makes me the happiest shooter on earth 🙂 🙂 🙂
THE KNIFE – well, I also know a but about knives and it’s my hobby, incl. traveling to Blade Show in Atlanta year after year (we might have met in Atlanta?) and I can tell you that Moose Hunter with Tom Krein regrind is a woodman’s working beast. I asked Tom to put Scandi grind on it to give it greater cutting power for bushcraft activities. Of course it’s just one of my knives, but i really like it. Scandi grind has been developed during long long ages in the Scandinavian’s forests, so it’s for sure time-proven blade configuration. Of course there are many more edge geometries available, each serves certain purpose. On my EDC folder (Sebenza) I really like high hollow grind with medium-thick cutting edge. Gives plenty of cutting power and can be sharpened many many times as you said. The knives you make… yes, I know them. Super-premium stuff, I’d be never brave enough to use such a piece of art if I’d get one of those. Exquisite blades, absolutely stunning!
What’s the scope on the first photo? Any good?
Best for myself? Hell, I can’t afford one of my knives. Too darned expensive! 😯 😳
Best for Hunting 
KM I want a drop tip hunter like that with 6″ blade! Super purty! You can PM me if you want. I promise to sport it in pics with the R3M when I get it!
What I carry every day, a simple Hip Pocket Knife. Love these things.
The all Integral Stiff Horn and City Knife. 😀 They do pretty darned good at the less expensive resturants too. 😆
Best for collecting, or impressing your friends at most expensive Resturant in town. (You should see tthe look on their faces when you whip one of these Sweet Babys in Ancient Mamoth Ivory out for cutting you Steak! 😯 😆
Best for going into the “Bad side of town”, Or into Battle
Thanks for the compliments on the Knives Guys!
Best for myself? Hell, I can’t afford one of my knives. Too darned expensive! 😯 😳
Best for Hunting
Thanks. I don’t need it for my area but quiet is nice anyways.
For total silence you need extra moderator (available from Ed) but it’s quite quiet anyway, I don’t mind shooting it in the backyard. So yeah, it’s quiet…
Yes on the scope leveler but a very good group none-the-less. 🙂 Thanks for the performance numbers. I am always looking for the perfect close to medium range sparrow and chipmunk gun and that is definitely on the list. I have these woodpeckers that peck on my cedar siding and I need something very small and compact for hugging the house at shallow angles so I don’t hit the house when I nail them. You start hearing them pecking from inside. I am also considering a compact Cricket in 177. It is 24.5″ long.
That thing is 20″ long and 4.4 lbs. Real nice. Is it pretty quiet?
OK, you asked and you get. So far I don’t have serious target scope (it will come soon, no worry) so the testing range for my first test was 30 meters. I did the test before my Bushnell arrived from US, so you can still see the 3-9x Leapers on my Lelya. It’s not a bad scope, but the reticle is a bit too thick for real precision. Anyway, below is my testing stand.
BTW, my Lelya has been adjusted to 17 Joule (standard in most EU countries I believe incl. UK and Poland) which means about 245m/s for JSB Exact
Let’s start with HN Barracuda – as you can see the average groups are 9-11mm across the group, so not that great at all. Partly it was the problem of big black area of the target (it’s standard 10m airgun open sights target) and thick reticle. Simply the repeatability of the aiming was probably not good enough.
And here is the solution! I started to aim not the bullseye, but the “point of contrast” where black meets white – it was fine as on that day I measured just the group, not the points. Now MUCH better aiming repeatability…
And below JSB Exact 4.50mm, which is the best pellet of all tested in my gun (incl. also HM Barracuda, JSB Exact Heavy, JSB Exact 4.51, HN Field Target Trophy). As you can see the 5-shot group (border-to-border, not c-t-c) is hair above 6mm, which I find absolutely acceptable for such a carbine. In fact I find it not only acceptable but simply great.
Also I think I need scope leveler of some kind, it’s easily visible where I had my gun slightly at angle. Of course in this test thanks to the SteadyAim stand I had full repeatability, so the group as such was not affected.
IN GENERAL
– for longer range I need much better scope and different target (BR style)
– HM Barracuda & JSB Exact Heavy – in my opinion both perform clearly below standard JSB Exact, but this can change at 50m and beyond.
– JSB Exact 4.50 is so far my #1
Lelya is fun… and my daughter also likes this little bullpup gem:
Ah ha….thanks. I’m a tard.
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Awesome! Just awesome!