The Edgun Matador is the best long range PCP rifle
Hey guys, I have no clue why but: I just have to check the Yellow out a couple of times a day. I don’t know why!
They have a topic: Best Long Range PCP Rifle.
Steve had to jump in with his video of him shooting a lolly pop at 100 yards with his FX. He goes on to say that it is FX all of the way for him..
It took me a couple of hours to upload my video of me shooting my 25 cal R3 long at .479” wide 7 mm Mauser casings at 100 yards. The topic is here and I think that my post will soon be deleted as it shows the Matador in a good light.
I am oldgoat over there, here and oldgoat33 on youtube. I’m hdtb3 on photobucket, please feel free to brouse.
http://www.network54.com/Forum/79537/thread/1387842639/Best+long+range+pcp+rifle
If Steve deletes my post: here is what I posted.
PS, link to the Yellow is now fixed: I think!
Well, here is a crappy video of me shooting my crappy 25 cal R3 Matador long at .479 inch wide 7 mm Mauser shells at 100 yards. The video was shot at my gun club; they also have a large pond that people can camp, fish and party at. You can hear the music in the background.
Sorry for the crappy video and my crappy shooting. At least the people at the party were having a good time!
Maybe one of these days, I will buy a good shooting long range air gun and learn how to shoot it.
I just got a 30 cal R3 Matador long and I can’t wait for the central Illinois weather to get better so I can see how crappy it shoots.
I expect it to shoot crappy also!
The 30 cal is my 6th Matador: I guess that I will never learn!
I just thought that you guys would enjoy my stab at humour and also the way that my video shows Steve up!
Believe me: friends don’t let friends buy a FX!
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SECoda, I grew up out in the country between Peoria and Pekin Il. I have spent some time in the Effinghan and Altamont area. Dad’s dad had a dairy farm that was right across from the Peoria air port. He also had some hogs and a hog lot. I started out with a Crossman 760 and went thru a lot of air rifles before I got my .20 cal Sheridan.
I used the Sheridan to decimate the local populations of pigeons, sparrows, starlings, doves, ground hogs and any other vermin that dared to come onto the property. Grandpa paid me a bounty for each of the kills. The bounty kept me in pellets.
Here is a link to the range of the 13 stripped ground squirrels:
http://icwdm.org/handbook/rodents/13linedgroundsquirrel.asp
In 2012, I basically shot out the populations of GS at the 3 places that I had to shoot them. The farmers were very happy but: it sucked for me! I didn’t have anything to shoot at this year!
I left a few for “seed” and I hope to have some shooting in 2014.
Coda, if you have relatives in my area, ask if they have any close cropped/mowed pasture land and if so, do they have a ground squirrel infestation that they need eliminated.
If they have a GS infestation: PLEASE PM me their number or include me in on the shooting! 😆
Coda; you are a UI grad; do you know that the Michigan Golden Gophers mascot refers to the 13 stripped Ground Squirrel?
WTF is that? Having a ground squirrel for a mascot?
If you are a UI grad, I am assuming that you saw that the Fighting Illini beat Missouri last weekend? :8:
My buddies and I have tickets to see the Indiana VS Il game at the hall next Tuesday the 31st. We saw last year’s last .9 second shot that beat #1 Indiana at the hall!
The Hall went absolutely crazy!
We are looking for another win! I almost love Illini basketball as much as my Matadors!
HEY: If you are only 125 miles from Lincoln: we need to get together and shoot! I don’t mind driving!
That’s great. I have the same deal behind my house with the side of an Ozark hill in heavy hilly woods. I got woken up in bed at 5am to a red fox squalling in the backyard like he does periodically. Him and the wild cats clean up the day before sparrow kill. 
I have many hickory trees in back but one huge one right next to the house. They grays love it and are there every day. Typically, though, I use the P-Rod on them when they are there so I don’t blast my neighbors house which lines up with the tree from my bedroom covered deck about 150 feet away through my white pines. 😀
I have never seen a ground squirrel here in Alabama either. We have plenty of gray squirrels everywhere.
Funny, Squirrels are the reason I got back into air gunning, and I am really enjoying this hobby of just shooting. When my neighbor paid an electrician $1K plus for wiring work in his attic (caused by squirrels) and then I caught 3 squirrels in my attic with rat traps about the same time, I knew I had to do something to start beating them back. My backyard is a state park that is wilderness for a few miles back and full of unhunted wildlife that pushes into my backyard.
I have never seen a ground squirrel here in Alabama either. We have plenty of gray squirrels everywhere.
Funny, Squirrels are the reason I got back into air gunning, and I am really enjoying this hobby of just shooting. When my neighbor paid an electrician $1K plus for wiring work in his attic (caused by squirrels) and then I caught 3 squirrels in my attic with rat traps about the same time, I knew I had to do something to start beating them back. My backyard is a state park that is wilderness for a few miles back and full of unhunted wildlife that pushes into my backyard.
I was born and raised and lived in Illinois for 23 years through graduate school at Champaign/Urbana and spent my weekends on a farm near Effingham, Illinois and never saw a damn ground squirrel there. They must be a mid-Illinois resident. (Of course we didn’t have pheasants down south either but we did near my house outside of Chicago. My uncles owned thousands of acres but I was limited to ground hogs, rabbits, quail, squirrels, and a few coyotes and deer. I have a bunch of relatives and friends in Illinois near Peoria, Pekin, Streator, and Decatur. Are there ground squirrels near those towns? I’ll plan some visits. It sure beats driving 16 hours for prairie dogs in North Dakota. 😀
I am making some calls this weekend. I guess they are only out in warm seasons? I am 125 miles from Lincoln.
I have Ted’s Casio video setup with the Seben and it is a bit touchy on the setup. The Sony Camcorders seem a lot easier. The trouble is they are switching to real small ones now that will need new special mounts but they will be ultra-light.
Tedd,
Thanks for the videos – I very much enjoyed your youtube collection.
Oldgoat,
you definite are tuned in to your edgun and scope. The one advantage to shooting with scope cam is the play back feature allowing for slow motion replay. I especially liked the last shot of bird on wire and having seen the pellet in flight. Nice job Ted.
great vid Oldgoat….
Love the way that EdGun reaches out there! 😀
Knife
Steeldreams, I saw that topic and I almost posted another one of my crappy videos showing me shooting my crappy 25 cal R3 long.
I have already had numerous posts deleted over there and I didn’t want to get the Johnny S treatment and get banned from the Yellow.
I have tried Ted’s setup with the camera looking thru the scope. It is just to cumbersome for me. I have a Sony DCR-SR68 70 X optical zoom cam recorder mounted above my scope. It works very well but, by the time I have converted the vid and posted it, the vid quality isn’t that good. OH WELL, I need a better camera.
I have a couple of farmers that let me shoot ground squirrels in their pastures. I try to do head shots on them and the hardest thing for me is to get an accurate range to them. If they are on a hill, the range finder can pick up the hill before them or after them. If they are standing up and there is some tall grass in front of them, the rangefinder could pick up the grass instead of the GS.
On the 115 yard GS shot, the range finder picked up the weeds a couple of yards in front of the GS. I hit low on that shot.
In the next to the last shot, the GS was ranged at 97 yards and if you look close, you can barely make out the corn field across the road from the GS. Across the road, there is a telephone wire that was 126 yards from me.
On the last shot, a “dove sized” bird was setting on the wire. I forgot to call out the range on that shot. Birds on a wire are easy for the range finder to pick up. There is nothing in front or behind of them. The “dove sized” bird was ranged at 126 yards and I got a head shot on it. You can see him fall down into the corn field.
So far, 126 yards is my longest shot, I had a chance for a 156 yard GS shot, he was standing up next to a log that I could accurately get the range on. The wind was blowing from the right and I didn’t add quite enough windage. I shot just to the left of his head. He didn’t stick around for me to take a second shot. I was really pissed at myself for missing the shot! While I was cussing myself out, a flock of starlings landed there and one was standing on the log. I took a shot and the whole flock took of before the pellet got there! I was pissed again!
Either of the 156 yard shots would have made a great video! Shooting over 100 yards is easy for the Matador: IF you can get an accurate range to the target!
PS, I should have edited the first couple minutes of the video but, the quality would have suffered more and editing would have taken me too long. Just fast forward a couple of minutes.
banning folks out of the forums is really a kids reaction.
I do appreciate seeing you and others standing up for Edguns on the Yellower but at present I can’t get on board.
I am beginning to notice a bias with Yellow Steve where as he does appear to favor FX, which is just fine by me, but he does seem quick to express his dislike towards Edguns and take sides against. As of lately, 4 to 5 weeks, I have not been able to post or respond to any posts on the Yellow. I can log in but can’t respond. I have sent Steve 4 emails during this time to bring to his attention and asking for his assistance to help resolve the issue. Not once has he responded so I don’t know what’s going on. Though I am beginning to wonder if in fact I have been band but I was not informed of so. I’m beginning to think it may not be coincidence that I can’t post. If memory serves me right, just prior to not being able to post, Ed posted here on the talon letting people know that there may be extra Edguns available in the last shipment but to contact Tony, well I posted some of Ed’s post over at the Yellow to inform the members and the post was short lived and removed without any explanation. Perhaps this is reason I have not been able to post or reply but I can’t say for sure since I have yet to hear from Steve. I wonder if I re- apply for new membership if Steve would then reply.
but Steve at Yellow says it is the FX Bobcat 25.. http://www.network54.com/Forum/79537/message/1388105953/Ted%27s+holdover…wow+Ted+80+yard+starling+headshot+with+a+.25+pellet.
And to think, Steve Banned Johnny Sweeden for talking so much about FX last year! 😆 🙄
What twist rate has the barrel of the matador ?
Welcome to the club. If you post opinions against Steve’s he has to ban you silently because you are not breaking any official rules. This seems to happen a lot with mentioning vendors who refuse to pay him. He does this all of the time.
I do appreciate seeing you and others standing up for Edguns on the Yellower but at present I can’t get on board.
I am beginning to notice a bias with Yellow Steve where as he does appear to favor FX, which is just fine by me, but he does seem quick to express his dislike towards Edguns and take sides against. As of lately, 4 to 5 weeks, I have not been able to post or respond to any posts on the Yellow. I can log in but can’t respond. I have sent Steve 4 emails during this time to bring to his attention and asking for his assistance to help resolve the issue. Not once has he responded so I don’t know what’s going on. Though I am beginning to wonder if in fact I have been band but I was not informed of so. I’m beginning to think it may not be coincidence that I can’t post. If memory serves me right, just prior to not being able to post, Ed posted here on the talon letting people know that there may be extra Edguns available in the last shipment but to contact Tony, well I posted some of Ed’s post over at the Yellow to inform the members and the post was short lived and removed without any explanation. Perhaps this is reason I have not been able to post or reply but I can’t say for sure since I have yet to hear from Steve. I wonder if I re- apply for new membership if Steve would then reply.
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I was in the Orange Crush at U of I and the cheerleaders were right in front of me at the bball games. Lou Henson was the coach back then. My brother also went to U of I. My folks retired on Lake Sara west of Effingham with an Altamont address. I was born and raised in Hinsdale/Burr Ridge, IL. My cousin who died now owned most of the McDonalds in Pekin in the 80s and 90s. His kids own them now I think still. We can certainly get together and shoot as the weather improves. I will find out if any relatives have ground squirrels but I have never seen one or heard them mentioned at the annual family reunions. We can repopulate them maybe? Lol I sent that link to a few of them. I also have many relatives by Mason, il and two cousins with trophy deer farms. The biggest also has elk. It is ground hog and coyote territory there. Now my brother and mother live north of you on the border in Darlington, wi. I just passed through there a few months back on my way up 55 to 51. Although I graduated U of I, I went to Illinois State my first two years in Bloomington/Normal and then transferred over.
I am guilty of not having kept up with the sports end of things. 😳 I get hassled constantly… and my son went to Mizzou… Daughter is finishing at UMSL… 😛
I caught another squirrel with the 30 cal running back and forth to the hickory tree collecting acorns. It’s really strange. Missouri had a down year on squirrels because of the wild acorn harvest but the population is actually way up.
Update: My brother has a farm north of you on the border and he thought he was shooting chipmunks. They are those silly ground squirrels. 😆 He is about a 300 mile drive for me. We are talking about a possible spring prairie dog hunt to North Dakota. My brother and his buddy had one fabulous shoot last spring and are anxious to go back. They shot many with airguns and bought 17 WSMs to add to this year’s shoot.