its been some time. I am surprised this forum still excists. Great! Lotsa things happened since the last time ive been here. Airgunning is the only thing that didnt change. Had a lotta guns since then, sold most ofm when i needed money to buy me anothe gun. I`m glad those days are over. What i have now are:
BSA Techstra .22, had it when i…Read more

got a message about a reaction in this topic.
I almost forgot i ever owned this gun. Seeing the pics it brings back memories. The Condor is long gone. I think i sold it to a bloke in Belgium. There`s no mo` Airforce guns over here no more. The guns i`ve got now are the UZGOOB .308 (a Daystate/Beaumont/Sinner mixture), the 201S, a III 300,…Read more

slowly but surely i`m starting to understand the importance of lollipops, but please, don`t let `m taste like a dick.

That reminds me of something else. I used to work in an icecreamshop some years ago. There was this guy coming around for an icecream every day, summer or winter, every single day.
One day he asked if there was a new flavor…Read more

Roel 😉

went up to the shed this afternoon, it`s been raining cats and dawgs, the wind was blowing me out of my socks. It`s not very nice, sitting together with a Condor without a silencer in a tiny shed. When the shotstring was finished i took my eardrums off of the floor, wiped `m clean and placed `m back in my ears again. I just hope they don`t…Read more

the plan was to do just about that Mamcrackin. I`ll see if the weather is a bit okay tomorrow, if it is i`m gonna give it a go. Maybe it`ll give some results that are gonna get the old eyebrows raising.

I`m gonna keep ya guys posted.

Roel

runamok? My ass!

Been working on the Hanserfaust valve, i had to do some work before it even fitted in the frame. It gave about the same power as when i`m farting a pellet.

Better make a bit heavier hammer i think……

Keep ya posted.

Roel

hahaha! Yeah right man, we sure do. Next month in Ochten.

Anyway, my Talon days are over. I got the sparebottle from Richard Kilroy yesterday, i`m gonna get the valve to fit and run amok like i`m being payed for it.

Wottefok, runamok!

Take care mate.

Roel

i`m starting to doubt myself. Maybe i`ve become the drunk my old man used te be. I just asked Rob, some insane technical wizard and a friend of mine. He`s an insane nutcase and a friend.

“Yo Rob, i told that a standard Talon with a 12″ barrel is doing 40 fpe. Am i nuts or what?”

“Roel, what have you been drinking, you freaking nutcase,…Read more

nope, i`m not sure. I just looked it up on the dutch airgunforum. I used Baracuda Extra `eavy`s, and the gun did a little over 40 fpe. 286 meters per second. A slip of the fingertip? A memory that`s not too good anymore? (Forget the first option, i was pretty sure it did 50 fpe)

Sorry for giving the wrong numbers. You say a standard out of…Read more

nha, to be totally honest with you lemme tell you this. The adjustment of the top hat never bothered me that much. Adjustments been done by making a new valve with a little bigger hole in it. A bigger hole solves any respiration problem. To adjust the tophat you have to be a little subtile. Being subtile is not my kinda thing, i just…Read more

my Talon was doing about 50 FPE straight from te box for as far as i can remember, it was fitted with a 12″ barrel. When there`s a 18″ there might a bit more action.

Roel

forgot a promise. I told ya guys to post some pics of some victims.

Take a peek.

Roel

this evening my spare bottle arrived, it`s a bit shorter than the original Condor bottle, but it`s thicker. This on`s 70 mm, the real McCoy is 60 mm in diameter and is about 70 mm longer.

It`s a cold bottle, there`s no cover.

The bigger valve has an opening of 6.8 mm, the original Condorvalve is 5.2 mm. I just discoverd the tophat…Read more

thanks!
I`ve been thinking about a Wok-like thing to complete it. Richard, my co-admin on the Dutch airgunforum, has got a Wok on his Condor. It`s the first one i`ve seen over here in Holland, and the Wok is what i thought it was: Well made, goodlooking. Completely unlike Richard! He`s an ugly piece of work!

I`ll see if i can get my…Read more

yeah, i`d like to see some groups too! Been shooting on the 50 metretrack laast wednesday. The 49 grainers surprised me. Lowest in speed best in grouping. Best group was about 2 inches. I don`t know how good that is. It`s hard to concentrate when you`re grinning like a frigging mad man, enjoying the recoil and the noise. When i`m used to…Read more

yeah, the Condor is loud, like it should be. Just like loud pipes are saving lives. I think it`s very important that a Condor, or any airgun, is being heard. In that way everybody knows whats hap`ning. It saves lives. 😆

See ya.

Roel

here are two pics of the solids i`m using. Varying from 31 to 46 grain.

Roel

suddenly there`s a bad case of Condoritis in the Netherlands. That`s quite weird. When you want to buy a Condor over here you have to cough up about $1200 bucks! (Naw, i`m not exaggerating, don`t be surprised when it`s more !!!!) How `bout that! But since one of our forummembers decided to move to the US it`s possible to get `m a little…Read more

i`ve got a confession to make.
Some weeks ago i traded my Talon SS for a Shinsung Fire 201! Got the 201 working, got him giving about 150 fpe, that`s a lot of stuff. But somehow i kept feeling some kinda loss.
Shooting the 201 was kinda fun, shooting straight through my shed, big holes in the door and the wall of the shed. Shooting in the…Read more

I`ve been talking with the owner, Doc Maarten. Here are the specs of the Dragon.

He`shooting cal .490, 175 grain balls. They`re doing 264.2 meter per second, that`s 867 feet per sec and that`s an energy output of 291.5 footpound!

That`s one hard hitting sob! I`ve been shooting it regularly, the thing recoils like a springer with…Read more

the big balls are actually .50, i`ll ask the owner how much fpe it does, it`s hefty, that`s for sure. The owner is known as Doctor Maarten, one of the best tuners over here.

Here`s a link for some more pics:

http://members.upc.nl/e.vandebeek1/luchtbuks/OchtenIV/

Roel

myeah, it wasn`t a quiet day to be true. The low cieling of the lanes gave a nice echoeing of the shots fired.
I shot my Career straight from the bottle when the pressure was around 200 bar, the sound of the gun was devastating, pellets doing 1050 fps, de Career recoiling like it was a springer.

The Career on the 7th pic in the first…Read more

last sunday we`ve had a shoot in Holland. Ochten is a small town in de centre of this country, about 220 km from my house.

We`re attending shoots quite regularly, there are shoots everywhere in Holland, the dutch airgunning forum publishes about the shoots and registration is taking place there too.

Ochten`s got 10, 25 and 100 meter…Read more

i`ve got a little story about a sheridan bleu streak taken by the Dutch law.
It`s a story a friend of mine told me.

R. was shooting with one of his buddys in the backyard. R`s old man, kind of a religious fanatic didn`t want that shooting on a sunday in the backyard and told his son to take e hike.
They strolled to the backyard of the…Read more

hi guys, just found out you guys got a chat too! We`re in a different timezone, but i`ll drop by sometimes.

See ya around,

Roel

i`ve posted a pic of the Edge on the dutch forum and asked what they thought of it, 29 replies, 14 of them said is was as ugly as ugly gets, three posters liked it anyway, two liked the Edge when it had a decent colour (black/grey), two had comments about the strength of the frame (those two are specialists, one of `em built his own…Read more

how about this one:

http://www.bsaog.co.uk/forum/index.php
Birmingham Small Arms Owners Group

http://www.co2air.de/wbb2/hmportal.php
A German forum with a load of info about springers.

http://www.gunspares.co.uk/default.asp
The old Chambers Gunmakers site, need an exploded view of a European springer? Here`s the place to find it.

Roel

good to see you here bro!

That bottle you`ve bought, did you get that from Kilroy, or did you get it anywhere else? I need another bottle too, to put in my extra “HmdB” valve to make those .25 a little more speedy.

Take care!

Roel 😉

i don`t know if you are ever coming back to Holland, but when you do, here`s the invitation for the Dokkum Shoot. It`ll be done somewhere next summer.

O yeah, all the other readers are invited too.

Roel

ofcourse i don`t know where you can get service for the Diana, but they`re not to complex to do it yourself. There`s no need for special tools. The thing that makes rebuilding the pistol a little awkward are the two sprockets wich are monted between the two pistons of the pistol.
(holy crap, my technical english isn`t too good after…Read more

Roel

the Crosman appeared on the Dutch forum too. I asume there`s no experience yet with this one? If so, lemme hear ya!

See ya, Roel

i read on the Dutch forum you`re going to have a shoot in the SF area, that`s cool man! Actually i`m gonna have a shoot tomorrow, the well known PB shoot at Cees `s place.

That`s not cool, it`s f-ing cold!

See ya, Roel

been on TOG, Tog whent away, link appeared on http://www.luchtbuks.net/!

Roel 😀

like i said earlier, it`s nice to be welcome.

Hey Marc, good to see you here man!
A closing statement from me about the Dutch, a qoute in remembrance of mr. Evil from the late seventies Sid Vicious: “we`re not vicious really, we consider ourselves kindhearted, we all love our mom.”

About the nationalities here, those Germans have got a…Read more

yeah man, those silly talking Dutch have spread all over the planet, wandering through the dark forrests of Ouagadougou and ya hear some insane language and you`re hoping to meet a native Ouagadougouian, ya stick your head out of the bushes and what do you see? One of them freakin`Dutchmen! Tall, wooden shoes, building a windmill in a field…Read more

Saugus, I`m using a 20″ .25 barrel in my SS, the barrel comes from a Career III 300. There`s another valve mounted in the SS, to make the Eunjin`s I`m shooting with the barrel speeding up a little. The pellets are going about 940 fps, a little lighter pellet, like the Logun Penetrator, is doing about 1050. (topspeed, not an average speed that…Read more

the mounting attachement on the Talon is nothing other than a scopemount. Accesories for the Talon, and the Talon itself are very expensive over here in Holland. Mine comes straight from the US, a friend of mine was in the US last year and he bought the Talon and got it sent over here (SS Airguns). Over here a Talon will cost me well…Read more

hm, numbnut that i am, didn`t even mention it in the first post. But lemme tell ya.

It`s the Talon! Why? Easy, the powerwheel, the ability to change barrels, the power, the looks and all the other possibilitys the gun has.

Roel

thanks a lot, it`s nice to be welcome! I know the value of a good group of guys! On the Dutch forum it`s the same thing going on, a group of hardliners, joining every shoot, helping each other out when it`s needed.

Ain`t life grand when you`re shooting airguns?

Here`s the link of the Dutch airgunforum, well over 5000 accounts, maybe it`s a…Read more

yeah, i like my Shinsung a lot, it took me a little time getting used to it, it`s packs a bunch of power, and for me, that`s what it`s all about. After two weeks the thing started leaking like it was made to do only that. But it`s okay again. Now it`s spitting H&N Baracuda Extra Heavys out with a little over 1000 fps. Not easy to hit…Read more

I`m Roel, I`m from the Netherlands. I`ve been sneaking around here every now and then since a few weeks, so I thought it might be time to introduce myself here.

The guns i`ve got are a Talon SS in .22 with an optional .25 barrel, a BSA Techstar in camo outfit, offcourse in .22 and, since a month or so, i`ve got a Shinsung Career III 300…Read more

just a few pics from my Talon SS, got a Techstar and a Shinsung Career III 300 too, but no doubt about wich one is my fave gun!

The first pic it`s got the 12″ barrel with Parker Hale silencer, on the second and fourth pic it`s got the 20″ Shinsung .25 barrel and the same silencer. The two lowest pics are my Shinsung Career III 300 (what a…Read more