My first .177 pellet gun

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Sun Aug 19, 2018 4:51 pm

.177 smooth bore (.183" ID seam less tubing). Barrel is 750mm long and uses a 24vdc solenoid valve, chamber is 1" x 12" sch40 stainless steel charged to 150psi from my compressor. Single shot bolt action. BB's not so accurate but the dome head lead pellets are pretty good :D

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Mon Aug 20, 2018 6:09 am

150PSI is safe to use push to connect fittings and hoses, you could have routed a larger chamber inside the handguard and have multi shot capability
CpTn_lAw wrote: :D "yay, me wanna make big multishot pnoob with 1000 psi foot pump compressor using diamond as main material. Do you think wet bread make good sealant? " :D
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Mon Aug 20, 2018 10:03 am

Nice work, I like it!
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Tue Aug 21, 2018 6:07 am

Love the look! Got any chrony readings?
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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Tue Aug 21, 2018 3:26 pm

Not yet, I will need to make an adaptor to fit the new barrel size.
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Thu Aug 23, 2018 1:26 am

Thanks for sharing man - It's pretty sweet! Did you 3d print any parts as well?
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Thu Aug 23, 2018 3:39 pm

No it's mostly aluminium & stainless chamber and barrel. It's pretty simple really.
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Fri Sep 28, 2018 5:47 pm

Barrel now at 550mm and finished grips
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Thu Oct 18, 2018 6:23 am

Took the scope off and making a peep sight as I only want to use it up to 10m range, rear sight has windage adjustment, range will be on the front post :idea:
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Sat Oct 27, 2018 8:57 am

Peep sight fitted, works nicely, had some adjustable stock parts from another build I didn't use so fitted that and made adjustable cheek rest as well.
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Thu Apr 04, 2019 4:58 pm

Following on with the KISS principal I have changed the barrel to 6mm ID to use airsoft, I made the barrel slide now so the dead space will be minimal + less leaks. The tube I got from McMaster Carr is 8 x 6mm but was only 5.85 ID :( Much polishing later with a long rod and abrasive cloth and a BB rolls down it. Haven't tried it yet. Also mounted my old 4X scope offset to the left of the peep sights so I can use it as a spotting scope :idea:
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Thu Apr 04, 2019 5:59 pm

The offset bits are very appealing. Informal balance FTW!
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Thu Apr 04, 2019 6:50 pm

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Sat May 04, 2019 4:43 pm

Never being really happy with anything I pulled it apart again, changed it back to the .177 barrel, now at only 12" long (cut down the body), and made it a sliding barrel, much easier to load and zero dead space. Some work on the sliding stock also so it goes fully in.
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Sun May 05, 2019 6:36 am

farcticox1 wrote:Never being really happy with anything
This is how humanity makes progress :D
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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