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Air Gun Home Forum Index » The BS Topic » Black flies and Airguns Goto page 1, 2  Next    View previous topic :: View next topic  Black flies and Airguns   Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 1:18 pm SMP Silver Status Member Joined: 04 Feb 2011 Posts: 1183 Location: Just south of "Out There"- Land O Lakes Ontario Saturday and sunday the miss and I tried get a few hours in shooting the fortnight. But of course this is Canada in the springtime so the Black Flies are just nasty....NASTY! Trying to get that perfect shot off with 50 to a hundred of the little B'tards chewing on your wrists and hands, behind your ears and flying in your nose and eyes was.....hmmm Fun! So my question is whats the most ridiculous conditions you've endured to go airgunning   Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 1:53 pm oddtodd Silver Status Member Joined: 30 Dec 2008 Posts: 2029 Location: Richmond, IN USA The absolute craziest thing I can remember is going out in 13 inches of snow when it was 9 below to shoot my springer and I still got 2 squirrels that day! I had to walk about a quarter of a mile to get to the woods. My wife and father in law said I was nuts, but I was so tired of them griping at each other over the pipes being frozen I had to do something to get out of the house while I waited for the basement to warm up! _________________ Airguns: Two starlings talking "Larry, did you hear that? Larry?? LARRY!!!!"   Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 2:32 pm Slavia Moderator Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 4382 Location: Waseca, Minnesota, USA Midsummer at dusk with my 2240 at the rifle range (which is mostly wetlands) - at least until I remembered that CO2 attracts mosquitoes. That realization explained a lot. _________________ ¡Listo! ¡Apunte! ¡Fuego!   Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 3:05 pm broommaster2000 Moderator Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 5714 Location: City of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands With my S400 on a midsummer day in the garden. It was crazy hot and I tell ya the gun was sweating! Allthough a couple of weeks ago here it was like summer too. Just didn't go shooting then. _________________ BIG GAP   Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 5:23 pm Crosman140 Senior Member Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Posts: 663 Location: USA Wasps! They love my garage, which is where my current range is located. But this turns into fun as I chase them around trying to "POP" them with bursts of air from my 1377 or 880. It takes patience and nerves of steel!!!!! _________________ My Critter Gitters .22 Crosman 140 (1955) .177 Crosman G1 (2009) .177 Crosman 1377 (2009) .177 Daisy 880 (2019) BB Daisy Red Ryder (2012) BB Daisy Buck (2019) BB Crosman 1600 (1980) BB Marksman 1010 (1979)   Posted: Mon May 23, 2011 6:33 pm Alstone Moderator & Site Supporter Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 4139 Location: Linconshire, ENGLAND Slavia wrote: Midsummer at dusk with my 2240 at the rifle range (which is mostly wetlands) - at least until I remembered that CO2 attracts mosquitoes. That realization explained a lot. I didn’t know that, It explains a lot. Cheers Al _________________   Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 11:02 am Griz Member Joined: 16 Mar 2011 Posts: 36 Location: Colorado Springs, CO I was laying in bed reading a book when I looked up and notice several flies on the ceiling (I had the window open). My 397 just happen to be sitting next to the bed so... I actually know better than to shoot pellets into the ceiling so I grabbed a gum wrapper that was sitting on the night stand, tore off a piece, wadded it up to approximately the right size and stuffed it into the rifle. It was amazingly accurate and I proceeded to shoot the flies off the ceiling. I didn't realize until later that although the foil didn't penetrate the ceiling it did knock the texturing off. Mama noticed it later and was NOT happy. I spent the next day retexturing and painting the ceiling in out bedroom   Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 11:21 am oddtodd Silver Status Member Joined: 30 Dec 2008 Posts: 2029 Location: Richmond, IN USA Yeah, that popcorn stuff can be unforgiving. I scraped all of mine off and used drywall mud and a stomping brush to do mine. It turned out to be a lot more durable and a lot easier to paint. I can just imagine that one. Just about the same as "TODD!!!" "Okay honey what did you catch me doing now?" lmao _________________ Airguns: Two starlings talking "Larry, did you hear that? Larry?? LARRY!!!!"   Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 11:50 am Griz Member Joined: 16 Mar 2011 Posts: 36 Location: Colorado Springs, CO oddtodd wrote: Yeah, that popcorn stuff can be unforgiving. Actually it wasn't the popcorn stuff, just regular dry wall texturing. I'd have really tore up the popcorn texture *lol*   Posted: Tue May 24, 2011 7:47 pm SMP Silver Status Member Joined: 04 Feb 2011 Posts: 1183 Location: Just south of "Out There"- Land O Lakes Ontario Lol...Broom thats very funny. Correct me if I'm wrong but don't you have an ocean moderated climate with an average annual temperature extreme of 21deg C? Slavia I feel your pain. I experience the same phenomena everytime I light the BBQ. One minute it's bug free then a blood bath.   Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 6:32 am domer_pyle Senior Member Joined: 17 Sep 2009 Posts: 523 The core of a Wisconsin winter. Nuff said. You Canuks prolly feel where I'm coming from! But I did manage to sit out there for a good half hour, after that it seemed like a good idea to come back in because I couldn't tell if the skirt was flush with the breech unless I looked at it lol. Brrrrrrr   Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 7:28 am broommaster2000 Moderator Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 5714 Location: City of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands SMP wrote: Lol...Broom thats very funny. Correct me if I'm wrong but don't you have an ocean moderated climate with an average annual temperature extreme of 21deg C? I'd wish. Spring get's up to 30 degrees these days. This year we had a draught in the past coule of months, but it's better then the damp sweaty heat we normally have around this time of the year. April and May are hot now, then followed by a moderate (21 C) June and Julie, August getting hot and sweaty again, followed by September being more of the same and then fall comes crashing down with wind, rain and then a drizzly winter with one or two weeks of snow. The climate you came up with is already over 10 years old. :P The weather IS changing. _________________ BIG GAP   Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 12:06 pm SMP Silver Status Member Joined: 04 Feb 2011 Posts: 1183 Location: Just south of "Out There"- Land O Lakes Ontario Sorry Broom I couldn't resist taking a shot. The area I live in swings from a low of -35 to a high of +35 C But your absolutely right the weather is changing and rapidly. What I notice most because of my job is the extreme storms and winds. They are getting worse every year. My buddy told me last night that his town has recorded a 100 year storm every year for the past five years.   Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 12:23 pm oddtodd Silver Status Member Joined: 30 Dec 2008 Posts: 2029 Location: Richmond, IN USA I agree with you guys about the weather getting worse. This has been the second wettest spring on record in my area, and there has been at least 50 more severe thunderstorms this year than last. I think out of the last week I have seen 1 day that didn't rain at all. The rest were either some rain or rained all day. My sump pump backup has kicked in about a dozen times in the last month and it hasn't ever done that before. It sounds like a smoke alarm when it kicks in which has scared me to death until I got used to it. I finally changed it from a piezoelectric sounding unit to a relay-activated buzzer. I was killing myself running up and downstairs to make sure that something wasn't on fire. _________________ Airguns: Two starlings talking "Larry, did you hear that? Larry?? LARRY!!!!"   Posted: Thu May 26, 2011 3:34 pm SMP Silver Status Member Joined: 04 Feb 2011 Posts: 1183 Location: Just south of "Out There"- Land O Lakes Ontario Actually I don't think this is a thread jack it fits perfectly. The wind and rain we've been getting certainly qualifies as ridiculous airgunning conditions. That storm you got yesterday hit us in Niagara at nightfall. I was trying to get some shooting in late afternoon and we were recording wind speeds of +40mph (35Kts). 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