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thisnewday) wrote2019-01-22 04:30 pm
thisnewday) wrote2019-01-22 04:30 pm
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2240 Redux
My original--though evolving--plan for my 2240 mod was to eventually have it set up in a carbine configuration, similar to my factory-modified 2300KT. That had been my intention because having a short shoulder stock would minimize the effect of my unsteady hand and the resulting loss of accuracy.
However, because I was so anxious to try out the newly-modded 2240--even in a pistol configuration--I installed the single-power pistol scope that I'd erroneously ordered with the 2300 custom and had immediately decided I hated.
I then proceeded to practice with the pistol-scoped 2240 in order to fine-tune the new breech and get used to the rotary magazines. And while doing this, I actually started thinking that I might want to keep the present configuration, but with the possible addition of some better optics, maybe a red dot scope or a red dot sight where the laser is projected on a small, open screen.
In the meantime, I'd also been experimenting with different types of targets and this afternoon I pulled out some of the old "reactive" targets that I'd bought more than a year ago at Walmart.
They're a medium-sized paper target with a single bull's-eye but they're printed in layers so that a different color of pigment appears around the point of impact. Which makes it easy to see where your shot has been placed.
Ironically, I'd put them away because my Benjamin Trail--and even my carbine-configured 2300--is such a little tack-driver that it just didn't make any sense to be putting one shot on top of another and another. So for those, I printed out 8-1/2 x 11 card-stock targets with 40 quarter-sized bull's-eyes on each.
And that's what I'd been using. But with the free-hold pistol, I had no chance of such tight groupings--and half the time couldn't tell where the last shot had gone. And so, as I discovered this afternoon, the reactive targets were the perfect solution.
It also occurred to me that I was now actually enjoying this free-hold shooting with the single-power optics. And so, I think this project has come to a happy conclusion.
I have a successfully modded CO2 target pistol, built on an acceptable platform, with a multi-shot breech, a decent trigger, and optics that are totally adequate for my needs and level of competence.
Which I'm sure would've been questioned by my daughter. The competence part, I mean, if I'd spent any more money on this thing, lol...
LPK
Dreamwidth
1.22.2019
However, because I was so anxious to try out the newly-modded 2240--even in a pistol configuration--I installed the single-power pistol scope that I'd erroneously ordered with the 2300 custom and had immediately decided I hated.
I then proceeded to practice with the pistol-scoped 2240 in order to fine-tune the new breech and get used to the rotary magazines. And while doing this, I actually started thinking that I might want to keep the present configuration, but with the possible addition of some better optics, maybe a red dot scope or a red dot sight where the laser is projected on a small, open screen.
In the meantime, I'd also been experimenting with different types of targets and this afternoon I pulled out some of the old "reactive" targets that I'd bought more than a year ago at Walmart.
They're a medium-sized paper target with a single bull's-eye but they're printed in layers so that a different color of pigment appears around the point of impact. Which makes it easy to see where your shot has been placed.
Ironically, I'd put them away because my Benjamin Trail--and even my carbine-configured 2300--is such a little tack-driver that it just didn't make any sense to be putting one shot on top of another and another. So for those, I printed out 8-1/2 x 11 card-stock targets with 40 quarter-sized bull's-eyes on each.
And that's what I'd been using. But with the free-hold pistol, I had no chance of such tight groupings--and half the time couldn't tell where the last shot had gone. And so, as I discovered this afternoon, the reactive targets were the perfect solution.
It also occurred to me that I was now actually enjoying this free-hold shooting with the single-power optics. And so, I think this project has come to a happy conclusion.
I have a successfully modded CO2 target pistol, built on an acceptable platform, with a multi-shot breech, a decent trigger, and optics that are totally adequate for my needs and level of competence.
Which I'm sure would've been questioned by my daughter. The competence part, I mean, if I'd spent any more money on this thing, lol...
LPK
Dreamwidth
1.22.2019