Building explosive air rifle targets.... Engage safety squints!
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- Опубліковано 27 лис 2024
- The best air rifle plinking target I've ever built!
Here im building a long range air rifle practice target. you wont miss this one when you get a direct hit.
The blanks are the old hilti nailer blanks in .27 rimfire calibre . its fair to say i got a bit more than i bargained for with these. they are great fun and easy to make. When we get a break in the wind i will push this one out to the longer ranges as it will be a very challenging target in the wind.
i also look at how dangerous blank firers really are with a test against the safety glasses, which im pleased to say passed the test with flying colours!
The rifle im using is a prototype of the new air arms xti50 alu chassis and the scope is the new falcon optics s40i endura ffp. a really nice setup actually that im currently using for some local benchrest competitions.
The grin on your face when they went off made me smile. Having fun is what it's all about 🙂
Sometimes we all get a bit too serious, targets like this are great to just go and enjoy ourselves eh... Definitely need to improve the safety of it a bit though 😬
Very impressed with Screwfix's cheapest safety glasses!
That was good fun.
Thanks for posting.
They're amazingly tough safety squints, the shape isn't great for being behind a scope but they're definitely a wise idea on the sketchier target builds😎
Did this in the 80’s with a 12ga blank in a hole in a board. The Fiochi imprinted bruise on my face necessitated the addition of a slide over ‘safety catch’ for the cartridge!
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Love the way you look after your Workmate!
I fished a pair of them out the scrap pile a few years back😆 they're well knackered farm ones now😉
This was really fun and a nice change from what we all tend to do, being serious with paper targets 👍
I've been so busy lately mate and feeling rough as, I really fancied a fun project just to enjoy and it certainly was fun if a bit sketchy! 😎
Great video mate, we used to do stuff like that with high power centre fire ammunition.
Wow that sounds fun but very sketchy 😆
Takes me back about 40 years ,we had great fun with the black ones.
I reckon the hilti is about 40 years old.. 🫣
Got to be pretty old now with the imperial threaded nails🤔
Hey Tilly, did you tried " hunde propper" ( Danmark). I would recommend this in stead, they are not so dangerous, theaper and much funnier, with smoke, glimts and sound, very good for long range bench shooting. In Denmark vi kan buy them around new year. Vi could buy them for for sixty years ago too in a little cardboard with 25 pieces. We used a little pistol, cock the trigger an put one in the end of the barrel, and make new years sound with them. Great for bullseye on 50 metres.
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T u stumbles on to the ultimate pellet trap!. Stack three or four of them glasses with some putty.😂
😆 polycarbonate is amazing stuff mate. It's super tough.. I'll get through a pair eventually even if I have to dig out the big guns 😆
Brilliant target IV did something similar, I used a wheel bolt. Cut the top bit off and turned it so i had a firing pin then drilled the rest off the bolt for the blank for the hinge link of motor bike chain and a couple spots of weld. It definitely doesn't throw anything back at you target's that react are so fun
I definitely need to look at some safety upgrades for this, maybe some parts from the hilti can be used so there's no chance of ricochet🤔
Chicken looked mint! And the Xti does look sexy in the Ally stock
I'm working on a few new parts for the chassis ATM. I need to change the geometry a little to suit the shooting I do, get myself a bit more upright behind it. Im super impressed with it though. I definitely need a second one for the older action now. Maybe a red anodised one next time...
@tillysgunstocks ooooooh!! Will AA be selling the Ally stock as a stand alone option?
@@chrissmith2027 I believe so mate. Hopefully in a couple of different configurations for different disciplines would be great
We use to use the 6mm starter pistol blanks a few years ago, they go with a bang as well
Cor yea I bet they do go with a decent crack 🤯
I stuck some of these to a little wooden toy boat and shot it in stream very entertaining
I quite fancy a few moving targets as it goes 😆
Fun but a bit sketchy, I’ve had the primer/pellet come back and hit me in hand doing this. Shooting at around 25yds it hit between trigger finger and my thumb, whilst still on the rifle, not got the minerals for anything but paper and knockdowns now 😜, keep the vids coming look forward to the next one.
Yep definitely a bit sketchy.. I could have easily edited that all out, but it's a good reminder to all of us not to be complacent eh...😉
Have you tried shotgun primers? Very cheap per 100. I've used them close in at a very slight angle (with eve protection) with air pistols (around 10m) and air rifles at 25. Gives a loud Pap! Not so loud the Police get called 😁. Very satisfying in the workshop at 30+ feet (10m). We used to drill holes through scrap wood, push the primers in, often with 1inch red dots over the primers, angle the wood very slightly to one side, pop the glasses on & away you go. If my memory serves it was with mainly a Beeman P1 and a Webley Tempest? Hurricane?
That sounds great fun 😀 I'll have a look Into them cheers!
Excellent Sunday morning hilarity !! 🤣
Could you tell I was peed off being complacent with myself 😬
Nice target 👍
I made one using 12 gauge blanks (20+ years ago) unfortunately unless your in the middle of nowhere you’d get complaints at best Or the swat team coming around for a coffee and biscuits at 3 am the next morning, looking for your firearms 😂😂 😊
Nice target all the same 😊👍
Luckily I'm in the middle of nowhere ISH.. 😆
tad risky yes . but oh so much fun . although it really does emphasise safety specs . they took a full on hit there but that would have definitely saved an eye for sure . not just in close range air gunning but in anything one is doing were they is any chance of flying debris
So much fun mate, I'm gutted I got a bit complacent though. I could have edited all that out but it's a good reminder for all of us eh...😉
I made some years ago with shotgun primers, made you deaf when they were hit 😂
GREAT VID MATE .
Cheers mate 😉
Lodged in glasses
If you have no use for the nail gun, could you have removed the cartridge chamber from it to fit into the target and then installed the blanks into that. Might even be possible to retain the firing mechanism so there is no danger of anything coming back at you. The power in these nailer cartridges, probably exceeds the impact energy of the pellet, so could well get debris flying backwards. We use .44 caliber in our cable spiking guns and they will easily force the spike completely through the cables.
Yeah I think I'll strip the hilti and see what parts I can use, I love the crack of the cartridges but need to improve it's safety a fair bit. Maybe a barrel and striker affair would mitigate any ricochets...🤔
I think the problem you had with the blow back/ricochet was you compromised the base of the cartridge and allowed the blast to blow towards you. If you could make a rig with a small plate to shoot at that would have a pin to impact the rim of the cartridge it would detonate safely. and the force of the blast would travel away from you.
I reckon you're correct mate, I think I split the target with the pellet ,half went through and set it off,the other half the split was flung back at me. Definitely need a more typical target paddle arrangement with the cartridges behind it... 😉
A thicker back plate would make them easier to drift out, but definitely a good one.
I'm going to strip the hilti and see what I can re use. Maybe the barrel/chamber portion will be salvageable.. I need to improve the safety of it too really..
Watch out for rocket propelled brass shrapnel,I ended up with ten stitches on my forehead doing something similar,and that was from 20yrds,even bits lodged in my glasses
Yep I need to look at a slightly revised design. Potentially have the cartridges behind a more typical target paddle with a firing pin affair 🤔
@@tillysgunstocks i might have my old final design one somewhere
You found a posh one the two I have are more like a bolster chisel and about 20 boxes of pellets
I definitely got lucky ,I've not actually spent any time seeing if the hilti works though. I don't really have a use for it,but the cartridges .. oh yeah😆
How about a Christmas special, you test the safety squints to destruction and put them on a mannequin and shoot them with a 12 bore
😆 that's a really good shout mate...
Be super careful of newtons 3rd law - having fragments from a blank come back = eye injury
What about 2 plates & those little 8 round cap gun blanks? - figure out semi auto reload on all 8 :)
I reckon exactly that happened 😬
Kinda weird that this type of target is readily available in the shops now I think about it 😆😎
What’s the most accurate Airarms xti50 or anschutz 9015/hp?
Well that's a question and half...
There's nothing between them at typical competition ranges upto 55yds. We're really at the limit of the pellets at this point. However at the extreme ranges of sub 12 the xti absolutely blows the 9015 out the water.
I was planning to use my 9015 as my winter br rig, there's a few vids setting it up and prepping the front rest etc. However it became apparent quite quick that I could shoot the red xti more accurately on the nsra br cards. With a couple of extra X's per card. I couldn't ignore that so I've made the swap to the xti for the br comps now.
The sight picture is marginally stiller on the 9015 and the trigger can possibly go lighter in its break weight but I've got both the 9015 and xti set up nice and light and safe. With my current setup they feel the same. That was intentional so I can swap between them with no dramas. I've actually got a 9015 trigger blade on the xti now too.
The xti also deals with the extremes of temperature better than the 9015, as noticed last week shooting a br card Indoors at 2°c . Same couldn't be said for me. I was freezing..😆
I love them both but the xti fits me a little better hence I can squeeze a bit more out of it.
I'm working on some new parts for the chassis currently to improve my shooting position for the disciplines I shoot so there's a chance I can get a bit more out of it still.
Given the chassis version is due quite soon I'd probably hold off and see what factory options that has before making any decisions.
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I’ve sourced a 9015 John Harris tuned but I like Airarms but it’s a tough one thanks for the reply
Skip diving, find any HW100s in there but too ashamed to say you snagged one? M8 tapping drill is 6.8mm aaaaaaand I have no idea how I know that. Cheers Mr Gunstocks
Funnily enough I realised that about 2 mins after I'd gently fettled the holes out 😆
I'd probably leave the HW in the skip tbh... Lol joking.. wouldn't mind one of them from a skip tbh
Mate had a bought target but digging out the spent blanks was a pain
Did you get any ricochets off it? I reckon it was the pellet being spat back at a rate of knots...
@ not that we were aware of as we shoot on an open back range, good fun but as I said a pain to remove, I think a thicker plate that stops them splaying would work. Another fun video.
Why rabbit and hen siluettes are so popular?
I'm not entirely sure, probably a throwback from pest control stuff. The proper silhouettes are rams and bison too? Not sure why?
@@tillysgunstocks Yea, me, finding weird points of view from every aspect. xD Its more or less cultural, maybe in china they dogs, middle east pigs.. etc. :P
I thought you need a certificate to posses them? Anybody know about this?
They’re blank cartridges - no certificate needed
When i was a child my friend took a shot gun shell and wedge it in a tree so he could shoot the primer with a BB gun. When he did the BB hit the primer and came back at him and shoot his eye out. So I am concerned you target set up may be unsafe especially it hard lead, od pellets it BB heads, polymer tips. So be careful on what you use.
What about leaving the blank sheel out a try shooting through the hole.
Next version will have the cartridges behind a target paddle so nothing can come back towards me jet propelled 😬
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To be fair I had planned this one months ago,but the farm had all the grass up and it was like a tinder box so waited until the winter set in and everything is wet 😉