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Yes good fun, been through the air rifles and for ease use the co2 pistol for some plinking.
Car keys I have a quantum, USB and a little 10180 cell in. Bright enough at around 120lm for close up uses.
Small and bright lights, the s2+ with 18350 body is a compact power house. Centre is the Paul Kim pocket rocket, fed on cr123 or 16340 for around 600lm. Far right the s2+ triple which is 2900lm and driven near 9a.
I used to be really into shooting, mostly shotguns but like most I started out with air guns, was just getting into FAC hand guns at the local gun club when they banned them, these days I don't hunt at all, maybe I will again sometime in the future when I have more time and disposable cash. Still have an air riffle, Walther Terrus 1.77 for the squirrel type things (smaller) that occasionally find their way into my roof and set up house, I also have a Daisy 1.77 co2 Beretta replica and a very old one shot Diana (I think) that I picked up at a church jumble sale many moons ago.
Have a lenser K1 on my key ring, it's seen better days but it still does the job.
Talking about bright LEDs I can't get enough of HDR at the moment, PS4 Pro and Panasonic DMP-UB900 serving my Samsung JS8500 well. Ghostbusters (2016) is one crap film but the light show is awesome, especially on my parents 1000 nit JS8000.
It's not a gimmick, despite what people who spend £200 on a tv will tell you, HDR is immense.
Seems a strange statement but I struggle to watch 4K after viewing HDR content. SD now looks like it was all filmed underwater.
Talking about bright LEDs I can't get enough of HDR at the moment, PS4 Pro and Panasonic DMP-UB900 serving my Samsung JS8500 well. Ghostbusters (2016) is one crap film but the light show is awesome, especially on my parents 1000 nit JS8000.
It's not a gimmick, despite what people who spend £200 on a tv will tell you, HDR is immense.
Seems a strange statement but I struggle to watch 4K after viewing HDR content. SD now looks like it was all filmed underwater.
Good to hear, I've been holding off 4K until HDR (and some content, it has to be said!).
I fancy an OLED one, though, and they are still aren't cheap
Good to hear, I've been holding off 4K until HDR (and some content, it has to be said!).
I fancy an OLED one, though, and they are still aren't cheap
OLED have great blacks but they are struggling to reach the levels of brightness needed to be a UHD Premium set. Though OLED's do have their own UHD Premium requirements specific to them. Think it's 1000 nits for LED and around 600 nits for OLED amongst other specs.
I used to be really into shooting, mostly shotguns but like most I started out with air guns, was just getting into FAC hand guns at the local gun club when they banned them, these days I don't hunt at all, maybe I will again sometime in the future when I have more time and disposable cash. Still have an air riffle, Walther Terrus 1.77 for the squirrel type things (smaller) that occasionally find their way into my roof and set up house, I also have a Daisy 1.77 co2 Beretta replica and a very old one shot Diana (I think) that I picked up at a church jumble sale many moons ago.
Have a lenser K1 on my key ring, it's seen better days but it still does the job.
Don't get me started on air rifles!
Was out last night with the night vision, love it!
yes, some of those pics with torches/knives looked like the beginnings of a perverts tool bag :-)
LOL, nothing wrong with a little plinker of a hand gun, my co2 Beretta is great fun for shooting tin cans 15 feet away, aka Clint Eastwood style, think it's got 11 shots or something, can be fun when I'm in the mood, giving it the kwik draw magraw.
As for the knives, most of mine have a use, but I do buy the odd one just because I like it and the price is right.
LOL, nothing wrong with a little plinker of a hand gun, my co2 Beretta is great fun for shooting tin cans 15 feet away, aka Clint Eastwood style, think it's got 11 shots or something, can be fun when I'm in the mood, giving it the kwik draw magraw.
As for the knives, most of mine have a use, but I do buy the odd one just because I like it and the price is right.
yeah, only kidding really
I am tool fetishist as well - any excuse to buy a tool and I do
latest of mine was a sail repair stitching awl!!!
the torches do look pretty cool,
and the last knife I bought was one of those classic French pen knives, last summer
it is for a leather chair I have, the "arm" is broken and I have repaired it :-)
for my sails I have mylar tape
Your dog is going to want to sit on everyones lap for the rest of it's life.
Be careful what you teach them when they are young because that's what they'll remember the most, and it'll be impossible to get them out of the habit of jumping into your lap when you sit down, fine when they weigh 5/8kg not so much fun when they weigh 20/25kg, ie bag of cement, which is about what she will weigh in around 2yrs.
Your dog is going to want to sit on everyones lap for the rest of it's life.
Be careful what you teach them when they are young because that's what they'll remember the most, and it'll be impossible to get them out of the habit of jumping into your lap when you sit down, fine when they weigh 5/8kg not so much fun when they weigh 20/25kg, ie bag of cement, which is about what she will weigh in around 2yrs.
Ditch, you live my life
I had that very conversation with my wife only this afternoon!!!!!
PS two visits to the emergency 24hr vets - one for "grapes" wtf and one for a sports sock
both swallowed !!!!!!!!
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I used to be really into shooting, mostly shotguns but like most I started out with air guns, was just getting into FAC hand guns at the local gun club when they banned them, these days I don't hunt at all, maybe I will again sometime in the future when I have more time and disposable cash. Still have an air riffle, Walther Terrus 1.77 for the squirrel type things (smaller) that occasionally find their way into my roof and set up house, I also have a Daisy 1.77 co2 Beretta replica and a very old one shot Diana (I think) that I picked up at a church jumble sale many moons ago.
Have a lenser K1 on my key ring, it's seen better days but it still does the job.
Gamo pt85, .177 and co2 powered with blowback(does use a bit of the c02 though). Its shot up the garden gate pretty well anyway, around 380 fps iirc.
I used to have a w45 silver star which was a beast, real nice blued wood handle.
Air rifles i have had, weihrauch hw95k, air arms 400 beach and a walnut, 510 walnut . Kind of prefer the single shot over the 10 shot mag, might be me but tend to take time more with single shot.
Once my lad gets a bit older, will start again with the rifles and go back to worsley air rifle club.
Keep pondering over a dan wessen c02 revolver. Nearly got one a few month back but a little large for my lad to use(hence why i got a gamo for him to use(supervised of course).
Here's my Daisy Beretta replica, it's a bit old, I bought it in Florida the first time I went to America in 1990 still works a treat, made in Japan too.
Loving the Dan Wessons, I used to have a Brocock snub nosed 38 until they banned them because people were converting them to fire live rounds. I'm more of a revolver fan, might be something to do with all the cowboy movies I watched as a kid.
Got a mate out here that has a real Winchester under leaver, need to get out with him and have a few shots, I had a go on a Marlon under leaver that belonged to a friend, shooting skittles at the gun club on a tactical shooting night, that's a hell of a piece of equipment and nice engineering with a hexagonal barrel, gun ****.
Last edited by ditchmyster; 10 December 2016 at 04:40 PM.
i reckon that could be my source to, western films when a kid!
Good fun for garden plinking, once spring gets here i may get a few knock down targets set up around the back of the garden. Wessen is on the cards as well.
This is the most powerful 4.5mm BB gun you can buy afaik, I tested it at 448 fps, but some can get nearly 500 fps in hotter climates. over 500 fps is illegal in Canada.
Refrain.. otherwise you'll have a bullpup collection and a night vision addiction before you know it haha
I was out the other day shooting rimfire and using thermal night vision, very cool. Very expensive though. A cheap scope is a couple of grand, over £10k if you want something near the top line!
I've built a few infra red night vision setups for my scopes and just recently got a dedicated night vision scope with it all built in. IR stuff is cheap, I can build a really good setup for under £100 which allows you to see very well (with an IR illuminator) in complete darkness
What size and what budget, for a good general use light, the olight r50 and the r50 pro are good options. Come with a 26650 cell(4500-5000mah capacity on average), built in USB charging so easy be it car or plug socket.
Quite a compact light too.
For pure flood mules are the answer, no reflector and just the LED or LED/s.
Oveready do a simple 1 mode nichia 219B(pic on right)which is around 92cri
Left is a custom triple mule in nichia 219C flavour. 219c are over 80 cri(colour rendering index, higher the better/more accurate colours are.
Not cheap, but its one of them i guess, buy once cry once and good for many years-life!.
3 mules here
oveready mule http://www.oveready.com/
, p60vn triple nichia 219C mule and a p60vn quad mule 219C with programmable drivers
By that i mean http://skylumen.com/products/p60vnt-...ant=6783234692
Drivervn3 http://skylumen.com/pages/drivervn-d...mable-circuits
So many options from law enforcement to house hold chores.
For value i really like the sportac triples(p60 drop in), these are around £35 and you just need a host(empty compatible flashlight). Solarforce offer excellent value for under £20 from solarforce themselves(or a little more UK supplied).
The sportac triple has 3 nichia 219B LED's inside with optics, give a huge hot spot of flood. Useful for close up and up to maybe 50ft or so.
Or if you want to keep cost down, look at fenix as a brand, or the zebralight mkIII , great light and possibly the best 18650 fed light under £100
Still the olight r50 offers a great package.............its many flashaholics fav go to light .
If you don't want to go mad and just want something simple but effective I can recommend the Fenix E11, takes normal AA batteries and is a monster of a light for the size, it's about as long as a normal cigarette and as thick as a AA battery, had mine for about 2/3yrs, it will easily light up 30m in front of you, it's not going to make it like daylight but it's plenty bright enough to be able to see, extends out to about 50m if you're pointing it at something specific like a tree.
It's a old tech compared to whats available now, but it's enough for normal everyday requirements, batteries are cheap and available everywhere and you can buy rechargable but I've never felt the need, considering 8 x AA batteries from lidle last me about a year and cost 2 quid.
09 December 2016, 08:19 AM
these days I don't hunt at all, maybe I will again sometime in the future when I have more time and disposable cash. Still have an air riffle, Walther Terrus 1.77 for the squirrel type things (smaller) that occasionally find their way into my roof and set up house, I also have a Daisy 1.77 co2 Beretta replica and a very old one shot Diana (I think) that I picked up at a church jumble sale many moons ago.
OLED have great blacks but they are struggling to reach the levels of brightness needed to be a UHD Premium set. Though OLED's do have their own UHD Premium requirements specific to them. Think it's 1000 nits for LED and around 600 nits for OLED amongst other specs.
i reckon that could be my source to, western films when a kid! 
