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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => The Shop => : TCups January 25, 2009, 01:45:08 AM
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The recent purchase of a Chrony Ballistic Printer presented the question of how best to set up to use it. As a temporary solution, I pulled out the wife's ironing board, but somehow that was unsatisfactory. Aside from taking up too much room in the already crowded gun room, the ironing board was a bit shaky and everything was too low to use comfortably.
see: http://www.gatewaytoairguns.com/airguns/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=13521&posts=4&highlight=chrony%20printer%20&highlightmode=1#M110563
Simple solutions are usually the best. So, I cut a 26" piece of pine (redwood) I had and simply put it under Timmy's larger pellet trap. I think it has about a dozen bars or so of duct seal putty at least, so it is plenty heavy to secure the board, providing an 18" shelf in front of the target. I already had a halogen desk lamp atop the target, which seems to work fine with the Chrony. I did cut a 4" strip of cardboard and taped the cardboard between the diffusers to shade any cross-shine from the desk lamp. The printer sets out of harm's way on the desktop. It occurs to me that simply nailing another piece of the 1-by vertically in front of the chrony would protect it. But since I am shooting at only about 6 ft. from the Chrony and at standing eye level, a miss seems fairly unlikely. And, when I am finished, I just put the Chrony away, slip the board out from under the target trap and tuck it in behind the targets, out of the way.
Once I got the light centered, the read out seem consistent. I think this is going to work just fine.
PS: You know your wife has acclimated to your airgun hobby when, before coming up the stairs, she shouts "Cease Fire!". I love her.
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That is so funny Tommy...:) I can just see her now stopping on the last step and saying "Cease Fire". And she must love you very very much to put up with your shooting range...:) Tell her I said hi...
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And it looks like you are almost out of ammo...LOL
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You can never have too many guns or too much ammo. Like the logo on the clipboard says: "Peace through superior firepower"
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Good setup Tommy and I agree, gotta have plenty of shooters and ammo.:) Ed
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Right on Tommy...very nice setup. When I saw all those tins it reminded me of my drawer with so many tins in it that I can barely open it. Just can never have enough ammo. If the price of pellets keeps goin up...I could stop buyin em and still shoot for years to come.
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I have purchased the Vogels and the JSB's in case lots, both for price and because of sometimes limited availability. And I stocked up on all the Beeman Trophy's I could find because that's what the Paul Watts Diana 34 Panther is set up to shoot, and they have now been discontinued. But yes, I guess it's true and I must plead guilty. I have a LARGE stockpile of pellets and "other" ammo as well. You just never know . . .
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This is how I did it..
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