Flag City "Toys that Shoot" Airgun Finds

Didn't go on a mad spree this time around.  Actually came home with money in my pocket.  If loose change counts...
















Anschutz branded pellets.  Pretty safe bet that these are H&N manufactured pellets.

One hundred pellets each individually protected from his neighbors.  Amazing. 














This is the only airgun I bought this year.  It's a Hy-Score 800.  The "800" part is denoted by the beginning of the serial number.  I don't believe the model designation is actually marked anywhere on the gun.  It's a break-top, spring piston design.

It's a .22 caliber.  The receiver end cap is rotated counter-clockwise and a shutter opens to accept a pellet.  Rotate the end cap clockwise and the shutter closes.  Mid 1970's?  Bought this gun from noted airgun custom tuner, Ken Reeves.  Oddly enough, he was just selling it for the show promoter, Dan Lerma, as he was busy taking care of the vendors and attendees.  Expect that it'll clean up beautifully.

I was surprised to find that Nick also owns one of these exact same guns and did a brief blog a few years ago here.

Check back soon.

Crosman 1100 Piercing Cap and Idiocy

The tube, polished up a bit to remove the worst of the rust. It’s pitted. Shouldn’t be that big of an issue as it’s hidden by the forearm.

Unfortunately all the pounding, even though I used the plastic drift, flared out the end of the tube. Darn. This is an example of one of the many reasons why I don’t fix other people’s airguns. If I had to do it again I probably would have sawed the forearm off…

So I removed about .08” of length of the tube threads. I hope that it won’t matter and that I can remove even more. I can screw the cap on now but it is too tight for my liking. When I get things put back together I can check and see how much wiggle room I have.

That stuck piercing cap. I chose a spare socket…

And made a spanner from it…

And sheared off one ear from the force being applied. At this point I asked on the Vintage Airgun forum if there was a trick, and indeed there was: “That nut has a threadlocking compound on it, so it will require a bit of heat to free it up. But most importantly - that nut has a left hand thread. Heat it up, and turn it clockwise to remove it.” Thanks LeonardJ!

So out came my trusty heat gun.

Done after heating for about a minute. A left hand thread makes sense as you don’t want the front to unscrew against the thrust of the cap being screwed onto the tube. Nonetheless it was a surprise.

This is how I held it in a vise without marring it.

A small hard o-ring inside the end.

All the parts.

Yes, a left hand thread.

I think the spanner came out better the 2nd time around as well.

Yet Another Grip for a 22XX Pistol--Part 3 Final

Almost done with the rosewood grips.















Yeah, there was still more sanding.

Wanted more definition on the thumb shelf on the left grip.  Had to make a run to the hardware store for more sanding drums.

When I got bored sanding the grips,  I sanded the grip frame.

Quit at 400 grit.  It's going to get painted after all.  Not shown:  The grip frame and side plate were sprayed with three coats of black satin.

Wiped the grips down with a tack cloth. 

Rubbed in a couple coats of Zinsser Bullseye shellac.  Used the heel of my hand and burnished the shellac into the wood.  It dries in no time and can be repaired almost as fast.

The maple spacers have nice contrast.  

 

For now, I'm calling it good enough.  These were supposed to be (relatively) quick after all.  They get the gun up and running and they're nicer than the stock plastic.

Flag City Toys that Shoot Airgun Show 2012

Here's some of the goings on at the 2012 Flag City Toys that Shoot Airgun Show in Findlay, Ohio.  The show was held Saturday, April 14 at the Lighthouse.  I'm not going to caption much as I want to get this up as quickly as possible.















I don't have a head count for the show, but I expect that well over 350 people attended.  All the tables were full and there were even a few set up outside under a tent.

 

There were vintage Daisy BB guns and parts by the ton.

Got Daisy bayonets?

The amount of repair parts for BB guns was unbelievable.

Vintage Crosman guns were also there in absolutely huge numbers.

 

There was so much variety.  Walther, Falke, Hy-Score, Feinwerkbau, Diana, Weihrauch, Drulov, FAS, Haenel, Relum, Air Arms, Targ-Air, Gamo, you-name-it, it was there.

Killer deals on walk-ins, too.  I saw another gentleman with an AA TX-200 asking only $375.

 

 

Theodore Summers even brought helpers.

 

Randy Mitchell

Need a vintage FWB pistol--or three?

There must have been almost a dozen S&W 78G's.  There was one on every other table.

Ken Reeves had this gorgeous custom stocked FWB 124 at a giveaway price.  Factory stocked 124's sell for this price all day on the Yellow Airgun classifieds.  The walnut was really exceptional.

Homemade rubber band powered gun.















Add more bands for more power.

Daisy made these Buck Rogers guns.

Saw about ten Crosman 600's.

Almost a dozen really clean Crosman MK1/MK2s

Yep.  A Feltman.

Three boxed sets of Crosman manufactured conversion kits for your .45 Auto pistol. 
















The Groenwalds.
















Steven Joseph

Ken Reeves
















Kevin Hull and Mike Sproveri
 














Ted Summers was all grins.
















Joe Adamo lives to go from gun show to gun show.
 


















I found the youngest attendee at the Sawmiller's.

Show organizer Dan Lerma and his wife, Angie.  They were everywhere with permanent smiles.




















Some idiot blog writer with a DAQ.  (Photo credit to Dennis Quackenbush.)
















And the absolute coolest item I saw today--the Daisy Atomic Disintegrator.