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Post by TMan on Aug 11, 2012 22:29:41 GMT -5
I've read that "springers" require special scopes because the recoil is in the opposite direction than normal recoil. However, with a PCP rifle, wouldn't a regular scope work?
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Post by MLB on Aug 13, 2012 15:39:35 GMT -5
OK, I'll be the dummy; What does PCP stand for?
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Post by "DoubleAction" on Aug 13, 2012 19:37:52 GMT -5
Pre-Charged Pneumatic Air Rifles
.....I forgot that this was posted on the Air gun category. ;D |
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Post by MLB on Aug 14, 2012 8:54:08 GMT -5
Thanks DA. I have a PCP pistol and didn't even know it.
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Post by TMan on Aug 14, 2012 14:38:54 GMT -5
Thanks DA. I have a PCP pistol and didn't even know it. ;D ;D ;D That is really funny. |
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Post by MLB on Aug 16, 2012 8:57:32 GMT -5
Makes me feel a bit like TMan; having guns that I didn't know about. ;D In my defense, the last air pistol I bought was purchased when I was about 14.
Back then, they just called them "bb-guns". Whoda thunk 30 or so years later they'd be benighted with such a title as requires an acronym.
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Post by TMan on Aug 17, 2012 20:29:14 GMT -5
Really, I thought the PCP's were a more recent invention.
Incidentally, my wife still hasn't asked me what the scuba tank (I use that for the PCP's air source) is doing in the downstairs guest bedroom closet. I guess you would have to know her to understand how humorous that is.
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Post by MLB on Aug 21, 2012 8:34:47 GMT -5
Reading into DA's link a bit more, it looks like my common CO2 cartridge pistol isn't considered a PCP, the tank should be refillable. Ah well. Again I learn something here.
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Post by "DoubleAction" on Aug 23, 2012 19:55:22 GMT -5
...Well; I was little confused, because I forgot that I was on the pellet gun category. The first thing that I thought about was the Practical Police Combat ( PPC ) competitions, and then I realized that I was on the pellet gun pages.
.....John Pride was a favorite of mine, about 25 years ago, and he was a PPC Double Action Revolver shooter.
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Post by "DoubleAction" on Aug 23, 2012 20:18:02 GMT -5
....My first High Powered Pellet pistol, was a pump action single shot with a air cylinder below the barrel. I had a Benjamin 132 : |
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Post by TMan on Aug 23, 2012 22:35:09 GMT -5
I think they do have PCP's that are fed from CO2 cartridges vs compressed air.
I still have to laugh when I think of my wife staring at the scuba tank in the closet, but never asking me what it was for. It is like she would be embarrassed to admit that she didn't know what it was for. ;D
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Post by MLB on Aug 24, 2012 9:03:20 GMT -5
Be careful, maybe she's assumed that you're taking her to the Carribean for a scuba trip.
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