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(The targets on the garage door are dryfire targets)
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More AirSoft *brilliance* Tonight's stage
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Posted 13 July 2009 - 07:49 PM
No, no riding mowers here! Just about $30 and some MacGyver-ing. I really wasn't sure how this AirSoft thing would work so I didn't want to drop a lot of cash on targets. It turns out I can FUBAR the rack with AirSoft just like at the range. I think this might just work!
Stage_13Jul09_2.JPG (49.79K)
Number of downloads: 259
Later,
Chuck
(The targets on the garage door are dryfire targets)
Stage_13Jul09_2.JPG (49.79K)
Number of downloads: 259
Later,
Chuck
(The targets on the garage door are dryfire targets)
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Posted 13 July 2009 - 07:56 PM
The bar for airsoft stages has been set pretty high. 
If you are not moving, and there are not outdoor power product involved, you are just playing catch up. If you can figure out how to integrate a gas weed eater into your stage, you will get some bonus points. 
Randy
If you are not moving, and there are not outdoor power product involved, you are just playing catch up. If you can figure out how to integrate a gas weed eater into your stage, you will get some bonus points. Randy
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Posted 13 July 2009 - 08:49 PM
rrflyer, on Jul 13 2009, 08:44 PM, said:
Flexmoney, on Jul 13 2009, 10:05 PM, said:
I'll fix the topic title for ya. 
Nice!
I'd like to see an airsoft texas star!
I have been thinking about that but I have not come up with any mechanism to keep the plates in place while spinning but allow them to fall when hit. But then, I am an electrical engineer by trade and my mechanical engineering skills are pretty much useless.
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Posted 13 July 2009 - 09:08 PM
ChuckS, on Jul 13 2009, 07:49 PM, said:
rrflyer, on Jul 13 2009, 08:44 PM, said:
Flexmoney, on Jul 13 2009, 10:05 PM, said:
I'll fix the topic title for ya.
Nice!
I'd like to see an airsoft texas star!
I have been thinking about that but I have not come up with any mechanism to keep the plates in place while spinning but allow them to fall when hit. But then, I am an electrical engineer by trade and my mechanical engineering skills are pretty much useless.
oh, its coming.
test video of the BAM Pendulum
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Posted 14 July 2009 - 07:23 AM
Here's something from Champion targets offer by Cabela's.
Champion Ferris Wheel
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Champion Ferris Wheel
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Posted 14 July 2009 - 12:57 PM
I like it! After dealing with that puppy, a Texas Star should be easy by comparison. Does that unit also spin once you start taking off plates?
Pride and fear are emotions, which hope for an outcome. Outcomes take your attention from the present, where the shooting happens, to the future. It is totally impossible to do anything in the future, because it hasn't happened yet. The key to shooting your best is to be present as the witness of the shooting. Do not judge, do not give yourself anything to live up to. We can only shoot as well as we have trained ourselves to shoot. To try to shoot only induces stress. Be content with your current ability. And accumulate practice to improve that ability. Consolidate, build strength where you feel weakness. We cannot raise our ability until we accept our current limitations. Practice dissolves limitations. Matches simply define where the current limits exist. The game of shooting is all about redefining our limits.
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Amateurs do it til they get it right. Professionals do it til they can't get it wrong.
"It's not the will to win that matters - everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."
- Paul "Bear" Bryant
"The only reason why Everest is the highest mountain ever climbed is because it's the highest. If there was one higher, I bet there'd be people trying to climb it."
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Posted 15 July 2009 - 12:38 PM
Duane Thomas, on Jul 14 2009, 12:57 PM, said:
I like it! After dealing with that puppy, a Texas Star should be easy by comparison. Does that unit also spin once you start taking off plates?
The BAM STAR won't spin as fast as the BAM PEDULUM because of the more evenly dispersed weight. From this design, we are experimenting with some weight driven activaters. In the spirit of true training, I won't be doing top to bottom engagement of the star anyway. I would activate by hitting a lower target to start the movement, that way I start trapping or tracking the target. I generally don't have a terrible tim with texas stars but I, like everyone in my class, struggles with one that starts really moving on you. I think this type of stuff just helps with the vision, staying with the sights and peripherally knowing where the target is while its moving.
I will try to put some video up soon.
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Posted 15 July 2009 - 10:15 PM
Duane Thomas, on Jul 14 2009, 01:57 PM, said:
I like it! After dealing with that puppy, a Texas Star should be easy by comparison. Does that unit also spin once you start taking off plates?
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Explosive shooting fun results when you test your skill against this rotating target holder. The wheel holds nine VisiChalk targets on a sturdy metal frame, and rotates when a target is hit to increase the challenge.
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Posted 16 July 2009 - 08:32 PM
I have plans for a Texas Star to accompany my plate rack.
I've been thinking along the lines of either attaching the plate to a magnet, or maybe a small binder clip. The primary challenge is going to be keeping the five arms and center bearing light enough that those tiny plates will really start it swinging when they're removed.
I've been thinking along the lines of either attaching the plate to a magnet, or maybe a small binder clip. The primary challenge is going to be keeping the five arms and center bearing light enough that those tiny plates will really start it swinging when they're removed.
The truth is that there is no choice between the two. You line the sights up in the A-zone and let it fly at the absolute soonest moment that you see what your experience tells you will put the hole where you're aiming it using the amount of trigger control you need to keep the gun lined up in that spot. There is no concern about accuracy or speed - either one is an illusion from behind the gun. There's "where do I want to hit" and "is the gun lined up there or not"... followed up with "did the sights lift from where I wanted to hit". To assign an "either/or" to the equation is to deny the fact that the gun can be shot ridiculously fast while shooting all As - but it won't be done while you're determined that one must be sacrificed for the other - and it also has the amusing side effect of pressuring the shooter to ignore "the shooting" in the name of "the speed" - XRe
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Posted 17 July 2009 - 06:14 AM
MemphisMechanic, on Jul 16 2009, 08:32 PM, said:
I have plans for a Texas Star to accompany my plate rack.
I've been thinking along the lines of either attaching the plate to a magnet, or maybe a small binder clip. The primary challenge is going to be keeping the five arms and center bearing light enough that those tiny plates will really start it swinging when they're removed.
I've been thinking along the lines of either attaching the plate to a magnet, or maybe a small binder clip. The primary challenge is going to be keeping the five arms and center bearing light enough that those tiny plates will really start it swinging when they're removed.
You can use an activator and a falling weight to get the spin rate up.
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Posted 17 July 2009 - 10:19 PM
rrflyer, on Jul 13 2009, 07:44 PM, said:
Flexmoney, on Jul 13 2009, 10:05 PM, said:
I'll fix the topic title for ya.
Nice!
I'd like to see an airsoft texas star!
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Posted 19 July 2009 - 07:11 PM
rrflyer, on Jul 13 2009, 07:44 PM, said:
Flexmoney, on Jul 13 2009, 10:05 PM, said:
I'll fix the topic title for ya.
Nice!
I'd like to see an airsoft texas star!
video of BAM STAR
I think this may be the first all metal airsoft star ever made. If not I would love to see the others.
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