Preston came here for a few days and this is what we did with him.
Make blue cornbread
Scared the cahooties out of me.
Built cool things out of lego.......
......and getting stuck on the butt of a big armadillo
ewww..... he should pick his nose more often
ahhhggg..... he got back at me for that.
played dodge ball.
Ahhh…. The first mosquito bite of the year. One that stays for a week and is the most itchy. I got it yesterday at airsoft. We are planning to go to Colorado to go biking for the summer. I can’t wait. We are going to go to different places and the one we think is the best we will spend more time there.
This is a day in Texas. In ten steps.
1. I get out of bed and have breakfast
2. I have a shower or try to get Caleb out of bed.
3. done shower and GET Caleb out of bed
4. start school work
5. End school work and go biking at ACU with dad or go shopping
5. Have supper
6. Clear the table and wash the dishes. (Caleb drys them)
7. Watch corner gas
8. Try to get Caleb to go to bed (notice the pattern here)
9. GET Caleb in bed.
10. Go to bed.
Do it all again tomorrow
Looking through the scope; waiting for my target to line up with the cross hairs. There it is. The perfect shot. I take it. What? Missed??? I’m upgrading my L96 Sniper Rifle because the hop up
broke.
A hop up is a chamber that the BB goes through before entering the barrel of the gun. The whole point of having a hop up is that it puts a back spin on the BB so that it shoots straight and you can adjust it. There is a knob that pushes down on a tube of rubber that puts a back spin on the BB. The adjustment can make the BB go up or down. You want the BB to go straight and without the hop up, you wouldn’t have that much range. The hop up chamber goes right in front of the barrel. The whole unit is about an inch long but it can vary with different chambers for different guns.
The reason I’m upgrading my hop up is because it broke. There are some other reasons a person might want to upgrade. One might be that you can adjust the gun to shoot how you want it to shoot. A new gun probably doesn’t feel or shoot right until you get used to it or adjust it to how you want it. Another reason might be to make it more powerful and accurate. Barrels have a lot of affect on accuracy and power. Most stock barrels are 6.08 mm. You can get barrels that are as small as 6.01 mm. High quality BBs are from 5.95 to 5.98 mm. Having a tighter barrel increases accuracy and adds around 30 FPS to your gun.
What kind of hop up do I need for L96 Sniper Rifle? There are many different kinds I could get. Lots of companies make them but they are really hard to find. A few allow you to use AEG inner barrels instead of sniper cut barrels. UTG is the brand of my gun and the hop up broke. UTG is a clone company that makes clones of guns. Clone guns are guns that are made just like high end companies but they use cheap parts like pot metal and cheap plastics. PDI is a high end company that makes parts. They make two different versions of hop ups for the L96. One can take sniper cut barrels and the other one, which is more popular, is one that take AEG barrels. PDI offers repair kits that have extra allen wrenches, O-rings, screws and almost anything you would need to fix the chamber. Lalax also make two different versions that do the same thing. Lalax hop ups are harder to find and aren’t as good as PDI but if you want a sniper cut barrel, then you should go with Lalax, that is if you can find them.
What barrel should I get? It depends which hop up I want to get. If I get a PDI hop up that needs a AEG barrel, then I would get a barrel cut for an AEG. If I have a Lalax chamber that uses sniper cut barrels then I would get a sniper cut barrel. I took a look at both AEG and sniper cut barrels and the only difference I saw was the groove that the bucking slid onto was on different sides and the sniper barrel had a straight cut hole for the bucking to press down on while the AEG had slanted sides. I could also choose to get a ported barrel. A ported barrel has a hole for all the air in the barrel to escape. That means that I get more accuracy but it leaks out 5-10 FPS because there is not as good air seal.
Everything costs money. The UTG hop up costs around $8 but it wouldn’t last long. The PDI hop up chamber can cost from $45-$60 depending on where you get it. Lalax will be slightly cheaper but is harder to find. The barrel will cost $80-$85 if I want it ported. Airsoft is not a cheap sport but hey, I’ll have this gun for a while.
I still haven’t decided which one to get. If I can’t find a Lalax one then I’ll have to go to PDI. By the time I realize I can’t find a Lalax, the PDI might be out of stock. Now I am always checking web sites for the chambers and it will take a while to find one. Dad and I ordered the UTG stock hop up and it should be here soon. It should hold up until I get a high end chamber. Happy Sniping Eh?
Work Cited.
http://www.airsoftcore.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=39052&mode=threaded&pid=352740
http://www.shootercity-airsoft.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2780
http://www.tntsniperproshop.com/product.detail_383178_th_1607027?lang=en
http://www.airsoftforum.com/board/lofiversion/index.php/f153.html
Yeah, I think we need high speed internet. Look at this picture.
So many of the homes we looked at DON’T have high speed internet but…… I think we need it.
Yesterday in the snow we made a BIG snow ball. It was almost 5 feet tall all around. It was so heavy that we had to stop rolling it. I wonder how much it weighed?
That was it before it was done. It’s not that tall now.
Snow, snow everywhere, about 3 inches on the ground. It’s little too cold for snow balls but if you go close enough to buildings it is better, where there is heat. Here are some Pictures
Mom said to blog but I don’t know what to blog about. It is really annoying not knowing what to blog about. Oh look, I just blogged about not blogging.
HA!!!!!
I wonder where I’ll be when I post the 300th? Maybe we would have bought a house? Maybe we switched apartments again? Nobody knows…….
Just thinking last night, A year ago, if I had a time travel machine to travel to today. I wouldn’t know what happened. Where I was, why it wasn’t snowing, why are there all these dumb commercials on TV. That would be neat to see my expression.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Baba’s bread is almost gone. What will I do?????? Oh wait. I can make more,