{"id":8167,"date":"2003-12-09T02:09:45","date_gmt":"2003-12-09T02:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8167"},"modified":"2003-12-09T02:09:45","modified_gmt":"2003-12-09T02:09:45","slug":"robot-assassins-from-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8167","title":{"rendered":"Robot Assassins from the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.network54.com\/Hide\/Forum\/170154\"><img decoding=\"async\" valign=\"top\" align=\"right\" width=250 src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/6BALL.jpg\"><\/a> After seeing a neighbor with a cheap pellet gun at a campout, and finding out it only cost $30, I started to get the itch to relive the glory days of my youth, blowing away plastic army men and soup cans. I wasn&#8217;t prepared to stumble across a global tribe of airgun hackers, or airsmiths. This pistol (right) is a Crosman 2240 with a scope, laser sight, flashlight, and bulk c02 attached. These guys take $50 c02 pistols and trick them out until they look like something from Assassins-R-Us. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.funsupply.com\/airguns\/talonreview.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=left width=200 src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/aftalon.jpg\"><\/a> <br \/> There are a number of resources for airgunners, including the internationally flavored <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;safe=active&#038;group=alt.sport.air-guns\">alt.sport.air-guns<\/a>. It&#8217;s an odd but friendly mixture of varmint -shooters from South Carolina and 10m Olympic pistol shooters from Europe, using $800 pistols made by Swedish co-ops. <\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;m not a real gun guy, per se, but I bought a $25 refurbished <a href=\"http:\/\/airgunstore.com\/PISTOLS\/CRMOD1377.HTM\">Crosman 1377c pistol<\/a>, which can shoot groups of one inch at 10m in my basement. (if only *I* were that accurate). Sometimes I&#8217;ll take it to the fields behind my house and shoot from the hip at debris.<\/p>\n<p> They are all hardware hackers of sorts, and regardless of ideology and nationality. know the importance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nygord-precision.com\/mental2.html\">merging with the machine<\/a> to make the perfect shot. These guns are relatively quiet, and shooting the pistol in the basement is paradoxically calming, and pretty fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing a neighbor with a cheap pellet gun at a campout, and finding out it only cost $30, I started to get the itch to relive the glory days of my youth, blowing away plastic army men and soup cans. I wasn&#8217;t prepared to stumble across a global tribe of airgun hackers, or airsmiths. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8167\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Robot Assassins from the Future&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}