What springer did you shoot today?
- By Mycapt65
- Traditional Airguns
- 8627 Replies
I use a comparable powered 177 Hw50 for an offhand walking air rifle. I use a fixed 4X, non AO, mildot scope with a 25 zero. Most of my targets will be close enough to that 25 yards there's not much hold over or under to consider. It's point and shoot. If I stretch it out to 50 yards I'm at 3/4 mil and at 93 yards IIRC I'm at 3 mils. Its easier to remember no hold over for most practical shots and use the reticle for the longer stuff. I almost never shoot past 50 yards offhand with air rifles any way.I pulled out the HW35E since I had a new sling on it and did some walking and off hand shooting with it. It being zeroed at 75-yards I didn't hit one can. I'm guessing I was at about 30-40 yards. I put a full revolution of down in it but that didn't help. I only made about ten shots and quit. I didn't get a picture.
Non AO is a blessing in a hunting scope, as it is always in focus regardless of whatever distance a target suddenly pops up at. Fixed power keeps your hold overs from changing with magnification. Trying to remember holdovers is hard enough at one magnification. forget remembering the infinite amount of holdovers throughout your magnification range. Then add to that ten other rifles. That's why I have only one walking rifle with a simple fixed power scope. Less is more.
What caliber is your 35E. I know it isn't 20.
Upvote 0