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HW/Weihrauch HW50 and HW95 .20 or.22?
- By SteveP-52
- Traditional Airguns
- 26 Replies
Congrats on the new rifle!Well, I was in AOA about two hours ago and looked at four walnut 95's to choose a stock. I went ahead with a .22 and it's on it's way (shipped to my house). They don't have anything on when the .20 HW50's will be shipped, but that's OK. This 95 will be well broken in by then!There's a new Hawke Airmax 3x9 and a set of Hawke rings waiting at home for it, curtesy of the last Dvor sale a couple of weeks back. I'm here visiting family, but I can't wait to get home next week! If anyone's interested, they have lots of both .20's and .22's waiting for you....
(Oh, the walnut 97's are pretty nice too)
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HW/Weihrauch 98-20 cal
- By Mycapt65
- Traditional Airguns
- 26 Replies
The last air rifle I bought and possibly last ever was a 20 cal 98. I always toyed with the idea of getting a 98. When an older one in 20 cal came available for a reasonable price I had to splurge. Nice gun.
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Traditional Pistol SOLD Price reduced, Cometa Indian pistol
- By Duckfish
- Member Classifieds
- 0 Replies
Good condition, shoots hard. Cocking strap rub marks.
$180 shipped conus. Now $170 shipped
$180 shipped conus. Now $170 shipped
RX Target Rebuild Complete
- By bdzjlz
- All Other Equipment
- 0 Replies
When they first came out, I purchased three RX Targets from David Bitowski for my indoor range. My friends, business guests, and I have likely shot +100,000 projectiles using them. A couple of years ago, I did replace the original paddles with 1/4" paddles and they fared much better.
The RX Targets have been one of the best airgun related equipment purchases I have ever made. And David is a terrific guy, though I am concerned that something may be wrong, as totally unlike him, I have e-mailed him and attempted to call him on several occasions over the last few months with no response. I was attempting to reach him to buy a new face plate with smaller diameter holes for one of my targets, plus to see if I could get him to make replacement paddles for me that would be 3/8" to 1/2" longer.
As you can see in the accompanying photos, I had the face plates produced with different size holes in them. The smallest of them are only 3/8" and 7/64". Utilizing such small holes enhances the fun of shooting pcps at such close range, and they are great for validating that the rifle is perfectly sighted in and that the groups are consistently tight. However, a resulting issue of having such small holes is that one can't clearly see the targets go down, so I was using black spring clips with orange target dots on the clip handles, and while this system worked well, projectiles would knock them off with some frequency and they always required maintenance.
The second issue is, that while shooting super accurate pcps at the close indoor range (18 yards) and shooting through these small holes, particularly with +45 FPE rifles shooting slugs, they tend to "punch" and after tens of thousands of shots will punch through even the 1/4" paddles.
So after considerable thought, and having no success in reaching Dave recently, I addressed both problems this weekend on my own.
Five of the fifteen paddles had significant "punch" depressions. I ground off of the uneven surfaces and bored the slug depressions out to 3/8", and inserted a 3/8" machine screw to fill the hole, using loctite on the nut, though I am guessing the projectile impacts will freeze the nut in place anyway. By inserting the machine screw and protruding the length of the nut, it should give considerably more surface to absorb the impacts than did even the original design.
I then bored a 3/16" hole at the top and mounted a painted fender washer to give a visual marker to confirm the target actually drops at the shot.
One reassembled, I tested using my Air Arms S510 .177 shooting the Benjamin 10.5 Gr Match pellets at around 800 FPS, to be certain I hadn't made them too heavy with the additional weight of the 3/8" machine screw and nut attached. They all went down perfectly and it was really easy to confirm the hit with the bright green washers showing above the targets.
Everything is now ready for another few years of trouble free shooting!
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The RX Targets have been one of the best airgun related equipment purchases I have ever made. And David is a terrific guy, though I am concerned that something may be wrong, as totally unlike him, I have e-mailed him and attempted to call him on several occasions over the last few months with no response. I was attempting to reach him to buy a new face plate with smaller diameter holes for one of my targets, plus to see if I could get him to make replacement paddles for me that would be 3/8" to 1/2" longer.
As you can see in the accompanying photos, I had the face plates produced with different size holes in them. The smallest of them are only 3/8" and 7/64". Utilizing such small holes enhances the fun of shooting pcps at such close range, and they are great for validating that the rifle is perfectly sighted in and that the groups are consistently tight. However, a resulting issue of having such small holes is that one can't clearly see the targets go down, so I was using black spring clips with orange target dots on the clip handles, and while this system worked well, projectiles would knock them off with some frequency and they always required maintenance.
The second issue is, that while shooting super accurate pcps at the close indoor range (18 yards) and shooting through these small holes, particularly with +45 FPE rifles shooting slugs, they tend to "punch" and after tens of thousands of shots will punch through even the 1/4" paddles.
So after considerable thought, and having no success in reaching Dave recently, I addressed both problems this weekend on my own.
Five of the fifteen paddles had significant "punch" depressions. I ground off of the uneven surfaces and bored the slug depressions out to 3/8", and inserted a 3/8" machine screw to fill the hole, using loctite on the nut, though I am guessing the projectile impacts will freeze the nut in place anyway. By inserting the machine screw and protruding the length of the nut, it should give considerably more surface to absorb the impacts than did even the original design.
I then bored a 3/16" hole at the top and mounted a painted fender washer to give a visual marker to confirm the target actually drops at the shot.
One reassembled, I tested using my Air Arms S510 .177 shooting the Benjamin 10.5 Gr Match pellets at around 800 FPS, to be certain I hadn't made them too heavy with the additional weight of the 3/8" machine screw and nut attached. They all went down perfectly and it was really easy to confirm the hit with the bright green washers showing above the targets.
Everything is now ready for another few years of trouble free shooting!
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Talion first Racoon
- By LONESTAR .25
- Optics
- 2 Replies
Lol, love the descriptionStayed up last night watching Davids sling and the Iron dôme take down irans missiles the my motion detector went off and I sent Hybrid FX missile down range and the iron dome was cracked
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Airgun Technologies Uragan-1 after 3 years of hard hunting use.......
- By WorriedMan
- PCP Airguns
- 7 Replies
Gendoc,
No worries, .25 is still on the job, this morning's take, JSB 33.95 MKII @ 20 yards (DRT).
No worries, .25 is still on the job, this morning's take, JSB 33.95 MKII @ 20 yards (DRT).
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