Settling in nicely at about 500 shots. She’s liking the FTT 5.54’s and JSB 18’s.
Stretching out my HW50
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Settling in nicely at about 500 shots. She’s liking the FTT 5.54’s and JSB 18’s.
That is some pretty awesome shooting with a HW50 at those distances. What power scope is the Hawke?
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What’s your velocity spread like? That’s almost suspiciously good shooting lol. Are you that good of a shooter and put in a ton of work or would you say that your particular gun is phenomenal? If the former I’d love to hear how you’re getting it to shoot like that.
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I have to also agree that that is some good groups you got there. I just bought a HW 50. I was about ready to give up on Springers until I did a lot more researching and decided to give it another shot. I got it yesterday and I am very happy with it. Got pretty good groups with open sights but tomorrow I’m going to mount my UTG scope on it And see how it will group. Mine cocks easy And doesn’t twang when it shoots. Knock on wood I must’ve got a good one because that’s the only issues I’ve heard with the HW 50.
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Holy smokes, that's good shooting! I've got one in 22 as well, I plan to take it out and shoot long range for the first time this weekend. Which reminds me, I should make sure I have my rangefinder. Mine likes 16gr AA diablo fields @590fps the best
And yes, thats a beech stock. It has no business looking that good, lol.
And yes, thats a beech stock. It has no business looking that good, lol.
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Good shooting, your 50 really likes the heavy pellets. I have one in 22 cal as well and it shoots best with the H&N Greens 9.65 gr. It’s currently in the gun shop being repaired as it developed a metal on metal grating noise when returning to battery. Lucky for me it has a 3 year warranty.
Gary
Gary
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Where is the silencer from? Is that mounted aftermarket? I like that!
By the way - GREAT shooting!
By the way - GREAT shooting!
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Nice shooting. I have been shooting alloys through my hw50. It looks like I need to revisit some lead pellets. Thanks for posting.
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It needs the fix doing to it. If the gun shop does not know about it dont hold your breath. Its all about the delrin strip spring and the cocking foot.
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Center your scope and then bend the barrel to within 1" of the bull, then let the scope takeover from there.
IMO shimming the scope isn't a great solution.
I tuned three of my friends HW95's last week and two had droop from 4" to 6" at 12 yards. Simple, subtle bending is all that's needed to get you within an 1" of the bull ..... so the scope can then make any remaining adjustments.
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Didn't realize I paid $600 for a gun so I would end up having to bend the barrel in order for it to shoot correctly
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Beware! the droop in the recent HW95 guns is usually caused by the cocking linkage binding. Bending the barrel up will change the POI but your accuracy will still be sub par. The binding causes the gun not to lock up on the breech stop as designed. The binding holds the barrel down but doesn't repeat the lock up as good as the mechanical stop does. Im the last three years I've seen and fixed binding cocking arms on at least six of eight 95 family guns. The latest was October with a new 20 caliber HW98 the guy waited 14 months for.
Forewarned
Forewarned
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