What springer did you shoot today?

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I was playing with a fairly new HW30N with a scope. I had an old high gloss Leupold 3-9 AO air gun scope, stamped airgun on focusing bell. At first I tried a standard Sportsmatch one piece mount and it shot so low it was unreal. I ran out of adjustment in the scope, so recentered the reticule and got one of the Sportsmatch droop adjusting mounts. Initally zeroing it brought me from about 18 inchs low to 8. so I could adjust with the scope adjustments, but I was thinking I was getting close to the limits. so started shimming. At firs one shim of soda can brought it up a little, so went with 3 layers and much better Zeroed it at 10 meters then tried out at about 30 and it was dead on a swinger at that range. For the final zero, dusk was fast approaching and it was hard to see pellet holes in a 10meter airgun target so I used a 6 o'clock hold. just resting the target black on the horizontal crosshair and got a little 3 shot group that looked more like two shots.
 
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crowski said:
I don’t know how you guys do it. 98F here today with a breeze. Nasty. That’s small potatoes. We have wild fires near by. Crow
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Hope those fires stay away from you. Back in 2011 we had them everywhere here in E Texas. Smoke everywhere.. I was working in another town about 50 miles away and actually drove through an area where the grass and low brush along the highway was burning. Also saw an area where the fire jumped one of the interstate highways. One lady I was working with had a video she took up on Lake of the Pines of forrestry service planes skimming down and picking up water to drop on the fires. One of the airports must have had over a dozen of those planes on the ramp.
Our grandson was born on Aug 11 that year and we delayed going over to see him until the fire danger subsided, in about six weeks.
 
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Another scorcher. You sweat when you swim.
And this gem heated things up even more. An Air Arms Pro Sport .177. So accurate.
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Doesn’t get much better. Crow
 
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crowski said:
Hey Septic I shot one of yours. Haven’t shot this gun in close to 5 yrs. It’s .22. I was curious on its speed. JSB 15.89. Not tuned by Mike M. Great shooting gun. View attachment 585561Also shot a HW50 .177. Great accuracy. Vortek spring. View attachment 585562Crow
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crowski said:
Hey Septic I shot one of yours. Haven’t shot this gun in close to 5 yrs. It’s .22. I was curious on its speed. JSB 15.89. Not tuned by Mike M. Great shooting gun. View attachment 585561Also shot a HW50 .177. Great accuracy.
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crowski said:
Hey Septic I shot one of yours. Haven’t shot this gun in close to 5 yrs. It’s .22. I was curious on its speed. JSB 15.89. Not tuned by Mike M. Great shooting gun. View attachment 585561Also shot a HW50 .177. Great accuracy. Vortek spring. View attachment 585562Crow
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They are definitely a sweet shooting Chinese rifle.
 
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crowski said:
I don’t know how you guys do it. 98F here today with a breeze. Nasty. That’s small potatoes. We have wild fires near by. Crow
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Yeah, Kim is in NB right now and they have fires there too. Fundy Park is closed. And with all the Air Canada flight attendants about to strike I’m not sure if she can fly out Saturday or not. Didn’t shoot anything today. Poodle needed exercise and that was all the heat I could stand. Looks like you had fun.
 
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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.
 
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Fantastic day for E. Texas mid August. Cloudy and high about 88. Shot the little HW35 a bit more. Weather report showed some areas not far from us getting heavy rain over 3 inches, We did not get enough to wet my bald head, just a few drops on the way home from grocery store, not enough to turn on windshield wiperss. We need rain now, but at least the cool day was a relief.
 
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62F in morning. 88F with a sweet breeze, perfect day.
Took 2 rifles out, but only one got air time. A HW50 .20
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No scope adjustments, just deadly. 23 yds. took out 6 flies, 7 shots. Wife cleaned some water mellon, flies love the rinds.
Fly season actually has an advantage, great targets. More than wounded this guy.
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Partically vaporized some of this one.
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This 50 is a superior rifle. Not surprising being .20 cal. Crow
 
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Shot the 350 mag after a complete tear down , and rebuild with a 12 fpe spring
What a learning experience
with that T05 trigger. Came out great got that order of JSB RS EXACT 7.33 shot 5 cleaned it. You could see the
Moly coming out from rebuild. Shot 5 more , and cleaned it . Nothing coming out now. 13.5 fpe with JSB.
Eventually tightened up after a lot of shots got dime group at 15 yards. Did a challenge
7g wad cutter vs. JSB 7.33
JSB won with 1/2 dime size groups , or less all 5 same ragged hole.
 
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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.
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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.

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.
 
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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.

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.
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Ron, AO can be very useful when hunting. Set it for 30 yards on lower power while walking in. That should give you sufficient depth of field for anything you walk up on. When you find a place to sit for a while. Use max power and the objective to rangefind a few trees, features, etc in your perimeter. Now you have a very good idea of range when game appears. 👍
For me a nice light variable is worth the weight. The old Korean 3-9x32 Bushnell Sportview was great for this. Beeman sold them and some came as Blue Ribbon. (I'll never put an ugly blue scope on any gun of mine 👎). Nice clear optics.
 
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