I have written about this rifle before, but it continues to amaze me.
Everyday, I try to fit in at least a little trigger time. This morning, before delving into the work world that allows me to pay for this hobby's requirements, I pulled my .20 caliber HW97 out of the vault, for probably the first time in three or four weeks. It has a Vortex Steel HO tuning kit in it, and the internals have all been hand polished and the trigger totally disassembled, polished, and tuned. It is always one of my most accurate rifles, including PCPs inside of 50 yards.
This morning I attempted all 15 of the RX targets as shown below. While at only 18 yards, it is really hard to run all of them without a miss. I attempted to do so this week with all of my other .177s and .20s, including an AA S510, a Weihrauch HW100T, and a BSA R10-SE, none of them made it through without at least one fringe miss.
Everything must have been right today as with this rifle, I was able to run the RX targets cleanly, knocking all of the 1/4" paddles downs with one shot each, and with authority.
I utilized the JSB 13.73 gr pellet in this rifle. It is equipped with Vortex Diamondback 5-24x50 FFP scope, sitting on to of an RWS lockdown droop compensating mount. The only other modification is the addition of a Rowan Engineering cocking handle.
An image of the rifle and 18 yard plus 50 yard tuning targets are attached for your enjoyment.
Everyday, I try to fit in at least a little trigger time. This morning, before delving into the work world that allows me to pay for this hobby's requirements, I pulled my .20 caliber HW97 out of the vault, for probably the first time in three or four weeks. It has a Vortex Steel HO tuning kit in it, and the internals have all been hand polished and the trigger totally disassembled, polished, and tuned. It is always one of my most accurate rifles, including PCPs inside of 50 yards.
This morning I attempted all 15 of the RX targets as shown below. While at only 18 yards, it is really hard to run all of them without a miss. I attempted to do so this week with all of my other .177s and .20s, including an AA S510, a Weihrauch HW100T, and a BSA R10-SE, none of them made it through without at least one fringe miss.
Everything must have been right today as with this rifle, I was able to run the RX targets cleanly, knocking all of the 1/4" paddles downs with one shot each, and with authority.
I utilized the JSB 13.73 gr pellet in this rifle. It is equipped with Vortex Diamondback 5-24x50 FFP scope, sitting on to of an RWS lockdown droop compensating mount. The only other modification is the addition of a Rowan Engineering cocking handle.
An image of the rifle and 18 yard plus 50 yard tuning targets are attached for your enjoyment.
