Hey friends, I recently got me a .22 HW30 Urban Pro from AoA. Last night I cleaned up the barrel with liquid AoA Bore Cleaner, then J-B Bore Paste, followed by more AoA bore cleaner, then patchworm til the patches came out clean. I took off the wood to see what I can see with the powerplant and linkages, everything looked Aye OK. Torqued the stock back on 20 inch-pounds and threw on the included SportsMatch UK rings and Weihrauch 4 power scope.
I ran various pellets at 10 yards indoors, trying to find “the one” for her. She isn’t stacking pellets at 10 yards like her .177 sister -a PlainJane Krale Schietsport HW30 with a diopter sight. No pointe in going outside if I can’t get a cloverleaf or better at 10 yards inside with no wind. I’ve shot 200 or so pellets, maybe she’s still “leading in”. Early chrono results were spitting out extreme spreads of around 50 fps, first 100 shots sometimes had big puffs of “smoke”. Once in a while there would be an unusually loud bang accompanied with a very low velocity fps in the 300’s. This morning, I rolled the pellets in a tin spritzed with a trace amount of silicone lube and the extreme spreads are getting better, the groups are tightening up (might be a natural progression of “breaking-in” rather than a result of lube), but hey, who doesn’t enjoy some lube now and then? So far the best ammo is between GTO and H&N Green, both somewhere around 12gr weight. Unfortunately I don’t have any .22 wadcutters on hand to try. Boy I tell you what, I didn’t go through this much pre-flight prep with any of the other HW’s in this house over the years and they had me smiling within the first dozen shots out of the box.
Any input from ya’ll with HW30/R7 .22 experience would be appreciated. Even sharing some .22 HW30/R7 “War Stories” would be cool.
BZO100
I ran various pellets at 10 yards indoors, trying to find “the one” for her. She isn’t stacking pellets at 10 yards like her .177 sister -a PlainJane Krale Schietsport HW30 with a diopter sight. No pointe in going outside if I can’t get a cloverleaf or better at 10 yards inside with no wind. I’ve shot 200 or so pellets, maybe she’s still “leading in”. Early chrono results were spitting out extreme spreads of around 50 fps, first 100 shots sometimes had big puffs of “smoke”. Once in a while there would be an unusually loud bang accompanied with a very low velocity fps in the 300’s. This morning, I rolled the pellets in a tin spritzed with a trace amount of silicone lube and the extreme spreads are getting better, the groups are tightening up (might be a natural progression of “breaking-in” rather than a result of lube), but hey, who doesn’t enjoy some lube now and then? So far the best ammo is between GTO and H&N Green, both somewhere around 12gr weight. Unfortunately I don’t have any .22 wadcutters on hand to try. Boy I tell you what, I didn’t go through this much pre-flight prep with any of the other HW’s in this house over the years and they had me smiling within the first dozen shots out of the box.
Any input from ya’ll with HW30/R7 .22 experience would be appreciated. Even sharing some .22 HW30/R7 “War Stories” would be cool.
BZO100
