I recently bought a Weirhauch HW97 .177 and promptly became obessive about learning how to shoot it because my early results with the gun were so bad. (Here's my post on the issue).
Anyway, I've gotten a lot better with the accuracy BUT it seems to me I'm wearing the damn thing out with all the shooting. I'm now 4000+ pellets into it, and the gun has lost 20% of its power. It went from 14 ft/lbs out of the box down to 11 ft/lbs. It's shooting very consistently with a nice low ES, but its taking itself out of the power range I'm comfortable with for hunting.
So, I don't know dick about these guns --- and now I'm wondering if I need to rebuild it with one of these aftermarket spring kits, or change out the seal or what? -- or just leave it the hell alone.
Lemme know and thanks in advance.
Anyway, I've gotten a lot better with the accuracy BUT it seems to me I'm wearing the damn thing out with all the shooting. I'm now 4000+ pellets into it, and the gun has lost 20% of its power. It went from 14 ft/lbs out of the box down to 11 ft/lbs. It's shooting very consistently with a nice low ES, but its taking itself out of the power range I'm comfortable with for hunting.
So, I don't know dick about these guns --- and now I'm wondering if I need to rebuild it with one of these aftermarket spring kits, or change out the seal or what? -- or just leave it the hell alone.
Lemme know and thanks in advance.