My HW95L groups are starting to improve BUT I have to let the rifle warm up from a 70 degree house to 90+ outside before it will settle in. This is a 10 shot group at 25 yards & large circle = 2".
HW95L breaking in
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Nice shooting. Keep practicing while she breaks in and you'll have all those shots in the center ring before you know it 
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Those heavier recoiling guns are hold sensitive. Looks like you have two groups going. Try to standardize your hold and follow thru the shot. A Springer is challenging. So much going on when the trigger is pulled. I’d move out a couple yards ( maybe forty). Aim small shoot small. I think a hand under the forearm and the gun firmly against the shoulder is the way to do it.
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The poster above has noticed with sharp eyes that you have two different groups, which means you have a slightly inconsistent hold. One way to check that would be to follow through and see where the reticle ends up AFTER the pellet has left the barrel and the gun has settled from its recoil. It must always end up at the same spot post the shot. Otherwise for the same initial point of aim you can have very different grouping locations.
That said that's a very promising group for 25 yards particularly from a HW95 which is not the easiest to shoot very accurately.
That said that's a very promising group for 25 yards particularly from a HW95 which is not the easiest to shoot very accurately.
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Seriously?? The target pic is 4+ years old but from my own HW95 breaking in with the same Hawke Airmax 3-9x40 scope. 25 shots at 25 yards using H&N FTT 5.54gr pellets. The 95 really doesn't recoil hard, at least not to me and I have plenty of rifles that recoil way harder. I had maybe 300 shots on mine when I shot that target and mine has done nothing but get smoother since.
If you'd been talking about something like a Hatsan Model 95, I would have readily agreed with you since I own or have owned a couple and they're way harder to shoot accurately than an HW95...lol.
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Is that stock? What FPE is shooting at? Mine has a Vortek Sub 12FPE kit and is pretty consistent. I only have one Springer that is stock & very mild mannered. The HW30 could have stayed stock too. Definitely try different holds.
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My guess is somewhere around 350 pellets so far. I am going to concentrate on doing the exact same hold each time. At home I am restricted to 25 yards max but at my son's home I can stretch it out to over 50. Thanks for all of the help.
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Is the ocular adjusted correctly? When looking thru the scope at a target if you do a head bob does the reticle stay glued on the bulls eye? If you moved your chin up and down or side to side the crosshairs should stay on the bull.
you can adjust the ocular to minimize movement. You have two separate groups so maybe your head was in a different position for each group.
you can adjust the ocular to minimize movement. You have two separate groups so maybe your head was in a different position for each group.
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Seriously?? I would like to see these H&N field target trophy pellets in 5.54 grain. Oh, they do not exist.
if you are referring to the head size of the pellet, it would be 5.54mm.
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FWIW,
H&N SPORT FIELD TARGET TROPHY PELLETS
Haendler & Natermann are some of the highest quality pellets on the market today. Many Olympic competition shooters choose H&N pellets for their shooting needs because of the extreme accuracy, uniformity and overall high quality. H&N also makes terrific hunting pellets such as the Baracuda and Crow Magnum lines.
H&N FTT 14.66 gr .22 Caliber Pellets, size is listed on tin bottom label. These pellets are produced in these three sizes.
5.55 mm = 0.2185039 in
5.54 mm = 0.2181102 in
5.53 mm = 0.2177165 in
The 5.53 mm seem to give the best 25 yard groups for my HW95L rifle.
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FWIW
As I said. 5.54 is a measurement of length not weight as you stated earlier and I quoted
I assume gr = grain
I know mm = millimeter
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