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Finally an update. Everything is reassembled and broken in. It shoots like a champ again. My guess is the piston seal had worn down enough to start affecting the velocity over a string of shots. Here is today’s standing 5er and a bonus beer cap.

Accuracy is generally correlated with decreasing velocity. Higher velocities exaggerate the effects of imperfections in the barrel and projectile. The one case where increasing velocity may improve accuracy is if the project is not quite stable coming out of the barrel. Increasing velocity will...

Wishing ya a speedy recovery

Not yet. Waiting on snail mail for replacement cocking linkage.

Greetings from “summer” cottage. May your groups be small and your fingers warm.

If the internals are anything like the valve in a Crosman, then eventually, you will kill the valve. Probably not in 1 shot, or even a dozen, but each one does a little damage until it’s fatal.

I would go .30 cal and aim for the vitals. Or 12 gauge with 2 oz of #5s.

Both of you are certainly speaking good sense. I tore the gun down last night. The breech seal was maybe 1mm more compressed than a new one so I swapped it. Managed to shear the lip off of the cocking arm link. I knew about that stupid thing and just forgot the right way to do it. Ordering...

I guess I spoke too soon about this thing being a completed project. Today I took it out to get a final zero and just generally practice. Everything started off fine with the gun. Zero looked unchanged. Just a note. It’s friggin cold here in Finland. A warm day is 0C. I take the HW straight...

This setup sits about 1.1” inches over the barrel. The barrel is definitely warped a bit to the right because my zero is pretty far over to the left side of the sight. I won’t complain though because it gives my eye enough room for my face to be pretty comfortable on the stock. All in all...

You pretty much nailed your assessment. With this last round of upgrades, the sights have finally beat out the rifle and Vortek kit in price. We’ve all been saying for last 15 years that the standard for the scope is the price of the rifle.

It’s .22. And, on paper about a 2 MOA shooter. Not great but not awful. I’ve been attacking that 2” spinner standing, unsupported. Main struggle was losing the target behind my lolipop insert and the gun canting and my shots sliding off to either side. Here’s hoping the new tools fix those...

If you like fiddling and adjusting bits and bobs until every thing is perfect, then you’ll love it.

Welp… I don’t know what’s left to do to this rifle. It’s tuned. Shooting its favorite pellet. It even has Olympic match sights now. Just put on the Anschutz Super Iris in the front sight with a Gehmann bubble level. This should make those 2” plates at 50m easy peasy.

I shoot my HW77 with Vortek HO in the cold a lot. -5C and up. No problems, no loss of power, nothing. I also shoot a factory sprung Diana in the cold and its spring is looking good.