You should start the 20 yard-20 shot challenge. Have everyone post their twenty shot groups. I have a feeling yours wouldn't look so bad.
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You should start the 20 yard-20 shot challenge. Have everyone post their twenty shot groups. I have a feeling yours wouldn't look so bad.
Try not cleaning the bore. Yep do not clean it. My HW95 can and will shoot less than .25 groups at 20 yards. As a matter of fact it gets insulted shooting so close. Grin.Thanks for the input guys, it helps me calibrate. I'm covering quite a few 10 shot groups with a quarter at 20 yds, standing and using a post to rest my hand on. The little HW30s is just starting to settle in with around 350 shots after dropping the tune kit in. I'm figuring out how she likes to be held, and waiting for the AA falcons to arrive. Shooting JSB 7.3 and RWS 7.0 wad cutters. It has been hell on red squirrels at 10 yds! 11 so far, under the bird feeder. The local fox will get fat! I need to just keep shooting, I think it will come together. I have cleaned the bore 3 times (once when I first got it, once when I tore it down after 250 shots to drop the kit in, and today after another 350 shots. Haven't done anything else to the bore.)
Agree here. I've never cleaned any of my airgun bores. I clean my powder burners after every shooting session and always have (shooting for over 40 years).Try not cleaning the bore. Yep do not clean it. My HW95 can and will shoot less than .25 groups at 20 yards. As a matter of fact it gets insulted shooting so close. Grin.
I never clean it. Yes daily I wipe the exterior and take excellent care of it, however I never clean the bore.
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yep, 20 shots will show the rifles true ability. Not to mention yours! I think with a springer it also shows your consistency with your hold as well as it takes most wind out of the picture unless its over 10 mph, being only 20 yards. 25 yards brings conditions much more into the outcome. It also builds confidence with new shooters, this makes flyers and misses at longer distance more obvious to shooter error, judging wind, hold variance, anticipating trigger and so on.You should start the 20 yard-20 shot challenge. Have everyone post their twenty shot groups. I have a feeling yours wouldn't look so bad.
I like the plate steel. I would have bells behind so I could here the hit because I can't see the hit. Oh I forgot I can't hear that well either. I am going to make one up regardless.This was last week HW97 .20 cal. 30 yds. 5 shots each hole. Holes are 3/8 in. View attachment 3342870This has a Vortek kit. It was amazing before. The sound is nite and day. Crow
You’re dead on the money. I have about 30 bells behind now. I have 64 bells all together. CrowI like the plate steel. I would have bells behind so I could hear the hit because I can't see the hit. Oh I forgot I can't hear that well either. I am going to make one up regardless.
Tomato juice!!I rarely shoot paper. Last week the wife gave me container of cherry tomatoes that turned. Setting them on golf tees at 20 yards I went 16 for 23 hitting them with the 1st shot. That is with my Motorhead tuned .177 HW30 and RWS R10 wadcutters. I shoot this rifle at least 5 times a week free hand and shoot about 500 pellets a week.
Nice shooting!!Never grouped a gun at 20yds but here's my LGV at 30m. For scale, the 4 ring measures 30mm/1.18" across.
This group is 30 shots:
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And another 20 shot group I did after swapping springs and seals:
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Big difference between shooting groups and hitting a given spot. These types of threads should specify which one they are going to be.