Another afternoon with my fav...

[Twinkees_n_Pb]

Being its Friday afternoon (for me anyway)... love spending time with my favorite gun (hw77). Each and every time, so satisfying to shoot; something about the whole process of shooting a springer.

Whats your end of week/afternoon fav?

Here's another 10m, standing/off-hand thru them peeps. Happy 4th y'all!

 

[Moog]

This is how I like to kick off my weekend. HW95 .177. She always puts a smile on my face.

 

[crowski]

Small world, wouldn’t want to paint it! I had my HW77 .22 out today as well. A pleasure to own. I own several springers, all fairly new. They are all favourites in their own way.
Nice shooting. Love the laminate. Enjoy Crow 

 

[Twinkees_n_Pb]

Small world, wouldn’t want to paint it! I had my HW77 .22 out today as well. A pleasure to own. I own several springers, all fairly new. They are all favourites in their own way.
Nice shooting. Love the laminate. Enjoy Crow

Awesome. Def with you on that... each child is special in their own way. Just don't ever tellm who's the fav right? Lol. Happy shooting

 

[Twinkees_n_Pb]

This is how I like to kick off my weekend. HW95 .177. She always puts a smile on my face.

Love those R9/95s. Man, you just reminded me of the neglect towards my .22/R9, since that 77k was adopted. Damn it.. will have to give her a go later today.

 

[shambozzie]

+1 on the r9. Pulled mine out also.

 

[Greenarrow]

I shot my R9 the other day. It's 22 cal.

 

[Simonjello]

Ya’ll have such beautiful rifles! Lucky ducks.

 

[DualMagMike]

I went many years without owning an R9 then leapt in and got three. 

.177 I added an adjustable recoil pad, barrel sleeve and made my own rosewood and brass pistol grip cap

.20 that I fully converted to an R11

.22

 

[Twinkees_n_Pb]

Nice stocks there you guys. Went thru opposite experience as you @dualmagmike... the R9 (.22) was my first AG; was so impressed it opened up the AG world for me. Went on to PCPs, and of late back to springers again as they are so satisfying to shoot. 

 

[thumper]

Being its Friday afternoon (for me anyway)... love spending time with my favorite gun (hw77). Each and every time, so satisfying to shoot; something about the whole process of shooting a springer.

Whats your end of week/afternoon fav?

Here's another 10m, standing/off-hand thru them peeps. Happy 4th y'all!

You have impeccable taste sir. Nice chootin too! 

 

[thumper]

I guess mine would have to be an HW77K too. 

I have this old Venom that's an excellent shooter: 

But honestly I like my beat up old MK2 better. It's shorter, lighter, and at 12fpe it's just so nice to shoot. It just feels like an old companion. We are the same age, and both have our bumps and bruises. Maybe I just have a soft spot for honest old guns? Either way, this is the one I enjoy most out of everything I've had. 

 

[GoldenStateAIRGUNer]

Being its Friday afternoon (for me anyway)... love spending time with my favorite gun (hw77). Each and every time, so satisfying to shoot; something about the whole process of shooting a springer.

Whats your end of week/afternoon fav?

Here's another 10m, standing/off-hand thru them peeps. Happy 4th y'all!

Nice ! Right on par with my RWS 34 in .22cal. with open sights. With my eyesight, luckily I might add.

 

[Twinkees_n_Pb]

@thumper Thanks. Man, stock on thay Venom is gorgeous! Yes, sir, at the end of the day nothing beats the love of these quality springers... no matter what new pcps or electronics/tech they come up with.

 

[thumper]

@thumper Thanks. Man, stock on thay Venom is gorgeous! Yes, sir, at the end of the day nothing beats the love of these quality springers... no matter what new pcps or electronics/tech they come up with.

Id agree with that any day. 

I've got some of all types, and recently even the "techno-lectro" kind. They are all amazing, but at the end of the day if I head to the woods I always grab a beat up old spring gun. They just work, and do it with class. 

 

[Deerstalker]

Sometimes the stars align and I had my best shooting day ever. All of my hits were within 1" at 25 yards from a picnic table using Caldwell bags. This HW95L .22 is a joy to plink from the back deck. 

 

[Fischer]

This is how I like to kick off my weekend. HW95 .177. She always puts a smile on my face.

I have that exact same rifle! I use the irons sights on it. It was bought some time ago and I can't yet get a fixed mounted scope to adjust to it (run out of clicks) so I just leave the open sights. It is very high velocity compared to the R9, HW98, HW97K-T .20, and a couple of HW35Es in .177.



In short the rifle is the best open sighted rifle for power and equivalent accuracy to the R9 or HW98 or HW35E's in .177 Blue and Silver.

It is a very handy rifle!

 

[Moog]

When I first bought it I shot it with the iron sights for about the first 700 rounds. I was very pleased with the iron sights but still decided to go with a scope to take advantage of the accuracy of this rifle.

For shooting with iron sights I want to get a .22 as a dedicated iron sight rifle. Possibly go with a peep sight.

 

[Twinkees_n_Pb]

Yup, I felt the same... had to dedicate one to iron/peep sight. Chose this 77k. (Scopes R9 and 97k.) Peep sights definitely helped tremendously... at least for my eyes

 

[Moog]

That 77K looks to be a really nice set up with that peep sight. Did you have any problems with the rifle shooting to high and running out of adjustment clicks to lower the point of impact with the peep sight?

Others have mentioned this problem with peep sights on air rifles.