N/A Best of the cheap springers?

[beerthief]

Gun had 22" of droop at 30 yards, shot 12" to left with SCOPES optically zeroed. Gun shot a solid 3"-4" at 15 yards and 5" to 6" at 30 yards. Bent barrel to get droop out. Looked like pretzel after bending. Put new barrel on. Gun now shoots about 15" low and within 1" left to right at 30 yards. Groups are around 1" at 30 yards with H&N 8.64 pellets that l grabbed off my shelf. Gun should get much better after break in and pellet testing. AirShot, does that answer your question? Thanks, Don

IF i received a gun that shot 22" low at only 30 yards I would have been on the phone getting a return label

 

[rwsmike]

That's crazy a new gun could come with that type of droop....qc isn't doing a gd job

 

[doninva]

A good point beerthief. This deal was ALL my fault. My TX200 MK1 and HW97, I have, have a lot of droop. I just use Sportsmatch fully adjustable mounts and drooper mounts to handle the droop. I bought the HW50 in December and only shot it a little. Figured it was just me and the cold causing the bad groups. Just needed a good break in. When it warmed up, l tried shooting a couple tins thru it to break in. No luck so l figured a Vortek kit would do it, no luck. Decided I had lost any ability, l had, to shoot a springer. Ask my brother in law to give it a whirl. After 2 months, he handed it back and said " there's something wrong with this gun ". I put the factory kit back in, used different "special" magic lubes, polished barrel, said a few prayers but finally gave up. Thought, have given this a good try, let's see how the HW lifetime warranty is. To my surprise, 389.00 HW springer has the same warranty as a wally world 69.00 springer. So here we are today. I am 114.00 poorer from buying a new HW .177 barrel for my 389.00 " top of the line" springer. Lesson learned, check warranty, even if on a top of the line item that has a cult following. I now have a 503.00 Hw50 that only needs a good barrel bending or a drooper mount to be serviceable. I figured another 150.00 for a set of adjustable rings or 30.00 drooper mount and a couple hundred dollars for pellets, I will have about 700.00 to 800.00, not counting scope, in a somewhat servicable 30 yard spring gun. Sorry for my sarcasm but I feel like the Hw50, with its know issues, is just an average spring gun. With the galling issues, hard to cock due to 12" barrel and fairly heavy recoil for a 12 foot pound springer, I don't see all the hype this gun is given. This is JMHO, Don

 

[rwsmike]

If you bought a beeman from pa then the gun has a actual life warranty for original owner. When I bought a new hw95 from aoa when they had the $299 sale it broke and aoa tried to say I dry fired which I didn't so I had to pay for another seal that they didn't get install right .

 

[AirShot]

Wow...that one was meant for the scrap barrel and missed !! I gave seen some poor barrels but not that bad. I was going to suggest a recrown at both ends, but your appears to be beyond that !!

 

[doninva]

Yes, luckily the new barrel groups much better and has about half the droop of the original.

 

[Wr250r]

you should name that gun droopy. I'm looking for a iron sights beeman for cans and gophers.