My HW30 will be here any day now, is there anything I should know before I shoot it...this will be the first air gun I have had since I was a kid...
HW 30
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You picked a good one! Just shoot it and enjoy it. Be ready to go through some pellets. What caliber did you get?
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Clean the barrel with a pull thru, patches, and goo gone. Then check the stock screws and tighten them if needed. Before mounting a scope, if you choose to do so, season the barrel by shooting at least 100 pellets. This will also "seat" the spring. Try different pellets/weights until you find what it likes. If it's like mine, it will like anything you feed it.
Have fun!
Have fun!
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This one's an R7 I've had almost 40 years. One of my favorite airguns.
And another one
And an HW30 in an early R7 stock. All .177's
The coolest little airguns ever. Stone reliable. Deadly accurate. Enviable quality
Clean the barrel when you get it. You're gonna like it.
And another one
And an HW30 in an early R7 stock. All .177's
The coolest little airguns ever. Stone reliable. Deadly accurate. Enviable quality
Clean the barrel when you get it. You're gonna like it.
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Good choice. I got two and my wife has one as well. All 177. Clean the barrel as previously described and then just shoot it. It will like lots of pellets but it will likely like the JSB, AA 7.33gr the best.
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Great rifle choice! Clean the barrel and check the screws every 100 shots or so. Especially the rear trigger guard screw. Buy a lot of pellets, you are going to need them!
Check out the H&N Field Target Trophy .177 452 head size. They are 8.64 grains and do OK in the wind.
I can easily hit soup cans at 55 and 80 yards with mine off of a deck rail.
Hawke 2-7X32 was my choice of optics.
BKL droop compensated one piece mount.
Have fun!
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Today I received my new HW30S in .20 caliber from AOA and after shooting it over 100 times I'm loving it. I also have a HW30S in .177 and .22 caliber and for the life of me I can't see why the .20 caliber isn't more popular. At my age the .177 is a little difficult to handle and load, while the .20 and .22 are much easier and seem to make the cans jump better than the .177. Any way I love all three and enjoy shooting them all. Charles
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For me cause i cant just run into Walmart and buy .20 pellets cheap and easy as .177 or .22
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I picked up my first hw30 about 9 months ago, an older one I got from Century when they had a bunch of beat up air rifles cheap. Took some work including a new piston but now I have a nice plinker and realize why these are so popular, just a fun easy gun to shoot. I dated mine to 1983 so maybe an ARH gun?
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I have had all kinds of airguns over 60 years of shooting and the HW30s/R7 are my favorite guns. I have two now: one is a blued .22 with an R7 stock and a .177 stainless with a laminate stock. Accurate; easy to cock; very little recoil. BTW, many feel the .22 has a bit less recoil and that seems to be the case with mine. I can shoot hundreds of shots with my 30 in one sitting; something that would tire me out with a heavier and more powerful gun.
If your gun starts scraping or "galling" under the compression tube, just keep shooting and that problem will go away as the gun breaks in.
If your gun starts scraping or "galling" under the compression tube, just keep shooting and that problem will go away as the gun breaks in.
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Does this magician sell them? What if I ask really nicely? Euros have such a nice sound to them.
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