HW40 .177 has champagne taste

[JohnnyPiston]

Opposed to my P1 that settles for Bud Light! LOL

Burris Fast Fire III mounted. Breech seal replaced with a 90 durometer #009 Buna (Nitrile) O-Ring, shimmed with a .007" steel shim. 

12 yards rested outdoors, with a moderate cross breeze. 

Yes, it's tear city on that paper, but you can get a rough idea of the accuracy. While the H&N Excite Plinking group is nothing to get excited about, its interesting to note that at 30 yards with the correct holdover they're accurate enough to go 5/5 on a Cambells Soup sized can in little to no wind.

Based on my experience with three P17's, all responded well to a light bore polish, showing improvements in accuracy. But those are Chinese barrels...We'll see.

I couldn't help to think that if scoped, the exact same groups would reduce by at least one pellet width, given the more precise aim point. For now the pistol rig is pretty sweet as is...Even though it prefers top quality match pellets! LOL

 

[Fuciliere]

JP, you should try to look for a Beeman Blueribbon 4x scope on that HW40

 

[JohnnyPiston]

With the polymer rail and force required for closing the pistol I think the HW40/P3 isn't the pistol to scope. 

I'll scope a P17 in a heartbeat!

 

[JohnnyPiston]

HW40 has now been scoped. I'm not a fan of the BSA Edge 2X20 but one came up at a great price so I gave it another chance. It was pretty easy to get the scope to focus down to 10 yds parallax free since the front lens is attached to a threaded piece. It's mounted SUPER LOW , impossible to go lower I reckon! 



Rear sight came off to allow for the ocular bell to clear the pistol. 

There's enough real estate on the flanks surrounding the rear sight housing to push down the upper assembly for cocking- no pressure is applied to the scope.



5 shot group from last night shot indoors using JSB Stratons, standing with a 2 handed grip, unsupported:

 

[Fuciliere]

JP, you should try to make one of this, its great and cheap and eye relief is very good specially if you are aiming at stretch arms length, I have use an archery magnifier lens 

 

[JohnnyPiston]

You're using an archery magnifier lens with a reflex sight? That's pretty clever. 

Which magnifier lens are you using? Show a pic or send a link if you can. Thanks

 

[Fuciliere]

this is what i use the av41-8x, first i pry the lens bracket of the reflex sight

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then i mask it with a masking tape both sides and and trace the profile of the lens bracket from the reflex sight and run it on a disk sander with 220 grit , when done, i just put it in front of the existing lens, i did not remove the existing lens bec it has the reflective coating while the magnifyer doesnt have the coating, just grind it to be exact and snug, well you can use a drop of super glue to permanent fix it, but it dont want to do that, bec dust will get in between and you wont be able to wipe it it its permanent, just make it snug and it should be good.

 

[JohnnyPiston]

I see what you did now. Nice DIY enhancement

Thanks for sharing the link and info!