Yesterday I was having fun plinking offhand with this Hw30 at spinners and cans at 50 and 70 yards the other day. Today I needed to rezero the gun at a more practical 25 yards. Top left was zeroing shots the rest are five shot groups from a table. Pretty happy with these groups with old eyes and peeps.
HW/Weihrauch I'll take this.
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I’ve been wanting the HW30 forever now, posts like this always make me want to go ahead and just order one. I primarily shoot pcp but I definitely want to add and quality springer to the collection and this one seems to be one of the smoothest shooting springers out there because of the lower power and high quality craftsmanship.
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Nice Ron! Whenever I'm in the mood to just plink I always seem to grab the HW30 .22 with peeps, just so simple.
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IMO you can't go wrong with a Hw30. My first Hw was a 177 95. Fantastic mid power gun. It's an absolute lazer. Unlike many I went backwards in power with my second gun with this Hw30. I wound up switching it between scope and peeps so much I had to buy a second Hw30 to scope permanently. I've since added a bunch more Hws in various calibers. I enjoy shooting this peep sighted 30 more than any of them. I shoot it more than any of them and probably more than many of them combined. It's probably got 100k shots on it. By far my most fun gun. I often mow through a tin or more in a single session. It's a total joy. Oh my wife has one as well.
If you do get one and for some reason you don't like it, you'll have no problem selling it. Especially in 177.
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One of the best plinkers ever. Wanna have real fun? See if you can still find a bag of green plastic army men
A 22 cal Hw30 is a real artillery piece 
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NICE shooting!
Something about an aperture sight on a classic mid-power springer has long just sung to me - great to see somebody out there proving I'm not totally daft, ha.
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AirRanger, just DO IT! Buy that HW30, you'll love it. They are superbly accurate and fun to shoot. IMO they are under powered for small game but plenty of shooters will disagree. An open sighted R7 is my favorite gun for informal plinking. High powered guns with big glass are great for their intended purpose but sometimes less is more. Grab your unscoped little gun, a pocket full of pellets and some soda cans for a fun, no pressure way to unwind, heal your brain and spend time in the outdoors.
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Yesterday I was having fun plinking offhand with this Hw30 at spinners and cans at 50 and 70 yards the other day. Today I needed to rezero the gun at a more practical 25 yards. Top left was zeroing shots the rest are five shot groups from a table. Pretty happy with these groups with old eyes and peeps.
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Darned good shootin' with open sights! Your aging peepers seem to be aging a little better than mine.
DARNED good shootin' at three quarters of a century distance with just your open sights! I'd have to say your aging eyes seem to be aging a little bit better than mine. ;-) Very nice place to shoot too.
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The HW30 is one of my favorites. They really shine with a Vortek kit installed. I shoot it every weekend.
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This gun has had a Vortek PG2 kit and VAC seal in it since late 2016. It's shooting eight fpe. It's got at least 100k shots on the rifle. It's been through two Weihrauch springs and three Vortek springs since 2015.
Love the Vortek kits in these guns. My wife's 177 Hw30 is inexplicably shooting close to 9 fpe with a PG4 kit and VAC seal. That's without dieseling and it's as accurate and nice to shoot at that power level as my other 30s. Probably just a perfect comp tube and barrel.
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I ordered this one at AoA and it arrived in just a couple days.
It is a little different than the standard issue HW30S in that it has a "Deluxe" designation.
The only difference that I can tell is that the stock is shaped like the older version HW30, without the offset shoulder.
Mine is a .20 cal. It's producing with one cock slightly less power than my Bluestreak with four pumps. It is accurate enough to shoot wirenuts at 30 yards and empty shot shells at 75.
Its great fun!
Like the sheridan, the HW30 is handy because its small and light.
Here's a pic next to a full size springer the Beeman Webly Vulcan, for comparison.
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I was looking hard for HW30S or a Beeman R7 for almost a year, but no one seemed to have them in stock, including Krales. Then I stumbled across a great deal on a used HW50S Hunter and spent my money on that. Two days latter the Beeman R7 started becoming available again, but very strange, still no HW30s. Anyone know what is going on at Weihrauch?
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A bag of plastic army men goes great with ANY air rifle! I used to keep my old beat-up, wood-stocked Crosman and a mess of pellets behind the seat in my pickup. When we'd go on camping trips and stopped to buy food and drinks, I'd try to also pick up a bag of the plastic troopers to take along. Sometime the next day, we'd all set up our soldiers in areas of 'concealment' that were still at least partially visible thirty or forty feet off and, passing the rifle around clockwise among the participants, see who could take out the 'enemy' the quickest. On occasion, if we were planning on camping near water (which was often), we might instead pick up a few of the cheapest-possible battleship or cruiser plastic model kits, several tubes of plastic cement and a pack of cigarette papers (tear off a piece of cigarette paper and slather glue on it for an instant patch to repair hits). Build the models, figure out a way to hold them stationary in the water, back off thirty feet or more, pass around the air rifle and have at it, until it was no longer possible to keep your ship afloat by patching it up. Great fun... Thanks for the quick trip down memory lane! ;-)One of the best plinkers ever. Wanna have real fun? See if you can still find a bag of green plastic army men
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Yep sounds like great fun. Similarly my older cousin and I would build plastic model planes, ships and tanks. He had a woods and a brackish pond behind his house. We'd take the models we were tired of and take them out back an rip them apart at air, sea and ground with his 760 and or firecrackers. We'd take turns wheeling a model plane hung on the clothes line while the other shot it to pieces.
Ships were particularly great fun because you can skip BBs across the water at the ships. It was lots of fun to visual track the BBs across the water with great anticipation of a hit.
Sitting still tanks were too easy a target. They usually were set a fire with firecrackers set inside for the grand finally.
Now most kids don't play outside or use their imagination. They stay inside alone and play mindless computer games for constant stimulation. It's part of the reason there's been a huge increase in social disconnect and ADD in younger people.
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I broke down and ordered an R7 yesterday to go with my R9 and HW50S Hunter. Really looking forward to it. I took an electrical junction box, filled it with Ductseal, and mounted it in the wall of my garage. I can now open the door going from the house to the garage, back up to the dishwasher in the kitchen, and have a 10 meter range. I envy those who can go outside and sit on the porch and shoot away A friend of mine introduced me to Weihrauch air rifles and I was hooked. Before he died a couple of years ago, the last big hunt we went on was at his daughter's house. She had chickens and was being overrun with mice. We spread some chicken feed on the ground around the coop and sat on the porch under a light trying to hit those fast little critters. His R7 was a lot of fun to shoot.
A friend of mine introduced me to Weihrauch air rifles and I was hooked. Before he died a couple of years ago, the last big hunt we went on was at his daughter's house. She had chickens and was being overrun with mice. We spread some chicken feed on the ground around the coop and sat on the porch under a light trying to hit those fast little critters. His R7 was a lot of fun to shoot.Upvote 0
Very good I'm sure you'll love it. Message me if you have any issues or questions with it. They're my favorite platform so I'd be glad to help.I broke down and ordered an R7 yesterday to go with my R9 and HW50S Hunter. Really looking forward to it. I took an electrical junction box, filled it with Ductseal, and mounted it in the wall of my garage. I can now open the door going from the house to the garage, back up to the dishwasher in the kitchen, and have a 10 meter range. I envy those who can go outside and sit on the porch and shoot away
Congratulations
Ron
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