OUCH! I knocked my gun off the bench.

[cea1960]

We finally have a day with winds under 10 mph and I sighted in my HW100BP-K with the .177 Polymag shorts. After zeroing in at 20 yards I went out to set the target at 50 when I knocked it off the bench and onto the garage floor. I almost cried. An inspection revealed a very small maring at the end of the moderator, but shooting it again at 20yds the poi was now 8" low and 3" left. Inspecting it closer I noticed the Weihrauch on the moderator was not in the same place and the barrel was easily turned. I had been experiencing poi shifts and chalked it up to mounting the scope on the plastic pic rail. I removed it and used a 1 piece mount on the dovetails and it still persisted. A moderate disassembly showed the hex nut loose and the barrel would easily rotate. I inserted the barrel with the serial number showing and tightened everything up. First shot at 20 yrds I thought I missed the entire target, but found the pellet hit dead center on the black marker's dot. I put 13 more shots into the dot and moved the target to 30 yrds and drew on another dot. 14 pellets hit the new dot using the same poa so no drop from 20 to 30 yards. The wind was now pushing 12 mph across my shooting lane so no 50 yard shot today.

So my newest and most expensive rifle is dropped and mared, while my oldest and cheapest rifle looks new. Go figure.

 

[Odoyle]

Yup that barrel grubscrew can loosen anytime causing weird POI change and a brand new BP100K barrel rotated freely and screwing it in tight did the trick. Odd the test target was hole in hole? 

If the HW LDC was damaged only at the end you may inquire about the availability for that screw in endpiece part or just bondo and repaint that part.

 

[Odoyle]

Whenever I am shooting off of a bench I always make it a habit to lay the gun sideways unloaded pointed AWAY from the firing direction when going to replace my targets.

 

[Keyman62421]

What ya shoilda did. I've never dropped a gun. Liar,liar , pants on fire..

 

[Odoyle]

YA BUSTED!!! You got me! Yea dropped my fair share years ago! LoL !!!

 

[Ranchibi]

Ouch and sorry it fell! The good thing was the barrel was loose, figured that out now it’s a laser with a small reminder mark!

 

[bubblerboy64]

I'll tell you what I did the other day. I was hunting ground hogs and had my rifle set up on a tripod. It started to tilt on the tripod head and I reached to grab the gun and I hit the trigger and it went off. 223. No harm done I was by my self and the gun was safely pointed. This particular gun has a bench rest action and is single shot and NO SAFETY and about a 6 ounce trigger. Only reason I even post this is to just remind all of us that stuff happens. If you think it can't happen to you you better think again.

I've done a lot of shooting and I really only ever had one other accident that I can recall. I had a shot gun blow apart in my hands because of a reloading error I made. That was a long time ago and again I wasn't hurt but stuff happens everyday.

I know of several others. One of my friends was shot in the butt at a gun show. Fellow had a 22 rifle on the table for sale and it was pointed as you would expect towards the shoppers.( Which I've never been really excited about) Some how the trigger got pulled. Had my friend been facing the table instead of away from it it would have been a totally different situation. One time it really paid to have some padding back there.

BE CAREFUL and never assume that the other guy is.

 

[cea1960]

I must have dropped my Brocock Contour a dozen times in the woods and there's nary a scratch on it. The gun was unloaded as I always remove the magazine when I leave the gun. Never know when the wife is going to find the receipt for it and come looking for me. 

 

[douger]

poop does happen but at least it just a scratch on the silencer 

 

[Odoyle]

I would unscrew it sand and bondo and repaint that end pieve or carbon fiber the whole LDC to hide it and Sharpe the ends.

Even shrink tubing over the whole LDC can work. May want funky colorful or tactical design ones of you choose...or maybe self adhesive film wrap that looks like real carbon fiber. Gonna eventually get bumped and scratched anyway taken out in the field IMHO...

 

[Skip-in-WV]

I dropped my Steyr LG110 from the picnic table. I shoot Open class FT and and at home sit on the picnic tale. I got over balanced. If I was a little bit faster It would have landed on the grass instead of the concrete patio. It landed on the top turret of my Nikko 10-50 scope. Got the scope repaired at a place in Florida, no longer in business. The Steyr was unharmed.

 

[cea1960]

I would unscrew it sand and bondo and repaint that end pieve or carbon fiber the whole LDC to hide it and Sharpe the ends.

Even shrink tubing over the whole LDC can work. May want funky colorful or tactical design ones of you choose...or maybe self adhesive film wrap that looks like real carbon fiber. Gonna eventually get bumped and scratched anyway taken out in the field IMHO...

I like the idea of a carbon shrink wrap! I'll start searching for something. Thanks!

 

[jarmstrong]

sometimes this stuff will cover but not always, worth a try, can be bought about anywhere https://www.birchwoodcasey.com/refinishing/

 

[elh0102]

Interesting, that does not appear to be the same silencer as on my HW100 rifle. Guess the BP uses a different one. 

 

[Odoyle]

I dropped my Steyr LG110 from the picnic table. I shoot Open class FT and and at home sit on the picnic tale. I got over balanced. If I was a little bit faster It would have landed on the grass instead of the concrete patio. It landed on the top turret of my Nikko 10-50 scope. Got the scope repaired at a place in Florida, no longer in business. The Steyr was unharmed.

Oh bummer Shin Saiga DIED so ABO INC USA shut down!!! No more custom reticle installation in ANY BRAND of scopes now! He threaded my 25 yard parallax to 8 yards and I dunno how to thread them like he did. His way did not affect the nfinity side and still retained that.

I gotta lose infinity now reparallaxing my own now.

At least we spoke so often over the phone he taught me how to disassemble and repair scopes over the phone and learned everything about scope construction and weak points from Shin. He told me how to have the old age or defective blemished scope lenses recoated like new too.

 

[Odoyle]

Interesting, that does not appear to be the same silencer as on my HW100 rifle. Guess the BP uses a different one.

Apparently the silencers that PA and AOA have on HW guns are different.

BOTH My AOA and Krale HW110s HW44s are different than my PA HW100 silencer.

The end piece on my PA HW100 is flat while all others are conical like that one pictured.

 

[Dingfelder]

BE CAREFUL and never assume that the other guy is.

This is my standard rule for driving, and I'm amazed how normalized any other approach has become. There are people who could ONLY drive that way if they can assume that the other guy is alert, attentive, and possibly an all-around much better driver than they are.

 

[Dingfelder]

Interesting, that does not appear to be the same silencer as on my HW100 rifle. Guess the BP uses a different one.

Apparently the silencers that PA and AOA have on HW guns are different.

BOTH My AOA and Krale HW110s HW44s are different than my PA HW100 silencer.

The end piece on my PA HW100 is flat while all others are conical like that one pictured.

Donny does that to provide clearance -- same same?

 

[Odoyle]

Talking conical on the end like the scraped one pictured. No clearance necessary.

OH I see the confusion. That LDC with the scrape is mounted to his gun permanently with epoxy or locktite if this clears the air.

 

[cea1960]

Interesting, that does not appear to be the same silencer as on my HW100 rifle. Guess the BP uses a different one.

I ordered a Weihrauch silencer from the U.K. and this is what they sent me, although the online pic looked like the one on my BP. I was told Weihrauch no longer makes the conical style.