This morning's airgun time revolved around pulling this classic RWS 48 out of the vault to give it a little love. This rifle is an older model, as evidence by the steel safety that rotates up and down extremely smoothly and the beautiful older well made and finished stock. I purchased it from an AGN member now several years ago.
It doesn't get shot very much, as evidenced by how clean the barrel was. Running two patches through it, one lubricated and one not, hardly any fouling was evident. I did fire two rounds of felt cleaning pellets through it, with two pellets double stacked for each firing cycle.
All of the scope and stock screws were firmly in place with no additional tightening needed.
I have had two different Vortek kits in this rifle over time. One was advertised as a 12 ft lb kit that I was getting right at 11.5 ft lbs out of with no adjustments. I didn't shoot it that way very long before purchasing a PG4 Steel HO kit and installing it. It came in shooting too hot, nearly 20 ft lbs, and I cut some coils off to get it to the power level you see today.
It is fitted with one of the oldest Hawke AirMax scopes I own, an 8-32x50, I own three of these, with the other two being 6-24x50, that have had literally thousands of rounds through them on both springers and pcps, holding their reticle positions perfectly, without any issues what so ever. The scope on this rifle is mounted on Sports Match vertically adjustable rings, with one rear recoil stop in in place. Never any issues.
This rifle is very smooth to cock and shoot and is one of the most "stable" springers in my collection. The core of the 10 shot groups as evidenced below, is very tight. For whatever reason, this was just one of those days with group one doubling in size as 1 shot out of 10 went wide of the group, as did three shots out of the 10 in group 2.
Like all of your rifles and mine, it is still fun to shoot. It is plenty accurate and powerful for a tree rats' demise.
Thanks for looking. I hope you enjoy seeing the stats.
DZ
It doesn't get shot very much, as evidenced by how clean the barrel was. Running two patches through it, one lubricated and one not, hardly any fouling was evident. I did fire two rounds of felt cleaning pellets through it, with two pellets double stacked for each firing cycle.
All of the scope and stock screws were firmly in place with no additional tightening needed.
I have had two different Vortek kits in this rifle over time. One was advertised as a 12 ft lb kit that I was getting right at 11.5 ft lbs out of with no adjustments. I didn't shoot it that way very long before purchasing a PG4 Steel HO kit and installing it. It came in shooting too hot, nearly 20 ft lbs, and I cut some coils off to get it to the power level you see today.
It is fitted with one of the oldest Hawke AirMax scopes I own, an 8-32x50, I own three of these, with the other two being 6-24x50, that have had literally thousands of rounds through them on both springers and pcps, holding their reticle positions perfectly, without any issues what so ever. The scope on this rifle is mounted on Sports Match vertically adjustable rings, with one rear recoil stop in in place. Never any issues.
This rifle is very smooth to cock and shoot and is one of the most "stable" springers in my collection. The core of the 10 shot groups as evidenced below, is very tight. For whatever reason, this was just one of those days with group one doubling in size as 1 shot out of 10 went wide of the group, as did three shots out of the 10 in group 2.
Like all of your rifles and mine, it is still fun to shoot. It is plenty accurate and powerful for a tree rats' demise.
Thanks for looking. I hope you enjoy seeing the stats.
DZ
