What springer did you shoot today?

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Feinwerk said:
@crowski et all,

Enjoyed all the pics. I have an original Feinwerkbau 124s no 12058 in .177 that I bought from Robert Grant's original Air Rifle HQ for myself back in the '70s. Oh the memories with this one! I had to mow & rake a lot of lawns as a teen to earn the money for this one! I think I learned about ARH and 'adult air guns' from an ad in the back of one of Dad's magazines, maybe Outdoor Life or Popular Science.

It was the inspiration for my username.

Buttery smooth and amazingly light cocking force for its velocity, and requires a gentle hold to shoot well. A great all day plinker. I keep it ready by the garage door nowadays.

Around 2012 I rediscovered ARH, now owned by Jim Maccari, built a spring compressor jig, and bought parts to replace the old spring and failed breech seal. Did a lube tune with light tar on the spring and moly paste. When it was new it had spring buzz but now the shot cycle is a quick and commanding "THUK!" with zero vibration, very satisfying.

Eventually, I picked up an aluminum trigger and one of the last of the laminate stocks from ARH a couple years later to 'celebrate' its rebirth. A muzzle brake and trigger shoe rounded out the accessories. I suppose it deserves a better scope but this one with the one-piece mount has been sufficient and rock solid.

The little black thing on the wrist of the stock is a self-adhesive rubber bumper foot, which provides a consistent place for my thumb to rest when I do my trigger pinch technique. I call it the 'accuracy button' and put them on many of my springers. Try it!


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I am generally not a fan of laminate stocks, but that one looks good. I'll also have to try your rubber bumper trick on my 124d which has the original stock. I bought it in very early 1975 from ARH and I thought it was Robert Law who had the company. Mine has the metal trigger, and honestly in the nearly 50 years I have owened it, cannot remember if it had a plastic trigger, I don't think so but cannot be sure. I have a WIlliams receiver sight so serial number is not visible. At one time up until a couple of years ago I had it outfitted with a scope and one of the "muzzle brakes" but went back to the receiver sight and put an Anschutz globe up front, more fun to me that way.
 
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Finally threw some lead after 2 days of snow equipment repairs and snow removal. Gonna be a white Christmas.
These 4 were screaming to get out. A fine Bouquet 068299A3-874C-4CBA-B504-EEA0AE5287F4.jpeg 3 R9’s .177, .20 and .22. as well another gem HW98 .177.
Again the R9 .20 was constant right out of the gate. It’s next to miraculous.
I have to say, if any of you are not getting a .20 cal. because the lack of ammo. For two years I wouldn’t, but on this forum I never heard anyone complain. Eleven months ago I got my first. I was never short of ammo and have a serious stash. Better late than never. Great excuse Christmas around the corner. Crow
 
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crowski said:
Finally threw some lead after 2 days of snow equipment repairs and snow removal. Gonna be a white Christmas.
These 4 were screaming to get out. A fine Bouquet View attachment 314568 3 R9’s .177, .20 and .22. as well another gem HW98 .177.
Again the R9 .20 was constant right out of the gate. It’s next to miraculous.
I have to say, if any of you are not getting a .20 cal. because the lack of ammo. For two years I wouldn’t, but on this forum I never heard anyone complain. Eleven months ago I got my first. I was never short of ammo and have a serious stash. Better late than never. Great excuse Christmas around the corner. Crow
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A white christmas would be nice, I have only seen one in my life, I was seventeen at the time and that was 60 years ago, in N. Louisiana. At this point in my life I would rather not see one as in our part of the country we simply not have the intrastructure to deal with snow and ice, everything comes to a standstill.
 
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Another busy day. But I did sneak a shooting round with what I call an oddball. A BSA Polaris .22. 8A85D717-5199-4DF4-BA4E-8D072044FF96.jpeg. This gun is so easy to cock. The loading method IMO is not so smooth. I had lg hands and every 3rd or 4th load I crush the skirt of the round. 25B31EE4-41E1-4710-8F58-54FD5170748E.jpeg Ironically it doesn’t affect the aim, this is such an accurate rifle. And one of my hardest hitters, no doubt.
Does anyone have a BSA Polaris?
 
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jkingrph said:
A white christmas would be nice, I have only seen one in my life, I was seventeen at the time and that was 60 years ago, in N. Louisiana. At this point in my life I would rather not see one as in our part of the country we simply not have the intrastructure to deal with snow and ice, everything comes to a standstill.
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Well, I am fortunate to be able to have a white Christmas every year in Montana. But this week the night time forecast is for -29 to -39F. Wow that is about as cold as I have ever seen in my neck of the woods...We will see if the weather guys have a clue.

The good new on that is we built a nice place on the Big Island of Hawaii a few years ago. So in January we will escape for about 5-6 months!

I have an acre of land with 60 macadamia trees and all kinds of other fruit. I get wild pigs in there pretty often. They love the macnuts. When they chew them, the cracking of the shell is so loud it wakes us up! Pow-Pow crazy how strong there jaws are.

I bought a .50 caliber Texan last year but never got a good shot before we came back to the mainland. This year should be great fun. No close neighbors so shooting is not a problem there.

I just bought a gun case and am taking the HW80 and the HW77K down this year. The doves, tree rats and wild chickens are in for a bit of a surprise.

Aloha!
 
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Zut said:
Well, I am fortunate to be able to have a white Christmas every year in Montana. But this week the night time forecast is for -29 to -39F. Wow that is about as cold as I have ever seen in my neck of the woods...We will see if the weather guys have a clue.

The good new on that is we built a nice place on the Big Island of Hawaii a few years ago. So in January we will escape for about 5-6 months!

I have an acre of land with 60 macadamia trees and all kinds of other fruit. I get wild pigs in there pretty often. They love the macnuts. When they chew them, the cracking of the shell is so loud it wakes us up! Pow-Pow crazy how strong there jaws are.

I bought a .50 caliber Texan last year but never got a good shot before we came back to the mainland. This year should be great fun. No close neighbors so shooting is not a problem there.

I just bought a gun case and am taking the HW80 and the HW77K down this year. The doves, tree rats and wild chickens are in for a bit of a surprise.

Aloha!
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Sounds like some nite time optics in order. Don’t forget the camera.
Hawaii eh, I wanna be like you when I grow up. Enjoy and stay safe.
Always wan’t to ski in your neck of the woods, for the powder snow.
We get that occasionally, the other day we got 30 hrs. of rain and snow for 8-10 inches of almost a slush, hard to manage and heavy.
Half my range is off limits to walk. I’m going out shooting now. Crow
 
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Zut said:
Well, I am fortunate to be able to have a white Christmas every year in Montana. But this week the night time forecast is for -29 to -39F. Wow that is about as cold as I have ever seen in my neck of the woods...We will see if the weather guys have a clue.

No shooting here in E Texas today, woke up to rain which has continued all day. The temperature has been steady at 38 all day, 95% humidity, so not comfortable. Thursday we are forcast low teens, possibly single digits, unusual for here, especially this early in the year.
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Basically spent the whole day working on my HW-95K build. Was able to shoot it early in the day & at pretty much dusk. *edit* Was shooting at 10.5fpe in the morning.* Shooting at just over 12fpe now and grouping really good at 20 yards with several pellets. Here’s a 5 shot group with 8gr Polymags. Pinky for reference.

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Received my Sportsmatch DM60 mount yesterday so I finally got a chance to set up the new Weihrauch HW97. Put about 100 pellets pre-scope (Hawke AMX 4-12x40)to start the break in.

Today I set up at 15 yards and took some shots. First was low left, adjust a bit, still just low left. Few more clicks and we’re hitting center. Retorqued scope screws.

Three shots later it was time to head back to work. Setting this gun up for 25+ yard target and tree rat use. Looking forward to the 25+ yard setup work.

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outdooorgb said:
Received my Sportsmatch DM60 mount yesterday so I finally got a chance to set up the new Weihrauch HW97. Put about 100 pellets pre-scope (Hawke AMX 4-12x40)to start the break in.

Today I set up at 15 yards and took some shots. First was low left, adjust a bit, still just low left. Few more clicks and we’re hitting center. Retorqued scope screws.

Three shots later it was time to head back to work. Setting this gun up for 25+ yard target and tree rat use. Looking forward to the 25+ yard setup work.

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Nice groups 👍
 
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Heathrow said:
77 Venom Ultracarbine -full tilt Lazaglide FAC long stroked, Walnut Tyro

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That is one serious rifle. Spectacular grain. Crow
intenseaty22 said:
Basically spent the whole day working on my HW-95K build. Was able to shoot it early in the day & at pretty much dusk. Shooting at just over 12fpe now and grouping really good at 20 yards with several pellets. Here’s a 5 shot group with 8gr Polymags. Pinky for reference.

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Nice shooting and great rifle. Crow
outdooorgb said:
Received my Sportsmatch DM60 mount yesterday so I finally got a chance to set up the new Weihrauch HW97. Put about 100 pellets pre-scope (Hawke AMX 4-12x40)to start the break in.

Today I set up at 15 yards and took some shots. First was low left, adjust a bit, still just low left. Few more clicks and we’re hitting center. Retorqued scope screws.

Three shots later it was time to head back to work. Setting this gun up for 25+ yard target and tree rat use. Looking forward to the 25+ yard setup work.

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Can’t go wrong with a 97 thumb hole. Nice shooting. Crow
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You could call the 50 the perfect break barrel. Crow
 
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