What springer did you shoot today?

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.20calguy said:
Fun fun fun, with the 35e. Had some really awful mixed with great shots. I actually clipped two of the hanging targets, strings dropping them to the ground.
I was using .22cal JSB 13.43's, at 75-yards.
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The wind was all over the place, switching directions before I could shoot, rendering compensation useless, then laying down for a flurry of shots.
The scope was still coming down the rails, improving my eye relief, but causing elevation re-zeros about every hundred rounds. I shot a whole tin, bringing the total shots for the new gun to apx 750. Scope slippage was about 3/8" for the whole tin.
As I finished off the tin, I noticed the rifle starting to fire early, but the issue still hadn't dawned on me yet. I thought wow I need to lighten up on my grip. When shot placement finally took a back seat to the problem, I reached down and screwed the adjustment screw back in with my finger's. 😲

On the bench:
I lubed the cocking shoe with moly to smooth the stroke back out.
I put some blue lock tight on the weight adjust screw, "which would unscrew itself", then I wanted to take some creep out only to find that T8 screw as loose as the other. 😲 it was so loose that I didn't how much I may have moved it. So I tightened the spring pressure, and "carefully" took it and test fired it with a hair trigger. I got all that set propper and put red locktight on both adjustments.

I mounted the HW95's scope on it for a test run because those rings don't slip.
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Test time L8Ter! 👍👌
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I just love that rifle….haven’t seen any stainless rifles that make my heart beat faster….until now! Thanks for enlightening me. John
 
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Wow I only have 15 minute's, but I managed zero with 10 moa or 40 clicks of up for two bullseye's.
I shot two shot shells and a crazy Eights paddle, and posted this!
Got to go! 👍
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.20calguy said:
Fun fun fun, with the 35e. Had some really awful mixed with great shots. I actually clipped two of the hanging targets, strings dropping them to the ground.
I was using .22cal JSB 13.43's, at 75-yards.
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The wind was all over the place, switching directions before I could shoot, rendering compensation useless, then laying down for a flurry of shots.
The scope was still coming down the rails, improving my eye relief, but causing elevation re-zeros about every hundred rounds. I shot a whole tin, bringing the total shots for the new gun to apx 750. Scope slippage was about 3/8" for the whole tin.
As I finished off the tin, I noticed the rifle starting to fire early, but the issue still hadn't dawned on me yet. I thought wow I need to lighten up on my grip. When shot placement finally took a back seat to the problem, I reached down and screwed the adjustment screw back in with my finger's. 😲

On the bench:
I lubed the cocking shoe with moly to smooth the stroke back out.
I put some blue lock tight on the weight adjust screw, "which would unscrew itself", then I wanted to take some creep out only to find that T8 screw as loose as the other. 😲 it was so loose that I didn't how much I may have moved it. So I tightened the spring pressure, and "carefully" took it and test fired it with a hair trigger. I got all that set propper and put red locktight on both adjustments.

I mounted the HW95's scope on it for a test run because those rings don't slip.
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Test time L8Ter! 👍👌
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I've never seen the T8 screw loose in any of the ones I've messed with. They're always really stiff to turn. You could fix that, but the trigger would have to be disassembled.
 
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bustachip said:
I've never seen the T8 screw loose in any of the ones I've messed with. They're always really stiff to turn. You could fix that, but the trigger would have to be disassembled.
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It has red lock tight on it now, but I could take a little more creep out. We'll see next time it's on the bench. 👍
 
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Trying to group the HW30 @ 40 yards today, breezy, but I put out a wind flag to help. I took the iron sights off today, because I'll be scope only.
I started out with the Hawke Vantage 2-7X32 on 7X, then switched to my new never used before
Sightron SI 4-12X40 G2. The glass on the Sightron is better, but at 12X, I was getting a lot of white or wash out shooting toward to sun setting. When I pointed in another direction it was clear.
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Hawke up first.
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Then switched to the Sightron.
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Smallest group with the Sightron, but Hawke is right there with it. I could just see better with the Sightron.
It was doing this to the pellets at 40 yards when I hit the aluminum angle on the target box, so you know at 20 yards it would put a hurting on a squirrel head.
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This is really a fun rifle to shoot.✌🏻
 
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bustachip said:
Trying to group the HW30 @ 40 yards today, breezy, but I put out a wind flag to help. I took the iron sights off today, because I'll be scope only.
I started out with the Hawke Vantage 2-7X32 on 7X, then switched to my new never used before
Sightron SI 4-12X40 G2. The glass on the Sightron is better, but at 12X, I was getting a lot of white or wash out shooting toward to sun setting. When I pointed in another direction it was clear.
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Hawke up first.
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Then switched to the Sightron.
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Smallest group with the Sightron, but Hawke is right there with it. I could just see better with the Sightron.
It was doing this to the pellets at 40 yards when I hit the aluminum angle on the target box, so you know at 20 yards it would put a hurting on a squirrel head.
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This is really a fun rifle to shoot.✌🏻
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If anyone can make a tight group, you can T! 🎯
 
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bustachip said:
She's getting the squeeze put on her..lol. I've never used a torque wrench on my air rifles, I go by feel..lol.
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I did the same until recently. Surprisingly I found most screws I’d tightened by feel. Were lower than spec. But I was happy to see that I hadn’t over torqued them.
 
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RCope said:
@bustachip I was going to comment that you have the only HW30 with a Sightron scope (which I thought would be at least double the price of the rifle). Then I see that the price for that scope is quite reasonable. How does it compare with the usual suspects, Athlon and Hawke?
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I think the glass and focus are better than my Hawke 2-7X32 airmax and vantage. The controls are smoother for sure. I need to bend the barrel on this one, it's low and left. But I just cranked the sightron elevation several revolutions up and the windage to the right, and bam it was on..lol.
I did notice shooting toward the sun this evening at 12X it was washed out with white. It could've been just the angle I was pointed at, because when I moved off to another direction it would go away. There's no more room for a sunshade. I bought this Sightron to on my 97K, but I'm going to do some more testing to see if I'll leave it on the HW30 or go back to one of the Hawkes, or just but another Sightron. This one was like $239 on amazon.
 
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