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  1. pianoman
    I have both a TX200 .22 rifle and a TX200HC carbine in .177 which are stocked with rich walnut, they are beautifully made, very accurate rifles and I agree with you about the smoothness of their firing characteristics. The .177 HC has a sharper crack on firing They are superb handling rifles but, the HW77 and 97 are very comfortable in handling and that makes them very potent in my experience. Nothing sharp, angular or clunky feeling. But they just come to the shoulder and onto aim very smoothly indeed. A hallmark of a great rifle. I'm currently using a Hawke 6-18x44 AO scope with an SR12
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    Now that's more like it! Well shot hw97 mate but, really, the rifle is performing just as I knew it would. You sound as though you are a highly competent spring rifle shot to begin with but, have you read my pinned thread on prone position shooting? Comfort and ease is EVERYTHING in accurate shooting from your part of the partnership with your rifle. And it may help keep your arthritis from getting in the way of your enjoyment of your shooting with it. The HW97K is an absolutely superb rifle in every way and will do it's job for you, out to whatever ranges you can control with no problem
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    Bet you anything... black rabbits will soon be winning every event .
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    Lovely looking rifle moley. Well done on the purchase You have a Hawke scope with it. You really want to have a calibration profile set up for it on Chairgun. If you put accurate information into it, it will really return amazing results downrange. Looking forward to reading more from you with this rifle. All the best. Simon
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    Welcome Ian. I can only reaffirm what has been said already. The HW99S is a cracking good little rifle, as are all Weihrauch air rifles. For eighty quid it's a bargain you'll be very hard pushed to better. Get the rifle chronographed. If it is producing around 11.5 Foot pounds of energy at the muzzle, you'll have all the power you need to humanely despatch a rabbit at 60 metres if you have the talent. At 35 metres you'll have no problems whatsoever. As long as the barrel latches up nice, tight and secure and it's generally in a cleanly functioning state internally, this rifle will se
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    I say the crawl and the shooting was text book mate. It doesn't always go our way, or how we like it. But a 46 metre is nowt' to be sniffed at! It's always a buzz when you land a beauty like that one! Always great to see what you and Shannon get up to, as well as! with your Darryl! SPA from me mate. Simon
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    Another great write up and more top shooting from you two Gentlemen. Enjoy your Canadian tour mate and keep in touch; let's know how you are. All the very best to you and Laura. Simon
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    I have the uneasy feeling that wasn't your gun's original trigger Mike...
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    im using the mounts that came with the scope, so i'll try my bsa's in the morning. i got my scope from JS Ramsbottom, they should be happy to take it back if its duff, surely? also whats that screw about on my rear mount that sticks out so i cant actually mount it on my rails? ( i took it out). theres me thinking YEAH NEW SEXY SCOPE, better not be duff and be a rookie mistake hahaha!!! The screw is the recoil arrestor stud that fits the arrestor hole/s at the rear of your rifle and stops the scope creeping back under recoil. I hope you don't take this as being rude or anythi
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    If your scope is putting the pellets hitting right of centre, when the windage turret is full over left? Send it back, it's duff mate. A good test is to zero the scope centre-to-centre then, move the windage turrets to left, counting the clicks till you reach the fullest extent. You should be able to count the same number of clicks back to centre and put a pellet through your zero. Do the same to right and same again to up/down elevation turret. If your scope cannot do any of this, there really is something wrong internally. Hope it works out. Simon
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    I've got a near mint condition Weihrauch HW80K .22 carbine spring rifle that's just had a full service by one of my expert friends here and it will hit hard and sure what you point it at, with H&N Field & Target Trophy and it'll last you your lifetime. It has just four tiny, very small pin-sized dents on the stock which you wouldn't immediately notice unless I pointed them out to you. It's set up with a Simmons Pro Air 6-18x40 scope. It has taken rabbits, woodpidgeon and rats and it deserves to be used. With a number of other rifles I regularly shoot with, I really haven't used it
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    Come take a look and a shot with my rifles matey, I'll show you what simonized really is! Tell you what though Mike, have a look at a Ripley Hog or Ripley XL series rifle. I think you'll like them. ATB Simon
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    Hi Ste. I read somewhere that, on firing, a pellet engages the rifling in an air rifle barrel within 4 inches and is accurately spinning on the lands before it has reached the end of this, and on to the muzzle. So, perhaps a practical barrel of 5 inches length is possible. Pistols have been accurately shooting projectile rounds with short barrels for decades. You have to consider being able to cock the rifle if it's a break barrel. A 5-inch barrel would be very difficult, even with a handful of silencer, which puts the notion of an ultra-short rifle back a bit. And, as you say, there is
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    Of course we don't state conditions such as this Davy. I'm out nearly every evening and bag what I find in numbers that present themselves. I just hold off on the kitts only, because I want them better grown and tasty for the pot by Autumn. As you've seen for yourself, the rabbits don't exactly tumble out of the woods in vast numbers on my permission as once they did so many years ago. If I had the numbers and crop damages that others have, with replenishing numbers of rabbits each year. I would be shooting everything in sight. Kitts included. ATB Simon
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    This comes back to why I don't shoot the kitts on my permission. Something for which I, and at least one other chap here, has recieved a degree of criticism for our sense of sporting hunting. I don't agree with the wholesale slaughter of warrens. I never want to see the countryside denuded of rabbits and pidgeons. Myxy and natural predation has killed a great many as it is. If I seriously wanted to reduce the numbers of rabbits here in the name of "pest control", I'd use a precharged multishot rifle set to around 30ft/lbs on my fac, or, a 17HMR and flatten the lot. But I wouldn't start moa
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    Hi hw97k. First of all, congratulations on buying a proper spring rifle. It's one of the best there is in the world, so, if you can't hit with it, it's not your rifle's fault!! The thing to do now is build a shooting relationship with your 97k, just get out and enjoy shooting with it, at targets and ranges you are comfortable with and get her to feel familiar and comfortable in your hands. There's no rush to put yourself under any pressure to perform great shots with it, straight off the bat. Then, set a full day aside to establish the rifle's trajectory map. Where on the scope reti
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    I shoot regularly with the HW97s forebear the HW77 and my God, I love this rifle. I would never take a pcp of any make or calibre over my HW77 .22 rifle. It's sub 12ft/lb and I hunt from a zero of 25metres to 55 metres range and sometimes over 60! I use a Hawke SR12 6-18x44AO scope for it and, after being shown how to use the Hawke Chairgun software by zini here, I have created a supremely accurate shooting profile for this rifle which makes it absolutely deadly for rabbit shooting in my hands, from 25 to 55 metres. This has come afer many years experience of shooting .22 and .177 sp
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    Great writing and superb shooting as ever from you two lads. What a bag to show for it too! Cheers Darryl. Simon
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    Talk about a chip off the block...! Thanks for posting up this great bit of film Gary. I've really enjoyed watching your Shannon showing her hunting skills. Superb shooting mate. I'd be really proud of her. All the best for more shooting together, father and daughter! Simon
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    Wouldn't this be something like Golfers getting struck by lightning; as electricity acts on metal like a conduit to earth; like your rifle barrel or a golf club? I'm no expert on electricity, but, it seems the stuff will leap at anything that will conduct it?
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    H&N FIELD & TARGET TROPHY I swear by them for my .22 HW77 and HW80. I'd be very surprised to hear if your HW99S didn't group tightly with these. Try RWS SUPERFIELD too.
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    What happened to the Weihrauch HW100 Mary was getting? By the way, I have three original Terence Cuneo railway and military paintings moley. All complete with his little mouse hidden away! (Not for sale) I knew him quite well. Simon
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    edited for double post (sorry)
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    Hi Alex. What a charming lady! There is a public nature trail next to part of my permission, with just a small fence between and I've had a few run-ins with women like this myself in recent years. I just smile and say nothing but turn my back, shoulder my rifle and walk away. They hate nothing more than being dismissed and ignored, and, you have given them nothing personal to use against you. They just collapse into their own madness! Just ignore this sort of garbage in silence Alex, it does far more than trying to argue reason with barking mad women. I can well sympathise with how you fe
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