19powell90 89 Posted March 29, 2011 Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 I decided to float the barrel on my hw100kt for a few reasons really: to stop re-zeroing issues asthetic looks to see if accuracy imporved as some places i have read have had good results so i ordered a floating barrel band from rowan engineering which just clamps the cyclinder in place. it is made of aluminium as is good quality - not as good as weihrauchs own but hey GERMANS! fitting is really easy as you would know if you own one. heres a piccy in terms of accuracy i would say it improved my groupings by about 2mm at 17m (my garden range) so i will see at further ranges later. 5 shot group atb scott Quote Link to post
boroboyoli 0 Posted March 29, 2011 Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 Hope this works ou on the fields, it's a nifty piece of equipment and can lead to higher performance+/ Quote Link to post
Sweeney-Todd 208 Posted March 29, 2011 Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 Hi Scott. Just a thought for you mate. The HW Barrels are only held in oplace with ONE grub screw. There is no support at all now for your barrel, be carfull mate. Looks nice, but may cause you problems. ATB. Bill. Quote Link to post
19powell90 89 Posted March 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 Hi Scott. Just a thought for you mate. The HW Barrels are only held in oplace with ONE grub screw. There is no support at all now for your barrel, be carfull mate. Looks nice, but may cause you problems. ATB. Bill. Dont worry pal getting two grub screws put in the top but plenty of people have no problems even with one grub screw. Atb Scott Quote Link to post
Sweeney-Todd 208 Posted March 29, 2011 Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 Hi Scott. Just a thought for you mate. The HW Barrels are only held in oplace with ONE grub screw. There is no support at all now for your barrel, be carfull mate. Looks nice, but may cause you problems. ATB. Bill. Dont worry pal getting two grub screws put in the top but plenty of people have no problems even with one grub screw. Atb Scott Best of luck Quote Link to post
19powell90 89 Posted March 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 Hi Scott. Just a thought for you mate. The HW Barrels are only held in oplace with ONE grub screw. There is no support at all now for your barrel, be carfull mate. Looks nice, but may cause you problems. ATB. Bill. Dont worry pal getting two grub screws put in the top but plenty of people have no problems even with one grub screw. Atb Scott Best of luck thanks. noticed you a hw100 that has been looked at by a&m - i am sending mine to him soon to get the screws in the top of action, what tuning have you had done to yours and does it feel better?? thanks scott Quote Link to post
darren watson 14 Posted March 29, 2011 Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 how strange that something as simple as removing that one piece of metal can improve accuracy. anyone care to explain how? Quote Link to post
19powell90 89 Posted March 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 how strange that something as simple as removing that one piece of metal can improve accuracy. anyone care to explain how? its not always entirely true but anything in contact with the barrel with shift it slighty. ie. a barrel band is connected to the stock and cyclinder aswell as the barrel. so the stock is wood which moves and twist aswell as the cylinder that can expand/contract slighty with pressure/temperature all these things can knock the barrel out of sync with zero. thats why theoben have been doing it for years! atb scott Quote Link to post
darren watson 14 Posted March 29, 2011 Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 Cheers for that. Time to get the Falcon in bits then Quote Link to post
zini 1,939 Posted March 29, 2011 Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 Your the first person mate that ive heard not happy with the hw100s accuracy out the box. You tried different pellets mate? Atb si Quote Link to post
19powell90 89 Posted March 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 Your the first person mate that ive heard not happy with the hw100s accuracy out the box. You tried different pellets mate? Atb si Lol absolutely no problem with accuracy mate, just prefer a floating barrel and having peace of mind about zero keeping. I love my hw and wouldnt swap it for anything - just some minor tweaks to make it personal. Atb Scott Quote Link to post
Sweeney-Todd 208 Posted March 30, 2011 Report Share Posted March 30, 2011 Hi Scott. Just a thought for you mate. The HW Barrels are only held in oplace with ONE grub screw. There is no support at all now for your barrel, be carfull mate. Looks nice, but may cause you problems. ATB. Bill. Dont worry pal getting two grub screws put in the top but plenty of people have no problems even with one grub screw. Atb Scott Best of luck thanks. noticed you a hw100 that has been looked at by a&m - i am sending mine to him soon to get the screws in the top of action, what tuning have you had done to yours and does it feel better?? thanks scott Hi Scott. After having issues with the consistancy and accuracy of MY.... HW100 I decided a tune and fettle was in order to get the best from the rifle. I asked Adi to set the reg and balance the hammer spring, clean and polish the internals, add another barrel retaining screw, have the crown lapped on the lathe. Other internal works aswell. The end result is now a very smooth, consistant, and accurate rifle. Most PCPs are brilliant out of the box......others need a bit of tweaking and further setting up. ATB. Bill. Quote Link to post
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