I have succumbed.....

[Sausagedog 7,381]

2 hours ago, philpot said:

Shooting corvids, a great passion of mine and had not thought of using the hmr for that but at distance, that could be good fun.  I took a few out yesterday with my air / fac in the wind, very satisfying.  Does the wind cause issues for hmr, I never found it a real problem with wmr but have heard hmr being bad in the wind however of course I have no personal knowledge.........yet.

Phil

Phil, I shot at a 200yd crow today.

It fell short, I guessed the range wrong. I guessed the windage for my misjudged range and I saw the bullet touch down. Perfect windage but low.

The crow I did get was 80yds. I just ignored the wind for that distance. Its not as bad as some think all things relative.

[Dervburner 2,549]

23 minutes ago, Sausagedog said:

Phil, I shot at a 200yd crow today.

It fell short, I guessed the range wrong. I guessed the windage for my misjudged range and I saw the bullet touch down. Perfect windage but low.

The crow I did get was 80yds. I just ignored the wind for that distance. Its not as bad as some think all things relative.

Yerr, they may be small, but they aren’t in the air for long at eighty yards

[BenBhoy 4,706]

With what seems like bit of a THL hmr love in at the minute, I've shelved plans to get hornet & gonna get myself a new HMR.

All set for t1x but today seen a lithgow arms crossover hmr. Now I admit I know bob all about lithgow so can anyone enlighten me? I know it looks good!! Not handled it.

Or should I go cz455 & save few £££ over t1x or lithgow. Cheers. 

[villaman 9,982]

9 minutes ago, BenBhoy said:

With what seems like bit of a THL hmr love in at the minute, I've shelved plans to get hornet & gonna get myself a new HMR.

All set for t1x but today seen a lithgow arms crossover hmr. Now I admit I know bob all about lithgow so can anyone enlighten me? I know it looks good!! Not handled it.

Or should I go cz455 & save few £££ over t1x or lithgow. Cheers. 

Have a look at CZ 457 imo it’s better than the tikka . I have the tikka but regret not having 457 although tikka is cheaper at the time 

[Dervburner 2,549]

45 minutes ago, BenBhoy said:

With what seems like bit of a THL hmr love in at the minute, I've shelved plans to get hornet & gonna get myself a new HMR.

All set for t1x but today seen a lithgow arms crossover hmr. Now I admit I know bob all about lithgow so can anyone enlighten me? I know it looks good!! Not handled it.

Or should I go cz455 & save few £££ over t1x or lithgow. Cheers. 

Ben..............get the hornet.

 

Consider yourself enlightened

[David.evans 5,323]

455 455 455 455 455 455 

 

 

 

 

 

T1x last resort

[philpot 5,062]

1 hour ago, David.evans said:

455 455 455 455 455 455 

 

 

 

 

 

T1x last resort

Or even a 455 perhaps.

Must admit I by far prefer the Tikka in terms of handling and the fact that I can swap forend and grip to suit me was a bonus.  If it turns out that the hmr rifle get a fair bit of use, I may well go for another Tikka,

Phil

[bumpy22 414]

Get the t1x you won't regret it. You would be surprised how many I shoot in a year with little hmr

[Deker 3,478]

I'm still on my 452 HMR.

I have several CZ rimfires and for FIELD use I have no need for anything else, they work, are reliable are accurate and quite simply, do the the job.

My guns are tools of the trade, I buy what I need, Tikka/Anschutz/Sako/whatever make great guns, but they give me nothing more than CZ for field use, but tend to cost a lot more.

Down to individual choice!

[philpot 5,062]

I did a swap round of scopes last night in order to use my new Pard 007v so my two Hawke Airmax Compact 30 scopes are now on my Tikka .22lr and Sako Quad hmr as the bloody Pard doesn't like either my Hawke Varmint or MTC Mamba Lite scopes.  I thought I could get away with using my Wildcat Panther .22 mod on the hmr but my god it was so noisy, a quick rumage in the drawers of the rfd and I took 5 assorted mods to test, the best was a .17 Wildcat Panther which had come in with a pile of stuff. £40 notes and I have a cracking mod and much better than £160.   

Phil

 

[philpot 5,062]

As a matter of interest guys, what range do you normally set zero at for hmr, I had thought about 75 - 100mt.  I set all the guns in the 25mt range, now I switched the scopes around, just to get a start point and now waiting for the high winds and rain to bugger off.  We had a drive round a number of our perms yesterday to see where would be ideal for 100mt out to 200mt trying to find somewhere in the lea of the wind which in Lincolnshire is not easy.  Our sheltered quarry perm which is full of trees is a good place but limited on range and we found some great spots but the wind was quite strongly in evidence. There is no rush as I am not desperate to get the hmr running, lasted this long without one so a bit longer won't hurt.

Just how affected by the wind are the hmr rounds as I keep hearing that they are useless in wind but to my mind if they are so bad, why are they so popular hmmm..

Phil

[Sausagedog 7,381]

I like a 100yd zero to 1" high at 100.

They are fine in wind. Obviously not at 200yds in a 30mph wind but up to 100yds there is nowt in it.

Took this one last weekend during a raining squall, the wind swirling all roads!

[philpot 5,062]

Thank you for that Bernhard, all new ground to me. It will be very interesting to see what drop I get at 150 - 200mt, not that it matters as I will expect holdover to be coming into play but curious to see when that is as people rave on about zero at 100 and still at point of aim at 200 ................................. nah, can't see that at all but I would bet a few quid that is why a number of blokes buy into hmr, I have heard that in the rfd a number of times but who knows perhaps I am wrong although I doubt it.

The weather is looking good for the next few days so with a bit of luck I hope to get in the quarry to at least see what the hmr is like upto around 100mt. Not today however as pigeon are very active on the quarry edging trees so the Browning humpback will be out later today for a bit of roost shooting.

Phil

[Sausagedog 7,381]

200yds is around 6" down.

150 is around 2" down.

Every rifle is different and any slight inclination of the scope makes for a lot of variation that goes unnoticed by most.

Another overlooked factor is how or where the barrel is pointing as it vibrates. The bullet on one rifle might leave the muzzle with the barrel flexed up a fraction. Another rifle might be the opposite.  It however will affect the relationship with scope zero and then shooting at extended ranges.

[philpot 5,062]

Good inforation thank you.  Looking forward to getting some lead up the spout.