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mac
you pay more attention to your guns than i do me woman!
maybe thats why I've 2 ex wives
atb si
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jonjon
yeah I've seen him tuning tx's and he knows his stuff!
its a well engineered bit of kit, some of the pellets I've bought lately have been terrible and for £18 this is looking like a good investment!
only one way to find out.... I'm having one
cheers si
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just wondering if any of you lads have used or tried these?!
cos after dismissing loads of pellets in the search for the 1ive got loads of tins i can't use!
if this gizmo is as good as it says ill be buying one and won't need to buy any pellets for a long time.
any advice welcome
cheers si
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its good fun testing pellets and doing crono strings, it gives you confidence in what your using!
and whats good for one gun may not be good for another of the same make and barrel.
the last pcp with a 177 walther barrel liked rws super field and the tx spat them out all over the place, same barrel apparently... but is spot on with aa diabolo's.
done loads of testing with a hw100 in 22, aa diabolos and superdomes are the only ones i can get to group!
what mark said to me was spot on, if i put anything else down the barrel its a pull through cos nothing will group again!
end of pellet testing for a while till i fancy a change and i can't see it being any time soon cos the 100's performing ace now
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As far back as man has been on this earth, men are 'hunter gatherers' by definition although through evolution we have changed to take on other roles both in our work but also in our pursuits, it is just that some of us still remain in part that original group.
I had my first gun, a GAT, air pistol at the tender age of about 11 or 12, very quickly moving on to air rifles and shotguns and so I follow in my grandfather's footsteps as he was a gamekeeper. At the age of 16, I was buzzing around Derbyshire on my scooter with a gun slung on my back eager to get on to feeding pigeons or to bag a rabbit or two for my mom even travelling the 72 miles to the East Coast after the duck. Shooting and fishing is really in my blood and at 64 years young, one or both of these activities has always been with me and at present I am shooting with both air rifle and shotgun, along with lure, carp and fly fishing and they all sit well together. I have on many occasions found my interest waning and so simply stopped for a few years but always returning to that aspect of life that I cannot be without for too long.
I used to shoot many types of quarry but as time passed by, I really didn't want to kill things any more and found great passion for clay shooting at quite a high level and only recently finding my interest in live quarry once again. I have pheasants and woodies in my garden which I could easily shoot but instead prefer to watch them from the cottage or greenhouse although would not think twice about shooting them in the field. Friends and family have said in the past that it is strange that someone who loves nature and wildlife can also kill them, not so easy to explain away but it is true.
To me shooting with whatever type of gun and fishing is what I live for along with my love of my family and is part of life itself for me at any rate and long may it continue.
Phil
great post philpot
im 20 years behind you, and more or less on the same path!
hale the gat gun and hand line.... the start of grate hobbies that never leave you!
si
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What time of day and what were they feeding on? If the crop was full and the bird was shot from the front then you'll get flyers! If the same gun had shot the same bird between the shoulder blades, I doubt you would have had a flyer!
They were shot early afternoon, around 2pm. I don't know what they were feeding on - I was shooting in and around an industrial unit.
probably shite n rubbish left behind by polish lorry drivers!
not food for the pot then
check out what this bloke has to say about pellet weights and impacts, he's put a lot of time into it
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A little tip a lot of HW 100 owners forget is to hold the magazine at arms length (empty) and give the pellet loading side the lightest of sprays with gun oil once every other trip out.
Tightens your groups up big style that tip does, as in, " it becomes a tac driver"
atb
p.s.
Now your barrel is clean Si stick to your pellet of choice "only",- lead the barrel and away you go - don`t forget the above tip.
its sorted now
it was a combo of 552 being too tight, although these diabolo's are that size they are way slacker in the mag compared to all the others!
the super field felt like a two stage loading process !
when i first got it i fitted an old scope and the grouping wasn't to bad with superdomes so i backtracked and did some scope swapping!
the tx is now allover the spot and the 100 is spot on.... I'm now the proud owner of a shite scope that won't hold 0
so my lad can have a fancy telescope to mess about with!!! ha
ill give the mag a spray too, I've had to up end it a couple of times n put a few drops of clenzoil onto the mag mec cos it stopped cycling a couple of times!
ill use the other pellets for catapulting at ducks when I'm fishing
cheers mark
ps... the bloke in the gunshop said the 110 is gonna be even later than what ppl are expecting
and they get all sorts of stuff from hcsi
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leve a chicken egg on the deck!
had the lad shooting eggs the other week, never seen a crow in my garden up until that point!
don't think ill be seeing many more
and me cars not go so much crap on it now-
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thanks for the replys lads
I've done a few pull through and it was pretty manky
the barrels solid no play at all
steg
i chopped in a 177 pcp for the 100 it was pellet on pellet but i fancied a 22 for a change, always had 22 spingers as a kid!
yeah I've tried 8 different types, was expecting great things but got a headache
tomorrows test will be the decider hopefully the diabolo's are the answer
cheers si
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villaman-smithie
it was a shop demo, the bloke at the shop said it had only had a couple of hundred through it!
gonna try and get on the field tomorrow and see if its any good at range!
the scope I've put on is off another rifle thats bang on so its got to be the barrel, all the other pellets were consistent through the crono even though they were all over the place !
hopefully the aa's are the cure or its off back.
cheers si
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put it on the wrong page!
sorry
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first post.... been following you boys a while and think this site is spot on!
seriously been thinking id coped for a duff barrel!
but after loads of head scratching /scope swapping barrel cleaning / firing with mod without mod it turns out its mega pellet fussy!!! aghhhh
I've been trying all the pellets you lads use and still no joy, the falcons in552 and superdomes were the only ones pulling a semi acceptable group.
not happy enough to go hunting with though, i use a tx and can do 5p groups at 30m the best the 100 would do was a 50p at 20m"the garden/house range"
until today , diabolo field 552 one hole groups on the home range!!! thank f
dose anyone else have this problem?! it nearly sent me round the bend
cheers si
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one for sorrow
top shot
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Hi Lads,
I`ve put the thought of them to bed now after getting my answers off you tube and the Air Gun Gear show.
.177 are dreadful .
.22 were not tested.
Basically they are tin pellets and very hard, fast and light,- not good for the barrel i think.
The groups were all over the place, kinetic energy was crap, so no good for hunting at all
.( For me) Forget tin pellets ( in .177 anyway )
atb
not used any light rws but my 100 is spot on with rws super domes 14.5gr there spot on too about 40y ..... i think the quality of rws pellets is really good,just used a tin and didn't throw one away as opposed to the jbs junk thats being sold! cheap and cheerful
was the testing you watched done with a springer?!
cos my spinger groups with them look like a shotgun grouping
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shooting and fishing pretty much go hand in hand but throwing the gun in the car is a lot faster than finding bait and setting up!
its nice to escape for an hour or so after a noisy day on a site.
if I'm not going to eat it i won't shoot it or fishing wise it goes back!!
and its better than sitting in the pub with di@kheads
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So .22 is the Best then, with heavy pellet and i just bought 5000 + a free tin of FAP pellets
I know what i will stick to and it will not be heavies
im halfway through a tin of fap and well impressed with them.... only thing is there only putting out just over 10flb and i like a bit more!
I've had it with jsb, last tin of 5.52's looked like they had been recycled from a pellet catcher and the ones that looked ok were all over the place!
rws aren't far behind on the accuracy but get spat out of the 100 at 11+
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i and loads of lads on here use hw100's there ace rifles but if the look of an rm8 floats your boat have a look for a second hand bsa r10!
theres a reason why there are so many second hand rm's for sale
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tx200 great fun to use and as accurate as any pcp I've used!
they are pretty heavy though
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i choped an rm8 in for a hw100, theres no comparison!
the internals on the rm arnt great,indexing problems and power fluctuations.
A Few More Pellet Tests, Hw100 .177
in Rifle Reviews, Technical Help and Tips
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good going that mark!
should of turned up for more art classes though
atb si