Got the HW 90 working thanks to TLC of Rajeev Sharma, who turned the rifle around in less than a week. So friend and I do some zeroing in at five meters.
First cocking it is a grunting , hernia generating option. Then I remembered another technique of being seated and then using both hands while keeping the rifle butt secure on the lap.
The safety goes click on its own but I keep the barrel secure with my right hand. Then I push in a gsmith round head in. After aligning the iron sights on the bull I squeeze the trigger. The trigger is crisp and beautiful like all HW's Rekord trigger systems but the explosion of sound that follows makes my ears ring. The pellet is lodged on the target at 11 O' clock.
So after rushing for my ear muffs I am back. I adjust the sight a few clicks to the right and lower the height also. Go through the same slap barrel, crank down with two hands and get pellet in routine. Align rifle to target concentrate on the trigger squeeze and...nothing. I had forgotten the automatic safety. So I click it off and this time I hear a pouf thru the ear muffs. Check on the target shows pellet at 12 O' clock. Repeat procedure remember safety and pouff... pellet again lands at 12 O'clock of target hitting the 7 ring of the air rifle target.
I am pretty happy with the basic zero now and will save more for the ten meter range where I will do my one inch high at ten meter zero. Friend (former abusive air gunner)owner is handled the rifle and told to be nice.
He takes it grunts through the cocking and slams a pellet into the target but he is way off. He held the rifle as if choking the life outa it. So I lecture him a bit about hold sensitivity and all and let him do it again. I offer him foam ear plugs but being very testosterone charged he refuses. I keep mine plugged in as he lets off another chouf (to my ears). Other wise to him its like the naughty kid at school slamming the desk down sound.
So he shoots a few more and then finds that he can put two at six o'clock. Encouraged he shoots a few more but again he has the death choke on the rifle and it replies in kind by shooting to the left way off target.
I try and it gently thumps a pellet into the same hole at twelve o' clock. Now bathed in sweat we break for tea. I quickly zip it up as my urge to blast the gas ram has gone down hill real fast. I mean my Qb shoots the pellet the same distance into a wood block with far less effort.
My friend feels like a guy whose love affair has gone sour. He leaves the rifle with me to bang off a hundred or so rounds to determine whether he should keep it. Yes Sir, you definately shouldn't... lets say how about I trade you this nice slick effortless cocking nickel plated IHP 35 for it?
Naah guys can't be that much of a rogue hafta give his baby back soon but I will shoot it at longer ranges and see.
So ye gas ram owners is this how it is? Does it get ant better or is this as good as it gets. While this rifle is touted as more for pest control, right now it seems like the pest would be the one behind the butt.
Dev
To ride, to speak up, to shoot straight.
