davidch
25-12-2008, 03:30 PM
After sooting various springers for years I decided it was time to buy my first PCP. I would be using it for plinking in the back garden and HFT. 3 of us have a weekly 'friendly' comp (2 losers buy the beer after), and some organised comps.
I had a budget of £750 (or euros nowadays!) and after checking out this and other forums for gun reviews and also shooting a few different guns I settled on a HW100k. I chose the sporter stock, preffering it over the T stock after holding both.
Holding the gun for the first time felt really comfortable and well balanced, I had read that the 100 was heavy but compared to my 97k it felt lighter and not nose heavy like the springer. The stock fitted me well and is beautifully finished with sharp chequerring and is a nice light colour contrasting the black action with white lettering, not handsome but purposeful and classy looking.
After trying the magazine cycling and a few dry shots I got the missus to flash the plastic and the deal was done. The gun was chronoed in the shop with AA fields and was averaging 11.48 ft lbs with very little variation, time to go home and play!
First job was to fit a scope, a Nikko Sterling 4x16x50 was duly mounted and then I topped up the air. The filling is very easy. The probe supplied with the gun fits into a hole across the end of the air resevoir, turn the air on, fill it until it reaches the top of the green section on the built in gauge, turn off and pull probe out, 30 second job. There is a blank probey type piece to put in the resevoir after filling to keep dust and muck out.
Next up is loading the 2 14 shot magazines with AA fields. The pellets are pushed into the holes in the magazines and held in with a rubber ring around the circumference of the mag, easy and simple. The cocking lever is pulled back and also a mag retaining catch. The magazine is slid easily into the gun and the retaining catch slid forwards to engage with the magazine. Pushing the cocking lever forwards slides a pellet into the gun and it is ready to fire. The whole assembly and operation looks and feels quality.
Firing the first mag to zero the scope I was impressed with how quiet the gun was and how easy it was to cycle the pellets in. Also the trigger felt really good, much better than the decent rekord trigger on the 97k, more like the trigger on my 10m match pistol. It felt good set as it came from the factory and I haven't needed to change it so far.
After getting a good zero at 16yds I fired a full mag of 14 at the centre of a new target from a bench and ended up with 1 hole about the size of a 5p smack in the middle. I fired off several more mags in different positions and it made an average ability shooter like me look good being really well balaced and steady even on standers.
The next day I went with a mate to where he works to zero it over 35yds, the scope only needed a couple of clicks then from the bonnet of the van it would shoot shot on shot with ease giving a group slightly bigger than a 5p. different distances were tried and different stances and the accuracy is eye opening, hitting 20mm kill zones from kneelers which is good for me.
Today I tried different pellets with a chrono and settled on AA field measuring after every 5 shots to see how many full power shots I'd get to a fill -
5 -797fps
10 -800fps
15 -797
20 -796
25 - 793
30 - 795
35 - 794
40 -789
45 -789
50 -794
55 -791
60 -789
65 -773
70 -748
Looks like 60 shots is a safe bet. Other pellets tried were JSB exacts, virtually same results as above, H&N FTT's averaged about 775fps and mozzies which averaged about 805 fps but were pretty variable. What did this lot tell me? Not a lot, I was just bored on christmas day:rolleyes:
All in all then 1st impressions are very good, roll on the next 'friendly', I wont be buying the beer afterwards!!
I had a budget of £750 (or euros nowadays!) and after checking out this and other forums for gun reviews and also shooting a few different guns I settled on a HW100k. I chose the sporter stock, preffering it over the T stock after holding both.
Holding the gun for the first time felt really comfortable and well balanced, I had read that the 100 was heavy but compared to my 97k it felt lighter and not nose heavy like the springer. The stock fitted me well and is beautifully finished with sharp chequerring and is a nice light colour contrasting the black action with white lettering, not handsome but purposeful and classy looking.
After trying the magazine cycling and a few dry shots I got the missus to flash the plastic and the deal was done. The gun was chronoed in the shop with AA fields and was averaging 11.48 ft lbs with very little variation, time to go home and play!
First job was to fit a scope, a Nikko Sterling 4x16x50 was duly mounted and then I topped up the air. The filling is very easy. The probe supplied with the gun fits into a hole across the end of the air resevoir, turn the air on, fill it until it reaches the top of the green section on the built in gauge, turn off and pull probe out, 30 second job. There is a blank probey type piece to put in the resevoir after filling to keep dust and muck out.
Next up is loading the 2 14 shot magazines with AA fields. The pellets are pushed into the holes in the magazines and held in with a rubber ring around the circumference of the mag, easy and simple. The cocking lever is pulled back and also a mag retaining catch. The magazine is slid easily into the gun and the retaining catch slid forwards to engage with the magazine. Pushing the cocking lever forwards slides a pellet into the gun and it is ready to fire. The whole assembly and operation looks and feels quality.
Firing the first mag to zero the scope I was impressed with how quiet the gun was and how easy it was to cycle the pellets in. Also the trigger felt really good, much better than the decent rekord trigger on the 97k, more like the trigger on my 10m match pistol. It felt good set as it came from the factory and I haven't needed to change it so far.
After getting a good zero at 16yds I fired a full mag of 14 at the centre of a new target from a bench and ended up with 1 hole about the size of a 5p smack in the middle. I fired off several more mags in different positions and it made an average ability shooter like me look good being really well balaced and steady even on standers.
The next day I went with a mate to where he works to zero it over 35yds, the scope only needed a couple of clicks then from the bonnet of the van it would shoot shot on shot with ease giving a group slightly bigger than a 5p. different distances were tried and different stances and the accuracy is eye opening, hitting 20mm kill zones from kneelers which is good for me.
Today I tried different pellets with a chrono and settled on AA field measuring after every 5 shots to see how many full power shots I'd get to a fill -
5 -797fps
10 -800fps
15 -797
20 -796
25 - 793
30 - 795
35 - 794
40 -789
45 -789
50 -794
55 -791
60 -789
65 -773
70 -748
Looks like 60 shots is a safe bet. Other pellets tried were JSB exacts, virtually same results as above, H&N FTT's averaged about 775fps and mozzies which averaged about 805 fps but were pretty variable. What did this lot tell me? Not a lot, I was just bored on christmas day:rolleyes:
All in all then 1st impressions are very good, roll on the next 'friendly', I wont be buying the beer afterwards!!