kieran turner
28-12-2005, 06:42 PM
I purchased my HW90K about 2 years ago now and it has given 2 great years worth of services and enjoyment. This rifle was my second 'proper' air rifle after i first got my trusty BSA Lightning a 9 months previous to that.
My thinking behind this purchase was that I wanted a reliable, cheapish hunting rifle with a self contained powerplant as I didn't yet want to venture into the world of pcp's. So this narrowed my options down to the theobens (Evolution or Fenman) or the HW90K. I would of probably bought a theoben but I got a very good deal on a second hand HW90K.
Unlike the Theobens it isn't a looker but a very plain affair, but since when have looks affected performance! ( well maybe sometimes). When I got round to zeroing my new toy I got the usual pellet brands out air arms -hated 'em, daystates-same results, Lazapell- getting better, RWS superdomes-great then I tried accupells and with applying the correct shooting technique etc. no word of a lie I got a real single hole 3 shot group at 30y, I was chuffed.
There was unfortunatley one thing I didn't like about the HW90K and this was strangely the trigger, I found the first stage too long for my liking (has any one else found this).
At first I found the firing cycle strange, it felt different to my lightning some how the recoil just felt different, it felt like shooting a small bore rifle, it wasn't until later that I found out the gas-ram recoils differently to a springer. Another point I would like to bring up is that the recoil in a gas ram isn't actually less than a springer it feels as if there is just as much recoil going on, even on a heavy rifle like the HW90K. This is another issue worth looking at if your in the market for a HW90K it's weight, weighing in at 8.5lbs it's for men only!
In conclusion I found that my HW90K has like I mentioned above given me a few years of work horse like service and enjoyment, this was proven last summer when I claimed 13 maggies with it, all of them head shots apart from 2 which were abot 10y away and they were chest shots still the end result was the same, but for the record I only do head shots whilst hunting as this is really the only place that you are more a less guarenteed a clean kill. This rifle is still with me but sees not really much use as I have gone to the dark side of pcp's infact it's worse than that my favourite pcp is in .177 and I find it better than .22!
Any thoughts on this little reveiw would be much appreciated.
Cheers Kieran
My thinking behind this purchase was that I wanted a reliable, cheapish hunting rifle with a self contained powerplant as I didn't yet want to venture into the world of pcp's. So this narrowed my options down to the theobens (Evolution or Fenman) or the HW90K. I would of probably bought a theoben but I got a very good deal on a second hand HW90K.
Unlike the Theobens it isn't a looker but a very plain affair, but since when have looks affected performance! ( well maybe sometimes). When I got round to zeroing my new toy I got the usual pellet brands out air arms -hated 'em, daystates-same results, Lazapell- getting better, RWS superdomes-great then I tried accupells and with applying the correct shooting technique etc. no word of a lie I got a real single hole 3 shot group at 30y, I was chuffed.
There was unfortunatley one thing I didn't like about the HW90K and this was strangely the trigger, I found the first stage too long for my liking (has any one else found this).
At first I found the firing cycle strange, it felt different to my lightning some how the recoil just felt different, it felt like shooting a small bore rifle, it wasn't until later that I found out the gas-ram recoils differently to a springer. Another point I would like to bring up is that the recoil in a gas ram isn't actually less than a springer it feels as if there is just as much recoil going on, even on a heavy rifle like the HW90K. This is another issue worth looking at if your in the market for a HW90K it's weight, weighing in at 8.5lbs it's for men only!
In conclusion I found that my HW90K has like I mentioned above given me a few years of work horse like service and enjoyment, this was proven last summer when I claimed 13 maggies with it, all of them head shots apart from 2 which were abot 10y away and they were chest shots still the end result was the same, but for the record I only do head shots whilst hunting as this is really the only place that you are more a less guarenteed a clean kill. This rifle is still with me but sees not really much use as I have gone to the dark side of pcp's infact it's worse than that my favourite pcp is in .177 and I find it better than .22!
Any thoughts on this little reveiw would be much appreciated.
Cheers Kieran