Originally Posted by
maximus
My HW80 has a barrel chopped down to 10" (from the muzzle) and is still as accurate as anything else comparable that I own. I believe that the "choke" on HW's with open sights is just a result of crimping in the fore sight grooves, hardly scientific! The first time I heard of choked barrels as a selling feature was on Theobens where the add said it would be less pellet fussy, another new term on me at the time!!. When I eventually bought one I soon learned what pellet fussy meant!! The only pellets it shot well were superdomes. My previous BSA's and HW's seemed much more tolerant.