HW45 .177 - Best Ammo?

[Inspector 71]

Enjoy your new pistol.

Here's a tip for you: when cleaning the gun with an oily cloth, AVOID the fibre optic sights at all cost. If oil gets on to them, they become dulled.

Hobby pellets are my recommendation too.

[clarky]

Enjoy your new pistol.

Here's a tip for you: when cleaning the gun with an oily cloth, AVOID the fibre optic sights at all cost. If oil gets on to them, they become dulled.

Hobby pellets are my recommendation too.

actually avoid the entire gun with an oily cloth.
Aluminium alloy is attacked by the emoilents, especially silicones.
Hence the patches of dulled finish on almost all secondhand 45s and 75s
It dont need no oily cloth being mainly allow anyway......could just lightly wipe the steel of the cylinder below the outer casing if u really wanted.

[GB2017]

Thanks for the tips gents

as to the pellets.....

Well I am equally inaccurate regardless

practise, practise, practise

[Blackrider]

After buying a .177 45 Silver Star last summer, I've amassed a small "arsenal" of pellets which as yet, I've not managed to try out !
I currently have Hobby's, Econ's, R10's, Miestergulgeln's, Geko's all flatheads and AAFT's, Express, JSB's Exact's and Express. F&TT's, Falc. Acc Plus and Superdomes all domed pellets !
I again, when eventually I get roung to it, need to trial an FWB 300S with this lot also !

Let you know which is best later !

[whipsaw]

I've had my HW45 for 25 years and for me, H&N Field Target Trophy are the benchmark

[oling]

One thing I would add is that spring piston design guns 'prefer' lighter ammo so the likes of Hobbies seems a good choice. I say 'prefer' insofar as they tend to produce more FPE with lower weight pellets to a point (the PBA 4 grain rubbish won't do much) and in fact a 6.9 grain hobby might make 30% more muzzle energy than, say, a 10.65 grain Bisley Magnum. Combine that with the naturally loopier trajectory of a heavier pellet and it's easy to see why you should always go for pellets on the light side. A good domed pellet to start with would therefore be a Falcon Accuracy Plus or JSB Exact RS (both 7.33 grain).

It's worth noting that this result is the opposite to what happens with PCP and especially co2 guns where increasing the pellet weight has the tendency to add FPE. This happens a bit with PCPs but a lot with co2 guns.

[sevorg]

One thing I would add is that spring piston design guns 'prefer' lighter ammo so the likes of Hobbies seems a good choice. I say 'prefer' insofar as they tend to produce more FPE with lower weight pellets to a point (the PBA 4 grain rubbish won't do much) and in fact a 6.9 grain hobby might make 30% more muzzle energy than, say, a 10.65 grain Bisley Magnum. Combine that with the naturally loopier trajectory of a heavier pellet and it's easy to see why you should always go for pellets on the light side. A good domed pellet to start with would therefore be a Falcon Accuracy Plus or JSB Exact RS (both 7.33 grain).

It's worth noting that this result is the opposite to what happens with PCP and especially co2 guns where increasing the pellet weight has the tendency to add FPE. This happens a bit with PCPs but a lot with co2 guns.

Interestingly, all my airguns obey this general rule, except the 45 which makes a fairly consistent 5.25 ftlb with anything lead that is a good fit in the barrel whatever the weight! The FTT green (5.5gn) I bought for an experiment manage only 4.8 (at 628 ft/s) but these are a tight fit and are nowhere near as soft as lead based pellets.

JSB exacts and mosquito express do particularly well through the chrono and are a good fit for my barrel, as for accuracy I'm not a good enough shot with a pistol to tell the difference between the many brands of pellets I tend to put through them. RWS R10 produce extremely low variation shot to shot in the 45.

Forgot to add, if you are only using the 45 for plinking and informal target shooting the RWS Hobby and Geco flat heads are really cheap and surprisingly good. Only a tad over £4 from the site sponsor, JS Ramsbottom.

[oling]

Interestingly, all my airguns obey this general rule, except the 45 which makes a fairly consistent 5.25 ftlb with anything lead that is a good fit in the barrel whatever the weight! The FTT green (5.5gn) I bought for an experiment manage only 4.8 (at 628 ft/s) but these are a tight fit and are nowhere near as soft as lead based pellets.

JSB exacts and mosquito express do particularly well through the chrono and are a good fit for my barrel, as for accuracy I'm not a good enough shot with a pistol to tell the difference between the many brands of pellets I tend to put through them. RWS R10 produce extremely low variation shot to shot in the 45.

Forgot to add, if you are only using the 45 for plinking and informal target shooting the RWS Hobby and Geco flat heads are really cheap and surprisingly good. Only a tad over £4 from the site sponsor, JS Ramsbottom.

Interesting observation and I'm actually a little surprised your HW45 is shooting that hard... is it an older one? Most I've seen have been in the high 4 FPE range in .177.