Are ssp anschutz,fwb etc rifles over the top for bell target shooting?

[yorkiets]

Thanks for your advice - I have sent Brian a request to supply one to fit my HW 30S and look forward to receiving it soon!

Bob.

Did you get all excited by the colour options?

I did, and chose red. I have felt less conspicuous whilst shooting...

[zooma]

Did you get all excited by the colour options?

I did, and chose red. I have felt less conspicuous whilst shooting...

I also chose the RED colour as I think it will look good against the brown wood stock on the HW 30S - even though I thought BLACK would be a lot more inconspicuous - and a more sensible choice!

Now I need to find some suitable riser blocks - and maybe look at raising the comb a bit too! Does anyone make a target stock for the little HW 30S?

[PhatMan]

Bob,

On my HW30S, I use a piece of sorbothane, held onto the comb with some TubeGauze, to get a better head position.

A strip of skate-board 'gritty' tape on the butt pad helps keep it place.

A bit agricultural, but it works

Have fun & a good Sunday

Best regards

Russ

[RobinC]

maybe look at raising the comb a bit too! Does anyone make a target stock for the little HW 30S?

Hi Bob

I have not a clue, I doubt it, BUT, basically any action will fit any stock with a bit of work. I've had all sorts of things in different stocks over the years and I'm still doing it, small bores, full bores, and yes also air rifles!

Our modern Air ones are very simple, Walther 400 in 300 stocks, just tiny mods. My favourite air rifle transformation was over 30 years ago, for a young lad struggling also with a HW, an HW55, showing promise and shooting 10 mt, he could not afford a better rifle, my wife had just upgraded her Original 65 with a 66 stock, so I put the HW into the vacant Original 65 stock, better shape, more solid, so damped the recoil, it was a great success and if its about now will certainly confuse the classic anoraks!

Just need, a bit of hand work, a pillar drill or small mill helps but is not essential, to inlet the stock to fit, and make the bedding surfaces with Devcon where there is space and should be solid, just wrap up the action in cling film and bolt it in, when dry a bit of a tidy and voile, you have a special in a different stock! I'm sure you've got something kicking about? If you had a mill its easy, just cut up the HW stock and cut it down so you just have the action support areas left as a bedding area, then mill out the new stock to take it and then bond it in, simples!

Could start an amusing trend, clonkers in trick stocks!
Have Fun
Robin

[zooma]

Hi Robin - thanks for your contribution!

It hardly needs mentioning that the time and cost involved in making some (if not all) of the modifications to my HW30S is illogical ( as Spock would say) and would suggest that it would be better not to bother - buying a target rifle that fits me better and has all these parts on it already would make a lot more sense.

After all - the rifle is basically too small for me BUT it is a delight to shoot and it is accurate, it also has a nice trigger and it is very light - quite a change from anything else that I have ( the closest thing to it in size and weight is probably my Webley Mk 3 Supertarget).

However, that is not the point. I don't NEED to do any of these things to what is already a nice little rifle but I am enjoying playing with it and making it a little more comfortable to shoot is a nice project.

I am not sure how far I will go with it. I have already ordered the adjustable butt plate and that will help a lot and beefing-up the height of the comb would probably be helpful too (as Russ has already done on his).

If I had not mentioned an adjustable butt plate on this thread I would probably never have known about the low cost option that I have now ordered and by mentioning a target stock (even if that was done "tongue in cheek") may just throw up another unknown (to me) option that may exist out there!

If a suitable "doner stock" should crop-up I may well be tempted to graft this nice little action into it, but the most likely scenario would be just fitting the adjustable butt plate, a pair of riser blocks and adding some padding to the comb to make it fit my gangly shape a little bit better!

[yorkiets]

I also chose the RED colour as I think it will look good against the brown wood stock on the HW 30S - even though I thought BLACK would be a lot more inconspicuous - and a more sensible choice!

Lol.

Glad I’m no longer alone. First two members of the ‘Red Butt Club’ ! New members welcome.

[zooma]

Lol.

Glad I’m no longer alone. First two members of the ‘Red Butt Club’ ! New members welcome.

.pleased to be a member of the RED Butt Club - but the name of the club would perhaps be better modified to stop it sounding like a Baboons arse!

How about The RED Buttplate Club

[yorkiets]

.pleased to be a member of the RED Butt Club - but the name of the club would perhaps be better modified to stop it sounding like a Baboons arse!:

I’d ideal club logo, surely?

http://animalia-life.club/openphoto....n-19061600.jpg

[zooma]

I’d ideal club logo, surely?

http://animalia-life.club/openphoto....n-19061600.jpg

Ha Ha - nice one