HW 45 Black Star

[JCB357]

As others have said dieseling 'normal; with these.

It's NOT the cause of inaccurate shooting tho.

Just spend a lot of time getting the 'feel' of the gun and don't feel the need to fiddle with sight adjustments at this stage. Once you find that your shots are starting to end up on the same place is the time to start thinking of sight adjustments.

Two 'common' faults that people using these pistols are their grip and 'anticipating' the recoil.

Your grip needs to be nothing more than firm (and consistent) the gun isn't going to jump out of your hands so no need for a stranglehold on it.

'Anticipating' the recoil is not uncommon and links in to having a firm and consistent grip. Even a slight 'anticipation leads to an involuntary, albeit small, change of grip. Remember - the gun sounds loud and impressive when fired but the recoil won't make it jump out of you hands.

[WinerackHWModel]

I have the silver star variant and it has just calmed down on the dieselling after about 500 shots. The first 10 it was smoking like a live fire after being shot, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy it 😜

[zephyr]

I have the 45. I put in the TBT plastic bits and reduced the length of the original HW spring and polished the ends - a lovely smooth and reduced recoil action now. Despite very little lubing of spring and guides/“top-hat” (and a few thousand pellets) it still diesels for the first few minutes of each shooting session.

Agree with people above, grouping is affected by hold. I have lightened the trigger weight, fettled the sears and re-lubbed them, the result is a very nice and consistent trigger action.

[BigEars]

Dieselling and smoke are all part of the fun of HW45 shooting. Your wife is definitely a keeper. I had one in 0.22. the pistol , that is.

[leetrenchard]

Had a silver star for a while.

Just got new enthusiasm for it after using a very well used one on a 10m range at the Ashbury hotel and finding it very accurate.

Lots of digging online comes up with tbt kit to smooth it out and Aussie seal on the piston to control lubricant burning.

Will report back when I have rebuilt it.

[Silverfox83]

I’ll buy it if you’ve had enough

[j rayner]

just put about 2.5 tins of pellets through my new 45 and its starting to smooth out and stop smoking,,,it still smokes now and then though