HW30S for target shooting. MPL and Bell Target?

[Brimfire]

The new stock has made a huge difference to the usability of my HW30S for me and I am hoping to be able to shoot it fairly regularly in the future.

What I would like to find is a raiser block to fit under the front sight tunnel. I have gathered several raiser blocks over the years and finding one to fit under the rear sight is not really a problem as the dovetails are a fairly standard width apart, but the front sight dovetails are very narrow on the HW air rifles and I don't have anything that will fit them.

Does anyone know if there is are any front raiser blocks made to fit the narrow HW front sight dovetails?

I needed to raise my HW30S front sight and Ryan at Intershoot recommended a Centra 8mm raiser (Walther fitting.)
It bolted straight on to the barrel's dovetails but needed 5 minutes of very easy filing to accept my HW80 sight and is rock solid.

[zooma]

I needed to raise my HW30S front sight and Ryan at Intershoot recommended a Centra 8mm raiser (Walther fitting.)
It bolted straight on to the barrel's dovetails but needed 5 minutes of very easy filing to accept my HW80 sight and is rock solid.

I have a good selection of Walther raiser blocks, so I will see what I can do with them, but the dovetails in the HW barrel to take the front sight are a fair bit narrower than those that the Walther fitting raiser blocks are intended to fit.

With the use of some shim (on both sides of the dovetail) to take up the differences between the two different widths it should be possible to make a fit and the shims will prevent the front sight from being shifted across to one side if all of the tightening is take up on the one side only.

Russ uses a very similar method to fit a Centra front sight onto his HW barrels, so I will do the same on the raiser block so my Centra front sight can fit directly onto the raiser block with no width adjustment being needed.

........I should have thought about this sooner - so thanks for the inspiration!

[Brimfire]

I only ever use my HW30S for Bell Target and 10m paper and have never considered the couple of thou discrepancy that mixing these rail, block and sight combos raise to be a real issue.

Certainly not at my skill/accuracy level anyway.

And, if it's any further help, there's some pics and dimensions here -

And... the link doesn't work. Looks like something here is stopping it from pasting in full because it comes from another forum.
Oh well...

[zephyr]

I ridicule myself for saying this, but...

A lot of the peep sights are a visual monstrosity - like bolting a brick outhouse to the Saturn 5 rocket IMO. I have a Williams that is very low and small, so doesn’t spoil the lines (even with the little bit of aluminium to raise the peep hole by 8mm). Why oh why can’t we add a picture instead of a link! If the Williams had thread adjusters instead of grub screws graunching into dovetails it would be perfect.

[PhatMan]

zephyr,

I find with the Williams receiver sights, the distance of the aperture to my eye is far too large.

Have fun

Best regards

Russ

[robthedog]

Picked one up today, old injuries are making the 75 a struggle to hold after more than 15/20 shots, so will see how this goes, feels tiny though

[PhatMan]

Rob,

After a good fettle, they are a joy to shoot

Mine had the worst galling ever seen on an HW, had a torn piston seal, and an S-shaped spring - it was brand new !

A good fettle, PTFE blocks in the cocking lever slot, a Vortek PG2 spring kit, and an appropriate lube : the rifle now cocks and shoot sublimely.

It now lives in a Warren Edwards stock.

By way of some experimenting, the HW30S now wears a Holosun HE510 2 MOA red-dot sight.

First impressions of shooting with the red-dot are very good indeed

Have fun & a good weekend

Best regards

Russ