Chrono'd mine at 5.4 using Hobbies
Not bad considering its age and the fact that its never had a service or anything done to it other that a drop of oil now and then
A beautiful air pistol
What does yours do?
I bought mine around 25 years ago and it still does 5.5ft/lbs on Accupell
As for tuning, since power increase is pointless/illegal has anyone seen any useful tuning done on one? I havent!
ATB,
Nick
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Chrono'd mine at 5.4 using Hobbies
Not bad considering its age and the fact that its never had a service or anything done to it other that a drop of oil now and then
A beautiful air pistol
I own one now, but did have two a couple of years ago, chronographed them both at around4.5 ft/lbs, Also chronographed one for a friend, that was doing well below 5 as well, and know of a couple of other people at the club I used to go to, both of them were doing less than 5 ft/lbs as well. I know that some do do over 5 ft/lbs but I've never seen one, and I think they have to be deiselling a bit for maximum power. I think the 45's power is a bit overrated to be honest.
I have a Cometa Indian that is about as powerful as my HW45 (going on the way that it makes the pendulum targets in my pellet catcher disappear, I haven't got around to chronographing it), I also serviced a BSA Scorpion for a friend, to begin with that was doing 5.94 ft/lbs! After a couple of dozen shots it settled down to a consistent 5.7 ft/lbs though, phew!
Kind of tuned mine, got it second hand as new 18yo one(one tin of pellets job). Smoked like an 16 year old in a park and was giving around 3.5-4fpe, so striped it down, cleaned it up, resized the piston seal (i need a screw driver to lever out the piston when i first striped the pistol as it had been left for a long time and the seal and expanded due to flow of the PTFE), greased with bonny and clide spring lube kit. Now pushs out at 5.7-fpe on AA feilds (4.52) and 5.5 on Hobbys. with only a few feet per second between the shots, no smoke and reduced noise and recoil.
Set Bazookoids to kill stuff and mount. We're going in!
Sounds like a model I should own: I'm a complete loss at doing any sort of tinkering myself, and hate sending / taking things to be worked on.
I realize that it's no fun to live with the thought of one of your air pistols creeping over the 6.00 limit and getting you in legal hot water: but on the whole, I wouldn't think that there'a any real crying need to own an air pistol specifically designed to be over
6.00.
If I lived in the UK and were an airgun hunter, I'd have a lot more quarrel with the 12.00 limit on air RIFLES.
With a hunting rifle, I can see the need for more power than that: and 12 fpe is certainly WELL below firearm power limits, what with even the piddling little .22 Short getting 30 fpe and better.
I often shoot .22 Shorts at the range out of my 6 1/2 inch barrelled Ruger revolver, and sometimes can't even hear them going off.
Jim
UBC's Police Pistol Manager
"Nasty, noisy things, revolvers, Count. Better stick to air-guns." Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
it seems to be that the newer batch of hw45,s are lower powerd than the older models for some reason , i recently bought a new model hw45 in .22 with the tru glo sights and although it does pack a punch compared to my co2 pistols i have to say i was sorely disapionted when i shot at an empty beer bottle and the pellet just bounced off , apart from feeling under powerd compared to the advertised 5.5 ft pounds its an excellent spring pistol , id like to try and get mine chrono,d just out of interest as it wouldent suprise me if it was putting out well below 5 ft pounds.
Set Bazookoids to kill stuff and mount. We're going in!
I Wannah 40ftlb HW 43........
Oh! !
Thats the only thing with being sober?
You can get Yer Kalibers wrong
UBC's Police Pistol Manager
"Nasty, noisy things, revolvers, Count. Better stick to air-guns." Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone