The hw45 is a fantastic gun if you can handle the recoil, the trigger is better than an all other pistol triggers (other than full on target pistols) the accuracy is very good once you master the kick but please, please, please do not get a pistol in .22, for close range humane dispatch maybe, for hitting tin cans and paper punching at anything over 10m .22 runs out of puff and falls off fast, at my old club there was one man who had scorpion, shooting at 25m he could fire the pistol, put it down then hear the pellet hit the backstop, if I was range officer when he was shooting, I would call make this your last shot and show clear, then check all guns were clear, then say clear to change your targets, I would avoid walking in front of where the chap with the scorpion was shooting from as there was still a chance that the last pellet he fired was still in the air, the angle of hold over he used was more like the angles artillery use
I have a hw45 in .177 and dispite my better judgment I got hold of a .22 barrel as at the time hell of a lot were saying the hw 45 in .22 was amazing, a week later the .177 barrel was put back in and that's where it's stopping! With the .22 barrel it was less powerful the accuracy was abysmal, I gave my 45 in .177 to one so he could have ago (he was a .22 fanatic) after getting every shot inside the 5 ring at 25m (2 handed and aiming at the bottom of the black like proper target shooting) he admitted he could not hit the target at 25m with his 45 in .22. He's since converted to .177
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