I recently received this model HW from a friend and decided to test it yesterday afternoon on the indoor range. Before heading to the range, I ran 2 patches through the bore with Ed's Red solvent, then 2 dry patches. The fellow I got the rifle from must have already cleaned the bore. It was clean as received. The cleaning I did, did nothing. I have since found out, he had already Blue lock-tighted the screws, but had not shot this rifle at all, I'm sure. The tables/benches were set up at 50', which is 16.6yards for pellet testing. The first 6 shots for group from the rifle, after checking the zero (top right target) are noted on the bottom target of the 3 bullseye one on the right. The top left target of of the next 6 shots went into .536", as noted. These targets were shot with the Crossman Ultra Magnum RN 10.5gr. pellets. The target of 5 bullseyes on the left of the photograph, were with: top left, top right, middle, bottom left, bottom right: 10.5gr. ultra Mag RN, 8.2gr. RWS Superdomes, JSB Match, 10.5gr. Crossman Super Mags & 10.34gr. JSB super heavies, the bullet-like pellets. So - I am absolutely blown away by this rifle. I did not think it would shoot this well at all, let alone right off the bat, with no break-in. I should also note, I rested the forend on the front bag, just behind the hinge screws, which is not the artillery hold. Also, a dime covers the 5 and 6 shot 10.5gr. pellet groups, except for the first group shot.
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