IT’S ARRIVED!!! Little bit of help please. Please
I’ve searched and have not came up with much. Is there any one who has experiance with the HW97 .22. I mounted the hawke 6.5×20 and maxed out the elavation and it’s shooting low at 25 feet. I mounted a 30 dollar daisy powerline and the same thing happend. I had a single piece utg high mount on the Hawke and the rings that came with the hw97 on the daisy powerline which look to be low profile, so I’m confused? 😯 💡 ❓ Thats two scopes one with low and one with high rings. The gun was cleand really well befor shooting and holding same hole group just low and left. I remounted several times with both scopes to no avail. Thank you for any help in advnace. The one hole groups even at that distance, do have me excited tho. 😆
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Stainless.22 HW97. with a Hawke 6.5×20 1/2 mil dot rettcle wit a UTG single piece High mount.. The Good, same hole groups 25 ft across the garrage. The bad, I got the scope maxxed out up and its Still shooting 3 inches low at 25ft. I orderd low mount rings.
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I gotta admit, why is it ok to have to ship to correct for a KNOWN GUN ISSUE, its kinda 50 50, well I hope I dont have to shim my brand new gun to get it on paper. Thats not ok, and normal people that would have to do that, and are new to airguns, would say f### this.
Thank you for all the replies. Yes it is a Hawke 6.5x20x42mm.
I sent it back to be checked by the tech Department.
I Cut a shim out of a pool patch and it brought it up to dead on out to 15 yards but as soon as I went out to 43 yards it was 3ft high, so I removed the shim and it hit over 3ft low. Thought maybe I could ajust the scope elevation. Maxd out the elavation and I still had to use the very bottom of the scope to get on paper at 43 yards.
Thank’s again
Don’t get upset over a design problem that I dealt with 40 years ago. Springers have need for a special scope and mounts. That has never changed. The HW you own is beautiful, and once you get passed the mount problem, you will cherish this rifle for a long time to come.
A stainless HW is a special piece of equipment. Go slow and let it have it’s day with you. Once you get it dialed in, you will be very pleased with the performance.
Regards,
Uncle H 😯 😯 T
No more beeman for me.
Don’t wash your hands of it yet brother. The HW97 is a fine rifle.
BKL makes a set of one piece drop compensated mounts. It’s the last piece of the puzzle you need.
Paul
I know it sucks to be looking at more money spent, but have you thought about calling Mac 1 regarding droop rings? I suppose the rings mentioned above may work too, I have no idea… That looks like a really nice gun and scope, just needs one more bit of kit to make it work like you want…
I like your scope reticle….for what that’s worth. Is it a Hawke?
Regards,
Kindly ‘Ol Uncle H 😯 😯 T
With a mild recooiling gun such as the HW97, you can always just cut a couple strips of shim material from a beer can and use them. I’ve done it dozens of times.
Common on a lot of spring guns. Beeman, RWS, HW… going to get some degree of droop with many of them.
BKL 253 D7 is what you need. They make a silver one to match your gun as well.
pretty common for spring guns, dont have any experience with this model , but my rws guns have to have a angled scope mount to zero the scope adjustment half way thru its adjustment .
get a angled mount, or shim the back of the scope up.
i have an adjustable angled mount on my rws M 48, B square i believe.
like this
http://www.natchezss.com/product.cfm?contentID=productDetail&prodID=BQ17021
So a 700 dollar pellet gun and a 400 dollar scope get’s me in touch with air venturi. just for them to give me the known Diagnosis off Barrel Droop on thw HW97.WTF… The guy tell’s me. Somtimes we gotta shim the barrel. I could shim alot of shit, ain’t going to make it the right way.
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I’ll take a breath now, Thank you for the replies
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I sent it back to be checked by the tech Department.
I Cut a shim out of a pool patch and it brought it up to dead on out to 15 yards but as soon as I went out to 43 yards it was 3ft high, so I removed the shim and it hit over 3ft low. Thought maybe I could ajust the scope elevation. Maxd out the elavation and I still had to use the very bottom of the scope to get on paper at 43 yards.
Thank’s again
I’m trying to remember but I think the last spring gun I shimmed was a HW77. Seems that I had to use two or three pieces of painter’s tape, maybe .006″ and that was an extreme case.
When I sight in an airgun scope, I start at 10 feet. The strike of the round should be 2″+ below the point of aim. Then I move out to 10 yards. Still should be an 1″ or so low but lined up in windage. Then I move out to 25 yards and sight in a spring gun for that distance.
Chair gun is your friend. Measure the scope height accurately. You can use factory numbers for velocity and they’ll get you close.