Hawke Sidewinder SR Pro 8-32×56 on Cricket and Edgun
I have worked out the settings on the new Hawke Sidewinder SR Pro reticle scopes on both my Cricket Std .22 and Matador Std .25. I am really liking them relative to the four (plus one Panorama 1/2 mil dot) Hawke Sidewinder Tactical 6.5-20×42 scopes I have on my other PCPs with the standard 1/2 mil dot reticles but they took me a while to learn. I tend to pest (shoot sparrows :)) at ranges out past 100 yards quite a bit from a bench rest. They are easier for guestimating elevation and windage at longer ranges IMO. The christmas tree design has varying aimpoints that just happen (great design) to correspond to equidistant points on the trajectory curves for typical pellet velocity. I have them set so that each major increment represents exactly 10 yards in range (5 yards for 1/2 increments) out past 100 yards and the windage increments match up in 5 mph increments by 90 degree wind adjustments. I no longer need a cheat sheet on the gun or scope cover like I do with the 1/2 mil dots (as long as I know what yardage the gun is sighted in at) and the 1/2 increments are right on the money. I run the scopes at 24x. Anyway, just curious if anyone else had taken the plunge with the new SR Pro glass etched reticles and what they thought. I think they have been out since about December 2012.
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The Predators shoot extremely well in both my Matadors.
The 25 Predators POI was appx 1/4″ rt at 30yds at first. Now that its broken in the POI is identical out to 60(Farthest I tested and shoot them anyway in either caliber).
The 22 Predators are a hair flatter trajectory(appx 1/8″ at apex) over JSB 18s out to 60 with full expansion on small game. Great rat,squirrel pellet as it dumps all of energy with full expansion in first 1.5″ of penetration.
I believe that eventually you will get yours tuned to take advantage of low SD and a very good shot count My stock tune is really hot. I like the current string a lot, unbelievable!!
Skip the Predators. I just noticed your Matador is a .22. .22 Predators don’t shoot worth a crap in anything .22 I own.
Not yet. I know that my gun doesn’t like 890fps and beyond.
Use your scopecam and find the best speed for your gun.
120fps camera setting is golden, I like the graceful pellet trace revealed.
My untuned Matador is averaging 930 FPS in small shot strings and I am regularly getting 1/2″ groups at 50Y with Predators. (as good as Kings if not better). Shot count is around 40 but not sure yet. I love the video hunting. I have the Casio EX-FC150 and Seben.
Have you tried Predators? I am not seeing spiraling/flyers. I will shoot a full string over the next few days with Kings (Predators are too expensive and weight is very close).
1. The golf ball in video appears smaller than my 1″ reference, STD size of golf ball is 1.6″.
2. My zero was 89Y a day ago, and I dialed up to 50Y, but my reverse-engineered chart seems to indicate 55Y, since I know my target is at 71Y.
I will work on the calibration closely when I got a time. I am not worry about it for now, and I try to enjoy my tinckering and shooting more for now.
That killer shot was my follow up shot guided by my scope-cam, therefore I nailed it.
I have some minor difficulties to align my gun to chairgun chart too, for example,
1. The golf ball in video appears smaller than my 1″ reference, STD size of golf ball is 1.6″.
2. My zero was 89Y a day ago, and I dialed up to 50Y, but my reverse-engineered chart seems to indicate 55Y, since I know my target is at 71Y.
I will work on the calibration closely when I got a time. I am not worry about it for now, and I try to enjoy my tinckering and shooting more for now.
That killer shot was my follow up shot guided by my scope-cam, therefore I nailed it.
Your testing is very informative on the results of your tunes. I have nearly enough shots on my Matador to start doing some testing. Your data will be great for comparatives.
I would call it the next generation of the SR reticle series. I really like it – even better than the 1/2 mil dot 20x reticles I use.
Is the SR Pro reticle the same or similar to my SR12 Hawke night-eye?
I just posted an application video with this scope on the link a few lines above or below. Please enjoy it.
I don’t know about trying it out but any Hawke dealer can sell them since they are mainly drop shipped from Hawke directly in IN and in stock.
Here are some great pictures and videos of the SR Pro reticle.
Where did you guys find the scope with the Sr pro ret? I want to try it out my self…
Wow. You have done some incredible documentation on your Edgun/Hawke experience. It will take me some time to go through it but it is very interesting. 🙂
Now I see how you get those very clear shots throught he reticle. I have the Seben mount and Casio FC 150.
Your video does a good job of showing the aimpoints at your settings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kIL8bfFnzFs
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I am still learning this thing, mine is 9Y per full dot with 890fps @32X.
Here is one footage @32X, which is our worse corner because only little light goes through the tube,
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That’s cool. I like hearing the .22 Predators shoot well in something. I honestly didn’t even try them in my Cricket yet.
Here is my very first shot string with my new Matador standard .25 after about 500 shots through the gun. Frankly, I am a little surprised at the string from what I read (shot count). I went from exactly 220 – 100 bar from the guns gauge. It seemed to be dropping of off the reg before 100 (more erratic after about shot 47). I had a few errs but not bad for a Chrony. The std dev of shots 1 through 47 is 4.15. Shots 1 through 55 is 4.86. Average velocity of shots 1-47 is 922.21 FPS. 1-55 is 921.44 FPS. Basically 48 FPE with Kings. I am seeing consistent accuracy (regular sub 1/2″ groups with Predators) out to 50 yards with no sign of flyers so I don’t see a reason to change a thing. I have not tested it past 50 yards.
What do you Matador guys think?
The 25 Predators POI was appx 1/4″ rt at 30yds at first. Now that its broken in the POI is identical out to 60(Farthest I tested and shoot them anyway in either caliber).
The 22 Predators are a hair flatter trajectory(appx 1/8″ at apex) over JSB 18s out to 60 with full expansion on small game. Great rat,squirrel pellet as it dumps all of energy with full expansion in first 1.5″ of penetration.