Can't go shoot now, but there's always springer stuff to do, anyway.Took my 95L .22 cal, some Superdomes and a carbon fiber push rod. Pushed Superdomes down the bore and felt for differences in resistance.After a push to get the pellet going, there's a marked tight spot inside the breech block, some 2 cm's before the barrel exits the block. After that, the resistance lowers some. Then, 14 cm's from the breech, inside the barrel, the resistance clearly drops. This looseness continues up until 2 cm's from the muzzle, where a strong choke requires a hefty push to make the pellet enter the muzzle. Limbshaker has described his dozen .22 cal HW barrels as having oversized bores where the pellet rattles down the bore, coupled with an overly tight choke, and the resulting poor accuracy. Looks like he may be on to something. It would be very interesting to hear other HW95 .22 cal, or any HW .22 cal owners' comparative pellet push results.
I tried that on my HW95, and got the same results with the old barrel, which I assumed meant the bore was oversized in the middle. It was after Tom at Vortek told me that there was something wrong with my barrel, because his high output kit was only making 12 fpe. I am wondering now if I did the test right. I will say that Tom was right, I put on a new barrel and did a Hector style run in, and the gun went from around 12 fpe to over 15. So something was definitely wrong, but maybe it wasn't oversized like I thought.