The LGV Has A Hawke

[Frank in Fairfield]

While the LGV was shooting pretty well with the Simmons, I knew with a little bit better glass, better results could be obtained.
I put the Hawke 3-12X Varmint on but I couldn't find a stop pin for the rear ring so I made one.
After zeroing at 10 yards (3 shots) and holding about 2 mil-dots up, I moved the trap to the end of my 18 yards and re-zeroed, 1/2 mil-dot up.
Then I went and got the bucket and sticks and settled in for a five shot group of CPL 7.9s at 18 yards.



I think if I set this bad boy up for HFT I might go with 4.51mm H&N 8.64s.
As it is the LGV and the R1 are backups for the TX200 & Marauder

[Nitrocrushr]

Nice shooting

[palonej]

In a word Frank.......WOW!!!

[D14Jeff]

nice group
which simmons scope did you have and what differences did you notice between it and the varmint ?

[RatRacer]

Nice Frank. I wouldn't kick that out of bed for eating crackers...

[grauhanen]

That's looking very good.

[Frank in Fairfield]

Yesterday the Ed (Duckfish) asked why I didn't use 8.4 grain AA? I thought I didn't have any then I remembered Jesse (Booger) sent me some last year.

AA 8.4 grain 4.51mm

1. 878       Low:   868     FPE: 14.3
2. 873       High:  881
3. 874       Avg:   875
4. 881       ES:    14
5. 868       Sd:    5.3

4.51mm appears to be a little loose for the LGV chamber but, having said that, the pellets still go in the same hole regardless of the weight or speed. Once you zero the zcope for a pellet just settle back and shoot.
The LGV is definitely a keeper and someone with a better heartbeat and better eyes would definitely bring home the gold. IMHO  

[Calmark]

Whoever sold you that Walther is a fool! 

It looks like that accuracy you are getting post tune is just as good as you'd get from any of the reputed high accuracy underlevers like TX200, HW97, etc.  I remember that Walther shot an average of 855fps with JSB 8.4 pre tune, so it did gain a little bit of power, and I'm sure smoothness from the Motorhead magic. 

By the way, I won't get to see the Walther at the field target match in Ione tomorrow.  ;(  Work has conspired to keep me away from the first match of the season.  Honest, its not my fear of the Walther beating the pants off my score (well, a little  true at least!)

[Frank in Fairfield]

OK Mark.
See you next month.

Frank