Thoughts About My HW98

[Yogi]

Wondering if there is an update here?

What scope did you send in for replacement?  Has the strange shooting sound, bronk, go away?
Any further thoughts on Krale?

Thanks,
-Y

[Gary in WV]

Yogi,

The gun is shooting great. It is extremely accurate and not hold sensitive. We're (me and the rifle) are almost to the 4000 shot mark.

As for the noise, it's been gone ever since I installed the tune kit. People kept saying to shoot it for 2000 rounds and it would settle down. But the way I see it, the cost for a kit was only $50 more than the cost of 2000 pellets and I didn't have to endure the noise and vibration. To each his own. But speaking of tunes, I took it back apart a month ago and used Krytox instead of moly and tar. There's still no noise, but the rifle picked up 10 fps with a SD from a low of 2 to a high of 3.7 . Maybe just a coincidence, but I'm leaving it alone for the time being.

As for Krale's, I have a HW35 in the cart waiting for me to have a weak moment and hit the buy button.

If all goes well this turkey season, I want to take a turkey with the rifle. That'd be a hoot for me.

The scope was an older Hawke Sport. They replaced it with a new model without any hassle. I have a Nikon EFR on it now that I like because of the dot reticle.

Here's a 20 shot string to give you an idea of how consistent the rifle is.

Description: jsb 8.44 hw98
Notes 1:
Notes 2:
Distance to Chrono (FT): 3.00
Ballistic Coefficient: 0.021
Bullet Weight (gr): 8.440
Temp: 59 °F
BP: 30.28 inHG
Shots
#     FPS        FT-LBS     PF
20    870        14.19      7.34     
19    879        14.48      7.42     
18    870        14.19      7.34     
17    869        14.15      7.33     
16    869        14.15      7.33     
15    877        14.42      7.40     
14    872        14.25      7.36     
13    875        14.35      7.38     
12    874        14.32      7.38     
11    874        14.32      7.38     
10    872        14.25      7.36     
9     871        14.22      7.35     
8     871        14.22      7.35     
7     873        14.29      7.37     
6     867        14.09      7.32     
5     867        14.09      7.32     
4     871        14.22      7.35     
3     871        14.22      7.35     
2     869        14.15      7.33     
1     870        14.19      7.34     
Average: 871.55
StdDev: 3.09
Min: 867
Max: 879
Spread: 12
True MV: 885.79

Gary

[stony30]

Congrats on your new"baby !!" 😁

[oldwolf]

Thanks, I enjoyed reading your report.
I am bumping this thread to the top, as I'd like to have one of these rifles one day to go with my HW30.
Next though, I think, is a HW97.

[davemac]

hey Gary how was removing the old spring was it under a lot of load?? did you need a spring compressor?

great write up, wish I could see the pictures some reason I cant


thanks