u/Murphy1379

I am completely new to HFT and due to recovering from a nasty shoulder injury I recently bought an hw99s in .177 for general shooting as it weighs less than 7 pounds so is easier for me to use as I am recovering.

As I said though, I'd like to learn enough to know my way around an HFT course, and was wondering if anyone has had success in that discipline shooting an 'out the box' '99s? I could have her 'fettled' but she shoots so sweetly at 11.1flb as she is, with a standard deviation of 2.22 feet per second that I don't see the need!

I'm not looking to win any nationals, or even regionals for that matter, but could I even hope to compete with most of the people who are using guns like the Air Arms HFT 500 etc at my local club?

Pointers or advice would be much appreciated👍

Hey there. I'm interested in your opinions as to whether purely kinetic .68 calibre balls would be painful enough at 16 joules to drive away a potential burglar etc.

The choice of rounds could be the light nylon ones (I doubt they'd be too effective), the steel and rubber meshed rounds, jaw-breaker rounds which are ceramic and designed to break glass, aluminium or steel rounds or the Grimsburg Gavel rounds gen 2. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

I'm thinking the steel/rubber and the metal round but I could be way off....

I had a new scope through the door from a brand I've not used yet-Wulf.

Ive just bought an hw99s in .177 and obviously wanted to pick up an appropriate scope. I've always been a Hawke man (and still am) but the last scope I bought was for a Walther LGU master pro, so I crowned it with something a bit higher in the price range which was a Hawke Airmax 30 6-24x50 AMX IR scope. It is a lovely piece of glass but obviously the Walther is a bit special. I wanted something equally as good but I needed an objective lens that was much smaller than the 50mm that the Airmax comes with because the hw99s is a much smaller gun in hand than the Walther.

After a lot of debating I chose the Wulf Hurricane Compact 4-14x44 IR for about £200. It came through the door today and although I've not mounted it yet it's been a beautiful day, so looking through it it has beautifully clear glass, a very well etched reticle and the zoom ring moves smoothly with the clocks on the turrets being nicely tactile and audible. I'm very impressed to be honest!

Obviously I'll report back when I've sighted her in and used her a bit, but it got me thinking about which scopes you guys (and girls) use and for what purpose. I target shoot mainly, but are you faithful to one brand or do you have a few, and how would you compare Hawke to Wulf? Gotta admit it's taken me by surprise and has even got me questioning if they are made in the same factory..?