Chuck this Is the video that motivated me to buy a Beeman R7 for short Range Rat Control. My max range Is 20 yards but I'm confident I could stretch It to 30 yards but my fence line where the Rats hang out Is no more than 20 yards. You're spot on, It's uber accurate so precise shot placement Is very effortless! Thanks So Much!
I bought mine as an open site use rifle a few years ago, but as said before my vision like the rest of me is slowly going down hill which cannot be said for the HW 30 still great to use , now with a scope unfortunately, stay safe 😊
Top man, video spot on, you get your points across well and that is a nice wee rifle. Looks almost as cold as Scotland but at least the sun was shining!😨👍
My .20 cal R7 kills literally hundreds of starlings and house sparrows every spring and summer off my suet cages. Have a half sack full hanging on my fence now. Its so accurate with FTTs I shoot head/neck and rarely get fly offs. In the fall head shots on squirrels eating my pears and apples. I grew up with blue streaks and 1400 crosmans, and learned 5 pumps or 525fps was more than adequate out to 25yds. Pretty much the velocity I get from my .20 cal 12gr FTTs.
Super cool 😃👍. I really hate those starlings and black birds. I put out a suet block for woodpeckers, and the starlings and black birds had it gone in about a day. I got a few of them thieves, but most of the time they fly away soon as I touch the doorknob. Ps they make good catfish bait, lol.
I can say that the HW 30 S in all calibers, is the best air-rifle in the world ! I`ve owned many, many of the Weihrauch rifles. The 50S, the 57, the HW80, 90 and 95, and many other brands like BSA, Hatsan, Diana, Norica, Cometa and a hundreds moore, but in the end of the day it is the 30 s that has it all ! Its lightweight, its short and quiet, but still it delivers superb precision with a punch to take out smaller games . . and it do it with no recoil at all ! It is a Marvel !
Yes, I've taken short range smaller vermin using the HW30S in both calibres. It's ideal for the back yard where you don't want to risk higher power over penetration.
thanks . there are additional ways to tune hw trigger , see online. my limited pest control experience with the R7/HW30 some years back was ok if small birds say starling control at out to 25 yards but everything else just not enough energy on target. Great little springer though. need a challenge ? try the hw45 pistol !!! very hard to be accurate with but possible...
Weihrauch’s are in my view the best springers on the market, I own two hw 95 k’s one in 22 and one in 177 along with the Hw 97 in blue laminate in 22 and the 99s in 22 and all are proven bunny bashers. Definitely recommend any of the ones in my cabinet, they’ll still be around and performing well after I’m gone I’m sure.
Very nice 🙂👍. I would like to get a HW95 in 177. I do have the HW80 22, HW95 Luxus 22, HW77 22. All are great along with the HW30s. I just wish that I had more time to shoot them.
Hi If you zero in and shoot at 15 yards with the 95 and then shoot at 40yards with the same scope setting, how many inches is the diffrence between the groups?
@@r.b.6619 Not sure, but if there's not too much wind I might try that out today for you. Much of that will also depend on grain weight of the pellet and FPS. Currently my HW95 Luxus 22 is getting about 725 FPS with a Crosman Premier Hollow Point 14.3.
@@springpistonriflefeverlone9611 thats very cool thx. Im shooting with a stoeger airgun 177 10.65 on 40yards. But im not able to hit a target. On 15yards i have no problem and a good accuracy. So im about to buy a weihrauch for 40-50yard shooting. Which model would you recommend?
@@r.b.6619 I highly recommend the HW95 🙂👍. I only had an inch drop from 15 to 40 yards, part of that could be trajectory with the scope and high rings.
You are one tough, committed dude! That wind and windchill sounds brutal. Growing up in MN I can relate. Ooooofda! That little baby luxus is certainly luxurious, and i can imagine it easily taking soft cottontails, no problem. Flip 'em when they least suspect it, munching away at the garden.
Thank you for the great comment's 🙂👍. Even in the brutal cold, 🥶 I have to get out because I will go crazy if I have to sit around the house too much, lol. That's the same reason why I go ice fishing, 🎣 but it's really fun when the fish are biting, and they are good eating.
@@springpistonriflefeverlone9611 that's awesome. I grew up ice fishing, too. I love it, but haven't been in too long. You oughta make some ice fishing videos this winter if you feel like it. I used to really enjoy pike fishing with tip ups, and yes, the fish sure do taste good, especially in the winter.
You can probably see the angler and fish on line caught at a place called chew Valley lake, its a trout fishing hot spot that allows pike fishing days on occasion each year, so those pike are eating prime trout ,and growing according 😊😊according
Just discovered and subscribed to your channel and liking what you do!! I have a hw95 in the UK, it's in .22, got a tbt kit inside including short stroke piston extension. It runs just under 12ftlbs and quite nice but still possibly a bit more hold sensitive than my hw99 was (that I sold)....can't help but wondering would cutting a few coils off the spring make it more like a 30 to shoot? To the extreme, if it was chopped to run at same power as hw30s, would it be as nice a gun do you think?? Thanks
Thank you so much for your subscription and great comments 🙂👍. In the beginning my 95 shot very accurately, but then accuracy fell off. I didn't know what the deal was, so eventually I stripped it down and found some broken coils at the top of the main spring. I heated it up the spring, bent it flat, sanded it down and smooth it out, put it back in the rifle and got better performance than before. Now instead of a high 17 FPE springer, it was a high 15 FPE to low 16 FPE springer. The shot cycle was smoothed out, accuracy improved and now this is my number one hunting rifle. I think you can smooth out your rifle even more, by having a lighter spring or snipping coils. It has such a big compression chamber, that I don't think reducing it down to 5 FPE is going to happen like the HW30s. The HW30s is in a class all by itself, smaller, easier to handle and just very fun to shoot 🙂👍.
@@springpistonriflefeverlone9611 thanks for your reply, I may experiment with a spare spring, keep the current one as is. Probably wouldn't really want to run much lower that 10fpe, it's probably also just me needing to get better with practice. My other 2 airguns are pcp so a lot easier to shoot tight groups and inspire the confidence to shoot the rats and rabbits etc. 👍
Hey Chuck, What is the max range you would consider shooting this to? What is the fpe at the muzzle? Thanks again for the video. Stay Safe. Be Well. GOD BLESS.
The Crosman Premier Ultra Magnum 10.5 were getting 6.5 FPE and the Crosman Premier Hollow Point 7.9 were getting 7.5 FPE. I'm not sure how far out I can shoot for target practice because conditions are mostly horrible right now in the winter time. For a cottontail rabbit, I would keep it 20 yards and under, brain shots only. I am not sure about fox squirrels, that's what we have around here and they have a different type of build 💪. Back in the day, I killed several fox squirrels with my Daisy 880, which is in the same power range as the HW30s. I remember aiming for the neck on those squirrels when I was a kid. I hear much about headshots and shots to the vitals but not much on shooting at the neck, but every time I have shot a squirrel in the neck it dropped like a brick, lol.
Awesome video like always.... I think you are too modest on your shooting skills 😊 Maybe you did pull that shot a little early although I would put it down to the gale force winds you are shooting in!!! Take care!!!
Thank you for the question. 😃👍 If they are accurate, then yes. The amount of FPS is negligible, concerning a few feet per second or a few FPE, when your pellet lands on target. 🐇
From a closer distance it would work just fine! I sure like to have a bit more punch just to make sure _But from 3inch like this morning I bet it wouldn't make a big difference...😅_
I used to take squirrels with my Daisy 880 when I was a kid. This HW30s is the same power range, they were not far shots. Travis of Oh Shoot hunted squirrels 🐿️ with his Daisy 880 and the HW30s would be even better because of the high quality trigger, accuracy on target, enough energy kill power. I'm not talking about long-range hunting, 20 yards and under. I guess there's enough people disagreeing with me, so I'm going to have to go out and hunt with this rifle, lol.
Did you see how this HW30s zipped right through this can? If it can easily go through a tin can that is my test for small game. There are some air rifles that have a very hard time to punch a hole through a tin can, several of the Crosman's, a pump rifle and pistol, can't remember their exact name right now but they fall under American Classic.
@@springpistonriflefeverlone9611 I am not really disagreing! But I like to keep it overkill just In case I miss or anything happens (Hit a bone first or whatever) It would be just fine for 20yards or less wich is mainly what I am confident to do yet (especially if there is any wind) [~13ft lb from 3inch was more than enough...but I am not even sure it came out the other side...I might try to look before I give it away]
@@LowkeyAirgunner Most likely my HW95 Luxus 22 would come out with me. It shoots at 16FPE and I can make long shots, out to 50 yards. Most likely I wouldn't shoot at 50 yards unless they were getting spooked away but I like to have more than enough energy to have confidence to have good kill shots at 30 plus yards. If somebody was to hunt with a low powered rifle like the HW30s or a Daisy 880 all shots would have to be nice and close. I think it would work very well in a situation where the game was holding nice and tight to cover and not budging.
Crazy. I live 235 miles from Krale and store pickup or free home delivery with UPS would cost me $305 today. Proof once again that Europeans are being milked. How much shipping costs were charged to you?
That is crazy. Shipping was about 60 dollars. Krale doesn't tax us, but it does tax the Europeans. It is very interesting that the price point comes out very close to the same, which makes me wonder if some of that shipping cost gets pocketed or turned in for taxes. No matter what, for 60 dollars shipped all the way across the ocean and halfway across the United States is a very good deal.
@@springpistonriflefeverlone9611 Just a simulation. If I were to buy a Dragonfly from Pyramidair now at $200 (acceptable) that would add $133 shipping. On top of that 333 dollars there is another percentage of customs costs (max.17 %) and on top of this total amount another 21 % VAT. Do you now understand that I would like to fly back and forth in a time machine sometimes? It is strange that Gamo and Diana cost almost the same or slightly less with you, but that Umarex (German brand) is considerably more expensive with us. In two months the price of my Umarex Origin .25 with pump has risen from $505 to $525, prices above $550 are already circulating. Happy shooting.
My main air rifle consistantly punches through a metal paint can at 65 yards but it is more powerful than that particular gun. 6 ft. Lbs isn't terribly weak. 6 ft. Lbs is what it takes to break your collarbone for example.
6.5 FPE busted through a squirrel's neck shortly after that video and dropped it dead. The HW30s is not a long distance hunter but it is a short range hunter. Accuracy is what counts, not power.
@@secondhandlyon2603 Awesome 👍 thank you for your support. I just turned 54 in November. 54 sounds like someone else's age, not mine, lol. I got a Gamo Hornet Maxxim 22 about 4 years ago and got hooked on air rifles after that. Now my back bedroom is getting a little full, lol. God bless 🙂👍 and Merry Christmas ✝️🎄.
Chuck this Is the video that motivated me to buy a Beeman R7 for short Range Rat Control. My max range Is 20 yards but I'm confident I could stretch It to 30 yards but my fence line where the Rats hang out Is no more than 20 yards. You're spot on, It's uber accurate so precise shot placement Is very effortless! Thanks So Much!
@@TheGV50
You are very welcome! God bless you!😃👍
I have this same rifle that was also purchased from Krale. It's a beauty and so much fun to shoot. Amazingly accurate too.
Yes, very fun🙂👍
Definitely a great rifle for backyard pest control! +1 for Krale. Stay warm.
Yes, thank you. This is one sweetheart of a near perfect springer🙂👍.
I bought mine as an open site use rifle a few years ago, but as said before my vision like the rest of me is slowly going down hill which cannot be said for the HW 30 still great to use , now with a scope unfortunately, stay safe 😊
Thank you Anthony, you stay safe also 🙏🙂.
Thankfully my HW30s is receiving more use recently with my boy wanting to shoot it more and more 😃.
It’s still fun with a low power scope too:) I put a Hawke Airmax 2-7 on it and it’s plenty fun on low mag☺️
Top man, video spot on, you get your points across well and that is a nice wee rifle. Looks almost as cold as Scotland but at least the sun was shining!😨👍
Thank you 🙂👍. It was pretty cold 🥶 outside that day. Most of the winter ❄️🥶 has not been to nice.
My .20 cal R7 kills literally hundreds of starlings and house sparrows every spring and summer off my suet cages. Have a half sack full hanging on my fence now. Its so accurate with FTTs I shoot head/neck and rarely get fly offs. In the fall head shots on squirrels eating my pears and apples.
I grew up with blue streaks and 1400 crosmans, and learned 5 pumps or 525fps was more than adequate out to 25yds. Pretty much the velocity I get from my .20 cal 12gr FTTs.
Super cool 😃👍. I really hate those starlings and black birds. I put out a suet block for woodpeckers, and the starlings and black birds had it gone in about a day. I got a few of them thieves, but most of the time they fly away soon as I touch the doorknob. Ps they make good catfish bait, lol.
Would love to see some hunting / pesting videos with the awesome HW30
2 squirrels 🐿️🐿️ under its belt, lol.
I can say that the HW 30 S in all calibers, is the best air-rifle in the world ! I`ve owned many, many of the Weihrauch rifles. The 50S, the 57, the HW80, 90 and 95, and many other brands like BSA, Hatsan, Diana, Norica, Cometa and a hundreds moore, but in the end of the day it is the 30 s that has it all ! Its lightweight, its short and quiet, but still it delivers superb precision with a punch to take out smaller games . . and it do it with no recoil at all ! It is a Marvel !
It's a nice one 🙂👍
Yes, I've taken short range smaller vermin using the HW30S in both calibres. It's ideal for the back yard where you don't want to risk higher power over penetration.
Right on!😃👍
thanks . there are additional ways to tune hw trigger , see online. my limited pest control experience with the R7/HW30 some years back was ok if small birds say starling control at out to 25 yards but everything else just not enough energy on target. Great little springer though. need a challenge ? try the hw45 pistol !!! very hard to be accurate with but possible...
Thank you 🙂👍
Weihrauch’s are in my view the best springers on the market, I own two hw 95 k’s one in 22 and one in 177 along with the Hw 97 in blue laminate in 22 and the 99s in 22 and all are proven bunny bashers. Definitely recommend any of the ones in my cabinet, they’ll still be around and performing well after I’m gone I’m sure.
Very nice 🙂👍. I would like to get a HW95 in 177. I do have the HW80 22, HW95 Luxus 22, HW77 22. All are great along with the HW30s. I just wish that I had more time to shoot them.
Hi
If you zero in and shoot at 15 yards with the 95 and then shoot at 40yards with the same scope setting, how many inches is the diffrence between the groups?
@@r.b.6619 Not sure, but if there's not too much wind I might try that out today for you. Much of that will also depend on grain weight of the pellet and FPS. Currently my HW95 Luxus 22 is getting about 725 FPS with a Crosman Premier Hollow Point 14.3.
@@springpistonriflefeverlone9611 thats very cool thx. Im shooting with a stoeger airgun 177 10.65 on 40yards. But im not able to hit a target. On 15yards i have no problem and a good accuracy. So im about to buy a weihrauch for 40-50yard shooting. Which model would you recommend?
@@r.b.6619 I highly recommend the HW95 🙂👍. I only had an inch drop from 15 to 40 yards, part of that could be trajectory with the scope and high rings.
You are one tough, committed dude! That wind and windchill sounds brutal. Growing up in MN I can relate. Ooooofda! That little baby luxus is certainly luxurious, and i can imagine it easily taking soft cottontails, no problem. Flip 'em when they least suspect it, munching away at the garden.
Thank you for the great comment's 🙂👍. Even in the brutal cold, 🥶 I have to get out because I will go crazy if I have to sit around the house too much, lol. That's the same reason why I go ice fishing, 🎣 but it's really fun when the fish are biting, and they are good eating.
@@springpistonriflefeverlone9611 that's awesome. I grew up ice fishing, too. I love it, but haven't been in too long. You oughta make some ice fishing videos this winter if you feel like it. I used to really enjoy pike fishing with tip ups, and yes, the fish sure do taste good, especially in the winter.
Great Sunday morning. A hot cup of coffee and a new video from you. That gun is almost too pretty to take out hunting.
Thank you Greg. I agree, I'm definitely extra careful with this rifle, lol 🙂👍.
Hey, you can do whatever you want from any gun۔ That little beauty is showing some strength۔ love to watch as i always do۔ stay blessed man 🤲
Thank you for the nice comment's, God bless you too 🙂👍.
You can probably see the angler and fish on line caught at a place called chew Valley lake, its a trout fishing hot spot that allows pike fishing days on occasion each year, so those pike are eating prime trout ,and growing according 😊😊according
I will look for it 😀👍
I looked it up, absolute monster 😃👍
Hi Charles just to let you know a potential new pike record has been caught in a lake near me , it came in at 47lbs 5ozs , take care cheers for now
That is an absolute monster! South Dakota's record is 36lbs.
Great shooting skill...
Thank you 🙂👍
👋🏾sup brAh! Nice shooting! My beeman r7 is shooting a crosman 7.9 @ 663 8.4 fpe. With a Vortek tube kit braddah👊🏾😎
Nice, thank you for the support 🙂👍
Just discovered and subscribed to your channel and liking what you do!! I have a hw95 in the UK, it's in .22, got a tbt kit inside including short stroke piston extension. It runs just under 12ftlbs and quite nice but still possibly a bit more hold sensitive than my hw99 was (that I sold)....can't help but wondering would cutting a few coils off the spring make it more like a 30 to shoot? To the extreme, if it was chopped to run at same power as hw30s, would it be as nice a gun do you think?? Thanks
Thank you so much for your subscription and great comments 🙂👍. In the beginning my 95 shot very accurately, but then accuracy fell off. I didn't know what the deal was, so eventually I stripped it down and found some broken coils at the top of the main spring. I heated it up the spring, bent it flat, sanded it down and smooth it out, put it back in the rifle and got better performance than before. Now instead of a high 17 FPE springer, it was a high 15 FPE to low 16 FPE springer. The shot cycle was smoothed out, accuracy improved and now this is my number one hunting rifle.
I think you can smooth out your rifle even more, by having a lighter spring or snipping coils. It has such a big compression chamber, that I don't think reducing it down to 5 FPE is going to happen like the HW30s. The HW30s is in a class all by itself, smaller, easier to handle and just very fun to shoot 🙂👍.
@@springpistonriflefeverlone9611 thanks for your reply, I may experiment with a spare spring, keep the current one as is. Probably wouldn't really want to run much lower that 10fpe, it's probably also just me needing to get better with practice. My other 2 airguns are pcp so a lot easier to shoot tight groups and inspire the confidence to shoot the rats and rabbits etc. 👍
Morning!
Good morning 🙂👍.
Hey Chuck,
What is the max range you would consider shooting this to? What is the fpe at the muzzle?
Thanks again for the video.
Stay Safe. Be Well. GOD BLESS.
The Crosman Premier Ultra Magnum 10.5 were getting 6.5 FPE and the Crosman Premier Hollow Point 7.9 were getting 7.5 FPE. I'm not sure how far out I can shoot for target practice because conditions are mostly horrible right now in the winter time. For a cottontail rabbit, I would keep it 20 yards and under, brain shots only.
I am not sure about fox squirrels, that's what we have around here and they have a different type of build 💪. Back in the day, I killed several fox squirrels with my Daisy 880, which is in the same power range as the HW30s. I remember aiming for the neck on those squirrels when I was a kid. I hear much about headshots and shots to the vitals but not much on shooting at the neck, but every time I have shot a squirrel in the neck it dropped like a brick, lol.
So springers are less afected by cold weather than gas.
Awesome video like always.... I think you are too modest on your shooting skills 😊 Maybe you did pull that shot a little early although I would put it down to the gale force winds you are shooting in!!! Take care!!!
Thank you so much 🙂👍. Very windy and cold 🥶. It's about the same out this morning also, 4°F with some wind 🌬️.
Any thoughts on using an Alloy Pellet for Increased Velocity for Hunting Applications?
Thank you for the question. 😃👍
If they are accurate, then yes.
The amount of FPS is negligible, concerning a few feet per second or a few FPE, when your pellet lands on target. 🐇
From a closer distance it would work just fine!
I sure like to have a bit more punch just to make sure
_But from 3inch like this morning I bet it wouldn't make a big difference...😅_
I used to take squirrels with my Daisy 880 when I was a kid. This HW30s is the same power range, they were not far shots. Travis of Oh Shoot hunted squirrels 🐿️ with his Daisy 880 and the HW30s would be even better because of the high quality trigger, accuracy on target, enough energy kill power. I'm not talking about long-range hunting, 20 yards and under. I guess there's enough people disagreeing with me, so I'm going to have to go out and hunt with this rifle, lol.
Did you see how this HW30s zipped right through this can? If it can easily go through a tin can that is my test for small game. There are some air rifles that have a very hard time to punch a hole through a tin can, several of the Crosman's, a pump rifle and pistol, can't remember their exact name right now but they fall under American Classic.
@@springpistonriflefeverlone9611 I am not really disagreing!
But I like to keep it overkill just In case I miss or anything happens
(Hit a bone first or whatever)
It would be just fine for 20yards or less wich is mainly what I am confident to do yet
(especially if there is any wind)
[~13ft lb from 3inch was more than enough...but I am not even sure it came out the other side...I might try to look before I give it away]
@@LowkeyAirgunner Most likely my HW95 Luxus 22 would come out with me. It shoots at 16FPE and I can make long shots, out to 50 yards. Most likely I wouldn't shoot at 50 yards unless they were getting spooked away but I like to have more than enough energy to have confidence to have good kill shots at 30 plus yards. If somebody was to hunt with a low powered rifle like the HW30s or a Daisy 880 all shots would have to be nice and close. I think it would work very well in a situation where the game was holding nice and tight to cover and not budging.
@@springpistonriflefeverlone9611 perfect rifle to clear the barn from them flying rats
Crazy. I live 235 miles from Krale and store pickup or free home delivery with UPS would cost me $305 today. Proof once again that Europeans are being milked. How much shipping costs were charged to you?
That is crazy. Shipping was about 60 dollars. Krale doesn't tax us, but it does tax the Europeans. It is very interesting that the price point comes out very close to the same, which makes me wonder if some of that shipping cost gets pocketed or turned in for taxes. No matter what, for 60 dollars shipped all the way across the ocean and halfway across the United States is a very good deal.
@@springpistonriflefeverlone9611 Just a simulation. If I were to buy a Dragonfly from Pyramidair now at $200 (acceptable) that would add $133 shipping. On top of that 333 dollars there is another percentage of customs costs (max.17 %) and on top of this total amount another 21 % VAT. Do you now understand that I would like to fly back and forth in a time machine sometimes? It is strange that Gamo and Diana cost almost the same or slightly less with you, but that Umarex (German brand) is considerably more expensive with us. In two months the price of my Umarex Origin .25 with pump has risen from $505 to $525, prices above $550 are already circulating. Happy shooting.
Meanwhile shipping 50 slugs from the UK cost less money than shipping a small sling from Indiana USA to canada...
_What a mess._
I use my HW30S .22 for plinking but it is definitely capable of taking small game.
I have taken a few squirrel and a bunny with mine 🙂👍
Hi, nice video. What is the caliber of your rifle?
Thank you so much!😃👍
It's a 177 caliber.👍
Nice jacket to what make please
Thank you. Not sure what the make is, but Carhartt is my favorite for blocking the cold 🥶❄️.
Thanks for replying all the best
My main air rifle consistantly punches through a metal paint can at 65 yards but it is more powerful than that particular gun. 6 ft. Lbs isn't terribly weak. 6 ft. Lbs is what it takes to break your collarbone for example.
6.5 FPE busted through a squirrel's neck shortly after that video and dropped it dead.
The HW30s is not a long distance hunter but it is a short range hunter. Accuracy is what counts, not power.
Oh yeah. I subscribed. I just got into shooting airguns last year at 53 years old.
@@secondhandlyon2603 Awesome 👍 thank you for your support. I just turned 54 in November. 54 sounds like someone else's age, not mine, lol.
I got a Gamo Hornet Maxxim 22 about 4 years ago and got hooked on air rifles after that. Now my back bedroom is getting a little full, lol. God bless 🙂👍 and Merry Christmas ✝️🎄.
@@secondhandlyon2603 I'm subbed to you too. I just watched your most recent 50 yard group video, great shooting 👍🙂.
Thanks a bunch! Merry Christmas and happy new year to you.
Would be also good for rats around the house.
That is for sure 🙂👍