He proceeded to de-burr everything, homed the compression tube and placed a liner in the piston spring's cavity and manufactured a one piece spring guide to fit the factory spring, polishing the spring ends. He retrofitted and ARH seal designed for an HW 35 to replace it. Scott's invoice indicated that the factory piston seal was too loose. It was also hard to get the pellets to seat properly.Īfter talking to Scott Schneider at Motorhead, I boxed the rifle up and sent it to him, as I have always had tremendous service from Scott. I found the shot cycle to be really harsh, and the trigger only fair. As you can see by exhibit 3, the results were less than stellar, especially compared to what I am use to with my HW77, HW97, and TX200 rifles. Upon receipt, unboxing, studying the owner's manual, and prepping the barrel, I put it through the paces shooting four different pellets using my indoor 18 yard range. I purchased it from Champions Choice and the service was excellent. 177 FWB Sport (see exhibit 1), based upon FWB's reputation for accuracy. I don't know whether this is true or not, even after this experience.Īfter looking around, I decided to purchase a new. I have always believed that due to the lock-up, a break barrel could, at least in theory, never be as consistent. Having accumulated a really nice collection of custom tuned underlever cocking HWs and TX200s, I decided I needed (?) one premium break barrel in my collection, just to see how it might compare to a fixed barrel, under lever cocking rifle.