Woogie_man
HAM Expert
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I am working on a write up right now. Will be posting a few things here soon.
Needless to say I am really impressed with the rifle over all.
Well as many already know I recieved the 30 HPS from CTAirgunner after he was doing playing with the rifle. I honestly didn't know Tom was going to have the rifle sent to me until I was asked for my address. All I can say is I am thrilled and happy that I was trusted to handle such a great rifle. I have been shooting the rifle for about 2 weeks now and have a few rounds through the rifle. I am not going to bore you guys with the little things as CTAirgunner already did a killer job with chronograph numbers and groups at 100 yards. What I am working on is more of a hunting and target competition side of shooting.
I have the rifle right now set up with a pair of Hawkins scope rings, an Element Theos 6-36 scope, and an Atlas bipod. Having been shooting my Paradigm in .22 for over a year now I have more than a few tins of pellets through the rifle. The differences between the rifles is small, but you can tell the difference. The adjustments on the 30 HPS are great! You don't need to remove the stock to get to the hammer adjuster. There is a small window on the left side of the receiver that will have numbers visible along with groves. You are able to spin this thimble to either increase or decrease your hammer spring tension. Moving up a little further on the receiver is the dwell adjustment. At the end of the air cylinder is the external regulator adjuster. Having one of these on my Paradgim already I was familiar and knew this system was a treat. The only other exterior change is the cocking handle. The new system that Tom has inside the rifle really is something. Shooting the Paradigm next to the 30 HPS you can feel the difference. I know it may be a little cliché .....but it really is night and day. For shooting a heavy pellet 900 fps and not really having any resistance on the cocking handle is awesome.
The barrel on the rifles is the same quality and perfection that we all expect from Tom and his workshop of wonders. This rifle has a pellet barrel on it right now, as the twist rate and leade are made for pellets at this time. Though Tom is working on a pellet option as well. The silencer is of the same quality and build as the other Evols and Paradigms, nothing new here but when something works there is no need to fix it or replace it.
On the tuning side. I will be up front and honest with this section.
When I got the rifle it was already tuned and shooting the 30 caliber 44.75 grain pellets from CTAirgunner. The first thing I did was adjust the regulator higher and spin the dwell adjuster. I wanted to see how easy or hard it really was to tune the rifle. So after taking the rifle out of tune, and not knowing about the hammer adjuster on the side of the rifle, I went to the range to do some shooting. After topping off the air and setting the regulator as low as I could without draining the tank, I started shooting. With the chrono numbers extremely low I was able to twist the regulator up to just over 2000 psi. That brought the speed up to where I was looking at for the 50 grain pellets were shooting at 850fps. This put the 44.75 grain pellets just under the 900 fps range.
Like we have seen before the 100 yard targets are just boring to look at with just a large ragged hole. Now I am not a benchrest shooter at all, and anyone that saw me shoot at NAC will attest to this. But this gun made it stupidly easy to make a large hole at 100 yards. I was so impressed with the groups and the ability of the gun to produce them that I handed the rifle over to my son. I am working with him to start him hunting rabbits with me next summer. Well at 50 yards he was shooting the eyes out of the rabbit pictures I printed off and he didn't skip a beat shooting and racking a new round. So off to 100 yards and he did a little slower but he was still able to keep all the rounds in the rabbits head.
Everyone likes a list of things that are good, bad, or other wise.......so lets do one of those
Good....
Shot to shot consistency
Ease of cocking rifle
Really simple to adjust and fine tune rifle
Rifle is fairly light weight for its size
Magazines are smooth and didn't skip a beat
No need to remove stock to adjust the hammer spring tension
Full length picatinny rail on the bottom
Bad..... This one is hard because I really do like the rifle. But there has to be something we don't like
Regulator adjuster at the end of the barrel. I know this is the easiest and cleanest way to have an external adjuster for sure. I just HATE having to look down the end of the barrel when adjusting or looking at an air gauge.
Full length picatinny rail... all my stuff is set up for Arca. The vast majority of NRL22 and PRS shooters have 90% of their gear set up for Arca. Now when you remove the stock you are able to remove the picatinny rail and there is a little notch that looks like there may be an upgrade for an Arca rail. Tom would have to confirm that, but that would be a HUGE upgrade or option for the rifle.
9 shot magazine. Again looking at the NRL22 or competition you are typically looking at stages that have a shot count of 10 or more. So having to do a reload for every stage is a huge opportunity for lost time and missed targets.
This is what I have came up with so far. I have been talking with Tom and he is sending me out another magazine so I can use the rifle for the next NRL22 match in my area. Will get more pictures and hopefully some video of the rifle performing. Have taken the rifle out for some rabbits, but I haven't been able to find any due to the funky weather we are having right now.
Over all guys the "BAD" on the list above was me really nitpicking. The rifle is great and it functions like we want it to. I have tested the FX and JSB 44.75 and 50 grain pellets. I just got an order in of some of the ZAN Benchrest ammo as well as some of the JTS ammo. I know CTAirgunner didn't have great luck with some of these, but I want to try and see if I can't get something figured out as well.
Any questions or anything please ask guys, or if there is anything you are curious if the rifle can do just ask. If it is something I am able to test I will give it a go. I am hoping for some colder weather so I can leave the rifle outside in a case and really let it get cold.....then go shoot and see how the regulator and rifle handle the temps. Though being as we are having record high temperatures right now here in North Dakota it may not get cold enough.
Needless to say I am really impressed with the rifle over all.
Well as many already know I recieved the 30 HPS from CTAirgunner after he was doing playing with the rifle. I honestly didn't know Tom was going to have the rifle sent to me until I was asked for my address. All I can say is I am thrilled and happy that I was trusted to handle such a great rifle. I have been shooting the rifle for about 2 weeks now and have a few rounds through the rifle. I am not going to bore you guys with the little things as CTAirgunner already did a killer job with chronograph numbers and groups at 100 yards. What I am working on is more of a hunting and target competition side of shooting.
I have the rifle right now set up with a pair of Hawkins scope rings, an Element Theos 6-36 scope, and an Atlas bipod. Having been shooting my Paradigm in .22 for over a year now I have more than a few tins of pellets through the rifle. The differences between the rifles is small, but you can tell the difference. The adjustments on the 30 HPS are great! You don't need to remove the stock to get to the hammer adjuster. There is a small window on the left side of the receiver that will have numbers visible along with groves. You are able to spin this thimble to either increase or decrease your hammer spring tension. Moving up a little further on the receiver is the dwell adjustment. At the end of the air cylinder is the external regulator adjuster. Having one of these on my Paradgim already I was familiar and knew this system was a treat. The only other exterior change is the cocking handle. The new system that Tom has inside the rifle really is something. Shooting the Paradigm next to the 30 HPS you can feel the difference. I know it may be a little cliché .....but it really is night and day. For shooting a heavy pellet 900 fps and not really having any resistance on the cocking handle is awesome.
The barrel on the rifles is the same quality and perfection that we all expect from Tom and his workshop of wonders. This rifle has a pellet barrel on it right now, as the twist rate and leade are made for pellets at this time. Though Tom is working on a pellet option as well. The silencer is of the same quality and build as the other Evols and Paradigms, nothing new here but when something works there is no need to fix it or replace it.
On the tuning side. I will be up front and honest with this section.
When I got the rifle it was already tuned and shooting the 30 caliber 44.75 grain pellets from CTAirgunner. The first thing I did was adjust the regulator higher and spin the dwell adjuster. I wanted to see how easy or hard it really was to tune the rifle. So after taking the rifle out of tune, and not knowing about the hammer adjuster on the side of the rifle, I went to the range to do some shooting. After topping off the air and setting the regulator as low as I could without draining the tank, I started shooting. With the chrono numbers extremely low I was able to twist the regulator up to just over 2000 psi. That brought the speed up to where I was looking at for the 50 grain pellets were shooting at 850fps. This put the 44.75 grain pellets just under the 900 fps range.
Like we have seen before the 100 yard targets are just boring to look at with just a large ragged hole. Now I am not a benchrest shooter at all, and anyone that saw me shoot at NAC will attest to this. But this gun made it stupidly easy to make a large hole at 100 yards. I was so impressed with the groups and the ability of the gun to produce them that I handed the rifle over to my son. I am working with him to start him hunting rabbits with me next summer. Well at 50 yards he was shooting the eyes out of the rabbit pictures I printed off and he didn't skip a beat shooting and racking a new round. So off to 100 yards and he did a little slower but he was still able to keep all the rounds in the rabbits head.
Everyone likes a list of things that are good, bad, or other wise.......so lets do one of those
Good....
Shot to shot consistency
Ease of cocking rifle
Really simple to adjust and fine tune rifle
Rifle is fairly light weight for its size
Magazines are smooth and didn't skip a beat
No need to remove stock to adjust the hammer spring tension
Full length picatinny rail on the bottom
Bad..... This one is hard because I really do like the rifle. But there has to be something we don't like
Regulator adjuster at the end of the barrel. I know this is the easiest and cleanest way to have an external adjuster for sure. I just HATE having to look down the end of the barrel when adjusting or looking at an air gauge.
Full length picatinny rail... all my stuff is set up for Arca. The vast majority of NRL22 and PRS shooters have 90% of their gear set up for Arca. Now when you remove the stock you are able to remove the picatinny rail and there is a little notch that looks like there may be an upgrade for an Arca rail. Tom would have to confirm that, but that would be a HUGE upgrade or option for the rifle.
9 shot magazine. Again looking at the NRL22 or competition you are typically looking at stages that have a shot count of 10 or more. So having to do a reload for every stage is a huge opportunity for lost time and missed targets.
This is what I have came up with so far. I have been talking with Tom and he is sending me out another magazine so I can use the rifle for the next NRL22 match in my area. Will get more pictures and hopefully some video of the rifle performing. Have taken the rifle out for some rabbits, but I haven't been able to find any due to the funky weather we are having right now.
Over all guys the "BAD" on the list above was me really nitpicking. The rifle is great and it functions like we want it to. I have tested the FX and JSB 44.75 and 50 grain pellets. I just got an order in of some of the ZAN Benchrest ammo as well as some of the JTS ammo. I know CTAirgunner didn't have great luck with some of these, but I want to try and see if I can't get something figured out as well.
Any questions or anything please ask guys, or if there is anything you are curious if the rifle can do just ask. If it is something I am able to test I will give it a go. I am hoping for some colder weather so I can leave the rifle outside in a case and really let it get cold.....then go shoot and see how the regulator and rifle handle the temps. Though being as we are having record high temperatures right now here in North Dakota it may not get cold enough.
