Thought I'd stir this one up again since Gene's pix are so useful and well done.
Latest airgun is Ruger Air Hawk. Experiment was to see if, finally, I could find a decent, cheap springer. Yup, with some caveats. This appears to be mostly a RWS 34 clone with some things cheapened and QA reduced to Chinese levels. Stock is a very pretty piece of Beech though the finish has its assortment of thin spots in the stain. I'd get the Blackhawk version if I were to do the experiment again: the comb of the stock is uncomfortably high for open sight use, my preference. The open sights are not RWS copies but are better than some. Barrel pivot was loose, tightened that. Trigger was crunchy, creepy. Pulled out several parts (it's a complicated thing), decided what the trouble was, did some grinder and stone tricks to the perceived offending bits, shortened the secondary sear spring one loop, reassembled (one of the trickier reassembly operations I've done). Used dabs of CRC super brake grease on sear engagement points. Worked, now has good trigger. Tack driver. About 55% the cost of the equivalent RWS depending on the deal one can find. Wish they'd sell the thing for a little less with no scope instead of the cheapie provided. The gun is worthy of better optics.
Highly recommended!! Nice firing cycle (note that I did not touch anything except the trigger) with no twang. Maybe the trigger would improve on its own though the sear engagement points were pretty ugly, it could take a while. Over all, with the tweaks, this Air Hawk sample is very close to my two RWS 34s.
