Thread: 22 Upgrade

A good bore clean is a good start but Ive found mine tend to shoot better with a fouled bore. Just be careful when your cleaning it that you dont damage the muzzle area. A rod from the chamber end would be my preferance over a bore snake. If you dont have any of the fancy solvents an old shooter I know just uses kerosine and has always had good results..

How are the triggers on a JW15 typically?

They work but a polish up of the contact surfaces improves them, as with a lot of the budget level guns. If you want a usually good shooter and youd like something to tinker with hard to go past one.

Hello Blip,
The JW15 is the be all of budget 22 rimfires, from memory the early shipment retailed for $146! The Weirhrauch HW60J is the middle-top budget range, there are other Brands which are more expensive, if spending a lot of money is the key objective??
I own four Weirhrauch (3 x HW60J, 1 x HW66J CH (Classic Hunter)) The 22LR cost $1000 off TradeMe, $1400 retail, 22 Hornet $1950, 222 Rem $2400.
The Weirhrauch HW60J chambered to 222 Rem is the most accurate rifle I have ever used. Best one shot kill on a rabbit, no sighters, just one shot 242 metres, and two small goats at 267 metres. The goat shooting wasn't tidy, but they didn't see the sun go down.
If you are lucky enough to get the 222 Weirhauch, you will never look back!

Straight shooting!

Hugh

Originally Posted by Moutere

How are the triggers on a JW15 typically?

Pretty sure they are a two stage Mauser type.

JW15 triggers are ok stock , but very improvable with a polish and a lighter spring. Mudgripz is the go-to guy for trigger advice

Originally Posted by Hugh Shields

Hello Blip,
The JW15 is the be all of budget 22 rimfires, from memory the early shipment retailed for $146! The Weirhrauch HW60J is the middle-top budget range, there are other Brands which are more expensive, if spending a lot of money is the key objective??
I own four Weirhrauch (3 x HW60J, 1 x HW66J CH (Classic Hunter)) The 22LR cost $1000 off TradeMe, $1400 retail, 22 Hornet $1950, 222 Rem $2400.
The Weirhrauch HW60J chambered to 222 Rem is the most accurate rifle I have ever used. Best one shot kill on a rabbit, no sighters, just one shot 242 metres, and two small goats at 267 metres. The goat shooting wasn't tidy, but they didn't see the sun go down.
If you are lucky enough to get the 222 Weirhauch, you will never look back!

Straight shooting!

Hugh

Yea I know that about the weirachs had a few of their air rifles, they know how to make a trigger. Without starting a fight Id say yes and no to the be all. I my opinion theres a lot of cheap 22rf out there now and some of the older models in my opinion are better quality and can shoot just as well. If my eyes were still good id be happy with a bsa sportsman of some type, never had a bad shooting one of those. Ive had a lot of different 22s pass throught the safe jws ruger savage bsa remington erma stirling mossberg mauser baikal slazenger krico sportco anshutz off the top of my head. I guess Im lucky enough to be able to afford nice(to me) rifles. I like quality character and sometimes a bit odd.
What I have now and it fills my needs are anshutz, very nice accurate smooth high quality. Mauser, I think its a pre ww2 one a bit odd very accurate good quality. Baikal, ugly agricultural heavy pretty good quality accurate. The two budget range ones are a semi sportco good quality, old accurate for what its used for and a slazenger, good quality very accurate and old. The jws I had were as accurate as the sportco fun to tinker with but just didnt grow on me, I tried a couple of those chinese centerfires as well an sks and a couple of those bushrangers. Just didnt do it for me although the sks was fun to shoot. At the end of the day theres no right or wrong rifle as with everything beauty is in the eye of the beholder....

Everyone's experience is different eh.... I prefer winchester ammo, (old aussie made superX or 555 bulk.) CCI only if nothing else is available, aguila runs dirty, but their bulk stuff is accurate in everything I've put it through.

I also have had an anschutz semi that shot "bug holes all day"

Every trigger, but especially chinese ones, will benefit from a polish. I would also hone the bolt race and bolt on a jw, and you get a pretty slick little gun.

I don't get to town much either but i'll check h+f out for ya next time i do.

What do you mean by "polish"? A couple of of strokes with 800 grit on the top?

Identify your target beyond all doubt because you never miss (right?) and I'll be missed.

Originally Posted by Eat Meater

What do you mean by "polish"? A couple of of strokes with 800 grit on the top?

Identify your target beyond all doubt because you never miss (right?) and I'll be missed.

It really depends on the trigger group. All sliding surfaces should be smooth, all sears sharp, everything square and true. I usually do it by sticking emery paper on plate-glass with water, then polish components as needed. Grit would be anything from 400 to 1200 or even burnishing stones. guns that get stripped and lubed often get a finer finish than work guns, my theory is that sears actually work on an oil-film, i don't know if it makes much difference down range though. lol.