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I just sighted in the Umarex Hammer 50 with 320 grain Hollow Points. Quite consistent muzzle velocities; around 880 fps
Not great groups at all; it seems VERY sensitive to wind. "Minute of deer" at best.
Definitely don't want to be shooting big game over 100 yards with this; 75 yard limit probably better, both for accuracy and because the ballistics drop really increases after 75 yards.
Zeroed at 100, it's 6" high at 50 yards, 4-5" high at 75. So 1-2" drop 50-75 yards, 4-5" drop 75-100 yards.
And that's with one of the lightest bullets available for this. The 550gr would hit harder, but exaggerate the ballistics curve.
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Followup to the above story.
I did the above sighting for a friend who'd been given the rifle. I put a high end scope on it. Leupold Mk5HD, I believe, with Backcountry rings.
I sighted it in OK. Things seemed to move around some, but I finally got it hitting minute-of-deer at 100 yards, so I gave it back to my friend and told him it was good to go.
This was back in July.
Come about September or October, my friend said he hadn't had time to shoot the gun, but he was going moose hunting in a week or so, and he asked me to come by and run through the charging, loading, and shooting procedures with him.
I went over to his place and he started shooting it. First shot, missed the backer entirely at 100 yards. Same with second shot. We moved to 50 yards and finally got a hit about a foot high left. WTF?? This is a new high end scope, high end rings, professionally installed, lapped, torqued.
We diddled with the scope, reset zero on it, shot some more. It would shoot one or two OK, then throw some big flyers. And this is using no more than 3 shots per charge and making sure gauge is over 3000 on third shot. After a bunch more diddling, we got it "sort of" shooting OK. I left, my friend said he'd shoot it more later.
Last I heard from my friend about it, he never did get it shooting well enough to be comfortable shooting it at a moose. He gave up on it and took his regular rifle. He did get a moose. ;-)
I know when my friend was given the rifle, it had what my friend called a "crappy" Vortex scope on it. Perhaps his friend who had given it to him experienced the same issues and attributed it to the scope. I'm not sure on that.
Anyway, I don't know it that one was just bad or if they're all like that, or what the problem might have been with this one.
So bottom line is I wouldn't trust that thing at all, especially on a hunt.