Well my daughter and I strolled down to the local gun shop after having breakfast at our favorite donut shop at the bottom of the hill. Just wanted to have a looksy at the RWS850 and maybe get a few soft cases then the owner's son whom I've dealt with through the years says "Hey Tony, we got the 460's in finally in .22 and they are nice shooters, we have the .177's as well, wanna check it out?

I knew I shouldn't of said what I said next but I did..."Sure, is there a trap that I can test fire it into?" The response was "sure, meet me around back..." So I cocked, loaded, aimed, squeezed the trigger and "THWACK, KLANG!!!!" I was thinking, damn, that was a fast shot cycle, awful smooth for an RWS outta the box and man did it hit the trap with authority...then Mark tells me, if you're interested, I'll take $50.00 off and we can pull a couple boxes cause they have decent wood on them...that was it, I was trapped like a rat, no where to run, lol...my daughter is saying "are we gonna get it?!?! Yes...YEAHHHH!!!"

So first box comes out and the wood looked just fine to me, wasn't gonna go through their inventory, they had customers and I wasn't looking for a beauty queen this time round...

So after cleaning the barrel good and checking stock screws, grabbed some JSB Exacts(16g) and turned the chrono on...velocities ranged from 792 - 802 for 22.85 fpe!!! Grabbed a few more tins of pellets, set up my bag on the shooting table, quickly mounted a Leaper's 3 - 9 x 40AO IR Mildot scope(I'm really liking this scope for $60.00) on a Beeman 1 piece mount and started shooting....

Initial testing showed that it liked Premiers! I like readily available pellets made in the U.S.!!! At 25 yards, all pellets were touching and it also liked Kodiaks...

The 460 is a much slender feeling rifle compared to an RWS48/54 and the twang factor is similar to an out of the box R9 Goldfinger. Cocking effort isn't bad at all, a bit more than say my TX200HCs which are 12fpe but nothing like the next gun I'm going to report on which literally makes a Crow Magnum 3(.20) look anemic to cock, lol...anyways, back on topic, cocking feels a little gritty if you will so I'm gonna remove the action later and moly the cocking contact points and likely open up the action to moly and tar it. The shot cycle is incredibly fast and there isn't any torquing or jumping around which was a very pleasant suprise given its power level.

The T05 trigger is like every other T05 sporting trigger, a good, predictable sporting trigger. A quarter turn counter clockwise of the single trigger adjustment screw got the trigger where I liked it travel and let off wise. Going to swap out the trigger spring when I get it apart to make it a little lighter...

There is a bear trap mechanism which is basically similar to a 48/52/54 except it slides forward with the compression chamber as you depress it and return the cocking lever to its closed position.

I'm very impressed with it initially, hopefully it stays the same or improves as it wears in. Balance wise its better than a 54 in my opinion and fit and finish are typical RWS, good but not quite HW. Will report more as it develops, should make for a very nice hunter/plinker rig with LOTS of THUMP!!!

Regards,

Tony

Tony, I could not have said it better. I love this gun, even though I bought it as a hunter, it is so much fun to just shoot at anything. I also bought a cheap "rifle stick" at walmart and it works great. The smoothness of the rifle allows great accuracy with the stick. You are right about how fast the pellet delivers out of the rifle and on target. I think the rifle has more kick than the shooter realizes. I think it just does it with a whole lot of finesse. I have the 22. cal and will be saving up for the 177. I have never fired a Beaman, but I can't imagine anything that will match the 460.mag. Thanks for your post and pics. I will keep it to file with other recommendations that I have read.

I agree Dave. This is a nice gun. I got mine in .177 today and have only shot it a few times w open sights. It cocks relatively easy. between my Daisy 1000s and a Gamo SSSupreme but makes less noise than either of those two. The wood was super and the pressed checkering feels real. I'm looking for a scope to put on it that won't finish me off financially.
Only miscues were that I had some trouble slipping the RWS superpoints into the breech and dropped a couple into the maw of the gun, but they came right out--just used to the breakbarrels I guess--and I also forgot to press the button for the cocking lever release once and almost panicked when it wouldn't go forward.
But the mechanical fit is really smooth and firing sounds less twangy.

It'll be fun getting used to a real high end(to me) airgun.

By the way, what is a rifle stick?

Charlie, I went through the same things you did with learning the shooting process of the under lever after having been shooting my break barrel. You are right, some pellets do not seat that tight and you have to be careful when loading. You have do develop a habit of loading the rifle in the horizontal position and double checking to see that the pellet does not drop out. The rifle is heavy, and so I bought a cheap stick, similar to a bipod that will assist in holding the rifle when sitting or standing. The cheap one has only one leg which adjust like a camera tripod to get different heights and has a u-shaped grove that the rifle stock sits in. I am looking for a good bipod, and have seen some that come in a case to carry in the field. I am also thinking about using my own camera tripod and fashioning it to hold the rifle. I can then use a old shotgun sling to carry it around in the field.
Good luck with your new, and great 460.mag

I shure wished I had a gun shop like you do around to look at guns, but if I did I would be coming home with way too many guns, sounds like a real nice gun and am impressed myself with your report on it as well. Do you like the underlever better than the sidelever on the 48-54 models? To me it is more natural to cock a underlever rather than the sidelvers. Have fun and thanks for sharing the expirience with the 460.

 Tony,

 Thanks for your detailed and quite "personable" report on your new 460. The rifle appears to be a real preformance machine andwith this stage of muzzle energy will surely preform in the hunting field!

 Hmmm, like a Factory Sporterised 48/52...

 I'm sure the readers (and myself!) will be intrested in another report about the rifle once you get it broken-in. Accuracy results at say, 30 and 50 yards would be really intresting to read.

 By the way, I have an A/O, 4X, Mil-Dot, Leapers on my HW-55 and love it! The Scope is crisp and bright and the Mil-Dot Recticle makes good use of the gentle shooting 55's capibilites.

 Thanks and enjoy yourself!

 ZVP

I also have the leapers on my 460. and love it. I wish I had known about the leapers when when I had purchased my 34. with the rws combo that included the Cheap RWS 350 scope