I have a Beeman/HW-35EB, the B for Beeman, the E for something in German, I imagine, that means "better than average." It's a Beeman San Rafael gun in .177 I got for my birthday in 1980. The next year we moved to a house on the edge of walnut orchards and the owner offered me $2 for every ground squirrel I could shoot. There were a lot of them and each one was good for 40 pounds of walnuts. I never took a nickel for the squirrels. I just had a blast shooting them and the ammo was sure cheap enough. I had a Beeman 2.5X scope on it that I eventually put on my Ruger 10-22 and replaced it with a Williams aperture. If I can see it, I can hit it and the aperture is a good way to keep from trying to shoot beyond the gun's effective range. For a few years, it seemed that I went through a tin of pellets a month. I have no idea how many squirrels I bagged, but it has to be in the hundreds. Most were shot from hiding at 20 - 30 yards. My best shot was a headshot on a jackrabbit at 40 yards. There was a magpie in a tree a lot farther than that, but I never could find a wound and it is possible I just scared it out of the tree and it broke its neck when it hit the ground. At one point, I took off the dark brown varnish finish from the stock and revealed a marvelously figured European walnut piece of furniture that I finished with Watco Dark Walnut and Tru-oil. It had a Beeman supertune with a new mainspring shortly after I got it, but at one point I discovered it had been put up on the wall rack cocked for God knows how long. I don't have a chrono, so I have no idea what the velocity is now and I have only very rarely shot it in the last 17 years or so, ever since I had to move away from the squirrels. Almost all my shooting since then has been with pistols and, while I've tried to stay up on what's new in airguns, I haven't had a chance to compare any of the new ones to the old Weirauch. I will say, though, that what drew me to that gun then is what I still hear people being attracted to: fit, finish and function. It never was a powerhouse. The FWB 124 was a lot faster then and a couple years later the R-1 pretty much eclipsed them both and most other springers. But it is an elegant gun that's a lot of fun to shoot and it just plain works. I would like to think the current 35E is just as good, but I can't imagine mine with tru-glo sights.
