New Ruger Hawk .177 aka b-25 arrived today and.................

[Gene_SC]

My first impression after pulling it out of the box was WOW WEEEEEEEEEEEE... Good balance, nice wood, great metal finish for a Chinese springer.

I did not have much time left so I took her out to the shop and cleaned the barrel and took a couple shots at the stump.. Not really that bad. A wee bit of spring twang but very solid. The trigger is a copy of the RWS later triggers which was very impressive. I pulled her all the way down and found an RWS 34 inside.. Yep exactly the same build including the piston, seal and action. Even had the ball detent for the barrel lock. The cocking linkage was different than the RWS though. Solid metal an none of that layered stuff.. What I saw was a magnificent replica of the RWS 34. The Chinese did there home work on this baby. I would suspect after they catch on the prices will go up a bit.

Also pushed three CP's accross the chrony. All three shots were over 1050 fps. This will change after a clean up and tune.

I will be doing a full turbo tune with picture layouts tomorrow.

[shadow]

Yup Gene and I were chewing the fat about this baby today and from what I'm hearing from my buddy is that we have a great priced shooter and this could be a Diamond in the Rough gang and just imagine what a tune will do for her. If this shooter pans out to be a great shooter, better jump on one at these prices before they figure out that there's a Ruger " CRAZE" and kick the prices up on us. :0 Ed

[kirby999]

Thanks for the first impressions review Gene . Mine should be here tomorrow , probably late . I thin my neighborhood is last on my UPS guy's route. I hope mine doesn't shoot 'em that fast . kirby

[imadogman]

Mine arrives on Friday the 13th....hope that isn't an omen ;-)

[Schmidty25]

I love my Ruger 10/22.. .22lr sounds impressive

[Gene_SC]

Well like I said, I did not have much time to do much last night. Yes it does have an articulating cocking linkage that I forgot to mention. Not hard to cock either. I also noticed that the seal was a poly seal which is a great improvement over the nylon seals the Chinese usually use. As far as the high FPS goes, that can be minipulated some. As far as the piston goes it looks very similar to the RWS series pistons. Like I said I did not do a complete close up visual inspection.

[Joe D]

Gene, 1050 fps seems high. Was the gun dieseling?

[Gene_SC]

Just a bit Joe. I am writing up a complete review on it right now with pictures.

[leftcoast1]

Hey Gene where did you her from. I have been reading that the gun was close to the 34 that Umarex was going to be sole importer and it would not be labled as a b-25.

[Gene_SC]

I have not heard any rumors about it. I first heard from Mike Melick about the new  B-25 that he was getting in to test. Apparently these are the same air rifles and right now the prices are good but I have noticed that Pyramyd has up the price a bit since I bought mine and they are out of stock right now. If Umarex gets ahold on these the prices will go sky high. I am betting that Mike will be selling these nice air rifles very soon.

[mikeiniowa]

I won't be able to sell them, they all have to go to Umarex from what I understand. I'm going to do some research and see what I can come up with....

[Gene_SC]

Now that is the pits Mike. You should be able to purchase them. Pyramyd does.

[mikeiniowa]

I believe they have to go through Umarex also, just checked with Umarex and they will sell me rifles but for $5 more than Pair has them listed for, they will cover my shipping so it should be about the same price or a bit more as I would have to charge shipping to get them to the customer......

[kirby999]

I got MINE!!!!   I got it around 6:10pm about 25 minutes ago. I immediately opened the box , grabbed the Airhawk and after a quick look over , took it and a tin of Superdomes outside and put a couple of them into a tree just outside the backdoor. Then upstairs of my garage to check and see where the sights were set . I shot about 7 or 8 pellets and I could see they were "on paper" fairly center of a Gamo target at 6 meters . So it's back inside , since it's almost dark and a thunderstorm is getting near. Back up to my bonus room 10 meter range and I put a fresh Gamo target up on my heavy duty rimfire trap amd loaded a s-dome at 10 meters ; took aim at the center of the target with the fiber optic sights and squeeeeeeeezed the trigger . It's a 2 stage with a long first stage, I'll tend to that later . Thunk !! I checked where I hit and I was 12 o'clock 6 ring . I tried another and it hit a little higher in the 5 ring. I dropped my aim to 6 o'clock hold and shot 1 more and it hit in the 8 ring low . Two clicks on the rear sight and the next 4 shots were 10's , 3 solid, amd 1 jar licker at 11 o'clock . I'm impressed with this springer right out of the box . Especially one that cost less than $100 delivered to my door. I hope my next one shoots as good as I ordered another before posting. Heehee . I wanted to get another before they sold out. It's no Beeman in fit and finish but it's not bad . I'm owned a cople of RWS 34's and I like the feel of this rifle better than those. It doesn't have that too long feeling , the 34 has . I can't imagine what Gene's shoots like . kirby

[Gene_SC]

Pyramyd is out of stock on them but they did raise the price $5.00.. Hmmm  I wonder if there is some price fixing going on?