Bougfht a new gun yesterday

Should be here hopefully by the end of next week if all goes well. I bought a used HW35 the ancester of the R1 rifle. Velocity is nowhere near an R1 but build quality is the same if not better.  My HW35 is a 22 caliber gun which is intresting since my R1's are in 177 and 20 calibers.
Velocity should be between 500 and 600 fps.  The gun has if I am not mistaken the rekord trigger a-bit an early one and a barrel latch. Accuracy is susposed to be excellent I'lll know for sure once the gun gets here. I do have a couple of pictures the seller sent me for now.

[Gene_SC]

Nice looking springer Pistolero. Let us know how you like it..

Gene

[ribbonstone]

You will like the way it's constructed...and the ease of dissassembly. Taking one down is so easy...that trigger unit comes out in one (functioning) assembly...and the big heavy end cap (that houses the trigger) screws off (which the spring tension!).  It's the same top-of-the-line  trigger HW is famous for.

WIll have a pretty solid "thunk" when fired...they used a pretty heavy/ wide piston.  The FWB 124 (and 127 in .22)...which came a bit later.. took the other track and used a smaller/lighter piston with a longer travel. The barrel latch becomes second nature pretty quickly.

Mine (35E) ate three maispring in it's life with me,blew it's synthetic piston seal once, and the breech seal was replaced twice (probably could have shimmed it...the barrelbreech seal are DEEP seals). Repaced the barrel hinge (had it reamed to round, and the barrel to the same size, and had a new screw/pin made) and the two flat washers some years ago.  For thirty one years of service, that ain't bad at all.

[Gene_SC]

I am impressed.. Makes me wish I had been enjoying the hobby, sport 50 years ago. At least I have found it now and will enjoy every minute of my time left with all my toys...

Good luck with your new baby..

Gene

[ribbonstone]

Was on a trip to Ca. way-long time ago. Walked into the Beeman showroom and was waited on by a nice Asian lady (who in retrospect, might have been Mrs. Beeman...back then, all i knew of airguns was Benjamin, Crosman, Daisy, and Sheridan). Looked over the catalog and asked to see an HW35E...she must have been feeling kind that day, as she unboxed one with a georgous stock.

But Katrina took all of the old ones...including that HW35.

One friend I still visit and shoot with was actually a freind of my father...he's 86 now, but can still have fun sitting at the back bench and shooting air guns.

[Gene_SC]

Very sorry to hear that..

Gene

[ribbonstone]

Been picking up some toys and have had some long-term loaners returned...don't feel un-gunned.

Tomorrow I go see that old firend...and one of the things I picked up was for him. He'd talked aobut those old rubber-band powdered 'Bullseye" pistols (they shoot a #6 shot...are actually little gun-catapults) he knew in the 1940's and 1950's.  Found one for him...he'll be a happy roach-hunter come nightfall.

[Gene_SC]

LOL, that is funny.. We used to make bobby pin guns and those hard match guns out of close pins. But nothin like a home made sling shot..

Gene

[ribbonstone]

Bullseye Pistol mfg. Co., out of Rawlins, Wyo.

Daisy also made a pistol...Mod. 118...that ran more or less like a normal spring-air, just low powered and taking a ball about the size of #6 shot (which is where the 118 came from...ball was about .118").

Weak as can be...stings a bit to shoot your hand, but doesn't even leave a mark.  Made for shooting at about 10feet.  Kind of the "airsoft" of the past.

Back to the HW35:

This is a pretty old school gun...more or less the same design was made in the 1940's (although never really seen outside of germany), the only up dates have been to synetic seals rather than leather.

Same basic gun with an ether injector was sold as the "Baracuda"...don't get any happy ideas, that model was plagued with seal problems.  What would be better for stripping all the lube out of piston seals and a cylinder than a good shot of ether?  Besides, would technically make this a "fire arm".