Hw35

[Ranyhyn]

I've been trying to find out how the 35 fits into the HW line up, but with out much luck. Can any one tell me how it compares? does it have the record trigger unit?
Thanks

[ikarma70]

yes it has a rekord trigger unit.

the hw35 came out in the late 50's.

order goes hw35,80,77,85,90,95,97........roughly

the old 35 is still a decent rifle and still holds its own today

[Ranyhyn]

Is it a full size gun like the rest? Cut to the chase is it a mid sized gun for a mid sized person? What is the power set at?
Cheers

[I. J.]

Full adult sized rifle. A properly tuned '35 can produce the legal limit m.e. in .22 a little less in .177 with the right pellet. They came in a variety of stock variants and two (main) barrel lengths. (See 'Guns I Presently Own'). Base model for several tuners including Normay.
I admit to having a soft spot for the '35. Classic, well built easy to strip rifle with the superb Rekord trigger. It introduced many to the pleasures of adult airgunning.

HTH
Ian

[ikarma70]

i love my v mach tuned 35k,brilliant rifle

[Ranyhyn]

So do Weihrauch make a mid sized rifle with a record trigger?

[jjjjjj]

HI
Now this is just my take on the hw35 barrel droop and under powered i have had about 5 of them in the last 30 years from the early ones with no safty catch and leather piston washers to the ones made up untill the 80s
that said i did win a open shoot at medway valley in 1984 with a score of 29 out of 30 with a rifle doing 8ft lbs but i dont think i would want one now,
this is just my opinion so dont take it the wrong way just saying as i see it.
jjjjjj
(Oh yes and that horid barrel click when you cock it)

[Air Waves]

So do Weihrauch make a mid sized rifle with a record trigger?

HW95K is pretty mid-sized......

Andrew,

[franktheferret]

The 35 was a good rifle when it first came out and held its own with the rifles of the day, but it was expensive, it wasn't a BSA or Webley, and therefore did not gain much ground. It wasn't really until the early 70s, when people got fed up with the Webley and BSA tap-loading underlevers, that break-barrels started to come back. Webley and BSA still commanded the UK market then but there were a few HW35s around and they really gained ground as being virtually indestructible. With the coming of air rifle competitions, the 35 proved its superior engineering with the quality of its barrel, although the .22 always had problems using British pellets, the .177 barrel, with its different rifling, proved extremely accurate. The Rekord trigger had not been a selling point before, as nobody has really considered air rifles as anything serious, and anyway guns had whatever trigger pull they had. Just a note, HW35s in the 1960s were classified as Firearms because they had barrels over a certain length. I can't remember, but it may have been 23 inches.

[I. J.]

So do Weihrauch make a mid sized rifle with a record trigger?

HW50S

HTH
Ian