underlever with sliding tap

[davidstoncold]

can anyone tell me approx how many underlever air rifles there are with a sliding loading tap and what makes they are . .thanks

[Gareth W-B]

anyone tell me approx how many underlever air rifles there are with a sliding loading tap and what makes they are. thanks

Hi David, a wide topic area this. There have been absolutely hundreds of variants of the underlever air rifle made with loading taps since 1901, and they came from many manufacturers, all of whome in turn produced many different models along the same theme... The main manufacturers however were Lincoln Jefferies, BSA, Haenal, Diana, and after WWII Webley & Scott with their MkIII. BSA also produced a sliding rotary breech underlever in the early 1900s and redesigned it for an Airsporter variant and range of rifles called Superstars in the 1990s (this re-vamped rotary breech being known as the second type RB-2), and HW and AA produce sliding breech loading underlevers such as the HW77, HW97, TX and Pro-Sport to this day (a bit vague but hope this helps ). Atb: Gareth W-B.

[davidstoncold]

thanks gareth , just that i have been told of one that the person who saw it doesnt know what it is. i will have to go see it myself.all he can remember is that it has sling attachments on the side of the stock and he says it looks like something out of a war film (bless him).

thanks for the info.

[Gareth W-B]

thanks gareth , just that i have been told of one that the person who saw it doesnt know what it is. i will have to go see it myself.all he can remember is that it has sling attachments on the side of the stock and he says it looks like something out of a war film (bless him).

thanks for the info.

Hi again David. Hope I'm wrong but it sounds like it may be a Chinese B4. Loads of these have been imported over the last 25ish years, and are still available (unfortunately) today. If it is one of these Chinese things they retail at £54.95 brand new even now, and second hand are maybe worth £20 tops. They are truly dreadful things so I hope it isn't one of these as you will have been potentially excited over nothing . These are just my thoughts on the B4 however (imported in the main by SMK and Westlake and sometimes called the Lion), but I doubt I am alone in this . Atb and keep us up to speed as am always in search of happy endings . Ha ha. Atb: Gareth.

[davidstoncold]

thanks gareth the triangle shaped sling mounts have confirmed saved me a trip..

[Hsing-ee]

The Haenal 312 has a sliding compression chamber like the Feinwerkbau 150/300, HW77, AA TX200 and of course the Chinese Lion and DB4 but I think it had it before most of them except the Feinwerkbau.

They are quite rare in the UK but not in the new Germany.

Is the RB1 really 100 years old? Why the didnt they market that as soon as they invented it? Unbelievable lost opportunity.