Quote Originally Posted by coburn View Post
Yes T20 I remember reading in AGW an article on Venom that Pope and Handcock met tru an airgun club and both had been tuning 35's, pooled their resources and formed Venom.

Out of interest what are the diffences in stroke between a 35 and 80.
The HW35 with leather washer had a 65mm stroke.
The maximum available stroke length in a standard HW35 is 71mm
The HW80 had a stroke of 83mm.
Some of the early 80's imported were found to be producing 16to17ftlb's as standard.

Looking at those figures it's just occured to me that you get about 1 ftlb for every 5mm of stroke.

The HW80 was mainly intended for the American market were there are no restrictions on power. The HW80 came about due to the collaberation between Dr Robert Beeman and Weihrauch, as did the HW45 pistol.

The earliest reference to Hancock and Pope that I have is a photograph of them from an old Airgunworld, out on a shooting trip with Jim Tyler (BTDT).


All the best Mick