Webley hawk mk 3 vs diana g80

[Hsing-ee]

It's November 1979, and your Dad has said he will get you an airgun for your Christmas. Because of the economic climate, it can't be a new gun, but there are a few second-hand in Exchange & Mart that are within Dad's price-range. As all your mates have second-hand BSA Meteors, you want to try something different and are caught between a Webley Hawk Mk 3 and a Diana G80.

Which do you choose and why?

[harry mac]

It's November 1979, and your Dad has said he will get you an airgun for your Christmas. Because of the economic climate, it can't be a new gun, but there are a few second-hand in Exchange & Mart that are within Dad's price-range. As all your mates have second-hand BSA Meteors, you want to try something different and are caught between a Webley Hawk Mk 3 and a Diana G80.

Which do you choose and why?

Hmm, let me transport myself back. No dad, not t' Diana, they on'y meck kid's guns, and t' stock's a bit fat an' chunky.
Wot abaht t' Webley 'awk then?
Awgh yeah, t' stock looks better (we weren't saying things like cool and boss or top in Yorkshire yet), an' t' catalogue sez it duz 50 foot per second faster than t' Diana.

[Gareth W-B]

From a collectors point of view, am very fond of both marques and models, but I'd tell Dad to stick it, ad next Birthday's money to the pot, and get me an HW35 ... There ya go, managed to send yet another thread off on a tangent . Ha ha. Atb: G.

[lodmoor]

I bought the right thing then and I've still got it. (slight cheat it was 1980).

[monkeywrench]

Right i'm back there now,

and as my Hawk 111 has just fallen to pieces in my hands i'd be asking for the G80

[harry mac]

Right i'm back there now,

and as my Hawk 111 has just fallen to pieces in my hands i'd be asking for the G80

You must have put an Ox spring in it then.

[Neil.]

All the lads I kicked about with when I was 18, had Meteors and Diana's in their various guises. One had a MKIII Hawk, that had an elongated hole that the mainspring retaining pin sat in. It had the disturbing trait of discharging when you closed the barrel. Another had a Vulcan that used to ring like bell when it was shot and had a 1/4 stage trigger with a 22lb pull.
One worked for the Gas Board and had a bit more dough than the rest of us. It was only when he purchased an HW35, that we realised that things smaller than a Top Deck shandy can, could be hit beyond 25 yards.

[Garvin]

"Kind offer Dad, but can I chip in the £16.45 I've saved from my paper round, plus borrow on my next two birthday presents, and get a FWB Sport instead?"

[yoshiwolves]

i would have to say G80 , but thats because my brother had one and we had lots of fun with it plinking,, and looking at the ads in airgun world from airgunaid and thinking that somehow we could turn the low powered gun into some sort of cannon , i had a mercury in 1979 and that was way more powerfull, then in 1981 bought a a proper 80 ,,,,, a hw80, never looked back since
atb
paul

[Baxterbasics]

I WAS that youngster Although I swapped an old Sinclair Spectrum for a Hawk Mk 3 from a second hand emporium (read junkshop) in the back streets of Chester, circa 1982.
It was S.H.I.T

Live, yes. Learn? Maybe

[harry mac]

I'm ever so glad all the disparaging remarks are being directed at the MkIII and not the MkII, coz that'd be faightin' talk!