HW77 / K Customs.

[Rob A]

You missed the Venom 77 Trophy off your list of Venom guns,
I wish I still had mine.🙁

[Geezer]

Morning Paul.
I think you covered the usual suspects there.
I think but am not sure if a gunshop not far from me had a stab at jumping on the bandwagon in the form of Litts of Newport?
I may be wrong and only way I could be sure is to trawl through the mags of that era. Something I enjoy doing from time to time
Dave

My recollection is that, aside from the "proper" customs in Mach's list, there were a few years when many of the big dealers were offering "custom" jobs that were basically the stock action stuck in a CS or similar stock.

For example, I haven't taken my Gold Sierra apart (it works fine), but I have no idea whether Northern Arms did anything much to the insides. I sort of think they must have, as they would have to have taken it apart to plate the end block and underlever.

[jonnyone]

Though not a 77 gun I did pick up a HW85K based custom gun from a chap up north in the land of the Scots that was (from memory) marketed by a gun shop on the south coast under the banner of Skorpio tuned actions? It has a stock of lovely figured grain a set back trigger and an action that seems to have had the piston weighted. I cannot be sure on what has exactly been done to it as it's never been apart. But certainly something has but I cannot 100% put my finger on it.
I may have the tuning name and shop location totally wrong as it is some years.since I bought the gun and I'm not sure if this was applied to any other models? But it nay be another brand to add to the list.
Dave

[TonyL]

You missed the Venom 77 Trophy off your list of Venom guns,
I wish I still had mine.🙁

Of course. Thank you for posting.

[Geezer]

Though not a 77 gun I did pick up a HW85K based custom gun from a chap up north in the land of the Scots that was (from memory) marketed by a gun shop on the south coast under the banner of Skorpio tuned actions? It has a stock of lovely figured grain a set back trigger and an action that seems to have had the piston weighted. I cannot be sure on what has exactly been done to it as it's never been apart. But certainly something has but I cannot 100% put my finger on it.
I may have the tuning name and shop location totally wrong as it is some years.since I bought the gun and I'm not sure if this was applied to any other models? But it nay be another brand to add to the list.
Dave

Skorpio rings a bell, but I can't remember which outfit offered them. Add that to the list.