[QUOTE=harry mac;7485357 You can't really compare it to a HW Rekord (it IS on a par, in my opinion, with the earlier HW Perfekt trigger) because when the Hawk was retailing at about £30, and the Osprey at about £40, the HW35 was already about £55. A lot of money in 1976/77.[/QUOTE]

If you still had that HW35 now it would still be competitive with new recoilling springers, you can't say that for the others. £55 might have been alot but for 50 years of use it would be a bargain.