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  1. 28-10-2018, 10:14 PM #1
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    Oh another feature I had forgot - left hand stocks in Export and Deluxe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by I. J. View Post

    Oh another feature I had forgot - left hand stocks in Export and Deluxe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gareth W-B View Post
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    Just defending the '35.
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    Quote Originally Posted by I. J. View Post
    Just defending the '35.
    Sorry to have to say but it doesn't matter how much fancy wood you chuck at it and how many variants they bring out, it's still fugly.

    Yes I agree that it is an iconic rifle with a good trigger and has a massive following but it's that barrel catch and that gouge taken out of the stock that just lets it down.

    I know I'm probably the only person on here who hates them (I think Nick may be loitering in the same camp as me) but I'm sure there's a lot more people on here who hate the BSA's I love.

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    Mmmm...Are these 35's robust enough to prop open my garage door on windy days, or just a myth?
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    Quote Originally Posted by SRV1 View Post
    Mmmm...Are these 35's robust enough to prop open my garage door on windy days, or just a myth?
    Then you require the Export with the 22" barrel.
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    Quote Originally Posted by look no hands View Post
    Sorry to have to say but it doesn't matter how much fancy wood you chuck at it and how many variants they bring out, it's still fugly.

    Yes I agree that it is an iconic rifle with a good trigger and has a massive following but it's that barrel catch and that gouge taken out of the stock that just lets it down.

    I know I'm probably the only person on here who hates them (I think Nick may be loitering in the same camp as me) but I'm sure there's a lot more people on here who hate the BSA's I love.

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    BSAs are O.K. ish, or can I call them 'El BSA Oh' (as my Spanish isn't so good). I have a few of the older ones (Club., Airsporter, Mercury, Ss etc) , but oooohhh that trigger. The phrase 'Bog door latch' spring to my mind and BSAs later attempts at a 'two stage', well .....

    Show my any BSA with this quality of wood.



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    Quote Originally Posted by I. J. View Post
    BSAs are O.K. ish, or can I call them 'El BSA Oh' (as my Spanish isn't so good). I have a few of the older ones (Club., Airsporter, Mercury, Ss etc) , but oooohhh that trigger. The phrase 'Bog door latch' spring to my mind and BSAs later attempts at a 'two stage', well .....

    Show my any BSA with this quality of wood.

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    OK then, you asked to see it.







    Not the best of photo's.

    I need to take some better ones as I've refinished the stock again since those ones where taken.

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    Quote Originally Posted by look no hands View Post
    OK then, you asked to see it.



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    Not that bad.

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    Quote Originally Posted by look no hands View Post
    Sorry to have to say but it doesn't matter how much fancy wood you chuck at it and how many variants they bring out, it's still fugly.

    Yes I agree that it is an iconic rifle with a good trigger and has a massive following but it's that barrel catch and that gouge taken out of the stock that just lets it down.

    I know I'm probably the only person on here who hates them (I think Nick may be loitering in the same camp as me) but I'm sure there's a lot more people on here who hate the BSA's I love.

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    It's the wooden pencil box type grooves down the sides that get's me.

    It was groundbreaking in it's time so the ugliness was easy to over look, and as a collectors piece I can honestly see the appeal! But times have moved on and there is no need for new ones to be made.
    I think it's time to gently and quietly allow it to become out of stock and used the manufacturing costs saved to try and develop a 99 that doesn't destroy itself.
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    'pencil box groove'. But then didn't BSF, Falke, proper Walthers, and early Originals plus many more. The B B Delux and Delux '35s dont.

    Personally I prefer the '95 over the '99.

    Times have moved on I agree due to modern materials etc but the HW35 still remains, I.M.O. the King of the USEABLE classics.

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    Quote Originally Posted by I. J. View Post
    'pencil box groove'. But then didn't BSF, Falke, proper Walthers, and early Originals plus many more. The B B Delux and Delux '35s dont.

    Personally I prefer the '95 over the '99.

    Times have moved on I agree due to modern materials etc but the HW35 still remains, I.M.O. the King of the USEABLE classics.

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    Then I really will keep an eye out for a Delux. Just in case...

    The 95 is better than the 99, no sane man has ever disagreed with that.

    And for it to be a true classic they really do need to stop making it.

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