HW35, a few questions

[pelletcaster]

Name one other rifle that fits the Classic and Modern (its still available new after 50+ years) category? A rifle that is STILL competitive amongst todays modern airguns. One with a perfectly good if not one of the best triggers on the market (with a metal trigger blade) . Easily strip able yet built like a brick out house. A rifle which, when used with a weaker main spring, is competitive at 10m because it can take a peep sight and already comes with an interchangeable foresight. Even its standard all metal open sights are some of the best on the market and come as standard. (unlike some guns )
One rifle that comes in a very mixed variety of stocks including walnut and thumbhole and various metal finishes. A rifle that has a choice of (3?) barrel lengths and the two main calibres.
Tell me and I will go and buy one.

Thanks for the more than well spoken comment and the impressive pictures.
I'm left nearly speechless and envy with just one HW35 though my first airgun.

[I. J.]

Oh another feature I had forgot - left hand stocks in Export and Deluxe.

[Gareth W-B]

Oh another feature I had forgot - left hand stocks in Export and Deluxe.

Show off.

[I. J.]

Show off.

Just defending the '35.

[look no hands]

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.

Pete

[SRV1]

Mmmm...Are these 35's robust enough to prop open my garage door on windy days, or just a myth?

[I. J.]

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.

[I. J.]

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.

Pete

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.



ATB
Ian

[look no hands]

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.

ATB
Ian

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.

Pete

[tinbum]

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.

Pete

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.

[I. J.]

'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.

ATB
Ian