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I think I need one of those!! 😁Originally Posted by cooper_dan
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Even better looking than a HW35
Yes for once I agree, the older ones where elegant, the older HW85 luxus stock (the one that covered the breech block) looked nice, I'm not sure about the look of the newer Diana 34 N-tec stocks, I'm sure it would grow on me but it's not elegant enough to be called pretty, it's not ugly just quirky looking, I think it's the fore end grip bulging out that puts me off.
Pete
Far too many rifles to list now, all mainly British but the odd pesky foreigner has snuck in
I may only have 5 but I have the best 5
The Ntec I saw wasn't blued. It had a nice matt gray finish. The main reason I didn't buy one was that I believe the gas struts cannot be adjusted
Pete
Even better looking than a HW35
The struts are a drop in unit like the AWT ones sold by Theoben a few years ago (so no valve to be able to adjust it), I believe the Diana ones have a different gas in them (I may be wrong on that one) and the strut is put in the other way round than the Theoben one was.
Pete
Far too many rifles to list now, all mainly British but the odd pesky foreigner has snuck in
may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm, to reduce sinusoidal repleneration
Exactly right. The visual balance of each rifle is perfect.
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Hatsan do an adjustable strut . The vortex it's called. Can only be adjusted by stripping the rifle though.
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Are you saying that you think that this is the second best looking off the shelf airgun sold today.
https://www.weihrauch-sport.de/wp-co...E-Zfr.-MB1.jpg
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I prefer the look of the Ntec to the prosport and the TX, no flowery checkering! 😜
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may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm, to reduce sinusoidal repleneration
No that is a minging modern one.
I mean the old 22" barrel one with the lovely walnut stocks, the hog's back comb and the long slender pistol grip.
That is modern one with the chunky monkey stock made of nasty cheap walnut and a 19" barrel with what looks like a robot's sex aid on the business end. Bleurgh.
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Best looking springer for me is the Diana 52
Dave.
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To my eternal shame, yes
As a teenager, the HW35E was my first brand spanking new air rifle, purchased for around £69 by the meagre wages from fruit picking during a long hot 1970's summer. I never believed any rifle could be so pretty, but then the evil empire that is AA (evil because it bought out and shut down my beloved Falcon) produced the Pro Sport and from that moment on, I turned to the Dark Side.
Even better looking than a HW35
An inspiring story and a path we should all follow to righteousness.To my eternal shame, yes
As a teenager, the HW35E was my first brand spanking new air rifle, purchased for around £69 by the meagre wages from fruit picking during a long hot 1970's summer. I never believed any rifle could be so pretty, but then the evil empire that is AA (evil because it bought out and shut down my beloved Falcon) produced the Pro Sport and from that moment on, I turned to the Dark Side.
Except I left out the first bit and just luckily went straight to the Prosport
Pete
Far too many rifles to list now, all mainly British but the odd pesky foreigner has snuck in
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It is thee who should be shamed, not I.An inspiring story and a path we should all follow to righteousness.
Except I left out the first bit and just luckily went straight to the Prosport
Pete
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I agree, the hideous robot sex-aided HW35E is an abomination and although mine is a new model with 19" barrel, it sports trad open sights and the nicest walnut stock I've seen on a 35E.
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We agree.
Of course, 15-40 years ago, we’d have had them and the nice HWs (including factory tyros), and the FWB Sport, and the Webley Tracker, Omega, Viscount, Longbow, Tomahawk, Stingray, AA Khamsin and Camargue (and then stick the PE in the mix too, with the u/levers), Diana 35, 36 and 38 as well as the 52, BSA Mercs and Sporters and Supersports, even the Anschutz 335 (Mk2), some of the BSFs.
Now, they are almost all gone.
Nice looking springers peaked in the 80s, flatlined in the 90s, and died out from the mid-2000s.
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