hw85k mk1

[averageplinker]

no just a genuine question.

Don't worry I don't begrudge anyone landing on a bargain

[Muskett]

Now I want to see a picture

[Mach 1.5]

I dare say there was no interest in the 80s for a HW85T. Weihrauch struggled to sell the 85 back then and a T model would have been about £80 more than the base model if production of the 80T and 77T are anything to go by. It seems once the 80 and 77 were introduced a light weight alternative wasn't the answer for some reason. How times have changed!. Mach 1.5

[Geezer]

I dare say there was no interest in the 80s for a HW85T. Weihrauch struggled to sell the 85 back then and a T model would have been about £80 more than the base model if production of the 80T and 77T are anything to go by. It seems once the 80 and 77 were introduced a light weight alternative wasn't the answer for some reason. How times have changed!. Mach 1.5

Agreed. The original 85 bombed in the U.K.

The 80 was the break-barrel everyone wanted (John Darling had a hand in that) and the 85 competed with it and the 77, which was the rifle any serious (or fashionable) shooter had to own from around 1984-5 (and for good reason).

The 85’s lack of success in the U.K. mirrored the Webley Omega’s and the later FWB Sport’s. I see more Omegas on sale (maybe a patriotic thing?) than the HW or post-84 FWBs. If there was an 85T, I can’t recall ever hearing about it, or seeing one.

It also failed, as the Beeman R10, to make much impression in the States. People just kept buying the HW80 (Beeman R1) instead.