Has anyone ever seen or heard of a very early HW50 with a pop up breech? I dont mean the HW57 but a FIFTY or for that matter any HW with a pop up breech (apart from the '57).
Thank you for any info.
ATB
(confused under the bridge).
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There ain't no such thing!
Nope, again.
I don’t see how such a thing could exist.
But...
Tell us more?
Hot air, extremely rare *smooth bore*.
I have but thought it was a hw55, Maybe I'm wrong but I thought it was a 55, Anyway my mate had one with pop up breach, I'll try and find out what model he had, It was a old hw.
It was the 55 he had but it's a tap loader I think, I remember now with the target sights he had on it.
The HW55 is not a tap loader,but has a lever locking breech which may fool the casual observer in to thinking it's a tap loader!
https://www.pyramydair.com/blog/imag...18-08-lock.jpg
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If Tony really saw a pop-up breach HW50, could it have been a prototype, I wonder?
Small correction re. the HW35 for the Hot Air guys: at one point they say the HW55 came out in about 1952 whereas the HW35 came out in 1955.
Actually they seem to have been made around the same time.
The 1953 AKAH catalogue has an illustration of both and the HW35 pictured isn't even the very first pattern (which had no buttplate or foresight tunnel):
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Loved seeing some of your HW's, IJ. You just need to give Lloyd and Tony a history lesson. Loved it despite a few errors.
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