John Alcock and Joe Myska (sp?) came to Roughwedge club, back when we used to shoot at Frank F Harrison school, just as they’d been given their TX’s. John had re-inletted his 77 stock to accept the TX action - from memory it was a Venom Trophy stock but I could be mistaken.
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Last year was the inaugural UKAHFT recoiling championship. A one off shoot held at one of the toughest courses in the country. Top 3 places were taken with TX200's.
Also the UKAHFT and FT world championships (springer class) were won with TX200's.
So yes, the HW77 has been beat
You could say that the TX is a copy of the 77 and a lot later the LGU was a copy of the TX.
But the TX does have some improvements over the 77
Piston rings
Rotating piston
Central transfer port
A cocking shoe for less wear in that area
Simple easy to dismantle construction
And if you like or not It does have a ABT
More power for FAC
The LGU has had a fair few years to think of how to improve on the TX so how many improvements are there
- Zero
So again will the TX ever be beat as a production springer if so by who
Last year was the inaugural UKAHFT recoiling championship. A one off shoot held at one of the toughest courses in the country. Top 3 places were taken with TX200's.
Also the UKAHFT and FT world championships (springer class) were won with TX200's.
In that case it's only took 36 years for the TX200 to be the so called best under lever. Well done AA. In the meantime the 77 / 97 has won everything. Is it a case also of trends? Being are Underlevers more accurate than a break barrel? Or is it just down to the person behind the trigger? But that might be a thread for another day?
Mach 1.5
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Just for interest are these the first models? the full length looks different look at the gap between the barrel and lever is this the PS type that you have Pete? am I wrong but the barrel seems longer than the new type.
I've been mulling over a new rifle for quite a while. After much deliberation and in full knowledge that other rifles are more developed in terms of the internals I've actually plumped for a laminate full length HW77 which arrived yesterday. Even though I knew I'd be tweaking things on the HW as soon as I got it to make it just right for me.
First impressions, I'd say it's far from perfect out the box in terms of mechanical noise when shooting and ease of disassembly in the workshop. But the rekord trigger is awesome, I've for the choice of open sights or scoped and I absolutely love the looks and the feel of it. Something I couldn't say about the tx.
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I did read somewhere ( I don't know how true it was ? ) the first Hw77's were based on a 30mm comp tube but the overall weight of the rifle was 12lbs plus, I wonder who owns that prototype ?
I'd say yes the Hw77 was a in house design but with ideas taken from a previous sliding comp tube rifle.
Hw77+7
Yes mate it is that type, although mine has been evolving over the years, mine now has a later style walnut stock with the 6 bolt stock fixing and not the 4 bolt as in the photo, I would say the barrel and shroud length are the same as I replaced my shroud last year because it was marked and at the time of purchase their was no choices to be made and the new one has gone straight on with new baffles fitted which have all gone in with none of them sticking out the end, so I'd say they are the same length.
Pete
Far too many rifles to list now, all mainly British but the odd pesky foreigner has snuck in