Photographs of James lovely carbine - the stock is exactly how I recall from the one my mate had all those years ago.
Can’t seem to post a pic but will pm you both a pic and perhaps you can post? I have to say I don’t know mine is a Venom, but it’s certainly been well tuned and the Venom style silencer is a permanent fitment. It’s in .22. Didn’t know about the Sportsmatch stock- perhaps this is one? Would be good to know. I use it all the time- great little gun.
Photographs of James lovely carbine - the stock is exactly how I recall from the one my mate had all those years ago.
Put on heading 270, assume attack formation
There's a lefty 77 Venom stock on the bay atm for £900. How do you tell if it's the real deal?
Yes it's a proper venom stock. A little expensive in my view but it's proper. Mach 1.5
Thank you.
Did any Venom stocks come with no checkering? I'm across the pond and a very reputable fella in Canada has one for sale. Has never been opened. HW77. Has the vented muzzle brake, etc and trigger. Stock looks to be European Walnut but no checkering. Varmiter stock. Serial number 1034450.
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Still trying to figure out how to insert a photo of the before mentioned airgun.
I traded a beautiful HW90 to a bloke for a HW35 that he swore was Venom tuned and blued, There was no sticker but the action dated to 1970 so it may have come off in all those years!, The blueing is still lovely and deep!
It has the O ring conversion and the anti click roller, It also has breech shims which I was told HW didn't fit to their earlier stuff (Not too sure on that though!)..
This is the rifle although I put the action in to the Luxus stock as I thought it suited it better!!
The lad used to work occasionally as a gunsmith at one of the shooting shops near the north end of Sheffield, Can't recall the name now though.
The trigger block has the remains of a 'Guarantee void if seal is broken' sticker which (Obviously!!) has been broken!
A close up of the piston conversion with a steel piston liner..
And the replacement 'silent' roller, By the way, The brown stuff is grease although it looks like rust!!
The serial number and a bit of the stock that it came in..
I also have an old HW80 that came to me in a Venom Vantage (Lefty) stock but with a HW85 4.5mm barrel fitted!, It has a strange straight trigger blade fitted, The owner told me when I bought it that they had fitted a massive Ox spring in it and it was massively powerful!
When I got it home and tried it it was horrible to shoot, there was such a massive vibration that it felt like both hands were getting an electric shock!
I removed the offending item and cut off over 2" of preload and collapsed the end then ground it flat on my linisher, I put it back together and it was like shooting a different gun alltogether!
The trigger blade.
I don't recall what the internals of this rifle were like as it was probably twenty years ago or more since I shorthened the mainspring and these days im luck if I can recall what I had for dinner yesterday!
Cheers, John..
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I always wondered whether my stock was original weihrauch. The gun is 1984 but I purchased it in a rough state from this forum 20 years ago. I had it reblued by someone who worked with target sports in Bolton, I refinished the stock and had it lazaglide tuned by Steve pope.
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