Hahaha!
Seriously, though......just have a think for a few minutes if Weihrauch airguns didn't exist, or if they hadn't started to become popular over here in the late 70s / early 80s, how different things might have turned out? Would BSA and Webley have just sat on their laurels and just kept taking the easy money for as long as they could or would they have developed their ranges into more modern, more accurate and better engineered guns? Competition usually drives more competition and further development / improvements. But, as we're all too painfully aware, many of their better guns came far too late to salvage the situation......the Longbow, Tomahawk, Stingray, Xocet, Omega, Eclipse, Superstar etc........how different things may have been had the development and launches of these happened a few years earlier.......
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It seems to have been the way with British industry in that era Tone; carry on making what you always did, smug in the fact that you're the best, then get overtaken by foreign competition and make a half arsed attempt to catch up before rolling over, belly up (air rifles, cars, motorcycles, the list goes on..)
100% absolutely, Mark, and so sad.
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Far too many rifles to list now, all mainly British but the odd pesky foreigner has snuck in
In my opinion and much as I love them Theoben are the epitome of sitting on your laurels
The Rapid was (and still is) great
I love my 2 rammers
But just a bit more development would have made a huge difference
For accuracy up to 80 yards there is no difference between my RAW and friends Steyrs which shows what could be achieved
Pete
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