Hw44

[Inspector 71]

From the marketing blurb I've seen so far they seem to be pushing it as a professional pest control tool, rather than as a "plinking" pistol.
I quite like how it looks, and while it is pricy it is basically all the expensive bits of the HW100, cut down & without a stock.

But we* don't hunt with pistols so they're barking up the wrong tree in the UK.

With £620 to spend, you'd get a very competent vermin control combo - S410+scope for example. Delivering 11ft/lbs into 20mm circles all day long.
You wouldn't bother with a sub 6ft/lb pistol.

They've dropped a massive Teutonic bollock with the 44.

*decent, responsible shooters (humane, close range dispatchers of captive quarry excepted).

[angrybear]

But we* don't hunt with pistols so they're barking up the wrong tree in the UK.

With £620 to spend, you'd get a very competent vermin control combo - S410+scope for example. Delivering 11ft/lbs into 20mm circles all day long.
You wouldn't bother with a sub 6ft/lb pistol.

They've dropped a massive Teutonic bollock with the 44.

*decent, responsible shooters (humane, close range dispatchers of captive quarry excepted).

It would probably be ideal for professional pest control in roof crawl spaces, tower-block air conditioning, etc clearing city feral pigeons, where a rifle would be too cumbersome.

But I agree, in the open pistols are not for hunting,

[averageplinker]

I agree with what has been said before somewhere on here; we in the UK are not the key target market for this pistol.
Rich.

[clarky]

I agree with what has been said before somewhere on here; we in the UK are not the key target market for this pistol.
Rich.

2 stroke HW75 ....£350 quid...self contained....then we talking.....club members been on a bout such an animal for years ...ive even tried to come up with a valve myself.

[Inspector 71]

Out of interest what is the HW75's MV?

[Rickenbacker]

Out of interest what is the HW75's MV?

Mine was 375 fps (2.50 fpe) using Bisley Practice pellets.

[clarky]

Mine was 375 fps (2.50 fpe) using Bisley Practice pellets.

They originally ran spec at 425 fps but then dropped to approx your figure presented here but now back up 400 fps plus again..
There is 2 theories for this being bandied about, one being they shifted the inlet hole very slightly....either to make cocking easy or other unidentified reason...such as excess oil in system but it does appear that the latest spec does seem to have slightly shifted inlet hole compared to mid term low power models...
I have one running 440 fps though by simply running a full lenghth barrel into the useless void.
Nobody ever bothered manufacturing a silencer for it rendering the void pointless.
HW should have realised running a barrel full lenght would benefit velocity...esp with it being over 30 mm long...used a standard piece of Crosman 1377 barrel for the mod....chucking the rest of the pain in the ass 1377 out with the tat.....bloody thing.