My last springer purchase.

[NTSOG]

Hello Arthur,

Having been laughed out of a local gunshop two days ago when I said I would only buy one more air-rifle - the staff remember me saying three guns ago that I wasn't buying any more - is your statement absolute legally binding, as in "Yes dear this is the very last rifle I'm going to buy - ever!"?

Jim

via Ballarat
Australia.

[MartynB]

Hello Arthur,

Having been laughed out of a local gunshop two days ago when I said I would only buy one more air-rifle - the staff remember me saying three guns ago that I wasn't buying any more - is your statement absolute legally binding, as in "Yes dear this is the very last rifle I'm going to buy - ever!"?

Jim

via Ballarat
Australia.

Title should read "My lastest springer purchase"

[vestlenning]

Go for a used 35 first, enjoy, then ponder the 77 (your last + 1 springer purchase).

http://barx.org/airguns/?id=weihrauch_35

[Geezer]

Both of these are best bought used, and you ought to just be able to buy both used for the price of one new one.

Apart from holding value, the older 35s have wood and metal that is better than current HWs (though you have to navigate the waters of leaky breeches and 13mm scope rails), and the older 25mm 77 is slightly better than the current (26mm) ones, and the older 26mm ones are at least as good as current production.

And, yes, .22". Easier to buy used, as more made/sold, and I like .22" in sproingers.

[Arthur John Smithsplease]

Thanks again for your continuing interest.

[Muskett]

To me a HW77 is a .177 machine. In that calibre it excels.
To me a .22 is for shooting and fun, which translates to a break barrel.

I've had a HW35E in .177 and it did little for me. I'd have one in .22.
I have a Venom HW77 in .177, can't say I'll ever let it go. In fact all the HW77's in .177 that have crossed my path have tac drived.

I can't see any good reason to get either new as both can be found second hand and many older ones have nicer furniture that the present factory offerings. Anything more modern in the HW range then OK, but even then loads sold and there are plenty hardly used ones on the market. Frankly springers are hard to master for many in this modern age, and why bother when a PCP delivers... so they "upgrade" quite quickly leaving well priced new model springers for those who appreciate the springer quirks.

[Shed tuner]

buy secondhand, you will lose nothing if you don't like it...