Hw44

[Inspector 71]

If its RRP is £450-500 where would it position itself? It's not a 10m match pistol and that would be a lot of cash for a tin shredder. If it's £550 with a shoulder stock, again it's a lot of cash for a sub-6ft/lb 20M ratter.

It looks great and I'm sure it will be accurate and consistent etc. but what is the reason for it being if it's going to cost a wedge? Pistol HFT is hardly booming (existing?) and you'd have to get a single shot adaptor for it.

Is it just a nice-to-have?

My comments from back in March. It transpires that the RRP is much higher than my estimate back then, hence my disgust. I simply cannot wish HW well with this new product.

[trick cyclist]

My comments from back in March. It transpires that the RRP is much higher than my estimate back then, hence my disgust. I simply cannot wish HW well with this new product.

Plus according to Lloyd at BAR, they will not apparently make much profit on it at this price either.

[clarky]

Plus according to Lloyd at BAR, they will not apparently make much profit on it at this price either.

i beleive the thing to be a huge error.....what every pistol enthusiast was waiting for is something more like a HW75 2 stroker version of the Alecto.....everyone hates all the plastic on the Alecto so HW had already done half the job..
With a modified valve my club fellows would have purchased 2 each at the 300 quid it currently runs at...
Id of bought one for fun without thinking twice.

[angrybear]

i beleive the thing to be a huge error.....what every pistol enthusiast was waiting for is something more like a HW75 2 stroker version of the Alecto.....everyone hates all the plastic on the Alecto so HW had already done half the job..
With a modified valve my club fellows would have purchased 2 each at the 300 quid it currently runs at...
Id of bought one for fun without thinking twice.

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.

[gingernut]

That was my point.
Cut down 110 so it can't be cheap.

[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.