Better to admit you walked through the wrong door than spend your life in the wrong room
Pig, pig ugly beyond words....i didnt think something could be designed to look so bad or be so big in the hand. Even the 70s Scorpion pistol looks and handles better.
Look at the styling and handiness of say a Crosman 150 but this designed 50 years ago..
Maybe these people need some pointers ...
Keep it handy....a pistol doesnt really need to be longer than 9.5 inches, or look like a 1960 Star Trek prop.
Give it some sleek styling for pride of ownership .
If they had simply made a double pump valve for the HW75 it would have sold all day long at 300 quid.
The other way around, wanting an air pistol to look like a cartridge arm is waltism of the first order.
A PPK makes a good humane dispatch pistol.
Well, it was only bulk a moment ago...
Weight: The HW44 weighs 1.15kg whereas the Steyr LP 50 weighs 1.05Kg, a difference of 100 grams and therefore insignificant, certianly in side by side shooting by myself and, to pick one other at random, the current British 10m air pistol champion...
Size: I cant see how this is anything other than a visual objection given the low weight and the excellent balance.
Design: What aspect of the design exactly offends here, the excellent, proven engineering or is it the visual design?
Price: It costs what it costs, you are paying for the action, trigger and barrel. Stocks cost next to nothing for a large manufacturer with a pantograph so no saving there, the action and trigger arre the same as the rifle and the barrel isn't any cheaper by virtue of being a bit shorter than the rifle barrel. Do you hold thew HW100 to be overpriced?
Looks: It's an air pistol, are there any good looking air pistols?
Which strikes at the very heart of the issue, it is not a pistol for wankers.
"An infinite number of monkeys banging away at type writers for an infinite period of time will eventually reproduce Hamlet" Thanks to discussion forums we now know this to be untrue.
And the Steyr LP 50s arse.
And of course, the HW44’s phat booty.
"An infinite number of monkeys banging away at type writers for an infinite period of time will eventually reproduce Hamlet" Thanks to discussion forums we now know this to be untrue.
Looks: It's an air pistol, are there any good looking air pistols?
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The Mayor: Intent? How did you establish that?
Harry Callahan: When a man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher’s knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn’t out collecting for the Red Cross.
"An infinite number of monkeys banging away at type writers for an infinite period of time will eventually reproduce Hamlet" Thanks to discussion forums we now know this to be untrue.
I personally think the HW45 and HW75 are ugly. They look like a 1911 that lost all self respect and has been binge eating to try to feel better.
FWB P8X,Hammerli AP40, Steyr LP1 Walther LPM-1, CPM-1, CP1, CP2, LP3, LP53, LP300, LP400, Terrus, Pardini P10, FX Wildcat .177, HW100 .22, AA S410 .22, BSA R10 MK2 .177, , HW77, 80, 90 BB AK47, S&W 586 and more blow back Co2 BBs than you can shake a stick at
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popped up today. not watched yet. FAC power though.
Last edited by bighit; 29-12-2017 at 09:35 PM.
OK, lol... the 600 is an iconic exception that I'd forgotten about.
Pah, unless you happen to 'do' some sort of rare and unusual form of rapid-fire air pistol shooting - the LP50 is a pain in the arse to use with it's single-shot mag' (which you must use for match target shooting), and the LP 5/50 trigger is much much, much much much worse than the LP 1/10 trigger.