Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Weihrauch HW 77 (HW for Hermann Weihrauch) is an underlever-cocked, spring-piston air rifle developed and manufactured by the German sporting weapons manufacturer Weihrauch. Renowned for its accuracy, the HW 77 is widely considered the most successful underlever air rifle ever made. [ 1 ]
The Weihrauch HW 35 is a break barrel, spring-powered, air rifle first produced in 1951 by Weihrauch & Weihrauch located in Mellrichstadt, Bavaria.Available in 4,5 mm and 5,5 mm calibers, with standard and carbine (K) length barrels, it has been in continuous production since its launch, even though the Weihrauch HW 80 superseded it in the late 1990s.
The HW 35 was Weihrauch's first mass-market, high-powered, spring-powered sporter air rifle. However, with time, the HW 35 became technically obsolete as newer, more advanced air rifles entered the market. The HW 80, HW 85 and HW 95 were all designed as evolutionary replacements for the HW 35, and all occupy the same approximate market segment.
The Walther LGR air rifle was developed by the German arms manufacturer Carl Walther GmbH Sportwaffen as a high end match rifle for 10 metre air rifle competition shooting. The LGR was the first match air rifle that employed the then futuristic single-stroke pneumatic method as power source. This use of pre compressed air introduced the ...
The air reservoir was in the club-shaped stock. With a full air reservoir, the Girardoni air rifle had the capacity to shoot 30 shots at useful pressure. These balls were effective to approximately 125 yd (114 m) on a full air reservoir. The power declined as the air reservoir was emptied. [12]
The new owners had no interest in air rifle production and production never resumed. Sterling was again sold in 1989 to British Aerospace and, after the assets were stripped , ceased trading. In 1988 the rights to the designs were purchased by Benjamin-Sheridan [ 3 ] and the HR-81 and HR-83 then enjoyed limited production in the USA. [ 4 ]
Fredrik Axelsson had been an avid airgun enthusiast since he started shooting since 5 years of age. [4] At the end of 1989, he started making things for airguns after being disappointed by an English-made .22 caliber spring-piston air rifle he purchased for shooting pigeons in a tree, with which he had done very little actual shooting because the spring broke after a couple of months.
The Texan is a big bore rifle initially offered in .457 then later in .357 and .308 and in the .457 version is advertised at the 500fpe power level. The Texan is now offered in .257. Two additional versions of the Texan are offered, the Texan Carbine and the TexanSS both use a shorter 24" barrel with later equipped with an upsized SoundLoc system.