I picked up this 35E in Hickory this year...the HW 35 was the first gun to catch my eye in my first Beeman catalog back in the day, and I've seen few prettier than this one. It's no powerhouse (clocked it at about 7.5 FPE with Superdomes, almost 9 FPE with Hobbys), but wow - it's definitely a shooter! Benched it for the first time yesterday, resulting in my best-ever iron-sight Superdome group, followed by an hour of effortlessly mowing down 2-inch high pill bottles at a measured 35 yards.
Serial number is from 1966. It's the classic Euro version with 22" barrel (most other 35's are 19") and the "Export" (supposedly US-flavored) stock. The gun is darn near 4 feet long and has a 35-inch sight radius as you see it here. It almost feels like cheating to shoot it at 10 meters...the barrel reaches halfway there, LOL! The longer barrel moves the balance point forward a couple inches, too.
OEM breech seal on these was leather. As with the HW 55, the recess for this is oddly angled, deeper at the top than the bottom. But it arrived with a dead plastic seal, which I replaced after concocting a tapered shim to go under it. Also, a previous owner replaced the regrettably thin and fragile OEM Rekord trigger blade of those days with a stouter later version.
It came without sights. Seen here is an Anschutz front, and a solid steel "turret" style Weihrauch rear sight which is even older than the gun. These were OEM on HW 55's in the 1950's - which then had slightly narrower scope grooves - but this example was professionally tweaked to be a perfect fit on this later rifle with "13 mm" grooves.
Serial number is from 1966. It's the classic Euro version with 22" barrel (most other 35's are 19") and the "Export" (supposedly US-flavored) stock. The gun is darn near 4 feet long and has a 35-inch sight radius as you see it here. It almost feels like cheating to shoot it at 10 meters...the barrel reaches halfway there, LOL! The longer barrel moves the balance point forward a couple inches, too.
OEM breech seal on these was leather. As with the HW 55, the recess for this is oddly angled, deeper at the top than the bottom. But it arrived with a dead plastic seal, which I replaced after concocting a tapered shim to go under it. Also, a previous owner replaced the regrettably thin and fragile OEM Rekord trigger blade of those days with a stouter later version.
It came without sights. Seen here is an Anschutz front, and a solid steel "turret" style Weihrauch rear sight which is even older than the gun. These were OEM on HW 55's in the 1950's - which then had slightly narrower scope grooves - but this example was professionally tweaked to be a perfect fit on this later rifle with "13 mm" grooves.
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