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This is why you ask the experts! o_O I didn't even hear the second noise...

I agree, I've never been a fan of the poor selection of inserts HW offers for their front sights, and their diameter and side tab pattern is proprietary - no other brand will fit. Seems to me the market is wide open for some enterprising sort to offer some photo-etch alternatives. I use ring...

I agree and disagree. A double link is more complex than a single one, typically takes a bit more effort due to decreased leverage, and of course there's the eternally-debated wear issue where the knuckle hits under the compression tube. I can see why folks dislike it. But the big advantage...

The "clack" you hear is the "knuckle" of the 2-piece cocking linkage popping up against the bottom of the receiver (it happens when you cock the gun, too). Happens when un-cocking the gun against mainspring pressure, but not when closing the barrel after cocking. Though improved in recent years...

Many, many thanks to you gents for this technical info - fascinating and a real education. Learning new stuff is why we hang out on forums - and it shows that there is a spectrum of airgun shooting out there. I'm more collector than shooter, frankly. "Consistency," "accuracy," and "power" are...

Back in the day, Weihrauch furnished simple flush-fitting blued grub screws for HW 55's, or other rifles sold sans breech-mounted sights. Robert Law's original Air RIfle Headquarters - who sold a lot of peep sights and scopes - offered brass ones, too. As r1lover mentioned, the thread is 5.0 x...

Thanks Ron - very interesting as always! I should have offered the caveat that I mostly shoot lower-powered old-timey springers and light-ish ammo, so my range of experience with ballistic numbers is well below many of the folks here. 17.0 vs.12.5 FPE is quite an extreme disparity in energy...

I've had the same experience - the AA Falcon is consistently excellent while its JSB sister design can vary. It's become a fave for my R7 and P1. To expand on the notes above re: pellet fit, I've found the 7.3 Falcons are faster at the muzzle than the 6.9 gr RWS Hobby in many guns. The latter...

I can't add to the excellent notes above - and this is a detour from the OP's question - but I would note that heavier pellets tend to have better ballistic coefficients, and thus retain velocity better. In other words, energy at the muzzle is not the whole story. The heavier pellet that...

FWB themselves made spacers for their standard buttplate, they are typically 10mm thick. Just one of those will get a Junior stock pretty close to a standard one.

Looking at your video, I actually couldn't discern any movement at all in the rotating sight element. And as Mycapt65 noted, nothing happens when shooting that would make the main blade move sideways. But if that tiny lateral wiggle bugs you, it might be cured by simply cranking down the sight's...

This older thread has some historical tidbits on those old HW 30's, and some notes on the one I reworked. You will note my "before" photo looks pretty much exactly like yours! I guarantee they were both ARH guns. :oops: https://www.airgunnation.com/threads/your-grandpas-hw-30.1322088/page-1

Wow those are a couple of classic beauties! The "U's" were definitely a great idea, I'm sure non-millionaire buyers appreciated being able to configure one of those fine rifles for more than one specialty. Running Target rules in springer days required one minor internal change to a standard...

I'm a bit confused by your comment. The seal on the gun in your first pics is clearly leather, and probably the original (HW didn't start using plastic seals in their smaller models until around 1985). The dark goop all over the place is likely ancient moly grease - Air Rifle Headquarters was...

Beautiful gun and NICE shooting! From the look of things you don't need much help, lol! But 2 cents from an old aperture sight fan: the secret to using the magnifying iris is realizing that the lens is not a panacea. The size of the aperture is still the main key to getting clear sight picture...

The barrel is 15mm OD on all four of my FWB's. I have heard of people removing the sleeves, but I am WAY too much of a klutz and a coward to ever point a torch at an FWB, lol. :oops: My 300 is unusual in having a beech stock, in addition to the un-glued sleeve. I've only seen one other beech...

There was a surprising amount of variation in those sleeves over the years. Among the guns I have: + 300S Junior: barrel 320mm long, with no sleeve ("naked" barrel is 15mm in diameter on all these guns). + 300 Match: barrel 445mm long, with a constant-diameter sleeve of 20mm diameter. Mine is...

I don't know for sure - and am away from my stash of Beeman catalogs and other references. But I do remember the first Beeman catalog I got in 1985 had the newer style stocks. So FWIW we can narrow it down between '80 and '85, at least! :rolleyes: The first version of the 300S Universal also...

I think "Mini" was just Beeman's marketing name. It was always the "Junior" elsewhere as far as I know. They did have one significant change of stock style during their run (stepped fore end on early ones, straight tapered fore end later), a possible source of confusion. As far as I know, there...

The sleeve was actually an upgrade extra in the European market, but Beeman made them a "mandatory option" on most of the ones he imported! You are right, it makes a HUGE difference in balance and handling; for most of us they are more pleasant shooters sans sleeve.