HW/Weihrauch Newer Style Stocks..barf!!

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harrympope

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The new stocks with the weird cut away at the butt and Minelli and Weihrauch name in the area (where solid stippling or checkering should be) to me is just not appealing. I admit to being an old fart and preferring traditional shaped sporting stocks. I disliked them so much I ordered a couple of R7 stocks for my HW30's

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No problem with either of the styles. Have both, enjoy both. No sick feelings in my stomach. Now, I am absolutely a sucker for wood stocks with character and charm! Synthetic, now I'm barfing with ya. Don't make 'em black or folks get scared. Get what you like, someone out there has it or will make it for you. :sneaky:
 
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I am with you. The old gaudy stocks like KWK’s that the good late Dr. Beeman brought in spoiled us old farts rotten. I still think Weihrauch is missing a market by not offering a deluxe version like the originals. I mean exactly like the old ones. Color, finish and hand checkering. Us old guys that when young and couldn’t afford what we saw back in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s now have the $ to do it. Hence the ridiculous prices of the vintage ones. Option number two is a custom stock. Steve Corcoran made this lefty for me. His first HW30/R7 lefty. Sold the beech stock to another (nice) member here on AGN as a new take off. Helped fund the custom stock. Did several this way. No regrets.
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They wouldn't even need to have nice wood. My old Beeman Kodiak had a beautifully styled beech stock on it with a raised right hand cheekpiece, but the wood grain was just meh and I'm pretty sure the checkering was pressed. Still it was a really nice stock and I really wish my HWs came with something similar.

Air Arms makes some really beautiful stocks as well, many of which are also just plain beech.

Even Hatsan makes decent wood stocks and manages to put them on budget level airguns. The Hatsan 135 even comes with an adjustable cheekpiece and buttplate and they put that on a $300 gun.

I'd gladly pay $50 more for an HW with a Hatsan stock.
 
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KWK said:
That's a Venom or Venom Replica
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Yeah, I just grabbed a picture of a Tomahawk from online and then realized soon after posting that it was obviously a custom stock. Still, it's a good example of a stock with attractive contours. Even if it were made of poplar and covered in shellac it would look way better than what HW is currently putting out.
 
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I bought a 35 last year, opted for the 35e model so I could get the walnut, traditional cut stock. A year or so I got a HW97 with a thumbhole stock. Never could like it so orderd a tyrolean from custom stocks, and swapped a standard stock from a 77 onto the 97 and put the tyrolean on the 77,
I see pictures of some fancy, with really excptional wood, but weird shaped stocks, and no thanks, I do like the good wood, but want a traditional shaped stock.
IMHO that cut out on the bottom of the newer HW guns is sick.
 
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Bear-of-Grayling said:
I am with you. The old gaudy stocks like KWK’s that the good late Dr. Beeman brought in spoiled us old farts rotten. I still think Weihrauch is missing a market by not offering a deluxe version like the originals. I mean exactly like the old ones. Color, finish and hand checkering. Us old guys that when young and couldn’t afford what we saw back in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s now have the $ to do it. Hence the ridiculous prices of the vintage ones. Option number two is a custom stock. Steve Corcoran made this lefty for me. His first HW30/R7 lefty. Sold the beech stock to another (nice) member here on AGN as a new take off. Helped fund the custom stock. Did several this way. No regrets.View attachment 422971
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Those are really nice, the grain is..👌🏻
 
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harrympope said:
The new stocks with the weird cut away at the butt and Minelli and Weihrauch name in the area (where solid stippling or checkering should be) to me is just not appealing. I admit to being an old fart and preferring traditional shaped sporting stocks. I disliked them so much I ordered a couple of R7 stocks for my HW30's

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Yes pretty fugly.
 
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harrympope said:
The new stocks with the weird cut away at the butt and Minelli and Weihrauch name in the area (where solid stippling or checkering should be) to me is just not appealing. I admit to being an old fart and preferring traditional shaped sporting stocks. I disliked them so much I ordered a couple of R7 stocks for my HW30's

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AoA was showing an HW70'S "Custom", which had the old shape stock shape, but had "Weihrauch" cut into the checkering. That is what I did to avoid that new stock shape problem.

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Yes pretty fugly.
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I like the newest version of the HW30S stock over the previous edition with no checkering(y).
However, the previous HW50S stock is preferred over the latest incarnation.

On both, the butt stock cut-out is not appealing and the newest checking/stippling is too busy ......... in the HW30S, it's an acceptable upgrade from my older "Plain Jane" stock with with no visible grain.

The HW30S deluxe, stock's are nice and the old Beeman R7 (Goudy) stock were beautiful.
 
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SpiralGroove said:
I like the newest version of the HW30S stock over the previous edition with no checkering(y).
However, the previous HW50S stock is preferred over the latest incarnation.

On both, the butt stock cut-out is not appealing and the newest checking/stippling is too busy ......... in the HW30S, it's an acceptable upgrade from my older "Plain Jane" stock with with no visible grain.

The HW30S deluxe, stock's are nice and the old Beeman R7 (Goudy) stock were beautiful.
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I like the laminate HW30, do they make a laminate for the 50S?
 
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