Your Favorite Springer OEM Factory Stock

[Bear-of-Grayling]

It’s time to bring out your favorite OEM (original equipment manufacturer) springer stock. When Dr. Robert Beeman introduced Americans to “Adult Precision Airguns” he was wise enough to have Weihrauch color and hand checker the Beech stocks like no other. They even had a palm swell. They were classy and beautiful. Only the Weihrauch lineup had these wonderful stocks. Some were Walnut.
These are my favorites (nothing spectacular but better than the new Beech models). A vintage HW55T and the new HW35E. Both in Walnut. The 35E is the final chapter in the Weihrauch “Walnut“ produced stocks.
I have seen some gorgeous OEM springer stocks right here on AGN. Show us your favorites.

 

[Sqwirl57]

Unpopular opinion (?): I think the new 35E stocks look nicer than the old ones. Whether they function better or not I have no idea but I really like the side checkering. The 55T stock is just drop dead gorgeous though.

 

[KWK]

Weihrauch did not do exactly as Beeman directed. That's how we got the "not a Goudy" stocks. I actually prefer the Monte Carlo stocks Weihrauch delivered to a true Goudy stock. The only Goudy stock you could get were through the custom shop. Straight combs with a cheekpiece and no step.
My favorite factory stocks that I own are on my Webley Tomahawks
You don't often see beech as nice as my R7. See how well I keep them after 35 years? My wife still loves the R7
Our son Weston shooting it about 10 years ago

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[MDriskill]

Those are certainly two beauties! Some of my faves...

Yeah, ya simply gotta love the HW 55T, to me it is really the prettiest, best-proportioned of the Tyros offered by Walther, Diana, FWB, and Weihrauch back in the day. Here's an oldster with finger-groove fore end, rounded red buttplate, and barrel sleeve:

Another fave is the Walther LGV Olympia. A masterpiece of elegant design, re-interpreting a pre-war traditional German stock shape with crisp modern details. The fore end is interesting; wide and rounded underneath, but the sides slope to make it quite narrow at the top. It's thus comfortable to carry, and ergonomically very good for either target or sport shooting:

Finally the Diana model 50, whose slender, rounded stock lines are both attractive and very comfortable - Dennis Hiller famously referred to this rifle as having "sexual overtones," LOL! This target-shooting variant has the nifty "star" front and two-mode rear sights, and a nice piece of old-growth beech, too:

 

[KWK]

These are interesting stocks but my ape hands seem way too big for them. Doesn't stop me from shooting them

 

[KWK]

A lot of folks like the way these handle. Still LNIB

 

[crowski]

My TX200 has probably the nicest looks out of the box.

Crow

 

[DualMagMike]

Tyrolean's are some of my absolute favorites also.

 

[SpiralGroove]

Jeez Guys,
Does anyone want to sell one of those HW55's?
It's my last dream gun .... I don't even want a tyro stock - regular walnut will do.
Kirk

 

[KWK]

Vintage BSA guys find these stocks desirable. Straight hand stock was an optional stock available at slightly less cost. 1908 Improved Model D light pattern and an early 1919 Improved Model D light pattern L 373. The last of the IMD's and the last of the straight hand stocks. The 373rd BSA assembled after WW1

 

[ChuckHunter]

Would have to be my Venom Sidewinder Tomahawk!!! Shoots as good as it looks!

 

[ChuckHunter]

First year production R9 .20 not to shabby for beach!

 

[SteveP-52]

They're just inexpensive Turk Built aka Hatsan built Webley Tomahawks, and nothing more than a Hatsan Model 95 in a fancier stock, but they're definitely prettier than the Model 95's and springers, not gas rams.

 

[sonnysan]

Probably the R1 MKI:

https://airgunwarriors.com/community/airgun-talk/beeman-r-1-laser-mk1-20/#post-45683

I still love the high cheekpiece on the II & III. So many squirrels have seen the light with the MKIII:

All R-1 Laser Stock Versions

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[ChuckHunter]

Probably the R1 MKI:

https://airgunwarriors.com/community/airgun-talk/beeman-r-1-laser-mk1-20/#post-45683

I still love the high cheekpiece on the II & III. So many squirrels have seen the light with the MKIII:

All R-1 Laser Stock Versions

This post has been 20 years in the making. Finally got all my laser laminates together (Have a lazerized R-1 FT too, but that doesn't count). 1. R...

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I missed a buy on a Mk111 a couple years ago!!! Still lusting after one! Maybe some day.

 

[cjtamu]

My favorite springer stock is the one on this Diana 52 Luxus. The front of the fore stock is a different type of walnut than the rest of the stock, grip cap is rosewood.

 

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[r1lover]

Tyroleans aside, this is my favorite stock. Not as fancy as a "T" but I've only seen pictures of 2 others which makes the combination of features seem very unique. It's obviously a 10m gun which dictates that the contour of the grip be more vertical and the reach to the trigger shorter than the average field stock. I have big hands yet find HW55's grip angle and compact proportions between grip and trigger more comfortable than any other HW. I imagine the feel is similar to having a set back trigger. The stock has the cheek piece similar to that found on "M" models which is very comfortable and aligns my eye perfectly to the OEM diopter sight or scopes mounted in medium rings. However, the fore end is similar to "S" models which is more rounded underneath than the "M" models and without the accessory rail. It also has traditional finger grooves found on the "S", all of which I find more pleasant in hand than the "M". One thing I think was an oversight on HW's part is the grip lacks the comfortable, old school right hand palm swell found on "M" and "T" models and other early Beeman R field models. I added the adjustable butt pad which combined with the other features makes this stock shoulder and feel as close to a Tyrolean without being one as possible.

 

[KWK]

Probably the R1 MKI:

https://airgunwarriors.com/community/airgun-talk/beeman-r-1-laser-mk1-20/#post-45683

I still love the high cheekpiece on the II & III. So many squirrels have seen the light with the MKIII:

All R-1 Laser Stock Versions

This post has been 20 years in the making. Finally got all my laser laminates together (Have a lazerized R-1 FT too, but that doesn't count). 1. R...

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The Mark 1 looks like a real Goudy stock. Straight comb with a cheekpiece. Really does look like an American design doesn't it? Is this what Beeman wanted his R series stocks to look like when Weihrauch declined to use his Goudy design?

I would bet the Mk2 and 3 were made in UK by Custom Stocks LTD. They look so "Theoben"

 

[Uglyjohn]

The HW98. Adj. comb makes it usable with a big scope. Ambi too. Uj