Air pistol HW 44: Our new model HW 44, pre-charged air pistol from Weihrauch: *** Scope Sold Separately ***
• excellent accuracy • vibration free shot release • fast and easy repeating • 10-shot magazine capacity • built in, fillable air cartridge with 200 bar • integral pressure gauge and quick-fill equipment • with regulator • system available also left-handed (against extra charge) • available in cal. .177" (4,5 mm), .20" (5,0 mm) and .22" (5,5 mm) • well-balanced • two stage adjustable match trigger with manual safety • slip-resistant pistol grip fits for right- and left-handed shooters • Picatinny rail mount. (Moderator and scope against extra charge)
Weihrauch HW44 Air Pistol, FAC Version
Weihrauch Sport has a deserved reputation for making quality airguns. The HW44 pistol caused quite a stir when it was launched, and now I finally get to see why. The action will be familiar to all of you who know Weihrauch’s latest PCP rifle, the HW110. Yes, the HW44 pistol is basically a scaled down HW110 rifle. Unless you count paper-punching guns, then scaling down a PCP rifle to make a pistol is how it’s been done right from the beginning of the PCP era, and I am old enough to have seen it all happening, so I know this for a fact. In the UK, only the Daystate Competa pistol was designed as a pistol from the ground up and they didn’t make many of those – I have No 57 – so I was really excited to get my mitts on the HW44. I love all things pistol and, indeed, all things Weihrauch, so I had very high expectations of it. From the start, the supreme quality and design is what sets the HW44 apart. It’s based on the 110 action, and this is not a small pistol. They haven’t just sawn off a 110, though, they have rejigged the outlying design to make it into a pistol, but the lever action etc. is the same as on the 110. Don’t get me wrong, you can fire it successfully with one hand, but it’s TOP VALUE GUNS FUSS-BUSTER! Tim Finley finds out why the Weihrauch HW44 caused such a commotion far easier using two, and it can also be rested on a bench and shot that way. SWAP OVER Whichever way you shoot the HW44, it is supremely accurate, as you would expect. The cocking/loading lever sits on the left-hand side, so a right-handed shooter can hold the pistol and operate the multi-shot function, and the HW44 has another trick up its sleeve. The grip is ambidextrous so a left-handed shooter is just as at home with the HW44, grip-wise, although the cocking lever can be tricky for a lefty because the right hand has to reach over the action to get at it without breaking grip. However, I spoke to Hull Cartridge and was told that a left-handed HW44 can be assembled, in the factory or at Hull Cartridge, by swapping the lever over to the other side and having the magazine release lever changed to the right, as well. The additional cost for this is £45. The safety catch is ambidextrous and shows a big red dot when it’s ready to fire. A good point is that the safety can only be applied when the action is cocked, so you can easily check if it is cocked or not, just by trying to put the safety catch on. The 10-round rotary magazine holds the pellets in place with a very simple ‘O’ ring system, and the flat part of the magazine goes to the barrel face. It can only be inserted from the left-hand side and when the action is cocked and the lever in the rear position and the magazine release lever pushed upward. A fantastic piece of design on all of the HW multi-shots is the fact that you cannot double load, i.e. put two pellets or more into the barrel by operating the cocking/ loading lever – the mechanism prevents it.