Congrats. I've been running the Williams peep on my 35E from day one. The 35E is a great choice as an iron sight gun.
Glad you’re enjoying it, sounds like you got a great gun. Mine likes the same pellets, with a slight edge to the AA. And the chrono numbers for it are silly good. Looking forward to hearing how you like the peep on it.
It arrived in the usual, amazing, two days from Krale in the Netherlands; shipped Tuesday afternoon and got here in upstate NY this morning (Thurs.). Nice.I was initially very concerned because the outer box had a large hole ripped in it. The inner Weihrauch box was perfect, thank goodness. The rifle is as pretty as they all are. The barrel is polished to a finer finish than my other Weihrauchs and the blueing in very nice. It looks as smooth as the black chrome on other barrels. The action is not quite polished as well. It still looks very nice overall, though. The action screws were properly tight and the barrel pivot was adjust properly, right out of the box. The action of the breech lock was very gritty, though. I flushed out the mechanism with Hornady One Shot and applied some moly grease and ceramic lube to it. After a few cycles, it was much smoother. I pulled a bore snake through the barrel a few times.I went out to the back yard and set up a cardboard box with some 2" black dot stickers at 20 yards but I took the first shot at a 2" steel swinger at that range, thinking I'd fire the rifle several times before putting it on the paper target and getting it sighted in. To my surprise, I spun the swinger every time with my first five shots; the sights were set pretty good out of the box. No heavy dieseling was evident, just a hint of burnt lube fragrance and some tiny wafts of smoke from the breech for a few shots. The shot cycle was clean and smooth with no twang. Cocking was smooth and easy. I don't feel any need to add a tune kit. (I do have JM or Vortek kits in most of my other springers.)I got a nice group (for my eyesight and open sights on a dark and gloomy day)... the kind where you can see that you're eating a hole in the target without using a spotting scope or binoculars. Elevation was perfect but the shots were in the left half of the black target dot. Some clicks of windage centered things up. The rifle shot JSB Exact 8.4gr. and Air Arms Diabolo Field 8.44gr. very accurately and to pretty much the same point of impact. At that point in the shooting my target dots wouldn't stay stuck on the box, so I continued shooting at the swingers. RWS Superdomes didn't hit the swinger every time, nor did the Predator Polymags or H&N Crow Magnums I tried. I did get about a 50% hit rate with those pellets, so the POI is close, but not the same as the JSB Exact or AA Diabolo Field, or maybe the rifle doesn't like them as much. I could whack the swinger every time with the JSBs and Air Arms pellets. I'll figure out where the others hit on a warmer day when my fingers aren't numb and the target dots will stay stuck on the box!I think the HW35E is backyard friendly. I believe the pellet hitting the target was louder than the rifle report. It was really whacking the targets, but with a shot cycle that seemed milder than I'd expect for a rifle to be whacking the targets as hard as it was. I shot almost 100 pellets before my fingers were too cold and ruining the fun.Back inside, I checked the screws again and all were still tight. The barrel pivot tension was still perfect, too. The breech lock system really smoothed out nicely and I wiped the moly grease of the breech lock bar as it was sometimes getting on my fingers if they strayed as I loaded pellets. I gave the stock a rub-down with BLO. I'll lube the cocking shoe and slot with some moly for good measure and put some thread locker on the action screws to insure they stay where they are.I love this rifle! I have a Williams peep I was going to put on it but can't locate it at the moment. It's around here somewhere! I will be buying one of the nice Airforce Adaptive diopter sights for it in the future.I have an HW30, a Beeman R7, an HW90, and now this HW35E. They have all been essentially perfect out of the box with a very nice fit and finish, excellent accuracy, and free of any issues. I have become a big Weihrauch fan.
Any pictures? Even though i own an HW35E, i still like to look at pictures.
I have had the same experience a couple of times with the outer box being badly damaged, once with a hole. My UPS driver wanted me to open to make sure it was not damaged and fortunately the inner/factory box was ok. Folks at Krale shipping had just given the factory box a quick wrap around the middle with some bubble wrap and stuck in the shipping box, very loose to flop around, really not good packaging. I am surprised that they do not get a lot of guns damaged packaged like that.
Hard to go wrong with a 35! Sounds like a great one...and wow the shipping time is amazine!On the front sight, I typically sight-in with the ring insert, but plink with the tapered post. But one of my few gripes with HW is the 17mm tunnel on the front sight, and the limited range of inserts that they supply. If you get the urge to upgrade, an old Anschutz sight will fit. In addition to the huge range of inserts Anschutz themselves made, you can get fine photo-etched custom inserts from Lee Shaver, and a host of accessories that fit the slightly larger 18mm tunnel thread.Anschutz sight on Weihrauch barrel:Sample of Anschutz front inserts:
Bob, there's a small learning curve and some practice involved using an aperture front sight, but that's what I use most on my bullseye shooting. As for size, I like seeing a thin circle of light around the bull when viewing though the aperture. For field shooting at a wide variety of target types, much prefer using a post insert. Far more practical for targets with different shapes and distances. Apertures are really designed for bullseye shooting at specific distances.