The 2012 Mystery of the .20 Left Hand Stock HW80.....

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So if you notice the dates of manufacture below the HW80 .20 came to me in the Left Hand Stock and LOW serial number dated 2012 for manufacture.
While getting the HW95L .25 and waiting I thought about the way this gun must have ended up in my hands being a right hander.

I called Lauren at AOA to find the gun in Left Hand cost $100 more and that it had been a mistake to send it to me send it back and we'll get you a Right Hand!

But I already glombed onto it too late and shot it and put the Vortex Viper 30mm tube on it in a Bullseye Zero Recoil Mount from Diana.  I also found out the stock, despite being Left Handed, was perfect alignment of cheek to comb on the Right side.  So I switched to the Left Hand offhand and began firing using my Left Eye (not dominate) and after double eye focus to left the rifle felt PERFECT in my Left Hand Stand!  Even my trigger finger on the Left was working as smoothly as my right.  Well, I was a switch hitter in Baseball and find the rifle to be DOUBLY useful for me in either stance left or right!

Then the date.  Almost eight years this rifle has been in a box untouched!  A left-hander's dream is also a switch hitter's dream!

This morning I shot my HW80 .20 at 0345 Hours! Earliest shooting I've done lately!

Was this providence?

[Yogi]

This morning I shot my HW80 .20 at 0345 Hours! Earliest shooting I've done lately!

Was this providence?

No this is called insomnia.   
Glad you can shoot both ways.  Look up the story of a Hungarian pistol shooter who won the Gold medal at the 1936 Olympics, lost his hooting hand in the war, and then won the Silver medal at the 1948 London games.  Truly heart warming.

-Y

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I'm getting up earlier and earlier thinking about air rifles and what to shoot next out of my inventory while I continue working in new ones.  I have stopped acquisition and find I have enough to do with what I have for the rest of my life and a few others'.

I am having fun!  I take one out at a time from the glass cabinet from the .25 Theoben to the HW30 or R7, shooting and retightening screws that still want to work loose!  Add the shifting impacts over time and me going through tins of different brands and weights for each rifle!  Again, the .177s are all PICKY and the .20 is where things "settle down" for me and off hand hold.

I have it now I can pick up any springer and know where it shoots within a half inch at 25 yards.  Seems all of them are sighted in for 25 yards no matter how fast they go! 
So today I spent all the time with the .20 HW80 who needed to have screws retightened anyway!

I'd say out of the bunch the real shooters over and over are the HW30S .22 and the HW95L .25.  They are so alike in behavior with one being the big brother.