Are HW's still worth the $$$

[umpreacher]

My HWs are quality guns. The Rekord trigger is great and they are accurate. I find myself shooting them and letting the others collect dust. Wish I could afford more HWs. You can't go wrong with a HW.

[Tomcat]

Another fan of HW products, here.  I have a HW97 and a HW30s.  Both are fine shooters, probably the best I have.  My 30s is very pleasant to shoot, easy cocking, and accurate.  The cocking linkage does rub the bottom of the compression tube, but is easily fixed with a small piece of delrin wedged inside the link and left a few thousandths high.  Makes it slide smoothly without marring the compression tube. 

The HW97 is in .177 cal, and stacks JSB's.  I have recently adjusted the trigger to my liking and installed a setback trigger which made the reach a little shorter.  Just made it more comfortable in my hands.  I would have no hesitation buying another HW product.

Oh, I also had a HW75 SSP pistol, which I have sold, and it was very accurate.  No complaints with it either.

[RedFeather]

I have exactly one HW gun, an early RX.  Looking at the later RX2, I would go for an early Beeman, especially in an R1.  Mechanically, the new and old might be the same but aesthetically the older guns had nicer touches like grip caps.

[EMrider]

Ditto what most other owners have mentioned.  I have two R7s and they are remarkable guns. Accurate, reliable, quiet and easy to handle. Very well built and likely to last decades.

I have seen at least two pro tuners comment that "right now" is the golden era of HW design and build quality. I found that noteworthy because so often people like to whine about how everything was made better 20-30 years ago and how products made today just do not measure up. 

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