AEAC's video review of the Weihrauch HW30S Deluxe Urban Pro .177

Very Nice review Steve! I've realy been enjoying your video reviews, they have a clean, professional look to them and I especially like the format.
That scope looks exactly like my BSA 2-7x32 outside of the fact that one has a fixed zoom. 

I wish I hadn't watched your review....Now I want one and I don't need one. But on second thought, do you think having grandsons is enough justification???

Steve, your level of professionalism is so well matched to your enthusiasm for air gunning and your videos capture this happy marriage very well. I do not envy your talents as those are gifts from God, but I do envy you that HW30S since it is just a loaner from AoA! An extremely well made air gun made only better by the superior package you detailed in the review. No wonder you intend to ask AoA to let you buy it outright. I just spent the past week looking for a youth oriented spring rifle for a young friend of mine - I am so glad I did NOT see this review before making a choice. My wife would've killed me if she ever found out I'd spent that much on an air gun I was essentially giving away, even after I'd explained what a great deal the package was! But really, my main reason to be happy not to have known about this deal is that I'd have ended up buying a gun for someone else that exceeds the quality and capability of any gun I currently own. Kudos to you on another A+ review, and to your sponsors for pulling together such an excellent package that any air gunner would be happy to have.

Steve Your review only confirms what many of us have known for years that Weihrauch has and continues to build fine quality rifles even in the entry price range.Thwanks for a very professional review.

love the hw30s, if mine didnt have that stupid cocking lever scraping into the tube it would be perfect. Might have to do with the marine finnish not sure. annoying.

Nice review of a great rifle with a great reputation. I've got lots of other high powered airguns, but this little guy is always a pleasure to shoot just for fun.

You need to do the ballistic gel more often in reviews!

That's a sweet looking piece of kit. I have been lusting after it for awhile, just wish it had a little more oomph. It would be a great backyard plinker.

I've also been looking at the Weihrauch HW95L Field Pro Kit. Does anyone know if it is as accurate as the HW35? 

THANK YOU WELL DONE !

Great review Steve .I know the guns not as cheap as some others out there. But it is kinda in a class all by itself ! Shooting a HW30 is a lot like enjoying a Root beer Float .....Ya can't do it without it putting a smile on your face ')

Nice review and aside from the extra do-dads once broken in that HW30 will be even better. I've shot a few and will own one eventually.

A couple suggestions:

1. Lose the cheesy-listening music when you're scrolling through the sponsors
2. It's pronounced VYE-rowch, with the 'ch' kind of sounding like you're getting ready to blow a hawker.
3. I don't think the breech was intended to be decorative. It's just well-finished. The star shape is how the barrel is threaded into the breech block.
4. Yours was pretty wimpy. Most of them will shoot over 600 fps with ~7 gr. pellets. Since you're buying it, I bet it will pick up at least 30 fps over time.
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   I enjoy mine a lot. Mine's shooting right around 7 FPE with the Vortek kit, it shot about 6 FPE stock. (wasn't worth it)
   
   I wonder what yours will do on a calm day with a 12X scope? 4X isn't quite enough, IMO. I bet you WANTED to shoot 50 yards, but didn't want to make the gun look bad on account of a breeze. 
   
   I shot a few squirrels with mine. Make sure your placement is perfect on them. Just a bit low and jaw them, and they run off and starve. I think it's better suited to rats and skymice (English Sparrows) than squirrels, which are tough little buggers.
   
   I'm always a little sad that guns like these don't sell as well as they should, due to the widespread epidemic of Magnumitis. Maybe a good way to think of it is as a Daisy 880 that needs only one "pump."
   
   Great review.

Great combo. But I need a 2x7x32. Can't see at 4x anymore. I wish would bring over an HW50S version of the same thing.

I think smaug added the missing pieces, 4x is to low i would get a 2-7 x 32 or a 3-9x40 that im running. +1 on the music, just leave it without sound?.

i usually leave the pcp out of my home range and i have 4 springers around me. Generic gamo shadow, a replay 10, my fwb300s and my hw30s. Half of the time i just reach for the hw30s and plink way. 

I shot a few squirrels with mine. Make sure your placement is perfect on them. Just a bit low and jaw them, and they run off and starve. I think it’s better suited to rats and skymice (English Sparrows) than squirrels, which are tough little buggers.

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Do you think the lower power of this rifle is capable of taking a squirrel with a broadside heart/lung shot or is their hide a little to tough for this level of power... assuming a shot is taken at say 20yrds?

I started out as a kid ( still a kid at 61 !) with the usual bbguns ,daisy pump a herd of 760"s and a Sheridan blue streak bought 20 years ago.
As far as powder burners i have a lot fro 22 anschutzs to 22.250 to 308 30-30 -35 8mm- 30-06 garands -45-70 -black powders to s/s auto and ou shotguns.
I have every gun from my s/s stevens to my last recent air rifles (97 thumbhole and a hw-30.
my powder burners each do a kind of specific kind of shooting. My 97 i am shooting at 50 yards and as she breaks in farther when i go again. Imho my hw30 is a thing of beauty for what i intended it for. i wouldn't need or want to shoot 50 yards. I plan to fill in with a hw50 , a77 and a 80 .. In all honesty i would like to have the whole Weihrach springer line. I think unless the distance is close there would be no reason to shoot any thing i would just wound. At that point i would use a different rifle. So after this deluge of words ,imho ,the urban pro is a great gun as is for what it is intended for. It is dead accurat ,quiet,very light and a typical joy that weihrauch gives every time we touch. I understand tunning perhaps a 97 or others .But what the hw30 was meant to do ,it excells 
i wouldn't use a flounder pole to catch a blue fish ,nor would i use a blue fish pole to catch a tuna. Hence my response. I have a lot of nephews so i figured what i save in ammo and how little i spend in pellets, a air rifle collection springers would cost out to be cheaper in the long run . When i hold my german ladies in my hands i get fuzzies.and my heart goes piter patter.
joe