I’ve been solely a PCP guy until I received my first springers 30 & 50 in 22 cal yesterday afternoon. So far I’ve put about 150 pellets between the two guns. My way too early observations. It took me awhile to figure out how to zero, once I did I was amazed how accurate they are with just factory sites. I was expecting some degree of droop, but nada, none, nope. Beautiful guns and fun to shoot in a Zen sorta way, relaxing. The 30 is easy to cock but ya it’s not going to impress many with its power. Perfect backyard gun. The 50 is harder to cock, I had to switch to my right hand to cock it and it put stress on my surgically repaired right collar bone. I’m sore. 50 is backyard friendly. Less than 85 decibels for the 50 and less than 80 for the 30. This is just me, I would have to be in my 50s or younger to want to routinely shoot one of the most powerful Weihrauch’s. Even then I might say, it’s not worth all the work just for target practice. The 30 is 5.5 lbs and 50 6.6 lbs are light, light enough to hunt/carry most of the day in the field. Especially now that I know you can shoot accurately w/o a scope, so cool. I’ve been researching Williams sights tonight.
I will keep them both, because they are old school fun, reliable, simple and relaxing. Watch a game in the yard, drink a beer and plink or target shoot in the sun, nirvana. I bet I’m in the minority but I love the automatic safety! Hunting game rabbit size or larger I would carry the 50 and have my gk1 25 cal w/folder in my backpack. Starting out, IMHO it would be wise to go with either the 30 or 50, they’re very re-salable until you figure it out. I dropped the 35 from consideration, even though it’s the best looking of the 3. 7.8 lbs and 3 added inches wasn't appealing to me. Don’t over think it, buy, if it’s a mistake it’s easily correctable with the AGN classifieds.
