Recent content by Silver Ace

Thanks appreciate the lead, but I only have a casual interest in acquiring one of these and mostly as nostalgia to round out my R series collection. Don’t really want to negotiate too much, it’s more of a if I see one and the price is right would buy it kind of thing. Good luck with the one...

just checked the old Beeman catalogs, looks like the R6 (HW99) was released in 1995/1996 and billed as an economical gun for the whole family. The R8 was still listed and the R10 was now gone. So it appears Weirauch discontinued the HW85 and HW50’s around 1995 and replaced them with the HW95...

Wow!! That is nice!!

I have a .177 P1 and never use the low power for reasons outlined above. I have shot many many thousands of rounds thru it. And can attest it takes a while to be able to shoot it with any reasonable degree of accuracy. Currently it has an ARH “arctic spring” and the factory spring guide which...

Maybe it’s just the camera angle, but that ball detent looks like it’s staked in too far. Perhaps some shade tree mechanic re-worked it at some point?

To further confuse things, the HW 50 was discontinued around 1995. So it was made for ~ 45 years. Its replacement was the HW 99 (later renamed HW 50). So this gun is only celebrating its 30th anniversary.

For me Beeman R8. Relatively light weight, extremely accurate, easy to cock and fun to shoot. No fuss, no muss and very little maintenance. My CO2s, pumpers, and high powered springers mostly gather dust these days.

That $639 price does seem a little brisk. I’m glad I’m no longer in the market for new airguns. However I bought a brand new Beeman R10 (very similar to R9) for $300 back in 1993. Factor in inflation and that is $667 today.

I had my R10 rebuilt by Beemans back in the 90’s and they used their spring gel which is what I believe is red’n tacky. As you said, shot cycle was great….for a while. Then began dieseling. (I did shoot in fairly high heat summer months here in northern IL). I had no choice but to rebuild it...

Very cool! I still shoot my R1 20th anniversary on occasion. I have taken many pigeons, squirrels, and a crow with it.

Aging like a fine wine!

perhaps it was triggered off and the previous owner put on a different barrel? Or bent the barrel back. For what it’s worth, here is a video of Paul Watts fixing an R7 that was triggered off and bent the breach forks up slightly.

I thought maybe it was triggered off and the forks got bent, but looking at the other pics they seem fine.

it looks like something may have happened to the breech jaws. Notice the way the light reflects differently where it meets the spring cylinder? Not sure if this has anything to do with the barrel droop or not.

Thanks, that’s my thoughts also. But still not sure I understand why there are two sets of numbers for each shot. IE on shot 1 it says: 0965-01-0959