HW/Weihrauch Found a friend for my HW35L

[KWK]

Beautiful HW 50 (chalk the SS No. up to "interesting patina," LOL)! ARH called the HW 50 with the Bayern beech stock the "HW 50E."

The old HW 50 and HW 35 have the same length receiver tube, stock screw spacing, and trigger box location. Only the diameter of the tube differs (35's is 5 mm larger in diameter). This allowed the two to share stocks of the same rough external design, only differing in inletting details. Here is a 35L and 50E stock side by side - you can see the fore arm widths are identical, but the 35 has less wood next to the receiver.

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The HW99/50 and the 55 are the same as the old 50 as well
HW99/50 and R8 shown. A 55 stock will fit them

 

[crowski]

What diameter are your dowels? 1/2"

Yes 1/2 inch. Crow

 

[Bear-of-Grayling]

Congratulations sqwirl57. That’s a beauty. Weihrauch diopter and original box. Wow! Good job getting on top of this one.

 

[MDriskill]

Yeah, I was pretty tickled the day that 35E rolled in...seen here with an even older milled steel HW "turret" rear sight from the 1950's. It's currently near the top of my "guns I lay in the living room to ogle when SWMBO is out" list, ha.

Here's the old ARH catalog cuts for those HW sights. Just basic Williams FP-series variants, with a brand-specific fixed dovetail size,and a securing screw on top (you need a piece of hefty brass shim stock under the screw to avoid marking the blueing). As you can see, made for several brands of guns, in both sporting and target versions (the latter having a bigger range of vertical adjustment, and finger knobs).

 

[ddmann]

I think I just saw this same gun listed on Brad's or am I crazy?

 

[Sqwirl57]

I think I just saw this same gun listed on Brad's or am I crazy?

It was/is on Airguns.net