pictures of Toy's that shoot ?
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Ahh I see now, the MM model.
The one on @MDriskill table may have been a 55MM, but I am not well versed enough to make that call without his input. I do know that it was an M model.
There were at least 3 to 4 55T models for sale along with some S models. I did not see a CM model as far as I can recall.
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Pretty easy. An S has finger grooves on the forearm and flat sided beech butt stock. Most M's have an accessory rail and have walnut stock with a bit of a cheekpiece. You should be able to distinguish beech from walnut by now?
This should identify most of 'em for ya.
This should identify most of 'em for ya.
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I had two HW 55's at Findlay, one for sale and one display only.
This is the one happy to be at Chuck's house - an "S," with dark-stained beech stock, from 1965.
The display one was a VERY early HW 55 from 1953 or so, with a Bayern-style walnut target stock. I've called it an M in my caption, but actually there is no variant letter stamped on it. If you look close you can see many differences from later ARH/Beeman-era HW 55's...shorter receiver tube, cast aluminum buttplate, very different trigger and guard, longer barrel, different sights, side screws in the fore end, and more.
While HW more or less standardized details of the common variants (S, M, T) by the mid-1960's, they were notorious for ever-shifting designations over the years. At some point the S and M became the SM and MM, but to this day I have no idea what that extra M was for (it was NOT for the M's accessory rail). And as far as I know, there was never a TM!
The other 55's I saw at the show were an S with a nice action in a banged-up stock, and two T's; one with some weird bubba mods, the other in lovely original condition.
This is the one happy to be at Chuck's house - an "S," with dark-stained beech stock, from 1965.
The display one was a VERY early HW 55 from 1953 or so, with a Bayern-style walnut target stock. I've called it an M in my caption, but actually there is no variant letter stamped on it. If you look close you can see many differences from later ARH/Beeman-era HW 55's...shorter receiver tube, cast aluminum buttplate, very different trigger and guard, longer barrel, different sights, side screws in the fore end, and more.
While HW more or less standardized details of the common variants (S, M, T) by the mid-1960's, they were notorious for ever-shifting designations over the years. At some point the S and M became the SM and MM, but to this day I have no idea what that extra M was for (it was NOT for the M's accessory rail). And as far as I know, there was never a TM!
The other 55's I saw at the show were an S with a nice action in a banged-up stock, and two T's; one with some weird bubba mods, the other in lovely original condition.
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I have the basics of HW55 down, S, T and M.
Readily identifying the differences between the sub variants, in each of the above, is further down the rabbit hole than I have descended at present...
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Ha, I hear ya...early HW 55's are kinda inscrutable.
This MIGHT the reason for the extra M...at some point in the 60's, the HW 55 added the little locking collar on the trigger weight adjuster screw. But again I really don't know, and this doesn't explain why there apparently is no "HW 55TM."
This MIGHT the reason for the extra M...at some point in the 60's, the HW 55 added the little locking collar on the trigger weight adjuster screw. But again I really don't know, and this doesn't explain why there apparently is no "HW 55TM."
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