I have just spent a couple of hours at one of my clubs, Rivington Riflemen, shooting empty shotgun cartridges downrange with one of my classic spring rifles, a Weihrauch HW35 Export model from the late 1970s, when it represented all that was good about airgunning and was one of the top-of-the-line rifles available at the time.
Unlike many other rifles available to us as keen young airgunners during this period, the HW35 was superbly built and finished, in this case possessing a walnut stock, but most importantly was capable of high standards of accuracy right out to 30 yards or so in the .22 calibre that you had to have if you with a s were a true hunting type.
In those days, the benefits of the flatter-flying
