Page 2 - Weihrauch HW50S Reviews

The quality feel of the gun and most of all the shooting accuracy. Compact, easy to cock and shoot with a great trigger and groups well. I haven't felt to the need to try and adjust the trigger it from the factory settings after about 300 rounds

I wish the dovetail for scope mounting was a little deeper. I worry about rings or mounts not having enough gripping surface. Barrel droop !

I'm a little disappointed about the amount of barrel droop in this gun. Don't know if it's this way in all but could have been better. I've only had a chance to mount a scope and zero for 10 - 12 meters but initial attempt just to get an idea where rifle was hitting seemed to indicate +3 inches low. I ordered and installed a UTG drooper rail which is supposed to provide 10" of offset at 30 meters and the gun with a Hawke 2 -7 x 32 AO scope was still hitting ~ 3 inches low. I needed to shim the rear scope ring another 0.025" in order to hit point of aim with the scope centered in it's adjustment range. I have two cheap Crosman break barrels that didn't require any shimming or drooper rail to shoot closer to center of scope adjustment range.

Light weight, handy, very accurate, wonderful trigger.

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Life long powder burner, bought this to keep marksmanship sharp. HW50S is more quality than I expected. Amazing trigger.

Compact, well made, and extremely accurate. The fit and finish is excellent with beautiful bluing and stock. The trigger is well known and respected for a reason. Back off the adjuster about 1.5 turns and you're at around 1 pound trigger pull. Recoil is short, sharp, and accompanied by a bit of spring noise. Nothing excessive but it would certainly benefit from a tune. With it's size, weight, and accuracy, it would make an excellent hunting or beginner field target rifle.

Cocking effort is heavy considering the power this rifle produces. That said, your average adult should have no difficulty with it.

It doesn't like a very forward grip on the fore stock but doesn't especially care what you do with your trigger hand. Be sure to clean the barrel, mine wouldn't group until I did. It seems to prefer mid weight pellets and will average 11FPE. I've had good results with H&N Excite pointed. You can get .5-.75" groups at 25 yards no problem, with the right hold and a clean barrel.

Easily the most accurate break barrel I own and it isn't even broken in yet. Light weight, compact, excellent sights, and little if any hold sensitivity. Pellets touching shooting open sights at 20 yards sitting and within 3/4 inch offhand. Slings most pellets at 11FPE including 8.64gr H&N's however, it doesn't seem to care for Crosman Premiers (8.9FPE). Build quality is excellent with tight tolerances and a beautiful finish. I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of grain the is present in the stock.

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Cocking effort is more than advertised and could be a problem for smaller teens but shouldn't be an issue for the average adult.

Materials; fit and finish; light weight; quick handling characteristics; power; accuracy; short shot cycle

The cocking effort is perfectly manageable; however, it is higher than expected.

This is an excellent air gun. I have owned several Weihrauchs, but this one might just be my favorite. I love the small size, quick handling characteristics, and power. 12 FPE is more than adequate for the shooting that I do. I fitted my HW50s with a Williams FP-AG-TK peep sight and I couldn't be happier.

Classy, rock-solid, beautiful, simple, easy to shoot, lightweight, nice butt. Wonderful with open sites. I'm using a Daisy rear peep site and groups are almost as good as with a scope. Shoots surprisingly quick. Accurate-of course.

I wish I had bought this rifle when it was cheaper in the past but it is what it is.

Don't make the mistake that I made. Don't buy 20 cheap guns. Just buy 2 or 3 classic guns. You cannot go wrong with Walther and Weihrauch.

Beautiful stock, accurate, medium power, ease of cocking. Very pleased overall.

The cocking effort at the final phase of the cocking cycle is unusually hard as the safety engages. Own and tested several break barrel rifles, this one is different just something that you get used to. Be very careful to not let go of the barrel before the safety clicks in or the barrel will snap back.

PA describes the grip as right handed. Mine is ambidextrous. Mine did not include front sight inserts. I replaced the front sight with a fiber optic sight. IMPORTANT, do not let go of the barrel before the safety clicks in as mentioned above.

Rifle is very well made, quality which I expect from Weihrauch, compliments My Beeman R-7, very accurate out of box, shipped and packed safely. Very happy with purchase.

I would like to see the HW30; stocked. The HW50 would compliment that rifle.

Worth the price for a quality air rifle, cocking requires more effort then R7, but isnt overbearing.

It's lightweight so its easy to use. It's pretty easy to cock, which is important to an old man(me). It's got plenty of power for such a small gun - it shoots RWS Hobby's at average 879 fps - even faster than Pyramydair's results with the same pellet. Has a solid sound when it fires, and it's accurate.

Two inch longer barrel and provide it with factory installed sling mounts because this gun is a lightweight hunter. Make it a high quality sling mount with a ring that is silver soldered on and is placed just shy of midway up the barrel. (just like the African hunting rifles)

I almost didn't buy it, but this is a beautiful air rifle and I have no regrets whatsoever for getting it. It's got plenty of power and cocks pretty easily. I bought this gun to hunt Iguanas in South Florida and it performed real good. Smashing power at the short distances the Iguanas were. I shot it over 400 times on the first Iguana hunt. It's accurate. And it sounds good. So good that other people have asked me about it - what kind of gun is it, etc. You won't be disappoint with this baby. Same size as my R7s. Decent wood - nicely shaped, beautiful blued steel, nice sights, lightweight, powerful, ready for a scope, accurate - what more could you ask for?

Accurate right out of the box. I bought it to replace a Diana 34 that I purchased in February. I really liked everything about the 34 except for its weight, which became a problem when firing it while standing. A left shoulder issue made this very painful. One of the great things about the HW 50S is its light weight. On the 34, which has 19 inch barrel, much of the weight is forward, putting more strain on my shoulder. The HW 50S is lighter to start with and its shorter barrel puts far less strain on my shoulder. It is also far easier to cock, something that will grow in importance for this 73 YO shooter. Fortunately, my best friend jumped on my offer to sell him my 34. I also saved some weight by purchasing a UTG Bug Buster 3-12 x 32 scope, which is over 8 ounces lighter than the UTG 3-9 x 40 AO scope on my 34. I highly recommend this combination...its the perfect size for the shorter HW 50S. Kudos to Greg at PA for helping me through this purchase. Great advice.

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Great rifle. Its not broken in yet but I am already getting 5 shot groups that can be covered with a quarter at 20 yards.

Exceptionally accurate.

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My gun is a .22 shooting about 12 FPE. It's not hold sensitive at all ( I do all my shooting from the bench) and it likes every pellet I have tried except the Daisy pointed. To my delight the best pellets so far are the Crosman hollow points from Walmart. I have about 300 pellets through it and I'm shooting 1/4 to 1/2 inch groups at 25 yards. My only gripe is that the stock screws tend to get loose every now and then. I've cleaned them with alcohol and used Loctite and they seem to be holding for now, time will tell. Some say the cocking effort is too high for the power the gun makes, I don't find it hard to cock at all. I also have not experienced any of the galling or scraping some folks complain about. This is an excellent rifle, I highly recommend it.

The rifle is everything I expected from all the reviews. The quality and accuracy met and exceeded expectations.

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It is a stiff rifle to cock at first but once you get use to it, it gets easier and your arm gets stronger. I shot jsb jumbo heavy and crosmsn premiers.177 and both are quite accurate.

EXCEPTIONALLY accurate, and I'm only about 150-ish pellets in at this point! No noticeable spring "twang" and the shot cycle is smooth and relatively gentle. Hour long shooting sessions are easy with minimal cocking effort.

Mine was on backorder and arrived with the newly redesigned stock that Weihrauch is using as of spring 2020 on both the Hw30 and HW50 models. In the interest of keeping it honest, I liked the previous style better. The new stock has a thinner forearm, a seemingly less pronounced cheek piece and a cut-out on the bottom of the butt stock. The checkering is a little fancier and very nicely done, and though the differences were purely cosmetic, my personal opinion is that I liked the previous stock design better. As far as every other aspect of the gun and its performance, there is nothing else I would change.

Weihrauch factory open sights are the best I've ever had on any air gun I've ever owned, and the HW50 is no exception. It is truly a pleasure to shoot and almost annoyingly accurate!

The size, weight and overall feel of this rifle is perfect. It's accuracy with the open sights is quite good, I like shooting with open sights. BUT, I mounted a bug buster scope to this thing and if I do my part, this rifle puts pellet on pellet. Bag rested at 25 yards will achieve 1/4 " groups all day. This is just a fun gun to shoot. Mine is in .177, this rifle, depending on the pellet, will give you 10 to 12 fpe, with a relatively flat trajectory.

I'm so happy with it I can't think of any cons.

If your thinking about a mid sized spring piston air rifle this is one that deserves real consideration.

The butt stock length was a bit long for me, It fit my hubby better. I like the length of his Diana 48 better, but that gun is too heavy for me. This one is much lighter. The wood stock has some great checkering too! The cocking effort took a little getting used to, but was fine once I did. The sights that it came were nice, with different inserts for the globe, and a rotating choice of 4 notches on the rear leaf. Though I thought it kind odd having a leaf rear/w/globe front. The trigger is phenomenally good, and accuracy was wonderful, UNTIL...

The gun may be too light! The wooden stock design needs changing, and/or beefing up. After about 80-100 rds, group size opened up considerably, and upon inspection my hubby found all the screws had loosened up, and the front of the stock on both sides in front of the barrel pivot were cracking. Also, the auto safety is odd for a right handed shooter. it releases left to right. Good for a lefty, but I would have preferred it right to left.

Pyramid air exchanged it for another one, free, but the replacement had buggered up screws, especially the front sight screw. It looked like someone used budget wedge blade screwdrivers instead of more proper hollow ground type screwdriver bits. Whether we got a REMAN, or someone new at the factory was being trained we don't know It was definitely not put together well. It too was sent back, but for a refund. All told we were less than impressed and we're moving on to a different brand.

Looks good and shoots good right out of the box

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EVERYTHING!!! Mine is the .177 - this is a light weight rifle with a cocking effort of about 20-25lbs and shoots 8 grain lead pellets around 775fps that's pretty good considering the spring piston is light and short travel. another thing I like about these German made heirlooms is the tight tight tight tolerances - I mean talk about precision machine hand built workmanship. I've only put around 200 rounds thru mine and out of the box it was shooting ragged hole 10 shot groups @ 15 meters the size of a dime! Everything I bought for the rifle (scope..Hawke 3-12x40 Airmax compact) the rings 30mm - everything was from Pyramyd Air, I even did the 20 for 20 - they really did a great job with mounting the scope and measuring velocities at the factory. I would most definitely recommend this rifle to anyone who wants to experience fine German craftmanship and truly accurate results in the field. Thank You Pyramid for keeping up the high standard.

Now the only thing I would like to see on this rifle and some other Weihrauch's is thin white lines on the edges of the rear sight ( U-shape) to help you see that you are centered in the pocket with the front blade against dark backrounds the edges of the rear sight seem to get lost sometimes especially with follow-up shots. And I don't know if that would be a terribly great expense on Weihrauch's part but I wouldn't mind paying a bit more for that feature.

I am not going to complain about the twang on this gun (spring pistons have a twang recoil noise) because it really isn't that much - not like the HW80 ,which I think is considerable, compared to the HW50. But... I got some of that red lube in a tube (from Pyramyd called TUNE in-a-TUBE) You take the stock off - apply the Tune in a tube (red thick lube) on the spring piston area only (it's a syringe type tube with a needle point- type applicator) so you can reach inside the spring piston area. Apply a liberal amount all over the spring area and in the nooks and cranny's as much as you can,about ( 1/4 to 1/3 of the tube ) and then put the stock back on - secure tightly - and then break the barrel and work it a few times without actually engaging. Then simply load a pellet fire it and Voila !!! no more twang - it shoots like a gas piston rifle the twang is gone and I think it improves accuracy as well (less vibration if you know what I mean)

Simply put, what's not to like. The HW50S is super accurate, has a great trigger, and is just the right weight for easy off-hand shooting. I refuse to buy an air-rifle without sights and have an intense dislike for fiber optic sights; fortunately the HW50S fits my criteria. The HW50S has a hooded front sight that accepts various inserts, and I can mount an easily adjustable Daisy Diopter on it..

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Be advised that the Daisy Diopter when mounted on the HW50S will have minimal downward adjustment when used at ten meters. The Diopter works great on the HW30S with plenty of adjustment both vertically and horizontally.

I'm a previous owner of a HW-30 so I'm familiar with the quality of the Weihrauch products. My recent HW-50 is an outstanding break-barrel air rifle. It flits me like a dream and it's very accurate. The rifle is perfect for my needs/wants and is a Great value. I highly recommend it.

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Pay attention to the screws. The recoil will loosen them.

I'm a previous owner of a HW-30 so I'm familiar with the quality of the Weihrauch products. My recent HW-50 is an outstanding break-barrel air rifle. It flits me like a dream and it's very accurate. The rifle is perfect for my needs/wants and is a Great value. I highly recommend it.

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Pay attention to the screws. The recoil will loosen them.