HW 98

HW 98 . The HW98 is a gun destine for backyard greatness in target shooting and small game hunting. This air rifle builds on Weihrauch’s long experience by keeping the ambidextrous stocks while adding an adjustable buttplate which cants left to right as well as moves up and downlong with an adjustable cheekpiece set into its unique beech wood frame, accented by black stippling along the forend and grip.

Like other airguns by Weihrauch, the HW98 contains the fame Rekord trigger, a crisp, clean, 2-stage adjustable that’s been called on of the best spring gun triggers in the world. While there are no open sights, the 98 includes an 11mm dovetail which begs for a high powered scope.

Weihrauch air rifles are engineered and manufacture in Germany in accordance with the latest sporting arms technology. With decades of experience and a strive for perfection and innovation . Weihrauch is able to deliver top quality, for maximum performance and a long service life.

HW 98

The Weihrauch HW98 is a very well-balance . Easy and smooth cocking air rifle. It is equip with the proven and world famous “Rekord” trigger. This break barrel air rifle comes with a heavy barrel sleeve and a special wooden universal stock with a long forearm and checkering on the pistolgrip and forearm. The buttplate and the cheekpiece are individually adjustable. The HW98 doesn’t have sight and is especially designed for rifle scope shooting.

It’s a cold hard fact that modern air rifles are much more accurate than the wobbly human who holds them, so it seems logical to me that to extract more of the performance on offer, we need to get our thinking caps on. Perhaps, if the rifle fitted us better and aided more consistent mounting and hold . We might improve our first-shot hit rate. Many people thinking this way have turned to adjustable stocks and I’m a big fan. All my serious rifles have adjustable cheek pieces and I’m convinced that they’ll become standard on all high-performance rifles in time.

HW 98

Many years ago, when I was a spring-gun hunter.  I reshaped the stock of my Weihrauch HW80 to improve the fit and handling, whilst losing a little weight from that hefty rifle. However, I lacked the wood-working/metal-working skills to install an adjustable height cheek piece, so added a fabric/foam accessory one that wrapped around the butt section to give the height I needed. Although my efforts were rudimentary at best, the rifle certainly fitted me better and I believe that I shot better with it for that. What I would really have liked, though, was the stunning HW98. It had the stock of my dreams, finding the optimum balance between a traditional sporter and a full target stock.

As you can see from the pictures, it wears an adjustable height cheek piece . A vertically adjustable butt pad, has a more upright pistol grip and stippling at the contact points. Weihrauch got this right 20 years ago and only now is the world beginning to catch up! To add to the technical superiority, Weihrauch added some styling in the form of fake cooling vents, painted black inside, and these match the black finish on the stippling. Very cool!