HW 44

HW 44 . The HW44 is destine for greatness in the field or your backyard range! Base on the action of Weihrauch’s prized HW110, the HW44 gives airgunners the accuracy and repeating power they crave from a PCP air pistol. HW 44

Each HW44 uses the same 10-shot rotary magazine as the HW110 and is powered by a 200 BAR/2900 psi cylinder to let its shots fly at 750 fps in .177 and 570 fps in .22. Sent shots screaming downrange with a simple pull of its sidelever to keep shooting. The HW44’s Weaver/Picatinny accessory rail and scope rail give you a lot of choices for optics whether red-dot sights, flashlights, or lasers–a rare sight in PCP pistols. A 2-stage trigger keeps your pulls crisp and clean and the non-removable suppressor keeps your shots quiet. HW 44

Weihrauch Sport has a deserve reputation for making quality airguns. The HW44 pistol caused quite a stir when it was launch .  And now I finally get to see why. The action will be familiar to all of you who know Weihrauch’s latest PCP rifle, the HW110. Yes, the HW44 pistol is basically a scaled down HW110 rifle. Unless you count paper-punching guns, then scaling down a PCP rifle to make a pistol is how it’s been done right from the beginning of the PCP era, and I am old enough to have seen it all happening, so I know this for a fact.

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In the UK, only the Daystate Competa pistol was design as a pistol from the ground up and they didn’t make many of those – I have No 57 – so I was really excited to get my mitts on the HW44. I love all things pistol and, indeed, all things Weihrauch, so I had very high expectations of it. HW 44

From the start, the supreme quality and design is what sets the HW44 apart. It’s based on the 110 action, and this is not a small pistol. They haven’t just sawn off a 110, though, they have rejigged the outlying design to make it into a pistol, but the lever action etc. is the same as on the 110. Don’t get me wrong, you can fire it successfully with one hand, but it’s far easier using two, and it can also be rested on a bench and shot that way.

Whichever way you shoot the HW44, it is supremely accurate, as you would expect. The cocking/loading lever sits on the left-hand side, so a right-handed shooter can hold the pistol and operate the multi-shot function, and the HW44 has another trick up its sleeve. The grip is ambidextrous so a left-handed shooter is just as at home with the HW44, grip-wise . Alhough the cocking lever can be tricky for a lefty because the right hand has to reach over the action to get at it without breaking grip.

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The safety catch is ambidextrous and shows a big red dot when it’s ready to fire. A good point is that the safety can only be apply when the action is cock . So you can easily check if it is cock or not, just by trying to put the safety catch on. HW 44

The 10-round rotary magazine holds the pellets in place with a very simple ‘O’ ring system, and the flat part of the magazine goes to the barrel face. It can only be insert from the left-hand side and when the action is cocked and the lever in the rear position and the magazine release lever push upward. A fantastic piece of design on all of the HW multi-shots is the fact that you cannot double load, i.e. put two pellets or more into the barrel by operating the cocking/loading lever – the mechanism prevents it.

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Over the chronograph, the pistol has superb readings running at 5.7 ft.lbs. Weihrauch say that the HW44 is ‘self-regulating’, but that may or may not mean it has an actual regulator in it. It had a variation over the charge of only 16fps and just over 100 shots, that’s in .177; the .22 model would give around 120 shots. The trigger is very good and measured at 500g with my electronic trigger gauge. You can adjust the trigger by removing the grip, but I would leave it as factory set.

Enough of the mechanics of the HW44, let’s get to the fun part – shooting it. The grip is very comfortable in hand, and I started with the basic layout, open sights and no moderator fitted. Starting at six yards is a pure waste for the HW44 because it literally one-holes. Oh man! This is an accurate pistol and after moving out to 10 yards in the back garden, it still performed superbly with the open sights. HW 44