From Rags to Riches The Weihrauch HW80 Restoration 

Would have been good to see the actual restoration,that’s what I believed the video was about.Nice rifle.

Top class shooting mate! Proof that a true craftsman can use anything to his advantage!

Good work on the 80. Nice to see her back in the field. I had one a few years ago. Very nice gun. Top vid as always. Thanks for posting.

What a cracking job you have done with hw80 mate well done.

I'm a little shocked. I had an HW80 back in 1980 that I tuned by doing nothing more than polishing the piston, spring, and cylinder, and making sure everything fitted as well as possible. There were no piston liners or PTFE guide rods, or in fact any custom parts available back then, with perhaps the exception of a few after market springs whose vendor's claims were dubious at best. Anyway, using H&N 16 grain .22 pointed pellets I was getting an average muzzle velocity of 708.5 fps, with a standard deviation of only 3.16 fps. With 11.95 grain RWS Hobby pellets I got an average muzzle velocity of 837.8 fps and a standard deviation of 5.02 fps. And yes, the gun was *definitely* a .22. I'll let you work out the muzzle energy for yourself. 😉

Unbelievable shooting Si your shooting skills amaze me every time

Your hw 80 is only doing what I would expect from an 80 . Mine is one from the 1980s the one with the squared off front of the stock . In them days I found the best pellet was the blue tin Eley Wasp, I still use the gun but just for killing metal knock down targets in my garden . I now only use RWS super domes, the max range I shoot at is 29 yards and at that range target size about 3/8" . The only problem I have is the weight of the gun ( in second half of my 60s) in the days I used it on the farms I thought it was the perfect weight and could carry it for hours.

Love weihrauchs 🙌Hw90 parent here💪cheers Mr Vermin😀👍

good restore, and great shooting again, goes to show what an accurate sub 11 ft lb rifle can do, and to all those who complain their guns are not shooting @ 11.5 , 11.10 ft lb etc,s you've shown again accuracy beats purely power.

ive just bought a hw 100...ive owned all the hw,s.......but the 80 is by far my favourite by far

Rock on!!! I COULD WATCH THESE ALL DAY LONG!!! keep up the great job your doing look forward to the next installment.

No I'm just leaving it now mate. Its a hunting tool so I'm happy with it as it is. I took 3 rabbits with it tonight when out with my mate Phil on his permission. 1 standing unsupported at 38 meters. 1 standing unsupported at 22 meters. 1 sitting at 33 meters. All brain shots. Once its properly zeroed its deadly accurate.

After watching I am going to restore my HW80 only fair as its been a great workhorse and shot hundreds of rabbits, now only to sit in the corner of the garage rusting away. Great vid Guys

well impressed, got a hw80 k new from the early eighties. Sock had a few scratches other than that. perfect. Cheers lovely shooting.

Very well done Si, I have a HW80k which is 26 years old and still looks and shoots like new, a great piece of kit. Looking forward to seeing some rabbit shooting film from you. Many thanks for your time and effort.

You cannot beat the HW80- there is a very strong argument in favour of it being the best break barrel rifle ever made. Very high build quality, extremely solid- it will literally last a life time if well cared for- and then some. I own a number of rifles, the first of which is a HW77, which I acquired when I 16, back in 1987. It was subsequently Venom tune- Lazaglide, reblued, set back brass trigger, silencer- and all for FREE! That's another story.......! Steve Pope serviced the 77 in 2006, and it's seen light use since then and is shooting superbly. I own 2 x HW80's, one is a thumblehole stock Venom rifle. I bought it second hand about 13-14 years ago. My intention was to give it to Steve Pope for a full resto/service, however, life and a mortgage got in the way and I left the rifle stored away- and forgot about it completely! I found it only a few weeks ago, it's currently at ARC being serviced and will be reblacked by Paul Chell. Lyndon at ARC clarified that it was indeed a Venom rifle- I wasn't 100% certain, despite the stock and silencer- with a section brass at the muzzle end of the silencer, set back brass trigger, and brass trigger guard. The stock is immaculate. The second HW80 I bought second hand from BAR in 2006, it's a 2001 model, and it was immaculate. I gave that to Steve Pope- lazaglide conversion, set back trigger and silencer, with a little bit of engraving thrown in. I have a Custom Stock CS700 thumbhole fitted to the V-Mach 80, it is absolutely sublime to shoot and is as accurate as the 77. It's interesting to note that back in the 80's, Steve Pope was involved in competition shooting- he used a Venom tuned HW80, when the field was dominated by HW77 shooters. Steve acquired a significant collection of trophies using the 80 for field tgt competition shooting. A well sorted HW80 is superb and will provide many years of excellent service. Nice work on the resto, well worth saving an 80 from a careless owner!

Great video. The delivery is excellent. Many thanks

bloody, bloody stunning piece of kit matey!!! Jolly good!!!

Excellent, informative and inspirational! Can't wait for the tuning vid! Top shooting as usual as well, keep up the good work ;-)

You are a credit to our sport Mate. Great shooting. Awesome job on your HW80. ATB. Reeco

Great Si your always on it mate good old fashion entertainment for us airgunners keep em coming

Love this channel! Will look forward to the next videos, thanks again si and Davy

I tuned my HW80k with the barrelsleve from theHW98 and parts from V-mach. I prefer the HW80 i have olso a HW95 and HW35 but the 80 is my Favorit. Great vid Si !

Your right about these kits they are not tuning kits I would call them a service kit!

I had one a great rifle a good friend rays has one its more then 30yea old mine was 177 and great at long range crows a very good video Si thank you

Wow, incredible shots for a springer at 55 yards..

Glad that you enjoyed it pal.

Great video guys, I love that rifle, had a couple in the past (80's) bought a 90 in the end its the same but with a full gas ram. Nice shots on those birds, rabbits another time hey. atb phil

Beautiful 80 you got there, mate. I'm getting a new .22 HW80k for my collection soon. Weihrauch rifles are great out the box & awesome after a tune. Great job there, that's one pretty rifle! Glad to see its shooting as well as it looks.

awesome job Si ..keep going for me it is a great learning ...you are a great shot ...please do some other project like this one i really enjoy it...

Pity it wasn't about a restoration.

I do love the HW 80 its a heavy beast but they just keep going for years, I must say si for the first time you have messed with the internals of any spring Rifle you have done a great job to it, at 50 yards using a 10 + ft lbs HW80 that is nice grouping, Nice video I for one enjoyed it,, ATB john

Great episode as always, very informative. Now it can be used and maintained as it should, well done:)

Hi Davy & si. Lovely job done. HW80 was one of my first adult airguns excellent rifle very accurate wish I never got rid of it. They just go on and on. Used to use eely wasps in mine. Thanks for the reply . hope you can get your hands on the BSA lightening and do a review on it, its a cracking little air rifle. Keep it coming lads . looking forward to the tuning vid.

The pellet in an air rifle is always aimed slightly upwards in relation to the scope. It crosses the path of the scope and then drops to your zero crossing the zero point a second time. A target closer than your zero requires hold under no matter what the rifle or calibre however it may be close enough to be at the first crossing point at which point you need to aim dead on or if it's even closer (usually within ten yards you'll need to hold over.

I own an untouched mk1HW 80, she's producing 5p groups all day long, also .22, putting Falcon Accuracy Plus through her, superb hunting rifles.

Great video lads, looks like you've made a cracking job of the refurb. Looking forward to the next video at SFS - keep up the good work lads!

that's a true diamond in the rough story , turned out to be fine shooter , nice work guys =)

Cheers Aaron bud. You know the quality first hand of Tony's tuning work. Si.

Very good shooting !

Good shooting Si great job on the resto

Beautiful work

nice work on the 80 si and great to see it's work at the end . it's a thumbs up from me .

I have a Berman dual nitro piston and the group s are 1 inch in diameter I wish I can get one of those rifles you guys are the best in Aer rifle s

Really enjoyed this I have HW35, HW97K HW95K and HW75 Pistol I've just bought an HW80 with fitted silencer and adjustable but pad, thanks Si for this video and all the others you and Davy do also to Tony Wall of SFS

Very nice job on the gun. The butt would come up well with satin finish clearcoat as used on cars but in an airosol can. If you have put oil on it i guess it would not take. I have an HW80 dated 1987 and in almost as new condition. Beautiful gun. Great shooting.

Top Vid Great Shooting Mate, SFS Tops.

Hi how much is a stage 1 and a stage 2 tune up for a wh80 from Tony ?

Had an HW77K years ago, been done by a company called Venom? The recoil was just silly on It, been looking at the HW97K recently. A friend of mine had the HW80, nice gun. Loved this video, brought some good memories back.

guys would have been nice to have seen the video of ya doing the stock work

Cracking bit of work on the hw80 lads looks superb nice one Davy ad Si. some fantastic groups Si and some nice corvid bashing. look forward to the sfs episode ATB Aaron

Nice shooting

Just picked one up for £50 with £30 worth of pellets it's in poor condition all round bad metal bad wood bad workings but am well happy with my purchase

True mate and thanks.

this is a bit of me time to pause the video make a tea an grab some cookies good job she looks lovely

wow a tuning vid to come with tony. cant wait for that one.

a good vid Si, looking forward to the SFS tuning vids as I would love to know what Tony actually does for his S1 and S2.

That was a cracking video pal, and finished of with abit of hunting, plunk down goes another corvid! Super buddy. Plink

550fps for a HW80? Then I remembered...the government....infinite wisdom....12 ft/lbs. Would have been nice to have seen some before and after. Cheers.

Thanks Elliott.

If using high mounts and the rifle is full power and you zeroed at 25 meters there is no hold under. The pellets trajectory never passes the scopes line of sight.

Thanks very much.

Always great video from you guys,just keep it comming..Thumbs up..

I sorted a 1981 hw80 out was brill

Yep Tony is a tuning master. Cant take that away from him.

No your not quite correct Otto mate. It you use high mounts and zero at 25 meters in .177 if its a full power .177 the pellet only reaches the scopes line of sight but does not go above it. It then fall again.

Yes, take us with you to Tony's shop:-)

Cheers mate.

Nice vid , im looking forward to this "tunning" . Im a engineer and quite handy with a lathe /milling machine ect ect .

Hi si what would you say that a hw97k after its first tin of pellets would be capable of grouping (in mm ) at 30yards in the right hands ..cheers👍

Hi VerminHuntersTV love the channel it is interesting and informative. i was wondering if you could expand a little on the cleaning of the barrel as in what materials did you use any compounds for the buffer and what wheels? many thanks

nice video nice shutting dude

Nice video my 80k from 97 just 2 years younger than yours be stupid to get rid of an iconic springer happy shooting si

Very nice. You should be proud of it.

Great inspirational video guys. I would like to try this in the future. ATB Chris Legate

Best channel by far

cracking video si keep them coming

Hi si, awesome videos im looking to buy a spring powered air rifle if you could only have one which one would it be? A standard one tho as I only have 500 pound. Hope you can help thanks in advance keep the videos coming

good video pal

Cheers buddy.

What gun blue did you use, or did you have it done by someone else. It sure does look nice.

It's like all Weihrauch rifles, have perfect accuracy. I thought this would be a bit less accurate than the other models, but it proved me wrong. I'm getting it in 22 cal. Is there any other Weihrauch, better than this with open sights?

Si the mans the best !!!

that was great nice rifle and exceptional shooting too...what model was that camo jacket? dpc right but not sure of exact model would be nice to own one in xxl as Im a bit big around the waist these days lol

I have just got an hw80 and it’s got a fixed guide that is metal in it also it has a long stroke action and one tuner said it’s a old way of tuned rifle do you or your mate know anything about it

I wish the TX200 had a flat bottom like that appears to have, and as the Pro Sport has.

Maybe that is the case, I was just going by my R10 with high mounts which goes a mildot above with a zero of 35 yards, Cheers

beautiful job on the hw80. give me spring rifles

wow wow wow nice dude

I have a first year model. Made 31ft-lb

Cracking video Si. Just a thought. Are you done with PCP's? In the last 12 months i've started air rifle shooting after a 25 year lay off. I started all those years ago (vermin control) with springers (PCP's didn't exist then) and was able to hit what I shot at. I have 2 PCP's now and i'm pretty good with them but I have a .177 pro sport which I'm not so good with. How about showing those of us who are new to springers or (as in my case) have forgotten, how to shoot them accurately?

Another fantastic video nice work on the 80 keep up all the good work atb andyc664 aka andy_c from the hlf

Great video as always Si! I'm getting back into shooting air rifles here in Oz after about 25 year break. Any chance you and Davy could do a video or two on how to shoot air rifles properly? Especially springers... I've got a HW97K that I've had for a while now and I'm an average shot at best! I'm damn sure it's not the rifle. Anyway, I look forward to your next video. Cheers. Dan.

Hi Si, Nice work, as always - Did you and Davy record footage of the actual restoration process? Would be great to see what the rifle looked like when you picked it up and to get an insight into the work that you did. Cheers, PF

First I wanted to say that I love watching your vids. I live in the states and our air rifles don't have a limit on FPE where if I'm not mistaken yours have to be below 12 FPE my question is on this rifle what grain of pellet are you using and is it a .177 or .22. Thanks and keep up the great vids.

If the piston is greased, why polish it? As there should be no metel to metal contact, wouldnt a rough surface hold the grease better?

That is the same way I zero my rifles, all ways aim at the bull and its the right pellet they should form a group if not try another pellet and still aim at the bull and the group is good move the group to the bull. I zero at 35 yards and out to 45yards , I will not shoot further as I am not to good but good to all them that can shoot further. And I had three 80s long barrel, and now I have a very early 80s in 22cal and a 80k both in 22, and very soon my birthday a new 80k in 177cal been looking but can not find a new 80s long barrel it's like they do not make them any more in the UK, but in Germany there is a dealer who imports into the UK to your house but a big chance with your money.

Hi si, well done m8 with the refurb, what method of blueing did you use ?

Deffo mate i love the 97 its my go to rifle :)

Hi Dave, what was its original ME prior to reduce the power?