WEIHRAUCH HW80 Long Range Hunter .22 Cal 

This gun is queen of airguns. Pinacle of airgun engineering. Very durable, powerful and accurate. Its trigger is the best in the airgun world. Million times better than Diana and any other springer brand.

All the new pcp rifles are awesome and all, but I am a springer guy myself. There's just something about them that I love.

Great video Jon. All I know is that when life falls apart and the world finally goes crazy - it'll be my springer that feeds me!

What’s awesome about springers is all you need is a can of pellets and an arm, nothing else. Pcp just got way out of hand. So for the price of a gaint bottle for air storage, I bought a Diana Airking 54 laminate pro for the same price. This gun rocks. I’m never going back to pcp.

Ive shot many hundreds of rabbits with mine over the years. Its fed my family when times have been tight. An essential for any pot hunter. Highly recommended.

Great air rifle, it will never leak, never run out of air and requires only a minimum of maintenance and it is built to last.

If something is old it doesn't mean not good model if it is good it is like gold.

Highly recommendable in my opinion

Such a beauty! I love my old springers!

Super sweet 🙂👍. It might climb up in power a little bit as it breaks in. In the right conditions you'll be able to hit ground squirrels 🐿️ at 100 yards 🙂👍.

that's a beauty. i have a few late 1900's German break barrels. just love them all.

Thanks for showing this great air rifle 👍I have five HW springers, but if i had to choose one for hunting it will be the 80. Mine is in .25 and it is a beast. The HW35 will be the next choice. Cheers!

Weihrauch's workinghorse. Mine is in .25cal and a beast.

Gorgeous

Great improvements with the new stock, swivels and a moderator. It was my first "adult" airrifle that i bought in the late eighties, it still works great after all these years. Next week i will give it a service with new main spring and piston seal and it will ready for the next decades. I have some pcp's as well but i doubt if they will be operational in 20 years time.

All Weihranch guns are worth buying. I bought a .20 cal WH90 gas ram but I would certainly want the 80 in a collection as next choice, if it comes in 20 cal, which I believe most do from Weihranch.

Smooth trigger pull! Love the spec run down 🤙🏼🍺

Actually shooting my .20 cal Beeman R-1 this morning. Incredibly accurate to 40 yards. Using Burris 4.5-14 scope and Diana recoil protection mount to help save my expensive scopes

If you can shoot a springer well you can shoot anything well .

I love springers.

Can’t wait for the videos

thank you for the video I can't wait for more liked and subscribed

Twang noise get custom spring kit can't go wrong.cheers from uk

Thanks John for the review. We had springers in our family from a very young age. They were incredible game getters and us brothers put much game on the table using them. The fact that you cock it once and reload and are ready to fire again, I believe for hunting, is superior to a multi pump gun which takes longer to prepare for a second shot. Don't get me wrong, I also love the multi pump guns and have a few of each. I'm enjoying your air gun evaluations and looking forward to your further reviews!

Beautiful rifle! Great video.

Very nice rifle and looks powerful and accurate. Love the concept of cheap shooting / hunting offered by an air rifle. Regards Dave 🇺🇸 🇳🇿

Great honest video.. have this in the .22 & .177 can't recommend weihrauch enough to people in the market to buy a air rifle.

The HW80 was the Beeman R1.

Like the HW scope

I’m a Weihrauch man through and through and I say the same to anyone who asks me which springer should I buy and I tell them to keep saving until they have enough to buy a Weihrauch as they will have it for life if looked after. I must admit I haven’t yet got myself a hw 80 but I do have two 95’s in 22 and 177 and they are outstanding and light enough to easily carry all day on a hunt and very accurate. I also have the 99s as my grab and shoot rifle for the vermin that sometimes decide to take up home under my sheds. But my favourite is my 97k blue laminate now that’s taking thing to the next level pellet on pellet at 35 yards. Yes I have a couple of pcp’s but I like to go back to my roots and take the springers out, firstly to keep my sue in using a springer as it’s a totally different way to shoot compared to the pcp ie the holding of the rifle allowing the gun to do its thing and secondly to remind myself and others how we all started shooting when it’s all we had and to prove that you don’t need to spend a fortune to buy a pcp and a bottle or pump when you can have a Weihrauch with a proven track record that will produce the same results over and over again.

Got the MK1 and love it ,the rats dont tho lol ,just found your channel so liked and subd ,bring it on . Greetings from Wales UK .

Thanks for a great presentation. And interesting information, it is clear you Wingman has experience. But please, regarding pellets like the regular, cheap ones like Crosman, Gamo etc - those don't do a good rifle justice. They are probably mass produced and unstable. Highly recommend JSB, they are consistently the best. Note what a consultant at the factory there once said: "we have employees at the assembly line who inspect and evaluate each and every pellet before it is possibly approved and packed in the box for sale".. That probably says it all.

Love your enthusiasm for this quality manufacturer. I have an HW99 break barrel in .22 with an inexpensive Hawke scope. Super accurate and super reliable. I would not part with this rifle. Just subbed.

What a beauty! old school rules, yes! I'm tired from the garbage plastic airguns that Gamo and others come up with these days. I would love to get the .25 version.

Weihrauch likes JSB Exact

Looking forward to the field review on this one.

Nice intro John. AoA did you a huge solid getting you this air rifle! You're going to be shooting different ammo at 30 yards. Probably the Barracuda 15's or a JSB manufactured version of the15.9 g. That's my guess. Sweet rifle I hope your can shoot all the other ammo tested over the chrony to see deviation get better? Awesome Job.

Pretty cool how a budget pellet ( Crosman Hollowpoint 14.3 grain ) can shoot that well ? Almost three tins can be purchased instead of one . Metal and wood . Hard to beat .

If it still had the iron sights it be my go to survival gun. I bet that's better than the Benjamin or crossman pumpers

Nice rifle! I went to sportsman's warehouse today and bought a .22 semiautomatic I have to wait 10 days to pick it up and I bought a steel target that you shoot the paddles and they flip up then you shoot the one on top and it flips the other paddles back down after get the rifle I'd like to drive to ocotillo and do some shooting. You are welcome to come along if you like

Have three weihrauch air rifles HW 95 luxus in both .22 and .177. Thought about buying hw80 but i have a Diana 350 magnum in .22 and it very accurate and hits harder i bet than a hw80. Diana around 850 fps with 23 foot pounds of energy i think they are all great and my hw 95's put out around 17 foot pounds of energy

I'd take this gun, but with open sights, anytime, over its "LR Hunter" variant. To offer any Weirauch, like 35, 57, 80...97, without open sight is a crime against springer airgun shooters...

That's really nice. I wonder how much speed you will lose up on the mountain. I've got a couple Hatsan 125s, 22 and 25 cal. They run about 50 fps slower than most, here at 4000 ft. Nice review, thanks for sharing, and looking forward to more about it.

Trouble is that a Weihrauch piston is second cousin to a breeze block compared to an Air Arms piston. In the UK they are used to be imported over the limit of 12 lbs, so they got their mainsprings reduced by an angle grinder! Internally they used to be full of grease as well. But unless the piston has been redesigned since I last bought a HW80, I'm not impressed with the internals of these rifles. Plus there has been some problems with the fit of the barrel to the hinge pin. Those shims are not sometimes the right width to give a good fit in this area. Having said that, I've got a HW95 carbine which I rate highly. It's never been looked at internally in any way and is comfortably within the UK limit of 12 ft lbs. In the UK an HW80 is too heavy for its power, your better off with a HW95. Also, maybe they don't sell the HW80 in the UK anymore with the 30mm chamber?

Hi wingman did you do the follow up on this air rifle? V thank you for the video

All talk, never fired a shot. 5 months ago. Why did AOA give you this rifle to review, you're a knife guy?

Is that the standard stock? It looks great

How much fps with a rws light weight pellet hobby. Thanks

What kinda scope, power?

Yes your right bud that's all I will own is old springer guns the German guns are the best to

I’ve never owned a springer. I want a .22 but can’t decide between the HW95 or HW80 SLK.

You didn't mention the rifle's power in foot pounds/joules?

WHERES THE HUNTING VIDEO!? LOL! Be amazing to see 25 yards 50 yards 75 yards and 100 yards splatter test with this! 🙂

Hey i own the Weihrauch HW80k with Weihrauch 3-9x40P Scope and i have problems that the scope doesn't resist against the recoil and that although i have the German Version with 7,5 joule. After a few amount of shots i have to calibrate the scope again. Can you confirm this issue? Now i will try the Hawk Airmax 3-9x40 and hope that it will resist my springer.

Headshots!

Price for the 22 call

As an English person, what's the foot pounds? Ours are limited to 12,fp. Works a treat for most small game. In fact the high velocity...fRC. lose out on accuracy..

When we getting the 30 yd accuracy test?

Beautiful rifle! At over $700, I would hope it would last long enough to be passed down as an heirloom... But Let me be honest. I came into the air gun fold as a way to supplement my trigger time from my centerfire, powder burning addiction a couple of years ago when it was easier to find bigfoot than score a brick of primers. Yes, I have a stock pile of primers and powder enough to last a fair length of time. But I saw this as a time to try air guns again... Memories of my crossman 760 pump master came to mind. I purchased a Hatsan 125 in .22. it has BIG POWER, but not the accuracy.... I'm used to plinking with .223 handloads using range brass, Horn 55's and 20 grns of RL10 and printing sub 1" at 100 yards with a econo CBC 24" Heavy Bull barrel upper on a poly AR15 with a 2 stage 2lb trigger. I don't have $600 in the complete rifle and its a tack driver with progressive loaded plinking stuff! So imagine my dismay to find out I can only hit a tuna can at 100 yards about 30-40% of the time. Again, 100 yds with a break-barrel is a tall order. BUT THIS WAS MY EXPECTATION (and still is)... I discovered my bottom line couldn't be met with a break barrel. But I think the Air Venturi Avenger in .177 comes REAL close to checking all the boxes... even almost matching the unlimited "practical outing shot count" capability of a break barrel. Let me explain; the first thing anyone says when comparing a PCP to a break barrel is shot count. "I don't have to carry a bottle with me in the field while I'm using a springer, with a PCP you're only gonna get 25-50 shots and then you need air"... well I have a video of my stock .177 taking 100 shots in ten 10 shot groups on a single air fill and then shooting a shot string across the chrony and making about 17 fpe with shots 101-106. The groups were shot at 36-37 yards off a bag. The groups were all smaller than a golf ball and most could be covered with a quarter. I tried shooting the Hatsan 125 one hundred times back to back. With a 50 pound cocking force I can say most shooters will not shoot it 100 times in a single outing. And it can't touch the accuracy of the little Avenger in .177. The Hatsan will make about 27-29 FPE. The tune used for 100 shots in the .177 only made about 17 fpe but turned up, it can break 26 fpe. Again, accuracy is my top requirement. But 105 shots making almost 17 FPE and nearly stacking pellets at 36-37 yards? Oh, it will shoot golf ball size groups at 100 yards... hitting a 3" tuna can is almost a sure thing with every shot. .177 at 200 yds? How about shooting a pill bottle at 200 yds with back to back hits. Break Barrel just isn't the right choice for me.... but each their own... if you shoot and support the sport, God Bless you. And remember, the easiest modification for accuracy is trigger time... Stock $349 .177 rifle... Adult Break Barrel or entry level PCP ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8UHlBAVWHJg.html 100 shot test (chrono at end) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VCoS877By9A.html 10 shot 50 yard (ATN X-sight) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-chFu4LApnTs.html 200 yard pill bottle (.177 Avenger) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3LSl4EcT98s.html Hatsan 125 @ 36-37 yds ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gJhhajeTKPk.html 100 yds groups ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4Sm9aW7g8xU.html

Very purdy, my go to is the Beeman R-1

You wanted to "take a step back?" In my opinion, not a proper choice of words. Yes, they are in a class of their own. But to say you're taking a step back? No, not at all!!!

Step back????????? Really man! PCPs are not better, just easier to shoot, and you need a whole kit to hunt with them.

Some air guns say they are quicker,i guarantee you not by much.

I love the HW80, but the new stock is to damn ugly. I own a 1998 HW80 in .25, amazing rifle.

760 fps??14 grain???not very powerful.

Pre charge is so boring.