Weihrauch investment????

Who remembers the BSA AAR Special edition that was for sale for months and months on here, the worst buy ever 🤣🤣🤣
 
junglie2022 said:
Well I've never done it for a "hussle" as you call it, more to get guns I've always wanted but couldn't afford as a young man, but made an average of 50 quid on most of the ones I've sold after a few years of satisfying use before passing them on to the next keeper. Try making that much on 100 quid in a few years with investments without high risk....
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I don't do high risk but have done very well, much better than on any guns I have sold thank christ or I'd be homeless :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
I bought just before Christmas a hw50s red laminate 150 year anniversary model with pen and cap for £250 literally new , and the guy had trouble selling it, he was originally asking £350 they seen to do limited editions every other week
 
fozzy17 said:
I bought just before Christmas a hw50s red laminate 150 year anniversary model with pen and cap for £250 literally new , and the guy had trouble selling it, he was originally asking £350 they seen to do limited editions every other week
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Bargain! not much above the price of a standard one.
 
fozzy17 said:
Mine gets shot , I've lost the pen and worn the hat 👒
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Lol I'd have probably lost the knife too by then. My mum saved up thousands of fag coupons to get me a Swiss army knife I wanted, had it one afternoon & it must have fell out my trouser pocket while lying on top of the cliffs shooting ferals for my brothers ferret. Walked back round that quarry the next day looking but no sign of it.
 
I bought a new HW35 grey laminate stainless because I really liked it, binned the box but kept the Hang Tag. Stuck a silver Hubertus scope on it with a silver one piece mount so all in cost me about £700. Only use it occasionally as my other 'common or garden' 35K is my 'go to' gun.
Will the grey laminate be worth more than the 35K in 15 years time ? Probably but, it cost nearly double in the first place !
So, if you want to see a return on your HW50, I'd say buy a standard HW99 for £300 and stick the spare £150 in an ISA.
 
I call it my trans gun
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jps2486 said:
Prices of springers used to be cheap, but they are rising pretty fast in the last year or two. The quality manufacturers are disappearing too.
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Well , real quality ones were always dearer just look at the prices compared to wages at the time, a bsa mercury for example might cost 2 weeks to unskilled workers wages whereas a hw or FWB sport would be four weeks worth. Thats why so many of us now can afford guns we couldn't back when we were young. Tbh I think if you want a good quality springer your better off buying a well looked after old German gun or if you have the time & skills a doer upper than a new budget Chinese built gun. I know which one will outlast you to pass on to the next generation....
 
junglie2022 said:
Well , real quality ones were always dearer just look at the prices compared to wages at the time, a bsa mercury for example might cost 2 weeks to unskilled workers wages whereas a hw or FWB sport would be four weeks worth. Thats why so many of us now can afford guns we couldn't back when we were young. Tbh I think if you want a good quality springer your better off buying a well looked after old German gun or if you have the time & skills a doer upper than a new budget Chinese built gun. I know which one will outlast you to pass on to the next generation....
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Like Junglie said:- BSA's were the solid, dependable gun in the 70's & early 80's that were within reach of the average Working Man (or Son of). Airgun World brainwashed everyone that they needed a Weihrauch or Feinwerkbau to be a serious Shooter but, that was like comparing a Ford Cortina with a Mercedes 240 - never saw any of them round our way !
If you were on a really tight budget, your best bet was a Relum Tornado out of yer Mam's Mail Order catalogue at £0.75pa week for 52 weeks (or thereabouts !).
 
Mark E Smith said:
Like Junglie said:- BSA's were the solid, dependable gun in the 70's & early 80's that were within reach of the average Working Man (or Son of). Airgun World brainwashed everyone that they needed a Weihrauch or Feinwerkbau to be a serious Shooter but, that was like comparing a Ford Cortina with a Mercedes 240 - never saw any of them round our way !
If you were on a really tight budget, your best bet was a Relum Tornado out of yer Mam's Mail Order catalogue at £0.75pa week for 52 weeks (or thereabouts !).
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Thb apart from meteors which were very good for the price I never shot a mercury till the mid 90's to see how much better they were than the dreadfull airsporters of the 70's I tried. Thought they were good & powerfull at the time till I tuned my first half decent springer , a Diana g80, it beat the pants off them on power & accuracy & my pals thought it was weak as it didn't go twang like their airsporters. Till I outshot them with it. Won some bets with that one. ( Helped by the fact I was using Good German pellets at the time & they were just chucking anything cheap through theirs no doubt)
 
junglie2022 said:
Thb apart from meteors which were very good for the price I never shot a mercury till the mid 90's to see how much better they were than the dreadfull airsporters of the 70's I tried. Thought they were good & powerfull at the time till I tuned my first half decent springer , a Diana g80, it beat the pants off them on power & accuracy & my pals thought it was weak as it didn't go twang like their airsporters. Till I outshot them with it. Won some bets with that one. ( Helped by the fact I was using Good German pellets at the time & they were just chucking anything cheap through theirs no doubt)
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The bigger the twang = the more powerful the gun back then in a time before Chrono's !
Eley Wasp or BSA Pylarm (same Slugs, different Tins) were the pellet of choice for BSA's from your RFD or Beatall & Marksman from the Fishing Shop if you were skint.
(apologies for veering off original topic).
 
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