Matt's Country - Is the Weihrauch HW100 worth owning?
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- Matt's Country - Episode 15 Is the Weihrauch HW100 worth owning?
I have owned this HW100 KT (Karbine Thumbhole) in .22 for several months now, have taken it apart and replaced all the seals, and shot it a lot. Spoiler alert - it's a great air rifle. It is accurate with multiple different types of lead ammunition, and it's a superb vermin and pest control gun. But here we look at the basic features and why I like this Weihrauch air rifle. Quality of engineering, walnut stock, and a mention on the fragile nature of the air seals. It has a Hawke Vantage 3-12 x50 AO mounted high on tall mounts and a bipod that I fitted myself in this video:
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I have a Weihrauch hw100s and i can honestly say that this rifle is laser accurate, i put all 14 shots through the same hole at 30 yards with no problem, and with only a 310mm barrel i can't complain about accuracy. The build quality and engineering are superb as you would expect from Wiehrauch, it's a rifle i will never get rid of.
Seems like we all love an HW100 :)
Show us your 14 shots😅
Barrel length is 310 mm
@@wrinkle1784 Thanks i corrected it.
What caliber?
Have a HW100KT 2021 model with a beautiful tiger striped walnut stock like yours. It is hands down the best rifle I have ever owned. Tough, accurate, powerful, reliable and quality everywhere you look. Pound for pound the best rifle you can currently buy in my opinion.
Agreed. Best value going. You can spend a lot more and get a lot less for it. Love mine to bits.
Bought mine brand new in 2010! It has been an incredible rifle! Soo reliable and still looks brand new! I use Napier gun oil and a lint free cloth!
Anything Made buy WEIRAUCH is worth owning , great vid 👍🍻
They are nice guns, and I own.... a few ;)
I have the HW95, HW97, HW98 and HW100. Great guns!
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Just found this video as I was wondering if others appreciate the hw100 kt as much as I do. I’m on my fourth if I count the 100s I owned. But recently I bought another as I absolutely love them and have never let me down. The last one I owned was in 22 with the green synthetic stock but I’ve decided to go for 177 as I bought an air arms s510 tactical in 177 and it changed my thoughts on continuing with 22 when 177 has a flatter trajectory and was flipping rabbits over at silly distances and that was it I’m 177 in all of my airguns apart from two which is my hw 97k blue laminate and my HW 95k. Which are in 22 My others which are a new walnut leftie pro sport which is on another level! and another hw95k and another hw97 k.
Anyhow back to the hw100 kt, I traded my synthetic 22 in the new one which is in the new style walnut stock and honestly I’ve never seen an airgun ever with such beautiful grain, the stock is one you’d expect to find on a high end shotgun it’s so nice and in the shop when I saw it at Gilsans of Yorkshire who I know very well had on the advert for it beautiful stock first to see will buy and I was straight on the phone saying don’t let it go I’m on my way now! It is a thing of beauty though absolutely outstanding and even better with a rub of oil.
The accuracy of these hw100 kT’s in fact all of the 100 line are spot on and I’ve never had a problem with any of mine. This one I own now in 177 is producing groups less than the size of a 5pence piece sat resting at 35 yards using Hades all day long and I have it married with the Sightmark wraith 2-16x28 and it’s a great setup. Now tonight was my first night actually using it for vermin control as a farmer had asked me to pop along to one of his buildings as he’d seen some rat droppings but I sat for two hours and didn’t see one rat but I popped the gun over into his field where there was a rabbit sat at what seemed to be a fair distance and thought there’s no chance of me hitting that at that distance but I took aim with two mil dots holdover and sent the pellet down the barrel and it struck the rabbit with a crack and it lept about a foot in the air landing stone dead. I’d hit it right dead centre between the ears and I paced it out and I paced 48 yards. Now for an old duffer like me it was one hell of a shot and again the hw100 kt brought home the bacon or in my case the rabbit which I’ll be having for my dinner tomorrow evening. These Weihrauch hw100 kt’s I believe are the best out there and worth every penny and they work and work ever time as long as we do our bit and our bit by looking after them.
I quite fancy a green synthetic one... didn't expect to like it but I really do.
Love this channel mate please continue enlightening us , many thanks
Well that's very kind of you to say. Thank you
Glad you are happy with it. Had mine also second hand for about 10 years. Doesn't really get used much but just like my bike these days but it's a prized position. Also not that I really have the need but I feel that I should treat the old girl to a buddy bottle conversion as to make a bit more interesting and custom.
I could imagine if HW redesigned this rifle by adding bigger plenum, bottle and power adjustability, that would be the ultimate airrifle ever made by human, considering that build quality and the engineering has been put to this rifle is the top notch!
A few little mods to the transfer port size would help as it's quite restricted. But I think part of the beauty of this is that.. it's not trying to be a missile launcher or rail gun...it's "just" a painfully accurate sub 12 beuaty
I've had an hw100tuning 250bar titanium cylinder fitted to mine and a pre chamber insert for the plenum on my .20 kt,increased shot count to 7.5 mags and a totally consistent 11.8 ftlbs at the muzzle.its well worth the money and it's one of my never- sell guns.
A bottle instead of a cylinder would absolutely ruin this rifle.
You know my views on them matt.. I adore mine.. Will never part with it.. its like an extention of my arm.
I like how short it is but i fitted a a-tech wave silencer which is shorter than the standard weihrauch one by an inch easy and it's as quiet if not quieter and only 35 quid or something. The loading mechanism is a work of art and had a one pellet system so you cant accidentally double load it.
The safety like all weihrauch safety catches is superb and reliable, a Beautiful working tool are these guns.. a must have. And hey.. we all leak occasionally 😂
I knew you were right all along, and it was just time before one spoke to me... and this one did that. Literally , as it had a weird leak and was a chatty little thing! The accuracy is ... remarkable and it's not too fussy on pellets. At least this one isn't.
@@mattscountry363 mines not too fussy either tbh..
"I've never shot myself in the face" .... I've just spat my tea out all over my laptop 😂😭
Now Paul, I HAVE spat tea everywhere too..... :)
Lovely video Matt
You're very kind, thanks Ryan. Not to the standard you guys make! But I'm sticking with the 1-take, no edits principle
I would buy it in a heartbeat, if only it had a 'classic' stock. Too bad I'm oldschool.
The do a more traditional stock for the HW100... and I thought I'd prefer it.. but the Thumbhole has amazed me. It actually does allow more control. It's quite a surprise tbh.
That stock is very nice, and the mag function is pretty cool too. I have the Hawke Vantage IR Riflescope 4-16x50 but recently I bought an Arken Optics SH4 GEN2 4-16X50. I was about to recommend it, because here, it is dirt cheap(USA), but I just looked up UK prices and its... well. LOL, I just deleted a paragraph of info on it and how blown away I was for the price, but it is not really relevant now. haha
Ah now... I know a bloke who got one from the USA when he flew out there for work , because exactly as you say.. they're great.. but serious money over here!
@@mattscountry363 Haha, I like when people beat the system, Its more than 100% marked up, I couldn't believe it.
"Sir you have 176 pounds of luggage, but you only came to the US with 6 pounds."
(Makes 10 grand selling them in the UK)🤣
I can only say that i agree on all counts, my only slight niggle is the overall weight at arms length, but you can't have some thing so well engineered and solid any lighter i suppose . 2 months later....Got to add this bit , Just taken possession of the .22 100 regulated with lighter cylinder, Ratworks tuned, i put a lighter scope on, reduced weight and point of balance considerably no more niggles lads..spot on.
Now that's not something I have pondered... maybe I haven't focussed on that. I'll think about it next time I shoot.
@@mattscountry363 just got the .22 version Rat works tuned, with lighter cylinder and scope , spot on
Nice new gun mate, it looks a cracking thing, I've owned a few different ones over the years but never a hw100, I may have to invent a need 😉
Hiya Danny :) It's really nice. Nicer than I dared hope actually. The reloading side lever is... something quite special. When you pull the trigger, the desire to feel the reload is compelling :)
I have the bullpup version in.177, it easily outshoots any other gun in it's price range and a lot at half as much again. I'm currently in the market for a .22 and think I should try something other than a Weihrauch (I have an hw97 too) but I keep coming back to the hw100, they are just the most reliable and, frankly, best airgun platform on the market.
So what's it to be then? An Air Arms S510 is quite lovely.... the Ultimate Sporter for example! Or if you need a better shot count... Daystate Wolverine maybe?
@@mattscountry363 I quite fancy a Brocock Compatto HR, nice and light, short-ish, very accurate and ideal for woodland walking and shooting off sticks. But I'll have changed my mind a dozen times before I get the cash together. You know how it is. (You're right about the Ultimate Sporter though, the walnut one is a stunner of a stock and the mechanics are second to none. Quite like the TDR too. And the new RTI Prophet 3 is pretty good. Not to mention the...😎)
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The Brocock Sniper range looks rather tasty.
@@redpillnibbler4423 They are good, very good, but they are about half as expensive again as any HW100.
Have a .20/5.0mm hw100kt myself ( stocks not as nice as yours though)had several bits and bobs done by hw100 tuning which made a good gun a great one.my go-to vermin gun, which also has a day out on the FT course.👍
A .20 ...that's lovely :) What pellets does it like please?
I have two HW 100 KT one old & one new both 22. & I prefer the old second hand one I bought from my neighbour. Cracking guns I also have the 77 & 97, Cheers Tippo.
Hiya Tippo. Of your 77 and 97, do you feel the 97 is a huge improvement over the 77?
Great review and channel buddy,subbed , and very likely will be doing a review on an almost identical one on my channel next wk , cheers shane
I have the laminate adustable version but i ahouks have got the walnut. Laminate looks nasty when it's been dinged and has this hazy broken glue look where its damaged. I also needed no asjustment in the cheek or butt piece, as it turns out, so a waste of money for the stock for me. With that said, the gun is top quality, amazingly accurate and simply hard to beat.
Laminate is a strangle thing isn't it? I have a laminate gun and i do love it ...but walnut sings!!!
Stunning looker Matt, i own one and the shoot just as good as look, Cheers 👌👌👌👍👍👍👍👍
They really do Casper... proper nice
I've put a few coats of bees wax on mine brings the grain out beautiful plus it waterproofs it.
I've not (so far) tried beeswax.. but I might try it on this HW100 :) as that has beautiful grain . Good idea
I've added beeswax to boiled linseed oil in pot and heated it so that it mixed together. I put the mixture into a jar and wipe the stocks off with it and polish it out❤
I have the hw100 ks, great gun
FANTASTIC rifle , as it happens I took mine too the range today to try some pellets I hadn't used before , And it goes without saying , it was BOB - ON ... ( .20 cal , 15.89grn rangemaster Emperors )
.20cal barrel might be a thing for me in future....always had that hankering. Is it correct that it's not a Weihrauch made barrel, the 20cal? Unlike the 177 and 22 that are inhouse barrels.
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Not sure about who makes the barrel , but it works well , aint much choice in pellets , but plenty enough to find one that suites , but not particularly fussy anyway .. pellets weighing around 12grn give you that true .20 trajectory .. but the ones I use are a little heavier ( H&N Baracuda @ 13 and a bit , can't remember off hand ) gorra chronograph the 15.89 grn against the same weight in .22 see if there's a noticeable difference. Reason I bought them was they were £14.50 for 500 .. at the place I bought them .. normal price £22 at a different supplier .. out of stock now at both places .. so im not the only one with a .20 cal ....
.20 cal has been my favorite size for over 30 years. I currently own a relatively new HW90 in 20 cal. I'm looking at getting the HW100 but I want it in 20 cal if possible. 20 should be more popular than 177. I can't believe it's not. I shoot JSB EXACT domed pellets weighing 13.73 gr. 815 FPS out of my HW90. Accuracy is fanominal. Flat with downrange punch. If I get the HW100 it will be in 22 if not available anywhere in 20.
Could I ask a question please? Where are people buying and selling air rifles in the uk? There must be somewhere online in the uk where they are bought and sold.
I used to have the HW95K and regret selling it. I’ve as my to get back into target shooting and it’s a toss up between this and the BSA R12. I do love a bit of German 🇩🇪 engineering.
Hi Mark. Good question. Lots of people on the big Airgun Forum. Plenty on Gun Trader too. Not ebay as they're banned on there. Remember that you CAN post a sub 12 airgun as a private person. Use Parcel Force 48. They have a clause of low power gun so it's viable. As with all things though.. normally best to go see it and test it
Very nice!
Hello Canada!!!
I have one in 1 77 cal lovely gun that’s for sure had a a 510 before that and it out shoots that 😊
I think you're right.. i think my HW100 outshoots an Air Arms too
@mattscountry363 had my aa 510 artworks and the hw100 is better out if the box
@@mattscountry363 I owned a "ratworks"tuned hw100 in .177...I now own an air arms s510 ultimate sporter in .177....I can quite categorically state that the hw100 would not outshoot my air arms....both superb stunningly accurate rifles 😉
Great Stuff 💯💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
Thank you :)
It’s a beauty and yes i subscribed. By the way i own a old walther lg55 with Tyrolean stock and double trigger.a old 50s 60s 10 meter competition rifle with a diopter.also a keeper like your beauty 😉👍
Is your Walther LG55 the one with the very pronounced curved cheek piece? If so that's a beauty!
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@@mattscountry363 yes it has the Tyrolean stock and the double trigger 👍😉
Oh , did you do a video on taking gun to pieces , to replace seal ? Hopefully you did , cheers shane
Hi Shane - do I didn't. It's a mammoth job and with my insistence of recording my TH-cam video's in one take with no edits, it's never happening! The video's I watched to learn how were proper complex and I don't think I'm anywhere close to good enough at the full strip and rebuild to guide anyone! Maybe one day...but likely not!
@@mattscountry363 thanks buddy , Shane
Great review on a brilliant rifle can I ask you how much you paid for it.and what gun shop as I am after the same gun.thank you👍👌
Got it from a friend, who had struggled getting it to not leak. I enjoyed stripping it and replacing all the seals. I'm not really able to advise on prices though. If you look at enough guns second hand over 2 or 3 weeks, you soon learn what is value and what isn't!
Is it legal to use in france?
I think they allow 20 joules which is about 15ftlbs coukd affect the accuracy. I have kt laminate 177. Quite a thing to behold
do you still use it and is this uk version or fac version?
Hello and thanks for asking. Yes I use it regularly and it's UK Sub 12ft lb.
The superior BC of the .20 JSB 15.89 over any .177 and .22 pellets, makes this calibre the ultimate for accurate, medium power applications ...Oops, the cat is out of the bag now.
There are a couple of .20 I'd consider buying. This is one tbh, and maybe an HW77 too. But... I'm going down the 25 cal route first!
Stock looks well, mine is better now I have oiled it, have the same scope on mine.
If I wasn't oiling the H(ulk)W 80 I'd likely have started on this one.
Also can't double load. Won't turn mag if you try to cock before firing.😅
good point!!!!
How much fps with rws hobby pellet?What kind of scope?Thanks
Scope is a Hawke Vantage 1 inch tune 50mm AO front lens. Very nice affordable scope
Very pricey but I will own one in the USA 🇺🇸 market that is not limited to power.🤠
They must be quite expensive over in the US I guess. There are plenty here in the UK. In terms of power, having now taken it apart entirely to replace seals, I can see that it's not designed for enormous power. Not like an FX for example. The air route through the transfer port isn't huge. But our sub 12ft lb limit suits it well, and I think they're happy enough up to about 20 ftlb
Vorrei cortesemente conoscere la marca e le caratteristiche dell' ottica montata sulla carabina. Grazie.
Ciao
È un Hawke e penso che sia un Fast Mount. Inizialmente credevo fosse un Vantage, ma sono tubi in un unico pezzo e questo è un tubo in due pezzi, perché posso vedere il giunto in cui il tubo si inserisce nella sezione centrale della torretta. È una versione base con obiettivo da 50 mm e ingrandimento 3-12. Ha la regolazione del parallasse anteriore (AO) ed è buono. Meglio di quanto potresti sperare. Spero che questo aiuti.
@@mattscountry363 Grazie
All gun repairs far cheaper than gunsmith especially hw100 if you live Tameside near Ashton under Lyne. Shop seal change £100-£180
My mate abt £50
That is a very old rifle. Many upgrades have happened since that gun was new.
If you can help me age/date it that would be superb. How old do you think it is? I have no idea
Easily the best on the market except the weight ha
To be fair Gav.. they are a tad heavy .. I agree. But it's the engineering I guess :) Thanks for popping over to see the vid.
@@mattscountry363 not a prob love these kind of vids
I’ve a Leshiy 2, a FX and an air arms but my HW 100 out performs them all and looks better in my opinion as well.
They really are spot on!!!
Is it worth owning...another question...have they changed it much over the years...if it's not broken then you know exactly what to do...one of the best I've owned and a silencer included...I wish more would follow the idea..more videos like this please
You're right....Don't fix it.. agreed. I wonder sometimes why they bothered with the 110 but hey, that's another story. Anyway, thanks for the kind words