Product Details
BEEMAN, USA
A SCARCE .177 BREAK-BARREL SPRING-PISTON AIR-RIFLE, MODEL 'R1', serial no. 908871,
circa 1988. with blued 20 1/2in. barrel including 'Beeman' ribbed barrel-weight, no provision for open-sights, plain blued air-chamber with machined grooves for a telescopic sight, the trigger block stamped 'BEEMAN MODEL R1 MADE IN W. GERMANY, BEEMAN PRECISION AIRGUNS INC, SAN RAFAEL CALIFORNIA 94903' on the left hand side and the 'Beeman Precision Airguns' trademark on the right, automatic safety-catch to rear, capped chequered pistol-grip Monte-Carlo beech half-stock with solid rubber heel-plate, complete with a 'BEEMAN 'BLUE RIBBON' 2-7X32 parallax adjustable target telescopic sight, the whole appearing little used
Provenance: First manufactured in 1981 and built under supervision from Robert Beeman by Weihrauch of Germany, this gun was based on a tuned and modified Model HW35 and was the first spring-piston air-rifle to exceed the 1000 fps. muzzle-velocity barrier. It directly spawned the highly popular Model HW80 (marketed by Weihrauch) and successfully launched the concept of 'adult' airguns to North America. This particular example was one of a batch of restricted examples imported into the U.K. by Manchester Air Guns.
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Estimate £300-400