... one of these.
Walther Running Boar 500. The most unique rimfire among my collection. A recent acquisition, and one that has provided me with hours of enjoyment already.
It's a stunner in the looks department, and will shoot right with any of my annies.
The trigger is solid competition to the 5018 in my 54.18 anschutz rifles. Insanely clean breaking, nice and light. It is a bit different in setup, which is kind of neat in its own right. It can be setup as a single stage, or a quasi-two stage. It's a bit difficult to describe, as you can set it up as a single stage, or you can introduce "travel" before you break the single stage. This pre-travel is not creep, but rather slack in the trigger before it breaks. If you dial the pre-travel screw all the way down, it will behave as a normal single stage. The pull weight screw only seems to adjust the pre-travel, so if you have it setup as a single stage, its about an 8oz trigger. If you set it up with pre-travel, and have the pull weight all the way up, you'll take up the first stage and because the pull weight matches the force required to break it, it will just fire. Quite interesting. If you reduce the pull weight, you can feel the second stage, just barely.
I've had quite a lot of fun researching and learning about this rifle. They are so wildly rare, but luckily walther used many of the same parts on other more widely known rifles. It is certainly a unique configuration however. I normally outfit my coveted rimfires with high end variables such as S&B's, but for this one I decided to use a Weaver T6 fixed 6x with a super-fine x-hair with a target dot. Quite a lot of fun, and quite different than what I'm accustomed to. ... which is probably why it's fun.
Any of you have one? Ever even seen one?
Walther Running Boar 500. The most unique rimfire among my collection. A recent acquisition, and one that has provided me with hours of enjoyment already.
It's a stunner in the looks department, and will shoot right with any of my annies.
The trigger is solid competition to the 5018 in my 54.18 anschutz rifles. Insanely clean breaking, nice and light. It is a bit different in setup, which is kind of neat in its own right. It can be setup as a single stage, or a quasi-two stage. It's a bit difficult to describe, as you can set it up as a single stage, or you can introduce "travel" before you break the single stage. This pre-travel is not creep, but rather slack in the trigger before it breaks. If you dial the pre-travel screw all the way down, it will behave as a normal single stage. The pull weight screw only seems to adjust the pre-travel, so if you have it setup as a single stage, its about an 8oz trigger. If you set it up with pre-travel, and have the pull weight all the way up, you'll take up the first stage and because the pull weight matches the force required to break it, it will just fire. Quite interesting. If you reduce the pull weight, you can feel the second stage, just barely.
I've had quite a lot of fun researching and learning about this rifle. They are so wildly rare, but luckily walther used many of the same parts on other more widely known rifles. It is certainly a unique configuration however. I normally outfit my coveted rimfires with high end variables such as S&B's, but for this one I decided to use a Weaver T6 fixed 6x with a super-fine x-hair with a target dot. Quite a lot of fun, and quite different than what I'm accustomed to. ... which is probably why it's fun.
Any of you have one? Ever even seen one?
