 Welcome to the Pyramid Insider, I'm Tyler Pattener. Today we got a brand new air pistol from Y-Rock in Germany, the HW-44. So the HW-44 guys was announced at E-1 in Germany this year in 2017 and we wanted to get it in before the end of the year as kind of the final new offering that's come in in 2017 here at Pyramid Air. The gun is a little bit different than what we saw at E-1, but very interesting nonetheless. This is a high-powered pre-charged pneumatic hunting pistol that's got a lot of really nice features. Let's take a look at them. Now starting at the front of the gun, this is probably the only departure that you'll see if you looked at pictures of this gun from IWA is the fixed suppressor on the end of the gun here. It's about a 6-inch suppressor going to keep things nice and quiet because without it the gun barks quite a bit. The gun's putting out about 17 foot-pounds of energy and 22 caliber. Obviously a little bit less in 177 and those are the two calibers it's available in so the suppressors are really nice addition and while it does make the gun fairly long at just over 19 inches it doesn't make it unwieldy and we'll show you that here on the range a little bit later. It still shoots very well. Just back of the suppressor we do have a fixed front sight and that matches up very nicely with your rear adjustable sight unit and it is fully adjustable windage and elevation all-in-one comes very nicely into the sight line, very low profile sight there. Although we do have a Picatinny rail up top and then on the underside of the gun for any optics you're gonna want to mount we're probably gonna go ahead and mount a pistol scope for the accuracy portion of this review because we're expecting very good accuracy out of this gun and it certainly deserves it but you could also mount a red dot if you didn't want to go with the open sight setup and of course the rail underneath is gonna be good for your lasers, flashlights, things like that, heck you could even mount a bipod on it if you really wanted to. As far as air capacity goes we do have a very small cylinder on this gun now it is regulated so that's super important to note we should be getting very good consistency although I'm not expecting a heck of a lot of shots out of this gun, probably about 15. That said you do have a colorful pressure gauge on the front, 200 bar max fill pressure, about 2,900 psi and the gun does come with a fill port cover which I love, it's the little things that get me guys and the fill probe itself, we have it decked out here with a quick disconnect fitting, it does not come with this quick disconnect fitting so note that you will need to get one if you're running a QD setup on your hose to fill it but just goes right in the end there, you hook it up and you are good to go, very easy to use. Moving on back to the trigger this is a two stage definitely a match grade trigger and it is adjustable as well so important to note there but the trigger right out of the box guys this is probably breaking right about a pound maybe a hair under this trigger is awesome alright breaks like glass first stage second stage you can perfectly define them with your finger and it just breaks super clean a very nice trigger now the safety unit on this gun you do actually have to cock the gun to engage the safety and it is ambidextrous one thing you'll notice about this gun is that it is fully ambidextrous so the grip you can actually switch the cocking lever over the loading lever you can switch everything over but the safety is the one thing you do not need to switch it's fully ambidextrous so we're just going to flip that down that puts it on safe we can go ahead try and pull the trigger nothing happens really easy to operate system and then when you're ready and you want to go shoot it you just flip it back up it's a very easy to use so the HW-44 is built on the same frame as the HW-110 basically so your action is going to function and feel the same and it uses the same 10-round magazines so magazines look just like this 10 rounds of 177 and 22 obviously we have the 22 here there is a bit of a trick to loading it though so on the side of the gun we do have this kind of loading lever here which actually keeps a pin that retains the magazine in place so to go ahead and load it you just kind of flip this into the upward position and then slide your magazine in till it seats and you'll know it seated properly when this guy flips back forward and you're all set to go you push this forward you're loaded hot and ready to go the gun does come with two magazines really like that overall the gun feels pretty good yes it's a little bit long but it's not too heavy I want to say it's right around two pounds or so but an ambidextrous grip so whether you're a right-handed or a left-handed shooter this is going to fit into your hand nicely I don't have the biggest hands but there's still room for me to get to that palm shelf there but a very nice feel putting it out there points well and again other than being a little bit long this gun doesn't handle too poorly for such a long pistol and the fully ambidextrous nature of everything whether it's the safety that I can get to easily or the mag release or the lever itself everything on this gun can be swapped to the other side so that feature in and of itself has me one over right there so whether you're a righty or a lefty this hw44 should perform very well for you guys there's one other thing I want to mention before we head out to the range there is actually a way to degas this pistol which is very neat there's actually a little cutout here in the molded plastic here and you can actually fit an Allen key right into there you twist it and you go ahead and degas the cylinder whether you need to do so for travel or maintenance whatever the you may need to do that for you do have the ability to do that without having to just fire off a bunch of shots so I do like that feature as well again why rock nails the little details here guys which is really cool we're gonna head out to the range now I have a leapers 1.25 to 4 pistol scope here so it's gonna give you that longer eye relief so we can fully extend out away from the gun got some pick a tinny mounts here to go ahead get this mounted up we'll see out at the range alright guys just real quick wanted to show you a couple things before we get to the accuracy to be able to get our best accuracy and see what this pistol can do we're gonna go ahead and bench it just like you're seeing it here so it got a bit of a front rest that's about all we're doing here nothing too extensive but one thing I did want to show you guys was the muzzle flip on this this gun seems to pop quite a bit when you pull the trigger on it and I wanted to show you guys that right here so check this out so two-handed grip off the bag and you can see that gun jump as you fire it there's a fair bit of muzzle flips that is something to consider it's not seeming to affect my accuracy at all but definitely an interesting feel out of this hw44 when you pull the trigger alright guys to start now with our groupings here at 25 yards our predator GTOs did very very well under a half inch group about point four five seven sixteenths or so very accurate pellet this is again 10 shot groups here the JSP 15.89's also pretty impressive about point six inches or five eighths so a nice little grouping there so you definitely got some pellet options it seems to be favoring the JSP's although these Crossman Premier 14.3 domes did very well I was quite surprised by this as a lower cost alternative pellet three quarters of an inch at 25 yards you know this is going to be a squirrel's head all day moving out to 45 yards really testing the accuracy at long distance of this hw44 pistol the GTOs I was a little disappointed after that grouping at 25 yards just barely under an inch here for 10 shots decent spread you're still going to be able to hunt with this at that distance with those GTOs the Crossman Premier's put down a very nice group except for two little flyers up top there 8 out of 10 in about 11 sixteenths inch group but overall one inch for 10 shots and probably our best pellet out there 45 is the JSP 15.89's 7 eighths inch group right here for 10 shots very accurate pistol very impressed out of this gun at 45 yards you're definitely gonna have both the power and the accuracy to go after small game with this gun with the JSP 15.89's you're looking at an average feet per second of about 690 or so which is pretty good it's about 17 foot pounds with those JSP 15.89's and again very very consistent on that regulator you're going to get about 15 or 16 shots from 200 bar with a very tight extreme spread and obviously a very good standard deviation the hw44 is making very good use of a very small air capacity with that regulator alright guys pretty impressed here with the hw44 very accurate very consistent chronograph numbers super smooth operation and obviously the fact that it's very quiet is a big plus in my world the ambidextrous grips and the fact that you can swap everything over is very nice in my opinion as well a couple gripes though I'm not a huge fan of this kind of magazine retention lever system it just makes getting mags in and out a little bit clunky almost but other than that the gun really functions well again I'd like to see a quick disconnect you know fitting on these guns but I get it you know Phil probe is whatever it is and at least they give you that Philport cover there to keep Dustin debris out of the gun but overall I mean those are very small gripes when a gun's doing sub half inch groups at 25 yards and under one inch groups at 45 yards this is a pistol remember that guys so off the bench a very impressive results here for the hw44 and one you guys are definitely gonna want to check out the high price point is well justified in my opinion if you are looking for something that is going to be able to hunt or target shoot accurately in a pistol format so check it out on pyramid air.com for the insider I'm Tyler Patner as always guys don't forget to comment like and subscribe we'll see you at the next one