I’ve said it before, and I’ll be saying it again, but Weihrauch always sits back and considers its options, rather than blazing trails and kicking open new doors. Mind you, this world-renowned German company has already changed the entire air-gun game with the launch of the Rekord trigger unit way back in the 1950s, so it could be said that its established stance of ‘evolution not revolution’ came about after it had already done the ‘revolution’ bit. There’s another fact about Weihrauch of which I’ve become personally aware, and that’s the company’s extreme reluctance to reveal any sort of prototype, but I’ve managed to extract one for this test, albeit one that is definitely 95% the finished item. What we have here, is the latest, and I’ll already declare it the greatest, incarnation of the HW100 side lever, multi-shot, pre-charged pneumatic, the HW100KT LA. The full name of this rifle is the HW100 Karbine Thumbhole Laminate Adjustable, and it’s the best part of that name ...