more Lot consists of: (A) Circa 1990s Chinese Norinco copy of the famous Walther Olympia. R." Blued finish and roughly checkered thumb rest target grips. Left of slide marked "TT-Olympia Pistole-Cal.
Fixed 4 - 3/4" barrel fitted with ramped fixed front and square notch rear sights. They both shoot extremely well.Lot consists of: (A) Circa 1990s Chinese Norinco copy of the famous Walther Olympia. Whoever was in charge of buying Walther’s stock blanks should be in the airgun hall of fame, LOL! You seldom see an LGV without eye-catching wood.īTW both these rifles were re-sealed with an HW 30 seal on an adapter, as mentioned above. The paperwork that came with the gun proves it is indeed a “Spezial,” must be a very early one. Note the straight trigger blade and matte-finished barrel sleeve which differ slightly from the LGV. Again, this stock was shared by late LGV’s and early LGVS’s. Walther fans call this the “UIT” stock - note the shallower, straight-sided fore end compared to your later gun. On the bottom is LGVS, serial 244882, from around 1968. The rounded “Olympia” stock is to my eye really beautiful - handles superbly and is an interesting modernized take on earlier classic German styles. Per the thread referenced above, this gun may date from about 1966, give or take.
If the main seal on your gun needs replacing - very likely - there are adapters that allow the use of modern Weihrauch seals.įor what it’s worth, here are two Walthers living at my house for comparison. Says a lot about the quality of Walther airguns! It’s interesting that these guns continued to be commercially successful in the age of recoilless match rifles (Anschutz 220 hit the market in 1960, the FWB 150 a couple years later, and the Diana 60 in 1963). So your guess of the early 1970’s is probably right on. Your gun is a late LGVS, which had a revised stock and a heavier receiver tube with the scope grooves milled in earlier ones had a welded-on scope ramp. The counter-wound end-to-end mainsprings, and maybe a slightly modified trigger, seem to be the true separator between the models. Late LGV’s and early LGVS’s have the same stock and are hard to tell apart, and other options and small changes can confuse the issue further. The LGV was introduced about 1963, and the LGV Spezial about 1969.
Here’s a thread that may help (scroll all the way down to get most info on Walther serials):
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