A blast from the past: Feinwerkbau 80

[ojh]

I shoot AP mostly for my own enjoyment but also participate now and then small local matches, usually with no great success but having a good time anyhow. I'm also a gun collector, and currently run out of certified safe space. Also recent changes in licensing have made gun collecting even more of a rich man's hobby. So, in order to continue accumulating... sorry, collecting more historical firearms, some serious extra investment would be needed, and right at the moment I'm considering to declare my firearms collection complete. Still, there's this irresistible urge to get more, something more... luckily in my country, air guns up to caliber .25 can still be bought without a license and they do not require a safe for storage. So, I ran into this baby at an online buy and sell forum. The price was good, 275 euros, so it did not take long to make a decision to buy it.

Picked her up yesterday. Although the pistol is in, say, 85% shape, from the wear marks on the cocking lever handle, one may see that it obviously has been shot quite lot. The seller swears that it has been serviced recently, and it surely works mechanically perfect and spits pellets at what appears to be high enough velocity. Tonight I fired a couple of dozen shots at my 5 m home range, on air rifle targets which give approximately the right apparent sight picture - I don't mind scoring, every hole on black is good enough for me. Anyhow, I was amazed how nice and easy this thing is to shoot! OK, it's front heavy, the line of sight is high above the hand, and cocking ergonomics suck. But the recoil reduction system really works, at the moment of firing the the pistol stays just as still as my Anschütz LP-@ (PCP) and FWB C25 (CO2). The trigger is amazingly good too. After some getting used to, I shot the thing just as well as the C25. I could very well imagine doing serious (at my level) practice with this pistol.

So now I own three APs that I consider presenting what was the cream of the crop at their time. What next? Obviously, a current production pistol with an electronic trigger! Yes, that must be it... wait, what did I just say about a rich man's hobby?

[Rover]

"What next? Obviously, a current production pistol with an electronic trigger!"

Heh, heh. I guess what you REALLY want is a FWB Model 90.

[kevinweiho]

I also enjoy shooting my FWB 80, only a total of 48.000 of these air pistols were made.

You’re missing a single stroke pneumatic (ssp) to complete the airgun powerplants in your match air pistol collection.

Too bad Sako/Tikka doesn’t produce any precision airguns, they would take the market by storm!