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Should I buy a brand new IZH46M or good secondhand FWB100?
Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 6:54 am
by hpaw
Should I buy a brand new IZH46M or a good secondhand FWB100 for £200? I live in the UK and cannot buy the IZH from any UK dealers. I could buy a US import from Pilkington guns for $275 + $44 postage + 17.5%VAT. I suppose that will work out to be approximately £200, which is the same price for the FWB100.
Please advise me which I should go for?
Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 7:14 am
by David Levene
I thought I had seen the IZH in a couple of dealer adverts in Airgunner.
If you do an import I think you will find that you will have to pay import duty as well as VAT.
fwb100 or izh46m
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 11:35 am
by Nano
hpaw:
I have a wonderful izh46m pistol, I consider that the fwb100 are better gun, I recommend you to buy of second hand that gun.
In my shooting club there is an old man that has one Fwb100 and it works really well, without flaws.
Nano
Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 4:48 pm
by thenikjones
Hpaw,
You can get the IZH64 in the UK, go to
www.decadefirearms.com (I spent ages looking on the web for a UK dealer, failed, then saw an advert in Shooting Sports for these guys, they are the UK Baikal dealers). It costs £299. Might be worth seeing what it would cost to ship from Pilkguns, and/or checking with Decade whether they mean the 'M' model.
HTH,
Nik
Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 5:21 pm
by scout18
Is the fwb you mention the spring gun? If so, get the IZH. It is much better. I am shooting 540 with my IZH but practice time has been hard to come by lately
JoeG
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 8:41 am
by JoeG
Scout18, no the FWB 100 is not a spring gun, it is a single stroke pneumatic like the IZH. Although the IZH is a great gun and a fantastic value my personal choice here would probably be the FWB. Slightly better ergonomics and a superior trigger. Both are quite capable of top scores and there isn't a bad choice.
izh46 or fwb100
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:29 am
by hpaw
Thanks for the replies. I've decided on neither and instead bought a wonderful Daisy 747 from Pilksgun.
Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 12:02 am
by scout18
The daisy is a good starter gun. You can learn the basics just fine with one. The thing that I was taught with the single stroke is to get into a process so you do the same steps everytime. With the Daisy I move the pump lever to the extreme most forward position and leave it there. Then I cycle the action and load a pellet. Then I bring the pump lever back to the closed postion. Time after time. After while it is so automatic that if there are any variations in your process or pistol's operation you will know right away. good luck.