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New Feinwerkbau air rifle launched at IWA2012
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10-03-2012 5:55pm#1So I'll be getting a new air rifle in September, and am looking round at what's on the market at the moment and mostly I'm thinking Walther LG400:
And then today Feinwerkbau go and release this, the FWB 800, at IWA2012:
Looks just like a slightly gussied-up FWB P700, but it does have two interesting features. First off, a big pain in the backside with some match air rifles (like my Anschutz) is that the loading lever opens vertically upwards, and will get blocked if your rearsight is too far foward, which is limiting if you have to wear shooting glasses. Since you have to open it completely to charge the rifle for the next shot, that's a bit of a bummer. Other rifles address that by opening the charging arm horizontally (like the new Anschutz rifles) or by pushing the charging arm out away from the body of the rifle (like the LG400). The FWB lets you adjust the charging arm to swing it out away from the body, but lets you adjust it so far, that you open the arm vertically downwards. Which doesn't sound like much, but is pretty nifty if you use these things....
The other odd feature, is that the stock can be adjusted in two vertical axes, which is pretty new, but I'm not sure how useful it'll actually be:
More photos and details here. Worth looking at for the ISSF geeks...0
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Does it come in red & green?0 -
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No, they're not something you're likely to find a gun dealer trying to flog cheaply to get space in his storage lockup! But they will put a hundred pellets through the same hole at ten metres, and can adjust to fit just about any physique from petite to you-ate-all-the-pies-didn't-you
If ISSF airgun is what you want to shoot, these kind of things represent the top of the line at the moment...0 -
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Actually, there's a new Steyr LG110 after being released at IWA2012 as well Thirdfox, with an electronic trigger which is supposed to be absolutely excellent according to that reviewer, who builds them himself. You see electronic triggers on a lot of high-end pistols over the last decade or so, the idea is that you physically cannot feel any difference in trigger pull between live and dry firing, which you technically can with mechanical triggers. I think it might be more important to pistol shooters though, since the trigger is so much more critical to them than it is to us (even though it's highly important to us too.
Thing is, looking up and down the line in Luxembourg and the Hague, we mostly saw Walther 300-series rifles in various forms. There weren't a huge number of Steyrs (and the ones you did see were all LG110s); maybe about as many as you saw Feinwerkbaus - but more than you saw of Anschutz. Walther really does seem to have dominated the market right now. And that section of the market tends to be fairly strongly driven by function rather than marketing The early LG400s for example, were sent to a lot of the high-end shooters for free -- and promptly returned because of problems with the regulator (since fixed, apparently). The guys they were sending them to knew that if the kit they used was substandard, they would very quickly stop being in that demographic as other people beat them in matches So quite a lot of the time, if you see someone at the high end using something, it's a sign that it does work (for them, at least - for example, I know some of the stuff on Peter Hellenbrand's anschutz doesn't work for me because I tried it for myself, but it works for him beautifully). 0 -
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Actually, there's a new Steyr LG110 after being released at IWA2012 as well Thirdfox, with an electronic trigger which is supposed to be absolutely excellent according to that reviewer, who builds them himself. You see electronic triggers on a lot of high-end pistols over the last decade or so, the idea is that you physically cannot feel any difference in trigger pull between live and dry firing, which you technically can with mechanical triggers. I think it might be more important to pistol shooters though, since the trigger is so much more critical to them than it is to us (even though it's highly important to us too.
Thing is, looking up and down the line in Luxembourg and the Hague, we mostly saw Walther 300-series rifles in various forms. There weren't a huge number of Steyrs (and the ones you did see were all LG110s); maybe about as many as you saw Feinwerkbaus - but more than you saw of Anschutz. Walther really does seem to have dominated the market right now. And that section of the market tends to be fairly strongly driven by function rather than marketing The early LG400s for example, were sent to a lot of the high-end shooters for free -- and promptly returned because of problems with the regulator (since fixed, apparently). The guys they were sending them to knew that if the kit they used was substandard, they would very quickly stop being in that demographic as other people beat them in matches So quite a lot of the time, if you see someone at the high end using something, it's a sign that it does work (for them, at least - for example, I know some of the stuff on Peter Hellenbrand's anschutz doesn't work for me because I tried it for myself, but it works for him beautifully).
Sorry for the OT-ness of the posts but didn't expect for there to be a lack of FWBs on the international circuit - thought the P700s were hot stuff?
Is it akin to the camera world - Canon/Nikon playing leapfrog with each other.
Well I guess I'll need to start hitting 570+ before I start worrying about what others are shooting with 0 -
Sorry for the OT-ness of the posts but didn't expect for there to be a lack of FWBs on the international circuit - thought the P700s were hot stuff?
Is it akin to the camera world - Canon/Nikon playing leapfrog with each other.
Well I guess I'll need to start hitting 570+ before I start worrying about what others are shooting with
There are a *lot* of P700s out there as well. Actually, in terms of market share from what I've seen at WC and WCH level, they're ahead of Walther, but Walther's gaining ground. Both are doing great things, but this P800 is just trying to catch up with a few things on the LG400 that Walther got their foot in the door on first, and it'll probably cost Feinwerkbau.0 -
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You ain't kidding - I had to get married to get mineIt wasn't me! wrote: »Very pricey as an aftermarket unit though! 0 -
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