Feinwerkbau 80 Pristine

[RobinC]

Fabulous pistols but I disagree about accuracy, the pistol is less accurate than a modern shooter, while the difference will be very small indeed with a shooter of low or moderate ability, there will be a difference. In modern target Shooting a difference of 3 percent separate the top 500shooters. Every little helps, however I accept that for most us the difference is likely to be imperceptible.

Sorry you are very wrong, the accuracy is near enough the same as a modern PCP, I don't collect pistols I just keep my old ones when I moved on so I have my shooting history from when I began untill now when at 66 I just shoot for fun but I have shot at international level back in the good old days. I bought my 65 new in '72, I still have the test target, the group size is no different to the test targets on my two modern Steyrs, one slightly ragged hole, and I would question that modern pellets are better. The difference in modern pistols over the 65/80 is in ergonomics, the ballance and feel, the weight distribution, the trigger, and most importantly the lock time. The old pistols punish poor technique, if your technique is perfect the advantage is negligable, the problem is even the top shooters fail some times and the modern pistols will give you that slight advantage. I shoot in a club with two commonwealth air pistol medalists, one who won with an 80, and I can assure you they both shoot as well with a 65/80 as a modern PCP, but they still now shoot with Steyr and Morini because of the advantage in the areas I have mentioned, but the accuracy is near enough identical.
A point I've raised before on here as an example, I use the ladies scores as a comparison reference as they are still shot as a 40 shot match as they were 40 years ago whilst the mens is now 60. Nina Stolyarova of Russia shot the ladies world air pistol record in 1973 using a FWB 65 of 392 ex 400 (and it had the black plastic grips and plastic filler!) , the current ladies world record is 393 using a Steyr LP10!!! Ok, the target was changed in '89 but the difference was tiny (the ten is now 0.5 mm smaller dia, that's 20 thou in old money) and made no difference.
Good shooting
Robin