Carbontec LG300XT

[zooma]

Bob

Walther are a company that has always pushed the boundaries of technology to get advantages, their target guns although as mass produced as their competitors are also closer to being hand built, their bread and butter business is not target guns so they are less constricted, and they treat the target ranges as a prestige part of their business.

With their new in 2012 LG400 Alutec Walther superceeded the Carbontec, the new alloy stock is as close to the Carbontec weight as is as worth bothering with, is easier to make, and the LG400 action has taken recoiless to the next stage, so vibration is not an issue.

Robin

The LG300 Carbontec is a thing of beauty but as you say the LG400 has superseded it in terms of performance and for my money the blue laminated wood stocked LG400XT Anatomic version is every bit as good looking, and has a more adjustable stock as well.

[zooma]

Many years ago I was offered a brand new Carbontec that came with more new MEC and Centra option parts than you could shake a stick at - all of them still in their original packaging and never fitted to the new rifle.

This amazing collection of a new XT300 Carbontec match rifle and a mass of new associated parts left a huge impression on me, and even though I was still pistol shooting at the time I decided that "one day" I when I had some more cash I would try to find a Carbontec and buy it as a thing of beauty that I would enjoy owning.

Fast forward a few years and I now shoot rifle a lot more than pistol ("Arthur" has helped to enforce this situation) and my desire to own a Carbontec has never wained - but I have not been able find one. I came close a few times but every advert I chased found that the Carbontec in question had been sold already!

Yesterday I went to see a collection of rifles that had been put up for sale locally and one of the black hard cases had the familiar Walther logo printed on it and inside it was a Carbontec in superb condition! After all the years of looking for one world-wide here was one right on my own doorstep!

There was never any doubt that I was going to buy this Carbontec and with it came a cardboard box full of "parts for the Carbontec" that I did not look into until later last night.

When I got home I took a good look at the Carbontec and it looked like it had never been shot! Some of the parts were in the wrong place and only finger tight so I adjusted the rifle to fit myself and put everything in the right place so I can take it to RMTC tonight and take my first shots with it.

Later I looked inside the cardboard box and there seemed to be a striking similarity between the contents of this box and the array of option parts I had seen laid out all those years ago when I saw a Carbontec for the very first time.

Curiosity took over, and following some research I was able to confirm that this was the very same rifle I had seen all those years ago!

How this new collection of parts has remained together all those years is as surprising as the apparent lack of use the rifle has had from new - and I am now one very happy Carbontec owner!

[Mark D]

Congratulations Bob It's always a great feeling when perseverance pays off.

Hope you shoot well with it !

[trick cyclist]

Can we have some links to pictures please Bob?

[zooma]

Can we have some links to pictures please Bob?

Sorry I don't know how to get pictures to display on BBS ( I found it easy when we had the new temporary BBS site) but I can email some pictures to you and if anyone can get them added to this post I would be happy to see them on this thread!

Bob.

[zooma]

Congratulations Bob It's always a great feeling when perseverance pays off.

Hope you shoot well with it !

Thanks Mark,

It has taken a long time for my dream rifle to come along, but knowing the cruel way the world can work I suspect that it will be a bit like waiting for the proverbial No 4 bus - and after such a long wait a few more Carbontec rifles will be coming along very shortly!

If one of them is a Carbontec Bench Rest model it could become a very expensive month for me.

I doubt it would be possible to find another in the same condition as this one but I would be happy to be proven wrong, and I would also be happy to offer a good home to "any old Carbontec" that should come my way - but I am not holding my breath!

Bob.

[wellhouse0]

congratulations on your find Bob, it must be very exciting getting your hands on something you been looking for for so long. Hope she 'goes' as well as they look, all the best with your find!

[RobinC]

Come on Bob,

Don't be greedy, If any more come along spread them about! I'd still like just a stock, even a scruffy one, so I can build my ultimate Carbontec LG400 special!

Now you've achieved your Holy Grail, you have the Carbontec and a Goldie, what's next?

You do know Walther will build specials, see on their website and their facebook site, the Meister Manufaktur department.

I love the burr walnut LG400 alutec style rifle, we were there last September and Pam drooled over an LG400 Alutec in Gold with Swarovski Crystals!!! that they were building, yes really!!! We were lucky to get out with only ordering a purple tube with her name on for her KK500!

But Walther have been making specials for years, special air brush paint jobs, in recent years, one each year for a raffle prize for charity at the German Championships, or the German World Cup. One of the most stunning was an Alutec (I think an LG300) airbrushed in the Bavarian Flag design, blue and white lozenges, it was stunning. There were others, and I think the Anniversary Gold one was initially a one off special done for a prize. But my favourite was a blue Carbontec with an LG400 system, simply gorgeous!

Now these went as raffle prizes, so they are out there, and probably will be sold one day.

Must remember to check e gun every week!
Have Fun
Best regards
Robin

[zooma]

Come on Bob,

Don't be greedy, If any more come along spread them about! I'd still like just a stock, even a scruffy one, so I can build my ultimate Carbontec LG400 special!

Now you've achieved your Holy Grail, you have the Carbontec and a Goldie, what's next?

You do know Walther will build specials, see on their website and their facebook site, the Meister Manufaktur department.

I love the burr walnut LG400 alutec style rifle, we were there last September and Pam drooled over an LG400 Alutec in Gold with Swarovski Crystals!!! that they were building, yes really!!! We were lucky to get out with only ordering a purple tube with her name on for her KK500!

But Walther have been making specials for years, special air brush paint jobs, in recent years, one each year for a raffle prize for charity at the German Championships, or the German World Cup. One of the most stunning was an Alutec (I think an LG300) airbrushed in the Bavarian Flag design, blue and white lozenges, it was stunning. There were others, and I think the Anniversary Gold one was initially a one off special done for a prize. But my favourite was a blue Carbontec with an LG400 system, simply gorgeous!

Now these went as raffle prizes, so they are out there, and probably will be sold one day.

Must remember to check e gun every week!
Have Fun
Best regards
Robin

I would need to try and save any future Carbontec discoveries from you as they would be stripped and have the stock re-fitted around an LG400 mech - and that would be sacrilege

Lets hope the next one that turns up is a bench-rest type as I know you have no interest in converting one of those (or at least I hope you don't)

Actually a Carbontec stock with an LG400 mech in it would be a lovely piece of kit to own - it is such a shame that it is not possible to buy a stock on its own - but I know the reasons why!

With the advancement of time it would probably be more cost effective for Walther to have carbon stocks made now than it was then as the industry has moved on and with several years more experience the reject rate should be a lot lower - hence more cost effective to produce!

I know you "have the ear" of the top brass at Walther, so why not suggest they re-visit the carbon fibre stock idea for use with the current LG400 mech?

You can place an advance order for two - and let me know when we can collect them!!!! ld grin:

Bob.

[zooma]

congratulations on your find Bob, it must be very exciting getting your hands on something you been looking for for so long. Hope she 'goes' as well as they look, all the best with your find!

Thanks Paul - I hope your search for a nice Dominator does not take anything like as long!

Bob.