Quote Originally Posted by Geezer View Post
That makes sense. I'd really like an original first production, no sights, Sirocco. I spent weeks agonising in 1982 between buying one (that I couldn't really afford and they were an unknown quantity) or an FWB Sport. I went for, and don't regret, the FWB. From memory, the FWB and a Japanese ASI 4x40 cost the same or slightly less than the Theoben on its own. Also rather fancied the Anschutz-barrelled slightly later Sirocco.
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Once they had been upgraded then they were worth having. So we did

The rifle in question just doesn't have the provenance to justify the premium they are demanding. Wrong silencer doesn't help. My early Fenman looks nicer.