Originally Posted by
MrChipShoulder
I'm quite a bit further down the road of looking at a new 10m rifle now. I have talked to a few people and kinda know what I want. I have been offered a very good deal on a Walther LG400 Competition with blue/grey woodwork. The woodwork was added to the deal as that is what I wanted, so I guess it's a custom deal, although Walther do offer custom combos anyway, you just got wait, but this rifle combo is in the UK now ready to buy.
So I'm now giving some very hard thought about selling off three of my guns to pay for this one! My FWB300SU, FWB601 and Steyr Evo10.
The 300 is totally mint and 100% consistent, I'll never be able to replace it with another in this condition!
The 601 is also totally mint and also 100% consistent. I could replace it, but why bother it's only a 601.
The Steyr Evo10 is basically brand new and only shot 3 tins of pellets max since buying new about 8 months ago, and I like it, but I hardly ever shoot it now that I've left the pistol club I bought it for!
Is the Walther LG400 really worth giving up two perfect (but old school) target rifles, and give up pistol shooting (that I don't do much now and can always use the clubs Steyr for comps anyway). Is the 400 worth it?
YES - I can highly recommend the LG400 Anatomic.
I have one of the limited edition "Anthracite" grey LG400 Anatomic rifles and it is superb.
Previously I had one of the blue laminated LG300XT Anatomic's and that was really good too (and much missed!). Good examples of these can be found to save some cash!
The Walther LG400 is about as close as you can get to a hand built production match rifle and it has a really nice "feel" that I personally like very much, but if you are going to spend that amount of cash I also suggest you look at its main rivals to see what you like the feel of as it is a very personal thing - what suits one person may not suite the next.
The wood stock on the Anatomic suits me, but most seem to prefer the alloy stocked match rifles.
I also have an FWB P70 (basically a PCP version of the FWB 600 SSP series rifles) with a laminated stock, and again I like it because it feels good and I think the multi-colour wood stock looks good too.
I will be selling this P70 soon as the Anatomic replaces it - but it does make a lot less expensive way of shooting a nice PCP that is very close in shape and feel to your 601. It is such a close shape to the 603 that I understand the stocks can be exchanged with very little work!
Hope this helps?
Last edited by zooma; 13-03-2019 at 06:20 PM.
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