Another FLZ “FAVORIT XX” comes back in the time machine

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A little more information on the FLZ. Took off the stock and the #36 was matched on the tube near the trigger. Seems to me a serial number? I bet given Diana was major competition at the time, FLZ was increasing the power of the XX to compete with their model 58? This rifle produced 8.5 FPE yesterday on a chrony test. My Diana 58 was at 7.8 FPE; so they succeeded. This rifle is superior to my earlier XX in just about every way, especially the power. It actually has the feel and heft of my 58. It’s a shame that history was about to deal FLZ a fatal blow right when they were producing maybe some of the best air rifles in Germany.

“By the start of World War II, the company had 400 employees and was soon ordered to manufacture military goods such as machine guns parts that would be assembled at the Gustloff-Werke” After the war FLZ was gone. Part of the reason the collecting FLZ guns is so fascinating to me.