FEINWERKBAU SPORT and the ANSCHUTZ 335

[RustyBuzz]

Many many moons ago....probably nearly thirty,I had gone down to my local club shoot (Stour Vale Woodsmen) for the weekly "shoot" & was drawn to go around the circuit with the then British champ at that time.Can't remember his name,but nice bloke.I had the collecting bug even then & went around with a Webley Supertarget...he used his FT FWB 127 (I think?) don't think it was a 124.Needless to say...he shot the pants off me...mind you,I never was a very good shot!As far as I can remember from what he told me,the FWB was standard except for the trigger being "worked on"

Does anyone remember what his name was..?He must have been one of the very first British champs?

Wouldn't it be interesteing in seeing a list of the British FT champs & what guns they used from it's very earliest beginings...does anyone have such a list?You would get an insight to when PCP's took over from the springers...

Very interesting post by the way.

I think that person may have been me, I don’t remember much about that day but we went to a couple of stour vale club shoots at the invitation of BT, and I did once shoot a good round there with a 127. Ian Law shot a 124 never a 127 so I don’t think it could have been him. Rex Brown had a beautiful 127 but suffered from nose bleeds north of Watford. If it was myself, “hello, nice to hear from you after 25 years?”

The 124 is a remarkable rifle, but not everyone can get the best out of them. Even some of the best shots, in my experience, just can’t get on with them. Terry Wheeler, for example, won just about everything going with his .22 45 in the early 80’s but just couldn’t master the 124. He saw how successful we were using them and when his source of ammo dried up for his 45, he tried a number of times but something about the 124 didn’t work for him.

As to whether the sport is better than the 335, all I can say is that in my experience yes it is. FT was extremely competitive even in those early pre 77k days and if a rifle gave you any advantage it would have been used. It’s a matter of fact that the 335, as good as it is was never used with any great success. In that small but wonderful window of time before the 77 swept all before it, the 124 was king and the dominant prize winner at national level.

Long live the king!

Richard

[BTDT]

Does anyone remember what his name was..?He must have been one of the very first British champs?

It would have been Richard (RustyBuzz). He was ace on tin chickens, but went completely to pieces when faced with a Worcestershire rabbit.

As to whether the sport is better than the 335, all I can say is that in my experience yes it is. FT was extremely competitive even in those early pre 77k days and if a rifle gave you any advantage it would have been used. It’s a matter of fact that the 335, as good as it is was never used with any great success. In that small but wonderful window of time before the 77 swept all before it, the 124 was king and the dominant prize winner at national level.

Long live the king!

Richard

I don't remember the 335 being used by anybody much in contention because of the low power, Richard. By the time we'd made the power respectable, the HW77 had arrived.

Having shot both the 335 and a 127 recently, I'd say that the better of the two is the one that better suits the individual shooter.

[red bob]

this is the sort of discusion that i like no irritable know betters with more opinions you can shake a stick at.the comparisons here all strike a chord in one way or another but being a dyed in the wool 124 lover would naturely find in its favour,just as apoint of interest if you reduced the power output to match the annys would that make it a fairer contest?.incidently the fwb due to its length could more likely suit the longer limbed amoungst us and make it better balanced as a result where as the anny is more of a universal fit to the average physicue.just out of curiosity i wodered how compatible orig45 parts would be to the fwb? bearing in mind dreaded replacement parts shortages later on.
btdt comment visa v the best gun is the one that suits the individual shooter is about as near to the truth as makes no differance.

[Muskett]

I wouldn't get rid of my Anschutz as it is a great springer and a good fit for quite a few people. I also like the fact that it doesn't have a safety. However, my 13 year old son, preferred the Sport straight away and the reason I have two. Another reason he might have preferred it is that my Sport had had a basic tune.

The Sport is also so easy to cock, the Anschutz similar, which to young guns is a real boon. Both are light weight; a lbs or so does make a difference. Young shots need as little weight as possible. Webley and BSA were the right weight but just couldn't touch them for best accuracy; they only beat them on price. As a young gun then, 80's, it was the Sport 124 that I saved up for and bought. My Sport beat the pants off any Airsporter or Vulcan at range. If you didn't want, or could handle, a lump of a HW or Original 45 then there wasn't anything else. In their day they were better than the competition for weight, ergonomics, trigger and accuracy.

Funny just how good they are if they can still hold their own.

What modern springer is their equal? This is one area that I haven't a clue.