The New Feinwerkbau Sporter - Numbers?

[gtfreight]

I wonder what sort of money the new Sporter with original box and paperwork would demand now?

[Mach 1.5]

£600 plus maybe? Mach 1.5

[gtfreight]

£600 plus maybe? Mach 1.5

I wouldn't mind betting that at that price one would sell in minutes.

[Shed tuner]

I wouldn't mind betting that at that price one would sell in minutes.

I don't know.

I bought mine for the prevailing £600 new at the time, and solid it a year or so ? after they stopped making them, barely used, but tuned and optimised for 12FP, for essentially the same price.

So what is one worth now ? Much more than £600, and you start competing with really decent guns, like std stocked venoms.

[Hsing-ee]

I wouldn't mind betting that at that price one would sell in minutes.

This thread alone has put £200 on the asking price!

£800 and a crowbar for a U.K. based one. I bet Nick could get hold of a 6fpe one from the Germans since they’re his neighbours.

Does the .177 have a Feinwerkbau barrel? I thought they made their own? If it’s got a LW barrel like an Air Arms there’s no point, you’re just buying a break barrel TX.

[Mach 1.5]

The MK4 sport use LW barrels and only came in 177. Another point FWB failed to address in this rifle. Mach 1.5

[andrewM]

Well then, this essentially takes us back to where we began and a choice these days of HW, Air Arms (not cheap and heavy too but at least made here), Dianas (somewhat underestimated methinks), and not much else other than the second hand market. I thought FWB would engineer its own barrel. At least I have a LW barrel in my LGV, another that has bitten the dust and will doubtless become a collector's item in due course. A pity Anschutz does not want to produce an updated replacement for the 335.

As I said earlier, one might as well buy an HW 98 and be done with it, for a lower price that an FWB. I would still buy an FWB, if readily available.

The trouble with the HWs, I gather, is that they seem to need tuning to bring the best out of them. Whether that is the case with the 98s, I do not know.

Rgds
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[Shed tuner]

The trouble with the HWs, I gather, is that they seem to need tuning to bring the best out of them. Whether that is the case with the 98s, I do not know.

Rgds
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it's a 95 with a heavy barrel and a fancy stock, so yes, it still needs tuning and ideally short stroking for the 12 FP market. The barrel weight addresses the symptom (flip) somewhat, but nothing like as well as a short stroke.
But it's far easier to optimise for the UK 12FP limit than the new FWB sporter was...

[Hsing-ee]

The MK4 sport use LW barrels and only came in 177. Another point FWB failed to address in this rifle. Mach 1.5

Ew. Then it’s not a ‘proper’ FWB. The whole point is the FWB precision of the cylinder, the barrel and the piston. The original Sports are still king.

I think the Ultimate FWB Springer is a 300 fitted with the .22 barrel off the Sport. I have had a spare .22 barrel and a doggy 300 but not both at the same time. Or did I? I think I stalled at how much it would have cost to get an engineer to do the machining ..

The 300 can make 11 fpe with a long stroke and a parachute seal, one in .22 ought to be able to do it with less intervention, well maybe 9.5 just with a heftier spring.

[Hsing-ee]

Well then, this essentially takes us back to where we began and a choice these days of HW, Air Arms (not cheap and heavy too but at least made here), Dianas (somewhat underestimated methinks), and not much else other than the second hand market. I thought FWB would engineer its own barrel. At least I have a LW barrel in my LGV, another that has bitten the dust and will doubtless become a collector's item in due course. A pity Anschutz does not want to produce an updated replacement for the 335.
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If you’ve got an LGV then you’ve got an out of the box b/b which will match the performance of a FWB Sporter easily.

Buy a s/h FWB 65 pistol if you want to enjoy FWB quality for a couple hundred quid.

[wonky donky]

My sports not been out of the cabinet for year's, its still got the plastic sleeve on it, probably 2016 if that's when they were introduced.

I agree with Jon, too many issues as he described. The piston seal on mine is a terrible fit on the piston, as the others I've seen, Feinwerkbau should be ashamed 😑.

Tony is probably correct, there's little to no chance of the rifle being made again.

The factory will be at full capacity producing the new 900 10mtr rifle for some time I would think.

Barrels are LW.

[Shed tuner]

Good to hear from you on here WD

[Hsing-ee]

My sports not been out of the cabinet for year's, its still got the plastic sleeve on it, probably 2016 if that's when they were introduced.

I agree with Jon, too many issues as he described. The piston seal on mine is a terrible fit on the piston, as the others I've seen, Feinwerkbau should be ashamed 😑.

Tony is probably correct, there's little to no chance of the rifle being made again.

The factory will be at full capacity producing the new 900 10mtr rifle for some time I would think.

Barrels are LW.

Sounds like an absolute lash-up.

£350 would get a beautiful old Sport, which has issues of its own, but at least it’s 100% FWB!

[PaulK62]

That's great but the actual name of the rifle is the Feinwerkbau Sporter, not Sport, which was the older model which went through 3 marks all almost exactly the same.

It's Sport, not Sporter. Printed on the side of the gun: Feinwerkbau Mod. SPORT

[Hsing-ee]

It's Sport, not Sporter. Printed on the side of the gun: Feinwerkbau Mod. SPORT

You see, even Feinwerkbau got it wrong.