Yes, once again, thank you Richard for sharing your experience.
Rob, if the looks are starting to grow on you, just wait until you see one in the flesh and especially once you handle and use one. The quality shines through.
And don't listen to that Tinbum bloke, he's a right gnarly little bugger!
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Yeah buy it please...
I'd buy a secondhand one, so need someone nuts enough to buy their's new, sensible enough to then get rid of it, and realistic enough to know it'll be best sold to me nice n' cheap
Always looking for any cheap, interesting, knackered "project" guns. Thanks, JB.
Yep I'll bring mine to the next Bash. Mach 1.5
I just added a 2nd stage adjuster screw in a sensible location... if you assemble the trigger outside of the block, using the block to locate the pins, you can see what's needed. Also I took a little material off the first stage to get the travel right.
Most triggers have a central adjuster - fine, but you need to remove some first stage metal in many cases to get the benefit.
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Always looking for any cheap, interesting, knackered "project" guns. Thanks, JB.
Steady on Tony...yep no probs I'll bring it along. If I had to choose between a MK1 FWB and the FWB MK4 the MK4 would win hence that's why I own one and sold all my other sports off...to fund it cause it's so expensive!!! Mach 1.5
Likewise Tony...I wonder how many BBS members own a FWB Sport MK3? Mach 1.5
Dunno, Paul, but I would guess that sales of the Mark 3 will have been steady compared to the earlier models, due to stiffer competition from the likes of the HW80 and 77.
I reckon the earlier ones were held in such high esteem due to their graceful, sharper, more modern looks as compared to the HW35 and the various BSFs and also down to the perception that they made power more easily. The fine feel of beautiful engineering and fine tolerances certainly bestowed a feel of quality and finesse.
Once the rifles mentioned above became available, plus the Original 45 and the Webley Vulcan, Omega and the Mercury Challenger for the sporting shooter, its market was chipped away at from lots of different angles.
The "Dan Dare" muzzle brake won't have helped either!
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