Quote Originally Posted by look no hands View Post
I've not seen the designs Alistair, how different is it to the RB2 design? I'm sure they did a self opening RB design on the Firebird?
Hello Pete, I can't find the link for the patent designs, I think it was similar to the modern one but of course there were no 'O' rings in those days so maybe it could not be sealed adequately.

I had a Firebird for a while, BSA fixed the internals FOC as it was very inconsistent, but it then had an accuracy issue. Someone gave me John Bowkett's phone number and he said just to re-seat the barrel. It was extremely accurate after doing that. As far as I could tell the roller breech mechanism on the Firebird is almost exactly the same as that on the SuperStar, can't remember if it was self-opening. It's an interesting little rifle if you ever get offered one for a reasonable price, but I must warn you it has one of those annoying 13.9mm scope ramps.