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Diana model 6. 0There are plenty of vintage 1. I haven’t tested for you yet. The Diana 7. 5, the Anschutz 3. Walther LGR, the Anschutz 2. Gamo 1. 26 all come to mind; but if you want to split hairs, there are numerous similar models like the Walther LG5. Diana 6. 5 that also belong to a very long list of classic oldies. But the guns we’ve looked at thus far are a fair representation of the classic era of target air rifles. Today, we’ll look at the rifle many consider to be the pinnacle of achievement during that period. History. You probably know the history, but if you don’t — first there was the FWB 1. Yes, it recoiled. What’s more, Feinwertkbau didn’t make too many of them. The 1. 10 is considered to be a very desirable airgun collectible today, and many advanced airgunners, including me, have never even seen one. According to the Blue Book of Airguns, fewer than 2. The FWB 1. 50 followed the 1. Feinwerkbau’s anti- recoil system. I reviewed the FWB 1. June. I found it to be easy to shoot and compellingly accurate, but it wasn’t everything it could be. That honor awaited the 3. S that I’m reviewing for you today. The FWB 1. 50 is the predecessor of the 3. S. It shares a more sporterized stock profile with the interim FWB 3. A footnote deserves to be inserted here, as the first edition of the Beeman catalog, a collectible in its own right, also mentioned an FWB 2. A short line in the Blue Book says the model 2. Until I researched today’s report, the model 2. I’ve certainly never seen one. Is it as rare as the model 1. Has anyone ever seen one? These are the curious things that pop up as we research this fascinating hobby, and they’re what keeps the collector in me in a permanent state of anticipation. The model 3. 00 was much like the 1. You don’t see as many straight 3. Perhaps that’s because when the 3. S came out it overshadowed the 3. The 3. 00. S was a very different gun. If you’re like me, you never paid much attention to the difference between a 3. S. What’s in a letter designation, after all? A lot of things, as it turns out. Let’s start with the mainspring. The 3. 00. S has two coiled steel springs that are wound in opposite directions. It’s said they cancel the slight amount of torque at firing, though I cannot say that I’ve ever noticed any torque in my 1. The RWS Diana 4. 8 sidelever does have noticeable torque upon firing, and you’ll feel a definite rocking to the right after the trigger is pulled. Since the sidelever already unbalances that rifle, the feeling is magnified; but the 1. At least — my rifle, which was recently tuned by Randy Bimrose, doesn’t. The 3. 00. S stock is shorter than the stock on the 3. It also has a more vertical pistol grip to enhance the offhand hold. A slight flare at the bottom might go unnoticed in the catalog photos; but when you hold the rifle, the pistol grip grabs you right back. Anti- recoil mechanism. So, how does this rifle block the recoil? Well, for starters, it actually doesn’t! All the FWB spring- piston target rifles do recoil; but in the 1. A set of steel rails set into the stock allows the action to move while the stock remains still. The shooter doesn’t feel any recoil and only the slightest vibration in some guns. But you do notice the movement of the action, because of the eyepiece that’s close to your sighting eye. The movement is very short — on the order of a quarter- inch or so — but if you’re close to the rear sight you’ll notice it. A rubber eyecup helps take up the shock and prevent your eye from banging into the rear sight disk, and I find it necessary to use this accessory with this model rifle. This system is called the sledge system, after the name for a dry- land type of sled whose runners make it easy to drag heavy loads. It’s completely different from the Giss anti- recoil system, in which a counterweighted piston actually has no discernible recoil. This mechanism is very refined compared to a similar system found on the RWS Diana model 5. Air King. Of course, that magnum spring- piston rifle has to deal with three times the power in a rifle of similar weight, so it’s actually doing quite a good job of canceling the recoil. Still, when the 3. S lever is retracted, there’s no “levering” of the action required at the end of the cocking stroke like you have with the Diana 5. The ratcheting anti- beartrap safety that prevents the sliding compression chamber from smashing your thumb during loading does not need a separate button to release the cocking lever after you’ve loaded. The only extra step the 3. S does have is a small locking latch on the sidelever that unlocks the lever at the start of the cocking stroke. The 1. 50 and 3. 00 cocking levers both have an end section that pivots outward to unlock the cocking lever and achieve the same thing. Press down on the cocking lever latch to release the lever for cocking and loading. The sidelever on a 3. S is also much shorter than the one on the 1. Obviously, some geometry was changed when the model was updated. Daisy gun. My 3. 00. S is a Daisy gun. While many were imported and sold by Beeman, many more came into the U. S. The FWB name trumped the Daisy name, however, and a Daisy FWB is exactly the same as one from Beeman or one imported directly from Europe. This 3. 00. S came from Daisy. No piston seal. Another odd but not unique feature of these rifles is the lack of a conventional piston seal. Instead of a traditional seal, they use a metal ring much like those found on an automobile engine’s piston. These rings will last for millions of cycles, as some club guns have demonstrated, though other parts like the breech seal will eventually have to be replaced. And the coiled steel mainspring set needs occasional replacement, as well. Many Webley pistols and a couple of the older Webley rifles have the same design, so piston rings are not unique in the airgun world. They are, however, features that are found only on guns of quality. Trigger. When the 1. American airgunners were not used to light target triggers as a rule. They were accustomed to a 3- lb. So, when they encountered the FWB trigger that releases at ounces rather than pounds, they were astounded. In fact, if they’d been accustomed to shooting the older target rifles from the 1. Ballards, Maynards and Winchesters, all of which had fine double- set triggers, they would have been less impressed. The 3. 00. S trigger has a nominal pull weight ranging from 3. In target rifle terms, even the lighter range is not very light, though I find it just right for me. The trigger on my rifle releases at a satisfying 4. It’s a two- stage pull with stage two being very definite. With practice, you can get on target and “think” the trigger off as the sight picture becomes perfect. The 3. 00. S trigger also adjusts for position, cant and first- stage travel — all things that the 1. Although the 1. 50 trigger is just as light and crisp as the one on the 3. S, you can’t reposition it. It’s also curved like a sporting trigger instead of straight like the target trigger found on the 3. S. The trigger of a target air rifle has no lower limit, the way a target air pistol does. In the ISSF rules for air pistols, a match pistol trigger must break at more than 5. This is done in the interest of safety, as the muzzle of a pistol is too easy to move while on a firing line. But a rifle like the 3. S is more obvious and easier to control, so there’s no lower limit. Some target air rifles today are releasing at less than 5. Stock configuration. The stocks of the vintage target air rifles show a fairly broad latitude of design, but they stop short in a few important areas. Tyrolean stocks are not permitted in World Cup and Olympic matches, nor are butt hooks. Today’s rifles are studies in ergonomics applied against these rules. Today, a 3. 00. S looks fairly normal to eyes that are accustomed to wild aluminum stocks with numerous adjustments; but when it was new, it seemed to push the envelope of possibility. I suppose it’s equivalent to how the finned cars of the late 1. Sights. Another drastic measure was taken at the World Cup level in the realm of target sights. For a brief time, the tube- type rear aperture sight was used, but complaints that it gave an unfair advantage caused a ruling that it was no longer permitted. This is very odd, since tube- type sights have been in use since at least 1. But the ruling was made, and today’s rear sights cannot use tubes to enhance the sharpness of the sight picture. FWB target rear sights looked as exotic as a Rolex watch when they were new in the 1. Today, they seem almost simple, but they still do the job. The click detents are nowhere close to the thousandth- inch measurements of the Vernier scale peep sights I showed you recently; but since you’re shooting 1. Unfortunately, these rifles were also sold without sights for a slightly reduced price, and many buyers mounted short scopes on their 1. While they may have been pleased with the gun that way, they created a shortage of sights for the future that is difficult to resolve. Until five years ago, you either had to install a hoplessly crude rear sight made either in Spain or China and live with the problems of adjustment backlash, or you had to pony up almost as much money as you paid for the entire rifle just to buy a set of precision sights. Air. Force corrected that lack for you with their adaptive rear target sight that fits most 1. Ramur, arrive . Ainsi, il commande Quentin, Assaya et les autres. Les filles croient vraiment.
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