New FWB Sport. Anybody buy one yet?

[Rocker1]

Its to pretty to work on, man I was worried about scratching it to say the least. David

[Sfttailrdr46]

Thanks guys!!
I really like the looks of that rifle!
On the winner's side of a LARGE 9 ball tourney as we speak!
First place will buy 4 of them!!

So Sharky did you finish in the $$$$ at your tourney and did you order one of those FWB 124's ?

[Booger]

I just noticed that Champchoice is now out of stock on the $650 FWB Sporter. They had 4 or 5 prior to starting this thread and that number held steady for several weeks prior to this thread. My conclusion is this discussion has helped them sell out in a very short time. If anyone has purchased the air gun, please share your thoughts on it.

Here is my review on the FWB:

http://www.gatewaytoairguns.org/GTA/index.php?topic=75990.20

Since the tune she is much sweeter, here are the current numbers (3-29-2015) from a 30 shot string.

LO   834.00   13.35
HI   848.00   13.80
AVG   840.48   13.56
ES   14.00   
SD   3.91   

[Ken T]

I just received the FWB Sport I ordered.I like it.It's actually a fairly light rifle and well balanced.I mounted a scope and started with RWS Superdome pellets simply because they were on top of the pellets in my pellet tool box.Accuracy was excellent.I had an occasional flyer probably because the pellets were shot without sorting.There was no smoke or burning oil smell.I liked the trigger pull straight out of the box.The bore is on the tight side.I'm not sure if it will handle Crosman Premiers.Definitely a tighter bore than my TX-200.

[Booger]

I just received the FWB Sport I ordered.I like it.It's actually a fairly light rifle and well balanced.I mounted a scope and started with RWS Superdome pellets simply because they were on top of the pellets in my pellet tool box.Accuracy was excellent.I had an occasional flyer probably because the pellets were shot without sorting.There was no smoke or burning oil smell.I liked the trigger pull straight out of the box.The bore is on the tight side.I'm not sure if it will handle Crosman Premiers.Definitely a tighter bore than my TX-200.

Spring noise? I had mine fixed though.

[Ken T]

No spring noise as far as I can tell.Fifteen years of machine guns and turbine engines took care of that.

[Booger]

No spring noise as far as I can tell.Fifteen years of machine guns and turbine engines took care of that.

I have poor eyes, but I do like the open sights.

[Ken T]

The open sights are very good.I have  BKL two piece mounts on the rifle now since I didn't A Sportsmatch mount.They may hold.

[Booger]

The open sights are very good.I have  BKL two piece mounts on the rifle now since I didn't A Sportsmatch mount.They may hold.

BLK on mine as well. Just as good.

[Jason_Garvin]

I put the FWB sportsmatch mount on mine with the hardened crosspin, the barrel has a lot of droop.  It was shooting around 8" low at ten yards.  I took them off and left it with the irons for the time being. 

Jason G

[Ken T]

I suspect an RWS lockdown mount would hold position on the FWB.

[Booger]

I suspect an RWS lockdown mount would hold position on the FWB.

BLK 1 pc droop mount on mine. Mine did not have that much droop.

[Ken T]

I have the two piece BKL mounts on mine.They're not going to hold.I just ordered the Sportsmatch mount.My rifle doesn't have barrel droop.It is accurate but the point of impact is changing slowly because of the mounts moving.

[Ken T]

I received the Sportsmatch mount.I ordered the medium height version.The locking pin works well.Removed it after an hour or so.The medum height version is very limited in the scopes it can handle.My rifle doesn't have barrel droop.It shoots several inches high.The barrel block is bored at an angle.I assume the machinist that made the part misloaded the part on the machining fixture.
 I installed a UTG TO-6 anti droop mount backwards with Weaver high rings.The mount is holding position and took care of the problem.The Centerpoint 4-16X44 scope just clears the UTG base with high rings.
 The rifle will definitely let you know if the pellets vary much in head diameter or weight.After a couple of sessions shooting with sorted pellets I tried pellets straight from the tin.Had nice tight groups,good groups with one flyer,and shotgun patterns,followed by tight groups.