Titan recoiless spring target pistol ???

[zunmik]

Struggling to find any info on this pistol, basically it was a copy of the fwb
65, a chap arrived @ my gun club with one  many years ago no one new who made it, seemed to shoot ok although i'm not a good judge as i never liked the fwb pistols, cannot find any text or pictures on the net has anyone else come across these very rare pistols, M.

[Ian]

Werent they Chinese?

Heres a BBS thread on them

http://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread.php ... opy-FWB-65

and mentioned in this article

http://www.ihmsa.org/tom/techarticles/Axelrod%20Air.htm

[zunmik]

Werent they Chinese?

Heres a BBS thread on them

http://www.airgunbbs.com/showthread.php ... opy-FWB-65

and mentioned in this article

http://www.ihmsa.org/tom/techarticles/Axelrod%20Air.htm

Well done Ian i googled it & got nothing, started to think it was a figment of my imagination, M.

[Ian]

I see theres a FWB65 just come on to Gunstar

http://www.gunstar.co.uk/Air-Pistols/Fe ... 09605.aspx

Bit pricey - but its described 'as new' in original packaging

[pmh]

Interesting thread.

I didn't realise there were FWB clones.

That said,  I am surprised there haven't been more.

Kind regards,



Phil

[cinedux]

For a time,in the 1980's Auckland was awash with these dungers.Made from soft imperfectly machined metal,these pistols seized up during the cocking manoevere,had sloppy recoil mechanisms,horrible rough orange grips and were generally unpleasant to shoot(or try to).Their piston heads came adrift rendering them utterly inoperable.I recall seeing a crate of them go for sixty bucks at a local gun shop.Personally I never paid more than $27 for one!(and regretted it!)Definitely NOT a classic.