Feinwerkbau FWB C60 Reviews

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Good Points: Very Good Accuracy. Superb Trigger. Wood Stock. Good sights. Protected bore and rifleing. Very easy to cock and shoot! Co2 propelent (easy to handle and low cost). Excellent value for money. Seals can last a lifetime. Low noise. Pre-chamber (to avoid liquid co2 get in the valve and avoid change on the poi due to temp changes).

Bad Points: Co2 propelent ("temp changes make poi change") see notes. A bit on the heavy side. No nanometer or way to know you are running low on co2. No longer made.

General comments: The Feinwerkbau FWB C60 is a Co2 air rifle designed for 10 mts shooting. So it ' s capable of a superb accuracy. I bought mine used but in very good conditions, almost as new.
The bore is covered by another piece of metal in order to protect the rifling. These also creates some sort of chamber after the bore ends and before the projectile gets into free air, avoiding the pellet travels to much inside the bore and giving a large distance between sights.
The rifle comes with 2 Co2 tanks that can be filled from a bulk tank. Each reservoir has to be filed with exactly 73 grams of Co2 (as stated on the manual). So a good instrument must be used to weight the reservoir (which can be removed from the rifle by using a hexagonal wrench). In order to get the 73 grams fill the reservoir it ' s necessary to put the container in the freezer for 5 minutes approx and the charge the bottle.
Ones you put the filled reservoir, you must move a slide aprox 5 centimeters in order to cock the gun. These were the loading gate opens and covers your view, avoiding you could make a no projectile shoot (since the gate covers the sight, and the trigger does not move until you close the gate). Ones you put a projectile you close the gate and the rifle is ready to fire.
The projectiles gets directly into the bore of the rifle, and when you close the gate a metal piece moves and connects the "transfer port" with the bore so gas can flow.
The sights are pretty good, the clicks are clear and easy to move, but not to easy so is virtually impossible you change them by accident. Each click is marked with a number from 0 to 9, and each adjustments move the poi 0.5 mm.
The trigger is very soft with no crisp or rugged stage. It has several adjustments. Weight, 1st stage and 2nd stage, position (proximity to stock and rotation).
I have completely eliminated the first stage since that ' s the way I like to shoot, buts that ' s just me.
The Stock is laminated from a clear wood; it ' s very good, pretty similar to the 600 series, very eye catching and exrealy comfortable. The cheekpice is height adjustable. The buttplace is not adjustable (except for length) but I think due to the fact that the stock is very similar to the 600 series it may be possible to use a butt plate from that series (which are very good ones)-
The rifle also comes with 2 addable weights, and 2 nose weights. The weights can be set anywhere below the stock, in some sort of rail the rifle has; but I really don ' t use anyone; regarding the nose ones I prefer the heaviest.
The rifle is indeed heavy, but not impossible to hold, just a little heavy, but since balance is perfect ones you get use to it it ' s not really that important. And I know a lot of people that prefers it that way.
C02 propellant is an advantage in terms of cost and easy of handle, but can also be a terrible problem when temperature changes because the poi also does. Since I shoot insides and take some time from shoot to shoot I really don't care or I just haven't get so good at these to notice any influence after I sight and shoot.
It is also possible that I haven ' t notice the poi change effect because the C60 has a prechamber that allows to expand the co2 before entering the valve, preventing that liquid co2 gets into it. Anyway if shooting is done inside and you take your time to sight before start shooting and there is no relevant temp change then you can live and use with Co2 without much trouble..
The only bad point that C02 has is that there's no manometer on the rifle, so you never really knows how much Co2 the reservoir has. I have found that if you do not cold down the reservoir before filling, after 50 shots the target starts to tear a little and the holes are not so perfect. Then the pressures drop and the rifle starts hitting a little down. If you continue to shoot after that, then the rifle gets to a point were the pellet gets stuck in the bore in the place you put it and the rifle does not fire at all (so its a good idea from the manufacture that the reservoirs can be changed without shooting the rifle and can be change with a round in the bore)-
The manual states that the gas from 1 reservoir should last for 250 shoots, in my rifle that ' s not the case. Its probably just my rifle ( the previous owner has probably played with the speed regulation), but I can't confirm these, and since I do not own a crono yet, neither know where does the speed gests regulated, I am not going to change the speed regulation until I had a way to truly confirm speed. For now I just charge both reservoirs before start, then shoot 60 shoots with one tank and then change reservoir with the spear if I need to make more shoots.
FWB support service is excellent you can get from the manufacture any seals you need for the gun and also there are some seals kits that some people sell in the net. Anyway seals are fine and will probably last a lifetime.
For all above it gets a 9 in my scale.