A little background info...

For those of you that don't know, this rifle has been nothing but a pain in the a** since the day she arrived here. I had wanted an FWB 150 for a while and when a Tyrolean stocked version presented itself I seized the opportunity. When she got here everything seemed alright. After test firing about a hundred shots (all the while looking at the gun and trying to decide if I wanted to try to re-finish the stock which I suspected was a beautiful walnut under 40 odd years of "patina"). When I went to lay the rifle down after shooting, the stock snapped clean in half at the wrist. Problem solved, clearly a re finish was needed. A week of stock repair, glue, 3 inch wood screw, sand paper, linseed and Tung oil, 0000 steel wool; beautiful, as suspected.

Now the trigger, it always flopped forward which I didn't think was right but the only thing I have to compare it to is my FWB 300. I had read that the trigger mechanisms for these two are different but to what extent was not explained in detail. I took it apart and discovered that the trigger only worked with the action in the stock(the trigger guard was acting as a stop and allowing the sear to catch, barely). That's when careful inspection showed maybe a tab was missing, maybe.

More experimentation showed that if the trigger sear didn't latch properly the cocking lever would slam forward and chop off a chunk of the stock, which was absolutely no F***ing problem for the master stock repairman that I had become last week. Did I say SLAM? Now here's the happy ending; honestly, to look at this rifle, it's beautiful. Visually, there is no indication that it was ever broken and functionally it fires perfectly at around 600-630 FPS. I just hope she is done breaking my........heart. Jon F.