Feinwerkbau 124/127 - Whats the highest serial number out there?

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Kingfisher

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Topic starter December 7, 2018 16:18:17

Recently came across an FWB 124D with a Santa Rosa address and the serial number was 61547. I've seen a couple of 61xxx numbers, buy never this high.

Anybody else have one with a larger number?

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Garvin

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December 10, 2018 14:40:32

That does sound very high and I've not seen one higher in the UK. I think there was a bulge in production of the 124/127 towards the late '70s and early '80s. and that the vast majority of these rifles was built in a, say, 10-year period (or less), while the rest at either end of the serial number spectrum were made and sold over a far longer period.

So over the approx 20-year lifespan of this model c.50,000 were produced in the middle decade, perhaps.

I have no evidence for this, it's just a feeling based on the fact it was supplanted as 'top dog' in Europe by the Weihrauch rifles by the mid-1980s, and being an airgunner at the time.

Maybe in the US sales figures were quite different, I don't know?

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