FWB An old FWB C6 getting new life breathing air.

marflow 777 said:

well, considering that were discontinued in 1993 it looks new but there is one thing Feinwerkbau never made a C6 they did make a C5
https://forum.vintageairgunsgallery.com/feinwerkbau-pistols/feinwerkbau-c5-co2-pistol/

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Oh well, they did make two versions of the C5 plus the C6. But the all-black C5 and the C6 are quite rare, and neither the all-black C5 nor the C6 shows up in the Blue book of air guns eighter. Maybe most of them never left Germany. The C6 is just a C5 with a widened magazine rail and a 6 shot magazine.
I have been shooting air pistols since the mid nineties, and I have never seen the all-black C5 myself, except for brochures from FWB. The C6 I own is one of two I know of, so there's not many of them around either.

wildcj5 said:

Drooollll. I love the old FWB co2 pistols. So much fun.

You ever need a place to store that one let me know.

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You're not the only one to like those old FWB pistols. Or old Steyrs as well. I have a few other brands also, like Walther, Diana, Hammerli and so on, but it's the FWB and Steyr pistols that tickles my interesset most.

There's no mentioning of the all-black C5 or the C6 anywhere on the internet at all, so I assume they both are quite rare and few in numbers.

I have contacted FWB a lot of times up through the years, and they have always been helpful.
What they say about the C6 is that it is a short lived successor of the C5, before the C55 was introduced.
The only differences between the C5 and the C6 is the 5-shot verses 6-shot magazine, and the magazine rail/well/guide (or what the correct designation is) that is a few mm wider on the C6, to prevent the pellets from falling out of the wider 6-shot magazine. And the marking of course.
Even the user manual is the same, but it has the right S/N number stamped on it, so it is genuine.