FWB Where is my sleeve?

I thought all FWB300 had a long barrel sleeve? This gun is so front heavy with long barrel/sleeve, it's almost better this way!
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I thought all FWB300 had a long barrel sleeve? This gun is so front heavy with long barrel/sleeve, it's almost better this way!

There was a surprising amount of variation in those sleeves over the years. Among the guns I have:

+ 300S Junior: barrel 320mm long, with no sleeve ("naked" barrel is 15mm in diameter on all these guns).
+ 300 Match: barrel 445mm long, with a constant-diameter sleeve of 20mm diameter. Mine is unusual in that the sleeve is not epoxied on, I can enjoy shooting it with or without the extra weight.
+ Early 300S Match: barrel 395mm long. Rear part of the sleeve 18mm diameter, and the fatter front part is 22mm.
+ Later 300S Universal: barrel 395mm long. Rear part of sleeve 18mm diameter, front part is shorter but fatter at 23.5mm.
 
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The barrel is 15mm OD on all four of my FWB's. I have heard of people removing the sleeves, but I am WAY too much of a klutz and a coward to ever point a torch at an FWB, lol. :oops:

My 300 is unusual in having a beech stock, in addition to the un-glued sleeve. I've only seen one other beech one, the owner told me it had military training markings on it.
 
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