I Just toured the FX USA distribution Center and interviewed them

[Pauls Custom Targets]

 



I am writing an article on the FX distribution center while I picked up the FX donation rifle for the 2018 AAFTA Nationals. Our club is hosting the nationals again this year in North carolina. I live 20 minutes from the facility In Wilmington NC.

I interviewed Johnathan Elvegaard-Tueller, the man heading up the team at FX USA for an article in Airgun Hobbyist magazine.

I just wanted to offer my opinion of their setup and mission statement.

They are working hard at being able to supply FX products to the retailer faster than in the past.

John was impressive with his desire to make this work here. The FX facility is located on the East Coast in order to take advantage of the time zones to distribute products. The West coast would not make that easy and they take advantage of the 3 hour difference.

Earnest Rowe is heading up their repair and tuning department. They will be repairing and tuning other manufacturers air guns as well. Not just FX!

When I asked, John did tell me that the purpose of this facility was to help alleviate the delay getting guns to the retailers.

Look for the article in Air Gun Hobbyist magazine in the near future.

Paul

A few photos...

Fx sign at the entrance

 Target tests; FX USA is trying to find the best slugs for their barrels

The repair dept team, Kendall, Brian, and Ernest

 Earnest and Brian working in the shooting booth (25 Yard Tunnel)

 FX donated this beautiful Crown for the Nationals!

 

[intenseaty22]

It certainly is good to see a company like FX putting these resources into place. Customer service will always sell me a product more than the product itself (within reason) Looking forward to your writeup, please post a link here. 

 

[gunsnknives]

Fantastic. Thanks for posting. 

 

[douger]

that would be a great job to have

 

[Guest]

Sounds like a good tour. Also the crown looks good too. I'll be buying a ticket or two.

 

[Buckeye]

That had to have been a blast. I did a tour of PA, it was very interesting in their distribution center, repair shop.

Good to see Ernest in those picks, hopefully he was working on my Vulcan.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

 

[Funshine]

strikefast, thanks for sharing those photos and I will be waiting for the writeup, too.

 

[Pauls Custom Targets]

I will be submitting an article to Stephan Archer of Hard Air Magazine too. He will support more photos there as well. 

He just did a nice write up on my field target business. 

You would need to subscribe to the Airgun Hobbyist mag to get that article. Hard Air is free online.

 

[Pauls Custom Targets]

Buckeye,

It was a blast! Johnathan gave me unfettered access to the facility. All the employees were super nice. One was even from my town outside Wilmington. Neighbors!

They have a 25 yard inside range and plans for a 100 yard indoor testing range. They are working on testing assorted caliber slugs to find the best that will be the most accurate in their barrels. 

Ernest and his team we're working on an FX Revolution while I was there. 

Johnathon took over an hour and a half showing me the operation,and discussing FX. Very inpressive guy!

They get the rifles in from Sweden, and then test them to be sure there are no leaks, and other issues with the guns from shipping. When he gave me the Crown, he opened the case and had to remove a piece of painters tape from the air gauge. It was there to detect any leak down before shipping. 

He then showed me how the barrel sleeve is removed and changed, as well as caliber. I think a Crown might be in my future. I will definitly buy a $20 ticket for this one at our Nationals raffle! The black pepper stock is beautiful...

 

[nomojo65]

Maybe I’m not understanding? Do these guns come over by cargo ship?, or do the fly them over, because I would think they would have to de-pressurize the air cylinders? Unless the cargo bay is heated & pressurized on plane?, I’m not being facetious, I just really don’t know? Never flew w/airgun before!

 

[Guest]

I forgot to degas my gun on the trip back from Poland. It wasn't an issue.