My experience with my FX WIldcat .22 at the Springvale shooting range. Ok, I have given my Wildcat its first workout, and I must say I am even more impressed.
I filled it to 200bar and started shooting with Jsb Exact Jumbo Heavy 18.13 grain pellets. these were suggested to me from Hermanns Sporting Guns where I purchased it from.
They were on the money !! 25 metre range I was consistently grouping the size of my thumb nail, most of the time pellet on pellet.
I fired off about about 9 magazine's and then tried some other pellets, some lighter and some heavier, Grouping was still pretty tight but not as good as the JSB's.
I also tried some cheaper pellets called Milbro Caledonian 13 grain pellets, these pellets were the shortest of all the ones I tried !! The wildcat did not like them at all !!
Pellets were flying inconsistent and the gun spat the magazine out twice so I won't bother with them again, Pity because they were cheap, $12.00 for 500.
Anyway, I did a pellet count afterwards and worked out that I used 10 mags of JSB's on the first charge and the pressure went from 200 down to 90 bar, so it's safe to say that at 25 metres I can get 80+ accurate shots and this is a new gun. Some say that as a gun wear's in you could get even more but for me 80 is great !!
The moral of the story is I guess, Find a pellet that your gun likes, and set it up for those pellets. I'll be buying the JSB's for sure.
Both targets had 16 pellets each through them.
Very happy indeed.........
Wildcat .22 shot string with pellets taken straight out of the tin.As you can see in the chart above, this amazing little bullpup is giving a full 75 shots at an average of 894 fps with a JSB Exact Heavy .22 pellet weighing 18.1 grains. And it does this with an extreme spread of less than 20 feet per second across the whole fill. That is over 32 ft/lbs on average for 75 shots! So does the Wildcat .22 perform? You can decide for yourself! We have seen popular full length rifles that cannot get half as many shots as this Wildcat, and nowhere near the consistency like this regulated airgun is showing. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the fact that the FX Wildcat is fully regulated, and that is a standard feature, not an upgrade!Ok, so it looks great on paper…but how does it shoot…on paper? Before we look at that, we should say that the Wildcat sports the proven FX Smooth Twist barrel, so accuracy will likely match everything else in the FX range !!
