I am selling my barely used FX PANTHERA. I purchased this in November of 2024. I came to the realization I prefer shooting .22. This is brand new. Comes with all the basics from a regular dealer.

My elevation was spot on, though admittedly the gusting conditions made the windage calls on the 100-150y shots a bit challenging. But overall, we crushed a ton of pest birds! I'll upload some individual video clips as I find time to splice them together.

#1 Crow 80y, Collared 40y, Starling 60y

For the tuning and setup process leading up to this hunt check out this thread in the PCP section.

i just got my first Skout and I chose the epock compact because of it’s weight and size. im Coming from fx airguns I have an m3 impac, maverick and a dreamline and I have never been happier with an air gun the quick tuning is amazing not having to degas the gun to tune the reg is the best thing sense sliced bread I decided to max it out today and it shot a .30cal 68g slug 887 fps consistently that’s 118fpe out of a 17inch barrel that Is beast mode my 700mm m3 can barely pull off 125fpe .
this is my experience what power lvls are you guys pulling with the longer barrels

I had UA convert this M4 from a .22 pellet shooter to a .25 slug shooter. They installed a 700mm .25 Superior Heavy barrel/liner, and a .25 Slug Power Kit (probe, spring, hammer weight). I installed an AirMarksman Loki rail, Sportsmatch adjustable rings, Element Optics Nexus G1, Hawke Frontier Red Dot on a 45 degree offset mount (for 20y or less quick shots), a digital gauge (regulator), Impulse Air 1350, and an 580cc 300b AirMarksman bottle and valve. The goal was to make a relatively high powered (80-100 FPE) .25 caliber slug gun for hunting pest birds at the local Feed Lots.



If you're interested in learning how to tune an Impact this is a great video:

In a nutshell... I started by opening the valve return all the way. I started with the regulator about 120b and the QTS about 2. Then I gradually increased the regulator and QTS until I reached the desired velocity (actually exceeding it by 20-30 FPS), then I used the valve return knob to close the valve quicker which decreased the muzzle report, wasted air, and dropped the peak FPS by about 20 FPS. My reg is set at 155b, and the QTS about 3.5.

I was using the H&N 36g slugs for all the tuning. Once I had them "happily" shooting 1040 FPS, I cleaned the barrel using a Patchworm, and I took it outside to see how it would group at 50y.

To my surprise neither the H&N 34g, 36g, or the ZAN 35g, 37g would group above 1030 FPS. I left the reg and the QTS at 3.5 and went to work reducing the valve return. As soon as the velocity dropped to +/- 1000 FPS everything started grouping great.

By that time I had almost ran out of H&N 36g slugs so I changed to focus on the ZAN 37g slugs. They found their happy place at 990 - 1000 FPS. That gave me a solid 82 FPE with a BC of .107



I zero'd the Hawke Red-Dot for quick shots at 10-20y. I optically centered the scope, and then zero'd it at 42y using the Sportsmatch adjustable rings. I added the scope & projectile data into the Element Ballistic App and that gave me a zero hold at 30, 40, 50y, and hold-over after that.



I moved off of the bench and onto a standing tripod at 75 - 80y. I dialed the elevation turret to 1.0 and shot (2) 5 shot groups which was enough to instill confidence for the next days hunt.



I quickly connected and tested my Side-Shot scope camera



Then I pre-loaded a bunch of Stud Mag Loader magazines & Feeders, and packed up the rest of my gear.





If you're interested in seeing some Feed Lot "carnage" caught on Hi-Def scope cam video, then follow this LINK to my thread in the Hunting section