I'm probably going to do some content on it soon, but my thoughts so far are that the .30 FX PHC is a perfect hunting platform.
I sold my 600mm .30 Maverick to my cousin so I could put the proceeds towards a .30 PHC as my new hunting slug-gun. Even though the Maverick was an absolute hammer with surgical accuracy, I wanted to take a chance on the .30 Panthera Hunter Compact as a slug gun because of what I learned with my .22 Panthera - that being it is much less cold sensitive than the Maverick.
I think the higher flow valving of the Dynamic block allows for less cold weather performance hinderance. This .30 PHC is gonna be a cold weather coyote gun, essentially my winter gun. I noticed the Mav regs would creep up in the cold (reg seat material shrinkage?) and mess with my velocity a little - not much, but enough to notice, even though it was still totally usable on 15-30 degree hunts and I did shoot a lot of critters on bitter cold nights with it.
From what I saw with my 600mm Panthera (I was one of the first preorders and got it in January 2023) it shoots pretty consistent velocity in the winter, even when it's been out in the field a long time where funny stuff starts happening to regs in the cold. Probably something to do with the high efficiency valving and larger plenum - but as long as you have a good hammer spring tune it seems to shoot great in the winter. I need to test my hypothesis on this new .30 P-Cat - but I'm pretty sure it will perform better in the cold than the Maverick platform (which I still love, btw, and I'll never sell my .22 Maverick which was my first FX gun!).
I was initially trying for a 95-100fpe tune but I found with that much air blasting out of the short 395mm barrel it was making my slugs unstable, resulting in bad accuracy. Over the weekend I settled at 960fps with Hybrids, making 91.2fpe. I was able to achieve higher power, but by dialing back a bit to 91fpe I was now shooting MOA at 50. Before at like 95-100 fpe the groups were... not great.
My tune is 175 bar with hammer one click under 3.25 on the scale. Pic below. Hope this helps as I have not seen anyone try to use the .30 PHC as a slug gun yet!
I sold my 600mm .30 Maverick to my cousin so I could put the proceeds towards a .30 PHC as my new hunting slug-gun. Even though the Maverick was an absolute hammer with surgical accuracy, I wanted to take a chance on the .30 Panthera Hunter Compact as a slug gun because of what I learned with my .22 Panthera - that being it is much less cold sensitive than the Maverick.
I think the higher flow valving of the Dynamic block allows for less cold weather performance hinderance. This .30 PHC is gonna be a cold weather coyote gun, essentially my winter gun. I noticed the Mav regs would creep up in the cold (reg seat material shrinkage?) and mess with my velocity a little - not much, but enough to notice, even though it was still totally usable on 15-30 degree hunts and I did shoot a lot of critters on bitter cold nights with it.
From what I saw with my 600mm Panthera (I was one of the first preorders and got it in January 2023) it shoots pretty consistent velocity in the winter, even when it's been out in the field a long time where funny stuff starts happening to regs in the cold. Probably something to do with the high efficiency valving and larger plenum - but as long as you have a good hammer spring tune it seems to shoot great in the winter. I need to test my hypothesis on this new .30 P-Cat - but I'm pretty sure it will perform better in the cold than the Maverick platform (which I still love, btw, and I'll never sell my .22 Maverick which was my first FX gun!).
I was initially trying for a 95-100fpe tune but I found with that much air blasting out of the short 395mm barrel it was making my slugs unstable, resulting in bad accuracy. Over the weekend I settled at 960fps with Hybrids, making 91.2fpe. I was able to achieve higher power, but by dialing back a bit to 91fpe I was now shooting MOA at 50. Before at like 95-100 fpe the groups were... not great.
My tune is 175 bar with hammer one click under 3.25 on the scale. Pic below. Hope this helps as I have not seen anyone try to use the .30 PHC as a slug gun yet!
