Any reason not to buy an FX Impact .25

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Wow, Thank you everyone for your responses and I will do my best to address some of the points you asked about

  • Intended use
    • Hunting 50% starling, rabbit, squirrel, nutria
    • Target 50% 
    • I can go up to .35 cal and take deer here in Texas
  • I am ok with a bullpup style rifle
  • I would prefer to buy new. I take care of my things and prefer to start with a clean slate. 
  • I like the way it looks
  • Wife will kill me no matter what, I have accepted my fate.
  • This will be my last toy purchase before we move into a new home we are building so I thought I should just go big and pull a "one and done".
  • I like how many adjustments there are as I like tweaking all my gear to get the best performance possible, home theater, car, air rifle. 

Question

  • Will FX be releasing a Arrow barrel for the Impact? The idea of bow hunting for deer, hogs, and anything else I want would be a huge bonus. (I know other FX rifles have that option as the veminator extreme was the gun that put FX on my radar)

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you basically outlined everything for Impact except the arrow kit which they might not be able to release since it is a bullpup and has barrel support in the way.




 
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The things that swayed me towards an FX Impact II was the design overall. I don't consider them a bullpup, more a tactical gun. The beauty of the design is that you can have a 24" barrel and it still be fairly short in OAL You take a traditional style gun with the barrel mounted after the breech and put a barrel on them that long, and boy, you're gonna need a lot of room to move them around. The other is the high capacity magazines. 23 shots in 30 cal, and more in the smaller calibers. I don't like to buy guns without much support either. The MK's are so popular due to their accuracy, with lots of vendors, it's like buying a Marauder with all of the support they have. Lastly (I could go on) is the smooth twist barrels. If you have been shooting long, you are familiar with how fast a traditional choked barrel can lead foul fairly fast at the choke. With these smooth bores, one can about say they are self cleaning. The manual just recommends shooting cleaning pellets through them, of course most won't adhere to that and will use patches, but is super simple to pull the liner and clean without any gun disassembly itself...

Well I gotta add one more thing. I held off buying FX for a long time because they didn't address a lefty in their design. It really ticked me off being discriminated against.(in my head only) because I am a lefty. Now, I see this as an advantage. I can leave my left hand on the trigger area and cock with my right hand (because it is so easy to cock them) and is center mounted cocking, too, which is excellent compared to Edgun and Taipan's and such that are all the way in the rear on most of those types. Also, better than a righty that has to remove their hand to cock the gun. Now that I have done my research instead of assuming, FX does actually make a lefty block I can purchase, so they did address the lefties after all.
 
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In my experience with life in general and "things", get the Impact with many tuning options. Use it as is from the factory and don't tweak it, then you have a very satisfying accurate simple use gun. But then, if you are so inclined over time to start tinkering, you'll have all the options to go deep.

If you start with a low expectation of where you "think" your needs are or will be at the early stage of the hobby, the cost may be much higher that you think having to upgrade.

I have 4 PCPs; I initially thought one would do me. I have yet to delve into tuning. I am still at the turn the adjustable knobs stage, but this is going to change soon when I get bored with the available option going this route. I am glad I got highly adjustable guns that will allow me to expand my horizons going forward.

my 2 cents.
 
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As far as the lefty right thing, sure the FX (any right handed weapon) will work for a lefty as long as you are on a bench or bipod set up. If you are in the woods, or offhand in any other instance, you have to take your right hand, the supporting hand, off the stock of the 7 pound weapon. It is neither comfortable nor accurate for follow up shots, 
 
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As far as the lefty right thing, sure the FX (any right handed weapon) will work for a lefty as long as you are on a bench or bipod set up. If you are in the woods, or offhand in any other instance, you have to take your right hand, the supporting hand, off the stock of the 7 pound weapon. It is neither comfortable nor accurate for follow up shots,
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FYI, here is an accessory that you can add to enable fast pump action for any follow up shots,

https://spaweapons.com/collections/saber-tactical-accessories/products/saber-tactical-fx-impact-pump-action-pre-order-for-xmas-delivery




 
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I own an Impact and yes there is one very good reason not to buy one.

They are incredibly complex. Yes, incredibly accurate too. If you have a chronograph and time to accurately tune it, it's a wonderful gun. If not, it may not meet your expectations depending on how unreasonable your expectations are. My expectations were very unreasonable, but after 2 years of tinkering, I think it's about there.
 
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I can second whoever said to seriously consider a Daystate Regal XL as a first PCP. I love mine. Simple, trouble-free, quiet, nothing to fiddle with and incredibly accurate and a beautiful rifle. The Regal was my first high-end PCP - I've owned all 3 calibers but now have only the .177 as that is what I used the most. I think its heard to find a better bang for your buck than a Daystate Regal XL.
 
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They are incredibly complex. Yes, incredibly accurate too. If you have a chronograph and time to accurately tune it, it's a wonderful gun. If not, it may not meet your expectations depending on how unreasonable your expectations are. My expectations were very unreasonable, but after 2 years of tinkering, I think it's about there.
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Actually after a month of messing with it and a lot of user error I personally found the impact is actually quite forgiving and pretty easy to tune. Yes, you need chronograph but you have to have a chrono regardless if you want to do any sort of ballistic calculation.

Thanks to ample time afforded by the quarantine I now know how to dial the impact up and down really quickly. For backyard I shoot at 660FPS and if I go hunting or target shooting I'll dial it up to 850 to 920 depending on the ammo. Turning reg pressure down does take a few minutes since I like to just take out the bottle which is a lot less time than quarter turn and shoot. The hammer preload and valves are just couple of minutes of time as long as you wring your settings down.

Since the wilkcat MK3 wasn't out at the time I think the impact is about perfect for my desired use which is be really good at both high and low power tunes and change between the 2 quickly. I simply don't know of any other gun that can do that, wildcat and dreamline have potential though. 


 
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