Hi all, any advice on which to choose specifically for shooting pellets at 50m and Why? Thanks for your input.
FX Benchrest 50m with pellets: Fx Panthera or Fx Leopard?
- Thread starter Rob Usto
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I think the one with a better/lighter trigger would be the most important aspect of benchrest accuracy from between the 2 PCP's if they have different trigger assemblies.
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My opinion is shorter is better with all other things equal. Any movement is exacerbated with length.
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The best advice would come from those who have actually shot these rifles at 50 m with pellets. I have not and I would also like to hear of Panthera success stories with pellets. I have a .22 700 Panthera that I bought specifically to shoot slugs and, so far I'm not real impressed with its slug-shooting performance at 50 yards.
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Unless you make it heavy for br shooting. 54 yards isn't too bad.
Not on the menu, but i might recommend the impact exclusively for the reason of everything being externally adjustable for conditions. In benchrest consistency is king, every projectile needs to be as close to alike and driven as close to identically as possible. The valve adjuster on the impact helps there. If it's only the 2 listed options, probably the panthera because I don't recommend anybody buy an fx that isn't a 1 yr old design already. They hit you with rolling updates to the gun all the time.
50m/54 yards is my starting range with my goofy little dreamline and it can reach to 110 yards on cooler days(good stable air) with golf all accuracy using pellets. I'm not pointing you towards a dreamline either since I already broke the parameters of your question.
Bench rest is an interesting game of money, equipment and measurements. I was ill equipped with powder burners at my old club, but didn't come in even last 5 places with a light 22" barrel hunting gun. I'm going back to rimfire day with an impact to get the rules re written with my name on it.
Best of luck on your adventure!
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I too agreed with that. With airgun comps there's no weight limit like with some PB rules. My dedicated BR gun is a custom .30 weighing about 20lb with scope. Extended bipod on a special rail that extends about 3/4 the barrel length. She's very stable.
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Fwiw I just serviced the pictured raw that had ALL the typical oring failures(it's got probably 300 less orings than my Impact that hasn't leaked yet) and put a side lever on it for my buddy instead of the odd spoon it had. The raw is an absolute Bugatti of a gun. My impact also pictured is on its lowest setting and is shooting a 30 fps faster but they both shot 1 hole groups with monster redesigns(930 fps raw, 960 for the fx, a little fast on both) . Smaller group was the raw, 2nd group the fx and I pulled the right outlier(I'm the weak link.) 5 shot groups just for data collection.
I think fx or raw would be more than sufficient for pellet 50m benchrest. I can't speak to the other brands because I haven't shot them, not that they aren't equally good.
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Opinions....
I will say this, my impact was capable of this with pellets right out of the box to 75 meters with 18gr jsb, I've spent a lot of time, effort and money to make it do this at 74 fpe with slugs, and just as much time work and money to make it shoot 1 pellet well again along with slugs.
The raw is untouched and does that good with h&n 23gr slugs I tested and mrd pellets.
I'm of the opinion that Martin has curated his own world of perfection which is why there's no diagrams or factory supplied oring lists, or externally adjustable regulators.
FX seems to be good parts (generally) and potential in a box, all externally tuneable. Which I love as a perpetual tinkerer. If that's not your bag and you're going to drop 2200 usd for a gun, I might point you towards a raw, specifically one from Martin (rapid air weapons) before an airforce gun (rapid air worx). His pricing on everything except orings seems to be really fair, and he will tune, repair or modify them how you want for a reasonable fee.
I will say this, my impact was capable of this with pellets right out of the box to 75 meters with 18gr jsb, I've spent a lot of time, effort and money to make it do this at 74 fpe with slugs, and just as much time work and money to make it shoot 1 pellet well again along with slugs.
The raw is untouched and does that good with h&n 23gr slugs I tested and mrd pellets.
I'm of the opinion that Martin has curated his own world of perfection which is why there's no diagrams or factory supplied oring lists, or externally adjustable regulators.
FX seems to be good parts (generally) and potential in a box, all externally tuneable. Which I love as a perpetual tinkerer. If that's not your bag and you're going to drop 2200 usd for a gun, I might point you towards a raw, specifically one from Martin (rapid air weapons) before an airforce gun (rapid air worx). His pricing on everything except orings seems to be really fair, and he will tune, repair or modify them how you want for a reasonable fee.
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