The UPS man delivered the new Benchrest gun today. Wife wasn’t supposed to be home, so after a lengthy time out, I’m aloud to play now!! Lol.
First I want to thank Tom from High Pressure Pneumatics with all the great service and assistance with this. He personally called me several times while I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do offering advice. After being stationed away from home for so many years, I’m finally home for awhile and just starting in the PCP venture this year. While I have an FT rig to finish setting up, I also wanted to be able to begin competing in Benchrest. After researching all of the choices over the last few years, I thought I was going to end up with an Impact or Redwolf, but after FX released the Panthera, I knew this was the one I wanted to try. The precision rifle look is what got me. While it is designed for the PRS, I believe it will do just fine in the benchrest.
The next thing was to decide on the 500 or 600. I'm still learning about all this stuff myself, but this is how I looked at it between the 500 and 600. According to the FX website the:
500 has a plenum size of 62cc + 300cc bottle = 362cc of air @ 56 shots with a 25.39 gr pellet at 880 fps.
600 has a plenum size of 156cc + 300cc bottle = 456cc of air @ 60 shots with 26 gr hybrid slug at 900 fps
Now my plan is to shoot pellets with this in bench rest. From what I've read and listened to folks talk about slugs is that it takes more air to push them. If that is indeed the case and I can get 60 slug shots (+or-), I should be able to in theory get several more shots with pellets. Also, 600 has more combined air capacity over the 500, which again in theory should equal more shots. I could be way off in left field with my thinking of how this works, but that was my thought process.
I don't need a 100+ shot count, just high enough to hopefully get through a bench rest match plus sighters. If not, I'll top off with air. The main objective is as long as I can do my part, is to be able to have a gun that can hit a nat's a$$ every time at 50 and 100 yds.. LOL..
First impression is holy smokes this is an awesome rifle!! I’ve only ever seen one other FX gun in person. Video doesn’t do justice to the quality. My Red Wolf is the same level of quality as well and I’m sure there are others, but this is what I have to judge by. The 600 is the perfect length I was looking for. It’s hard to tell in videos just how big or small a rifle really is.
Also is a pic of the shot string Tom did just before sending it out. Remember I had the pellet liner installed, so from what I’ve read and seen, that fps is on the high side of where I probably need to be with a pellet. This is how it came, so we will start there and then work our tune down. This is all a new learning experience for me. You think you know from reading and watching, but in my experience, hands on is the best teaching method for me.
Unfortunately I don’t have a chronograph yet for tuning and testing. I’m also trying to decide on a scope for it. So far my top 3 choices are Kahles, Sightron S8, and Valdada. I have a Kahles 1050i FT that I may mount just to get a few shots off this weekend. I’m also looking at a bipod, and the GRS has my interest at the moment. I’ll post more as I get to start tuning and testing. Should be interesting setting the this up for primarily pellets.
First I want to thank Tom from High Pressure Pneumatics with all the great service and assistance with this. He personally called me several times while I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do offering advice. After being stationed away from home for so many years, I’m finally home for awhile and just starting in the PCP venture this year. While I have an FT rig to finish setting up, I also wanted to be able to begin competing in Benchrest. After researching all of the choices over the last few years, I thought I was going to end up with an Impact or Redwolf, but after FX released the Panthera, I knew this was the one I wanted to try. The precision rifle look is what got me. While it is designed for the PRS, I believe it will do just fine in the benchrest.
The next thing was to decide on the 500 or 600. I'm still learning about all this stuff myself, but this is how I looked at it between the 500 and 600. According to the FX website the:
500 has a plenum size of 62cc + 300cc bottle = 362cc of air @ 56 shots with a 25.39 gr pellet at 880 fps.
600 has a plenum size of 156cc + 300cc bottle = 456cc of air @ 60 shots with 26 gr hybrid slug at 900 fps
Now my plan is to shoot pellets with this in bench rest. From what I've read and listened to folks talk about slugs is that it takes more air to push them. If that is indeed the case and I can get 60 slug shots (+or-), I should be able to in theory get several more shots with pellets. Also, 600 has more combined air capacity over the 500, which again in theory should equal more shots. I could be way off in left field with my thinking of how this works, but that was my thought process.
I don't need a 100+ shot count, just high enough to hopefully get through a bench rest match plus sighters. If not, I'll top off with air. The main objective is as long as I can do my part, is to be able to have a gun that can hit a nat's a$$ every time at 50 and 100 yds.. LOL..
First impression is holy smokes this is an awesome rifle!! I’ve only ever seen one other FX gun in person. Video doesn’t do justice to the quality. My Red Wolf is the same level of quality as well and I’m sure there are others, but this is what I have to judge by. The 600 is the perfect length I was looking for. It’s hard to tell in videos just how big or small a rifle really is.
Also is a pic of the shot string Tom did just before sending it out. Remember I had the pellet liner installed, so from what I’ve read and seen, that fps is on the high side of where I probably need to be with a pellet. This is how it came, so we will start there and then work our tune down. This is all a new learning experience for me. You think you know from reading and watching, but in my experience, hands on is the best teaching method for me.
Unfortunately I don’t have a chronograph yet for tuning and testing. I’m also trying to decide on a scope for it. So far my top 3 choices are Kahles, Sightron S8, and Valdada. I have a Kahles 1050i FT that I may mount just to get a few shots off this weekend. I’m also looking at a bipod, and the GRS has my interest at the moment. I’ll post more as I get to start tuning and testing. Should be interesting setting the this up for primarily pellets.
. Nice looking rifle, maybe a contender for extreme field target as well.
