How much has your FX impact POI moved today ????🥴🥴

[Recarga]

Well today a record was set, a full 4” to the left at 50!!!yards the point of impact shifted. That’s probably 8” at 100 yards

I think I’m going to call this rifle my
FX Impact shift M4”.

If it wasn’t because this rifle shoots so damn accurate ( after I correct the POI ) I would be very disappointed.

This is not a 700mm is a 600 mm.
Tensioner barrel
Carbon fiber sleeve
I just can’t trust this rifle anymore.

I still think it is an amazing rifle but the more I get to know it the more I think is more of a bench rifle and treat it like if its made of glass.

 

[Scotay42]

Get a new scope or mounts, not the gun.

 

[Recarga]

Get a new scope or mounts, not the gun.

Oh it is the gun alright it’s been proven already.
Every screw on the rifles rail has been torqued correctly along with rings and mount.
The scope is the second scope this is a proven scope Athlon midas.

 

[7Green]

Mine never moves that much, sooo.

 

[douger]

did it shift with the oem shroud

 

[hawkeye69]

My M3 with 700 mm barrel hasn't changed a bit since the initial tune.

 

[Recarga]

If I use it as a target rifle meaning taking it out of the FX case place it on the bench shot put it back in the case it’s perfect doesn’t move at all. If it sees any field use normal handling ( I got $2500 in it so I treat it good) in a average it’ll move about 1”. But today man o man.

 

[bigHUN]

Imagine this........I am swapping my 3 scopes between 2 guns and usually within 2 clicks at 100.
The Impact "floating" elevated rail is a must to set it both at 20 and 100 to hit the same vertical line. If you can do that.

 

[starlingassn]

maybe dont pick it up by the barrel lol kidding

 

[madeintheuk]

Just throwing it out there. Is cant your issue? If the gun or scope isn’t perfectly level, this could cause a poi shift very easily.

 

[Chukar60]

As an FX guy I am following this. I am not saying it doesn’t happen. Heard it too many times. Three Mavericks, Two M3’s and I have never witnessed this. All of my guns see very little bench time. They are hunters and field plinkers. Like the OP, I have considerable money in these guns and I don’t baby them or abuse them.
My Impact shifted once but the cause was obvious. I stood it against a rail fence at the feed lot I hunt and it slid off and hit the ground before I could catch it. Other than that it has never lost it’s zero.
I wonder if the tolerance in the barrel hole in the block is too much? If it ain’t the scope and you can bring it back to zero then lose it again, something about the barrel is causing the shift.
Have you spoken to FX directly about it? If not it would be the next obvious step to resolution.

 

[qball]

Have you checked all the screws and bolts like the barrel grub screw and screws on the frame. The gun does have more screws so good to check them once a while. Mine have not lost zero for as long as I remember.

 

[Recarga]

As an FX guy I am following this. I am not saying it doesn’t happen. Heard it too many times. Three Mavericks, Two M3’s and I have never witnessed this. All of my guns see very little bench time. They are hunters and field plinkers. Like the OP, I have considerable money in these guns and I don’t baby them or abuse them.
My Impact shifted once but the cause was obvious. I stood it against a rail fence at the feed lot I hunt and it slid off and hit the ground before I could catch it. Other than that it has never lost it’s zero.
I wonder if the tolerance in the barrel hole in the block is too much? If it ain’t the scope and you can bring it back to zero then lose it again, something about the barrel is causing the shift.
Have you spoken to FX directly about it? If not it would be the next obvious step to resolution.

I did and don’t get me wrong after the barrel tensioner and carbon fiber liner it’s been better.
One thing they suggested was to always store it in the FX case which I do but sometimes I use an AR bag.

I’m really not complaining I just don’t feel comfortable with it. It’s like a car that the transmission has been fixed it just doesn’t feel the same.

 

[Chukar60]

I did and don’t get me wrong after the barrel tensioner and carbon fiber liner it’s been better.
One thing they suggested was to always store it in the FX case which I do but sometimes I use an AR bag.

I’m really not complaining I just don’t feel comfortable with it. It’s like a car that the transmission has been fixed it just doesn’t feel the same.

If my FX guns did that I would be shooting a Daystate, Brocock, RAW etc.
it should have not happened without all the add on items. Those are meant to enhance not rectify a guns performance.

 

[mubhaur]

For outdoor rough use I have installed a solid barrel on my Impact M3.

OEM barrels are very good for benchrest.

 

[cahil_2]

The poi has never moved on either of my two impacts!

 

[Recarga]

If my FX guns did that I would be shooting a Daystate, Brocock, RAW etc.
it should have not happened without all the add on items. Those are meant to enhance not rectify a guns performance.

Or Kalibrgun like I am doing now, so the Impact is just going to see the action from the bench

 

[airgunmike56]

LOL, I had a Marauder when they 1st came out , Coming from springers the accuracy was wow, If I so much as farted the poi would change, I sighted that gun in every day.
Just saying.
Mike

 

[bigHUN]

In a hard case all the time. I made the cutouts in a way that there are more/multiple contact points to the foam.
Also,
when I grab the handle and lift it up, it will never sit on the barrel or scope.

 

[Recarga]

Ok I think I got something!!

Apparently this straw like barrels don’t like the slightest move.

I think I got two issues.

One because of the barrel tensioner rifle didn’t fit on the case with moderator so I’ve been taking it out and putting it back. That’s one

The second is also related to barrel tensioner, supposedly I’m to find the sweet spot on I think is call indexing the barrel where I turn it clockwise or counterclockwise until I see my POI move up or down instead of left or right.

The first does makes a lot of sense because if I leave the moderato alone I don’t recall having any drastic POI change.

Hey this gives me more excuses to go shot.