Love my Gen 2 .22 Wildcat, but considring a Huma Regulator

[LDM]

I got to spend a few hours shooting my .22 Wildcat and .22 Tipan Mutant Shorty yesterday. What a hoot! Both guns put a smile on my face. The Wildcat has a regulator that was rebuilt by Ernest, is an awesome gun with consistant shot strings and great accuracy, but I have two issues with it:

1) Like other Wildcat owners have noted on AGN, my Wildcat needs 3-4 shots to get up to speed (shooting low), then is very consistent shooting JSB 18.1's at an average of 884. I wish I didn't have to "warm-up" the regulator. If a pest shows up, I'll grab the lower powered Mutant Shorty, knowing the first shot will hit where I want it to.

2) I would like to have a little more power but the HST is all the way in. I haven't bothered to pull the regulator to play with it, but if I do, I wonder if I should just put in a Huma regulator.

Anyone want to give their two cents - Adjust the FX reg, or just start over with a Huma?

Here are a few shots. This gun is capible of shooting much tighter groups... but the owner isn't I'm just not patient enough to be a great shot.

Cheers,

Don

 

[Hookster]

I replaced my Reg in my FX Compact and my buddy has your gun and replaced his as well with Huma. Problem went away and we have never looked back. 

 

[steppenwulf]

same as above. put a huma in my wc and the es went from the low 20's to 10. no warm up

 

[Rj]

LDM, if the hammer spring screw is bottomed out/ all the way in. Your probably not getting max velocity. I don't know why, but on the wild cat, if you go past a certain point velocity starts to drop back off. Run it over the chrony and back it off a half turn at a time and see if the velocity starts to rise. 

 

[nervoustrig]

From reading many threads on the subject over the last few months, it seems most Huma regs solve the problem you describe. Some folks continue to have the same symptoms but it isn’t always clear whether they have the hammer spring tension adjusted correctly. When set up for about 97% of the max velocity, a small amount of pressure rise will not cause a meaningful change in velocity.

 

[LDM]

Hi all - Thanks for the replies! I'm going to order a Huma regulator.

RJ and Nervoustrig - I was wondering if I should play with the HST more. If I remember correctly, the HST was backed out a bit when I got it back from Ernest, but the volsity was lower than I wanted so I kept turning it in. If I get a chance to play with it I will. Gun tinkering time seems to be a precious commodity these days.

 

[Airmanator]

Seem like your getting reg creep. It's know issue with fx guns. Huma reg usually will fix your problem. But few have reported it didn't fix it. So it's kinda a gamble.