New Fx impact .35cal barrel versus RAW 1000x polygonal barrel.

[yabadab]

Hi,

Looking at these 2 guns and was wondering which barrel is better and why. My understanding is that the RAW barrel is all metal with no liner and the FX has interchangeable liners. I am wondering if one is stronger or better or less fragile. I’m guessing both can be accurate, with maybe a slight edge to RAW. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

 

[theotherpursuit]

Better is subjective. It appears that your parameter for “better” is durability, or strength. A barrel will usually be stronger than a liner, but both should do well when used properly.

With regards to accuracy, they both will most likely shoot better than the shooter.

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[qball]

I vote for the impact purely because it being bullpup and a lot less over all length. 

 

[jps2486]

One test is worth a thousand expert opinions.

 

[elh0102]

Well, since this is totally subjective, IMO, the RAW is so much the better rifle they should not mentioned in the same sentence. As to the barrel specifically, a robust solid barrel compared to a sleeve/liner design. You can change solid barrels easier than fussing with several pieces, may cost more, but you have real barrels that hold POI. 

 

[Spray1Mark]

Having recently bought a 100XLRT in .30 I can honestly say I am very very unimpressed with the build quality, it's a solid gun but if I was in the US it would have gone back for a refund!

But to answer the question, I have the .35 IMPACT, the limitation is the choice of pellets to be fair, I suppose you could make your own but where's the fun in that, may as well shoot a powder burner IMO.

The .35 is fun to shoot simply because of it's sheer size, the IMPACT seems to stand up to the power fine plus you can just put a .30 barrel in it easily, but that much power in the IMPACT did worry me at first I must admit.

We made up another barrel for the RAW but I don't like the fact that there is no physical location point or dimple in the barrel shank, this is because they sleeve the blank upto 16mm and overtightening it distorts that thin sleeve, very poor engineering IMO!

Having said that the .30 RAW is very accurate, I can't compare it in .35 but I presume they would at least test shoot it, AEAC's Steve made the point that the RAW is too low power in .35, not sure if it can match the IMPACT's 135FPE+ if you tune it though.

For versatility you simply cant beat FX, I personally havent found the FX system to be fragile but I do notice the huge difference in weight between FX and LW solid barrels.

 

[tor47]

Maybe the most important factor, when comparing, is which gun is best tuned? A good tuned gun with a lesser barrel might outshoot a bad tuned gun with a better barrel?