I’d like members to understand that in my OP, I was NOT intentionally putting down FX, but only using my most recent experience with one size, type, and caliber barrel liner. My point which some seem to have missed is this could happen with ANY brand of barrel. All of them have ones that are generally very good (the majority), then ones that are substandard, the small minority, and ones that are truly awesome, a very small minority. My point is that all manufacturers are subject to this, and that it takes time and effort to find that magic barrel that shoots brilliantly. Honestly, I can’t say what the best slug barrel is, but it is my opinion that the older solid .30 FX ST barrels are the best and most accurate pellet barrels ever made to date. Slug barrels that I’ve had great success with are the .22 Daystate ART barrel with 25.4 gr JSB KOs, the LW barrel on an older .22 EDGun R3 Long with 20.2 gr NSA .217, and a .25 FX Slug A liner in 700mm with 43.5 gr NSA. But just because the above has worked for me is no guarantee that exactly the same combo will work for you.
Its also recently been brought to my attention that there are those that “think” Team Centercut members get special barrels or guns to compete with. Sorry to burst some bubbles, but that just isn’t true. In fact, if you look at the guns the 11 Team Members shoot in competition at 100 yards, you’ll find 2 Daystate Red Wolfs, 2 FX Crowns, 4 FX Impacts, 1 RAW, 1 Kalibrgun Cricket2, and 1 Thomas HP-X. So unless FX is sending hands full of barrel liners to my guys and I don’t know about it, I’d say we get our guns pretty much just like the rest of you. ‘Nuff said.