Which Caliber for FX Crown 100 Meter Indoor

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Hello everyone,

After shooting my FX Wildcat in .22 for a while, I'm now getting a little more serious at the 100 meter benchrest shooting. I've had a lot of fun with the Wildcat, but I'm now looking to upgrade to a bigger caliber FX Crown. I'm still in doubt over which caliber I should choose tough...

.25 gives a significantly bigger shot count, pellets are more affordable, and it will have less recoil. On the other hand, I hear stories about .30 being slightly more accurate with a smaller chance of 'flyers'.

So, summarized, the main purpose is going to be indoor shooting at 100 meters, benchrested. Noise is not really an issue. I'm also aware of the fact that I could later buy the parts to change caliber with the FX Crown :)


How are your experiences with the different calibers? Why did you pick either one? Do you guys think there really is much of an accuracy difference? I'm looking forward to seeing your responses :)

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Indoors? for me 0.22 no doubts, if wind is not an issue 18.2 gn jsb are laser beams IME I have test them with no wind @ 100 m and are impressive. Then you have the monsters redesigned on more powered and those shoot amazing too out of the slug liner 700mm, B liner 700mm and A liner 600mm (they do not like the 700mm ime, spiral). Also in 0.22 you have many many options to choose, in 0.25 no so much. Finally IME and having all cals (22. 25 . 30) if I have to dish one...without a doubt will be the 0.25.

my 2 cents! 
 
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I'll add to the list of people recommending .22 for your scenario. In dead calm air, my .22 Crown will print groups as good as anything I've seen posted on this forum, and easily as good as my .30 Crown as well. It is also quieter, more shots per fill, easy to shoot well due to basically zero recoil, you have HUGE pellet selection available, etc. When the wind picks up my .30 Crown is better, but a firearm is better still so....... 

Of course every range/competition has its "cliques" of a sort, that is to say everyone will THINK that a given setup is the most accurate, and so more and more shooters will use it. If you're concerned about inadequacy, I might suggest going and watching one of the BR competitions at this range and seeing what other people use and what they say and what looks good to you. 

I will say, and it is just my humble opinion, the FX Crown is the best airgun out there at the moment. It is easy to tune, modular, incredibly versatile, and lacks the fiddly inelegant over-complicated nature of the Impact. It has just the right level of simplicity where it can be simple and complexity where it must have additional parts. Put it all together and you have a world class airgun. And, thanks to the Crown's quick change system, if you pick one caliber but some rule change or new pellet or barrel liner makes one caliber much better than another, it'll be easy to switch over. 

Just my 2c. I hope it helps. :) 

 
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Here’s another vote for .22 . But just to be difficult , might I add shooting either cast or swaged bullets to the mix . I would chose a medium weight to start so you don’t have to do any major mods to the gun , keeping the factory “ballance” in hammer weight , spring and lock time . Once the 100 indoor is mastered simply take it outdoor and start reading the wind , drop will be the same . 
 
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Thanks for all the replies :) I asked the same question on a Dutch forum (I'm form the Netherlands), and most people there said that a .30 pellet is generally more accurate since it's less susceptible to small deviations in the pellet, even at an indoor range. Also, nearly all the 100 meter benchrest competitions are shot with .30 air rifles. Interesting to see how your opinions differ ;)

As for the indoor location that I shoot at, it's at 'Schietsport Centrum Stein', in a town called Stein in the Netherlands. It's basically just a concrete hallway 100m/110y long and about 10 meter/yard wide. It has six benchrest tables for six people to shoot :)
 
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Thanks for all the replies :) I asked the same question on a Dutch forum (I'm form the Netherlands), and most people there said that a .30 pellet is generally more accurate since it's less susceptible to small deviations in the pellet, even at an indoor range. Also, nearly all the 100 meter benchrest competitions are shot with .30 air rifles. Interesting to see how your opinions differ ;)

As for the indoor location that I shoot at, it's at 'Schietsport Centrum Stein', in a town called Stein in the Netherlands. It's basically just a concrete hallway 100m/110y long and about 10 meter/yard wide. It has six benchrest tables for six people to shoot :)
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IME a good 0.22 is better than 0.30 INNDORS. 0.30 Benchrest comps usually are outdoors, outdoors different story, 0.30, wind plays a lot, but without wind I have seen OUTDOORS 241 points in 75m Outdoords with 18.2 JSB 0.22. (I compete in BenchRest) out of a FX Crown

If I were you, and had the money, I will get both ... so you can test it yourself ;) best way IMO! jaja
 
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Like others have stated I'm a huge .22 fan. In calm conditions outdoors my .22s could hang with my .30s. Any wind .30 won. I also think the .30s are more consistent likely due to there heavier weight. Let's say 1/2gr difference in the 18.13gr JSB is 2.7% where as 1/2gr difference in a 44.75 JSB is only 1.1%. It could make a difference. But .22s are generally alot easier to shoot as there's virtually zero recoil where the .30s especially a hot one could have some kick so can take some learning to get there. But if I was shooting indoors only I would definitely go .22. That's all I own at the moment anyways after trying .177, .20, .22, .25 and .30. Won't own a .177 again. Love .20 but .22 just has way more choices. .25 is fine but if I were to go .25 I'd go slug slug only shooter. If a powerful pellet shooter was needed then .30 all day. It's my favorite caliber but way too powerful for my needs but a blast to shoot. So I went to .22 which one could easily down tune it to 12fpe or a normal 30fpe pellet shooter or crank it up to a 50fpe slug shooter
 
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