To make a long story short I won’t give the whole back story, just the depressing information I discovered about getting one of the STX 700mm slug barrel upgrades. I was under the assumption that us gen1 owners could get the upgrade barrel with whatever liner we wanted. Sorry, that’s the first bad news. First you get the upgrade and then if you want the slug liner you buy that separate. All upgrade and full barrel packages come with the A liner. Wow, the cost just sky rocketed. But wait, it gets worse. The standard upgrade barrel length for the .25 is 600mm but if you want the 700mm you have to buy the whole barrel kit, no upgrade for the 700mm. It just went up more. With the full kit at least, you get everything including a suppressor but most of us don’t need another suppressor. If you want to shoot slugs and want more power and accuracy you have to get the 700mm, FX tells you so right up front. I quote: ( This came from the AOA web site which I assume came from FX)
· Longer length can be tuned to gain greater accuracy through more efficient air use and less air turbulence
· Longer length can also be tuned to gain more power. Upwards of 10% more muzzle energy compared to the standard FX Smooth Twist X Barrel.
I already heard from Ernest at FX USA that the higher the velocity the tighter the groups so if you want to shoot slugs why would you get the standard 600mm barrel?
So, the bottom line is that for the 700mm barrel kit that does not come with a slug liner you pay $430 then another $109 on top of that for the slug liner for grand damages of $539 plus shipping. Holy smokes Batman that’s a whole lot more than I was expecting to pay to shoot slugs from my Impact. I was planning on get the STX slug barrel and a custom 30” Lothar Walther barrel for slugs but now I think I’m going to pass on the STX, especially since it is only designed to shoot the .25 slugs from 34-40 grains. With the LW I can go above that and for less. The costs for a special order LW barrel are $170 for the barrel, $47 for the transfer port and $125 to have Pomona Air Guns cut, crown thread and fit to your rifle. That’s $342 or $197 less than the 700mm STX slug barrel which is 28”, 2” shorter than the LW.
Anyone who want’s to join the AGN special order for a Lothar Walther barrel can get more info here.
A small rant about FX. I’m more than a little disappointed with FX concerning us gen1 buyers and the product FX put out on the market. I feel kind of like a beta tester that paid full price. Once we help them work out a bunch of the kinks they make all the changes to the next version of the rifle and sell it for the same price I paid for mine with all the imperfections. These are no small improvements either with changes to the barrel, the trigger, the regulator and I don’t know what else. Seems to me that the gen1 buyers who forked out $2,000 for an air rifle should be getting the cutting edge of what you can find in this day and age. But no, we bought untested and now out dated technology, one year later no less. And to upgrade to the standard equipment it’s going to cost us an arm and a leg. If I want the 700mm slug liner it will cost me $539. The new trigger housing and regulator parts will cost me over $300. It just leaves a very nasty taste in my mouth. We should be getting all upgrade parts at cost or less for being their guinea pigs. Instead we get the shaft with no apologies. I’m done, for now.
· Longer length can be tuned to gain greater accuracy through more efficient air use and less air turbulence
· Longer length can also be tuned to gain more power. Upwards of 10% more muzzle energy compared to the standard FX Smooth Twist X Barrel.
I already heard from Ernest at FX USA that the higher the velocity the tighter the groups so if you want to shoot slugs why would you get the standard 600mm barrel?
So, the bottom line is that for the 700mm barrel kit that does not come with a slug liner you pay $430 then another $109 on top of that for the slug liner for grand damages of $539 plus shipping. Holy smokes Batman that’s a whole lot more than I was expecting to pay to shoot slugs from my Impact. I was planning on get the STX slug barrel and a custom 30” Lothar Walther barrel for slugs but now I think I’m going to pass on the STX, especially since it is only designed to shoot the .25 slugs from 34-40 grains. With the LW I can go above that and for less. The costs for a special order LW barrel are $170 for the barrel, $47 for the transfer port and $125 to have Pomona Air Guns cut, crown thread and fit to your rifle. That’s $342 or $197 less than the 700mm STX slug barrel which is 28”, 2” shorter than the LW.
Anyone who want’s to join the AGN special order for a Lothar Walther barrel can get more info here.
A small rant about FX. I’m more than a little disappointed with FX concerning us gen1 buyers and the product FX put out on the market. I feel kind of like a beta tester that paid full price. Once we help them work out a bunch of the kinks they make all the changes to the next version of the rifle and sell it for the same price I paid for mine with all the imperfections. These are no small improvements either with changes to the barrel, the trigger, the regulator and I don’t know what else. Seems to me that the gen1 buyers who forked out $2,000 for an air rifle should be getting the cutting edge of what you can find in this day and age. But no, we bought untested and now out dated technology, one year later no less. And to upgrade to the standard equipment it’s going to cost us an arm and a leg. If I want the 700mm slug liner it will cost me $539. The new trigger housing and regulator parts will cost me over $300. It just leaves a very nasty taste in my mouth. We should be getting all upgrade parts at cost or less for being their guinea pigs. Instead we get the shaft with no apologies. I’m done, for now.
