Lothar Wather (Edgun) V.S. Smooth Twist Gen1 (FX) Barrel Comparison

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😂 The end bit was pretty hilarious. That was a LOT of shooting. It's likely there is not and will not be a comparison of these two as comprehensive on target. That Lelya shot extremely well. I'm suprised the wildcat did not do so hot. But it's clear it did not. Curious, did you clean the barrels on either? Any airgun I have with a choked barrel eventually suffers from a wide shot spread. My FX Crown does around 3-400 shots. My 1322 does it. My HW50s does it, ect.
 
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I think the best conclusion is that they are pretty much equal statistically. Any difference between the smooth twist barrel and a more conventional LW rifled barrel can easily be overwhelmed by barrel to barrel variance...the barrel lottery as they call it. Shoot what fits you.

One point other point. Conventional choked rifled airgun barrels can often handle slugs quite well unlike Smooth twist pellet barrels. Conventional barrels are more versatile.

It would be interesting to see you run a follow up comparison shooting slugs at 100 yards.
 
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 Long gun Dallas, DanielL

I cleaned them both gun before every time I shot. My Lelya needed clean every 150 shot when I first got it. Now it needs cleaned like around 250-300. It seemed to my the Wildcat could take like 400 or more before it need cleaned.

The only difference was the pellet speed was the wc was shot a little bit hotter, like 15-20fps more. I'm not sure the wc did bad, or did the LW do good?

There is a assumption out there that ST barrels are superior to LW, but in reality they are pretty the same. There only minor differences; and each barrel has it strengths. Just that shooters tend to forget about close range accuracy, and only care about long range, which FX does have a slight edge.

I plan on doing a R5M test comparing slugs and Redesigns. That sould be interesting because the gun shoots both.
 
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The Edguns are geared to have lower reg pressures. The Lelya has only 125bar reg pressure with the the short barrel and still can achieve 30fpe in .22. I've seen other short guns like that set at 150 bar. Amazing what the wide open porting can do. But the Lelya, it does have some more mechanical "pop" when it fires compared to the Wildcat.
 
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