New Vulcan 25 Cal Review

Package arrived with no damage and was double boxed. Inside was the Vulcan with its plastic case with foam padding inside. Nice way to ship this kind of gun. After opening box I saw the carefully packed Vulcan laying there in sheer beauty. The stock in my opinion is gorgeous.My very first impressions are as follows. This is a direct comparison from my .25 Cal synthetic Cricket as I have not owned any other 25 gun.Out of the box it took little time to figure out how everything worked. Mags were easy to insert and will loosen up a bit with time. I can load a clip with one hand no problem. Not so with cricket.Bolt actually cycles nicely to load pellet but it does take a bit of effort to push pellet all the way in. With cricket it was the opposite. Cricket was hard to pull back to load and easier to push pellet in. I did get cricket to cycle quite smoothly and I’m sure Vulcan will too once a bit of care is taken to polish the parts involved. I did find myself reaching over to look for bolt as I was accustomed to when shooting cricket and was pleasantly surprised to have cocking lever right there where I wanted it. That is hands down the best move yet.Tony supplied me a one hole group at 30 some yards and that had me really excited for a new gun. I had a busy day and didn’t think I would be able to shoot it too much so I did a few dry fires and would say the hammer spring made quite the twang. You could not hear the hammer spring on the cricket at all.After supper I went and mounted SWFA FFP 3-15x42 scope with the burris inserts to get me as close to POI as possible. That took me 3 tries and had it within 3 clicks. Phew was glad that was over.I took a fresh tin of Air Arms 25 grain pellets as I figured I will use them for my break in period and keep the kings for later. To my surprise they did very good. I emptied all four clips and refilled gun and finished setting up scope. The Air Arms pellets easily grouped about half to ¾ inch at fifty yards shooting from my truck with a small bean bag for support. I can tell this beast is a shooter and will be tough to outdo. Before I took gun out I ran about 8 patches through barrel to make sure its clean. Will clean it up later when I have more time. Barrel was dirty but the last patch wasn’t that bad.I took to the road and quickly there after I took 5 birds in a row at 50-40 yards and I will tell you I was stroked. Trigger is nice and crisp the way I comes but I like it a bit lighter so I will adjust this later. Cricket trigger was not bad but defiantly not as crisp. Gun is so small that it makes by 22 cricket look like a semitruck. It’s really really is the gun I was looking for.As for quiet…. I would say it’s quieter than 25 cricket for sure even though its shooting a bit hotter.The sound coming from spring makes it tough to judge. I know when I dry fired it before I had scope mounted I did point it in the direction of birds sitting on trees and fired a few shots and they didn’t budge. Cricket was much louder I would say at 930 fps. As for accuracy it beats the cricket in a heart beat out of the box. It took me months to get cricket to shoot half as good. I have this coke aluminum pop can beside some concrete pieces that I take practice shots with my 22 cricket. Its 90 yards away. So I take a few pokes at it with Vulcan and couldn’t tell for sure if I had hold over right so I picked a spot on concrete and fired two shots. I could not tell where they landed so I drove up to pile and went over and looked and was amazed what I saw. Two pellet markings 1” apart shot from my truck with bean bag on my knee. Simply amazing. I didn’t take picture as I didn’t have phone on me at the time and was a bugger to get there to begin with. So my first observations are very positive to say the least. This gun is a shooter no doubt.The clips are not too bad to load but can load 2 cricket clips by the time I do one Vulcan clip.The gun is new and stiff so it will be a while till everything gets worked in. It’s unbelievable the way it shoots. I also find that I get a small puff of air in my eye when I fire gun. I will have to check out what gives. I will move scope back a bit too as its too far forward.Comparing the two rifles it’s night and day difference.Cricket is too big, too heavy and too long.I bought them from 2 different vendors and comparing to what I had to do to get cricket to shoot good is a night mare.