"Low end" FX Impact M3

mubhaur said:

I understand that if someone calls FX Impact to be a cheep gun, its because one is comparing the built quality of Impact with that of RAW or Thomas etc.

Some companies are well-known in making bullet proof guns and with very few O rings, they become very reliable.

But the Impact is off course not that much bullet proof gun but it's a master piece of technology.

The external and easy adjustments that Impact offers, makes it extremely easy to tune for a variety of calibers and variety of pellet weights.

Trigger is not as good as RAW or other match grade guns.

FX has developed their own way of making in-house barrels.

The barrel system of Impact is also one of the reasons people take it as a cheep gun.

To me its a delicate gun with advanced technology and features.

Bhaur

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Thanks for the info. The barrel system was the biggest selling point for me. I love the adaptability of being able to change calibers and barrel lengths so easily and at a relatively cheap price. Although it seams thin, (tho my experience is mostly with firearms) it seems well built.

I also really like the top bottom and side picatinny and M-Lok rails giving plenty of room to build for any hunting situation. I mainly hunt nuisance animals at night on a farm up in trees and going through tightly packed barns so I need essentially a night time CQB setup (no NV, just a mounted light and scope). I also do need a long range build for groundhogs and Tweety birds.

madeintheuk said:

Bad start to joining a forum. I would try again without the attitude.

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You will find that if you don't have an attitude when reading a serious question, you will be less inclined to assume the op has an attitude when they have a genuine question.

Healthservices said:

My stand on the impact is that it is a tuner gun. It is made to do certain things. If you don't like what it does it has the ability to be made into the gun you want it to be in many cases, that is if you have the ability. Not everyone has that ability. And that's where people start having issues.

Allen

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That makes sense. I know some people like to just pick their gun up and shoot it but I bought the M3 because I like to tinker with my guns. Still having a little trouble understanding the tuning on this but I already got the trigger set just how I like it, other than the cant, because I'm still waiting for my tiny allen wrench set to arrive

I wrote this post after I searched for problems with magazine alignment on the M3, and the thread I saw had one of the first comments saying the gun was a beginner gun or low end and cheaply built, blah blah blah.

Kind of seems like the guy might have been having a stroke while he was typing it because it was a little hard to understand. He must have deleted it after somebody mentioned him saying they had no clue what that guy was talking about because it is no longer there.

Prior to that, I had been seeing plenty of people trashing the impact and FX in general saying they're cheap (cheaply built) (which I knew was false judging from the impact X I had shot) or fragile or not worth the money or not as good as everyone says they are or some kind of a scam or too complicated blah blah blah.

I haven't really heard many firsthand tails of bad experiences other than sometimes getting a bad gun from the factory or a lot of people getting bad used guns. Now I'm realizing the bad used guns are because nobody wants to sell an impact if there's nothing wrong with it, because they know they're never going to get anything better, until they release the next model. Which begs the question, why are people so salty that they keep releasing upgrades and better products? Shouldn't that be praised by the community?

But, I digress. I never meant to come off as arrogant or sound like I had an attitude. I generally wanted to know if there was something that I should know about this "investment" I have made.

~keep it klassy~