A few months back, I purchased a beautiful walnut FX Royale 500 in .25. It was obviously one of the earlier ones. Though it shot well upon receipt, a few weeks later it began to leak off while in the vault. Upon disassembly, I noticed that some channel locks at been applied to the bottle at some point in the past, and decided to send it in to Shane at AOA for a complete inspection, reseal, and repair as needed.
Shane provided tremendous service and value, as he found several things wrong with the rifle, which he corrected. At my inquiry, he also converted the rifle to a carbon fiber bottle, and the balance is now far superior to when the original steel bottle was installed. I received it back yesterday, meticulously packaged and shipped, cleaned the barrel, mounted the Athlon Argos 8-32x56 FFP scope, and proceeded to sight it in and test it.
This rifle shoots the 25.4 and 33.95 gr pellets about equally accurate, so I settled on the 25.4 to keep the trajectory as flat as possible. This rifle is only shooting at +/- 40 fpe but the accuracy is great.
After setting everything up and testing over the chrono on my indoor range, I took it outside and established the scope click points using Strelok Pro with actual shots at different yardages to verify.
Photos of the rifle, test results, and trajectory chart can be found below. Note, all groups were 10 shot groups. The groups with the chrono readings were indoors at 18 yards. The 1" target dot was at 83 yards.
Shane provided tremendous service and value, as he found several things wrong with the rifle, which he corrected. At my inquiry, he also converted the rifle to a carbon fiber bottle, and the balance is now far superior to when the original steel bottle was installed. I received it back yesterday, meticulously packaged and shipped, cleaned the barrel, mounted the Athlon Argos 8-32x56 FFP scope, and proceeded to sight it in and test it.
This rifle shoots the 25.4 and 33.95 gr pellets about equally accurate, so I settled on the 25.4 to keep the trajectory as flat as possible. This rifle is only shooting at +/- 40 fpe but the accuracy is great.
After setting everything up and testing over the chrono on my indoor range, I took it outside and established the scope click points using Strelok Pro with actual shots at different yardages to verify.
Photos of the rifle, test results, and trajectory chart can be found below. Note, all groups were 10 shot groups. The groups with the chrono readings were indoors at 18 yards. The 1" target dot was at 83 yards.
