FX Are expensive PCPs worth it?

[Scotay42]

I see some say their budget guns shoot better than their highend, well you guys need to learn to tune your guns. I am a bit different. I love my highend guns, but I also do not buy new, I always buy used and am comfortable fixing any issues i may have. My Delta Wolf is the most accurate bullpup I have owned. With 34g slugs it will shoot the same hole at 50yds, near motionless on shot and has an amazing trigger. It is also so smooth on lever cycle that I cant even tell the magazime is in it. My Impact M3 .22 is very accurate but just a shade under the Delta Wolf and shoot the same size hole but in .22, so making it's group slightly larger ctc. It is also motionless on shot with an amazing trigger, again just under the Delta. The Reximex Meta i had was a nice pcp, but it took work and tuning to get it there. Spring replacements on the trigger, reworking the linkage a bit, also dissassembly a few times to get the regulator right. I can tune all of these for about any projectile. Then there is my Benjamin Bulldog 457, an ok trigger, it still needs work, it can only really be tuned by selecting the correct ammo for it, a little hammer spring adjustment helps, but it will never be on par with my FX or Daystate. Now I have had a few budget guns that were surpising, but again comes in that the weight is much more, impossible to get the trigger right without losing the safety and then tuning issues that cannot be comlensated for without extensive work. So there is give and take with all of it.

 

[terrykuz]

I have Anschutz and Walther match PCP rifles, they are overpriced, but they are 100% excellent.
For a "sporter" rifle, the HW100 or Air Arms 510 is plenty of rifle, and more rational on the price.
I had Daystate and FX, and I don't think they delivered. Lots of disappointment for the buck.
Anyway that is my experience, and I don't really have any brand loyalty or sense of what I own strokes my ego.

 

[Trucker3573]

If I do get a VP, the first thing I will do is replace the bottle with a Carbon one. I already have a spare laying around, so no real extra cost to me.

In my opinion the Maverick in any iteration is not a cumbersome carry at all.

 

[Trucker3573]

 FX - Are expensive PCPs worth it?

Why didn't you straight up ask what you actually want to ask?

"Are FX PCPs worth their price?"

Hmm. I didn’t read that as what he was really asking at all . I mean just because fx is what he’s thinking about. Lol. Man FX as a company really ruffles feathers.

 

[Trucker3573]

The only reason I put FX in the subject is because that is currently what I am looking at. The question itself is for any gun that is considered in the high price range. I'm trying to get a feel for how the community feels about expensive PCP rifles.
I'm not just looking at FX rifles, just that the Maverick VP caught my eye. The Vulcan 3 that Zeke mentioned also looks appealing as well.

If you want a gun to just shoot out of the box that doesn’t require a bunch of tuning the Vulcan 3 is a great choice. I have owned all you are interested in. I’ve had a Maverick and currently have a wildcat 3 BT VP. I’ve also had a Vulcan 3 700mm (.30)and currently have a 500mm .30 Vulcan 3. The Maverick I had went back for repairs and the wildcat is en route back as we speak from repair. This is a tough one for me. The fx guns are just a nicer shooting experience than the Vulcan. They just are. Smoother and feel better ergonomically. However with an fx you will have a more complex piece to fix at some point. The Vulcan 3 there is nothing too it. Super simple and hence the difficulty for me in deciding between the two . The fx is just nicer when it works but those amp regs flat out suck ass and the tiny and buried o rings in them are a flat pain in the ass. But damn they shoot good. I actually really want to sell the wildcat vp when it comes back. I know one of those little amp regs is going to fail again but right now it would probably be worth a couple baseball cards and the sticks of nasty gum that come in the card packs. It will probably stay and go right back when one of the regs inevitably leaks again. Needless to say it’s the only FX I have and may be the last.

 

[UDABEGGER]

Simple evolution ! 15 months 24,000 rounds and counting into "IT". First a Marauder then Avenger then Airacuda max now an FX Impact M4 . AHH these are the good old days . Praise the Lord and pass out the ammo !

 

[phoenix_cow]

If you want a gun to just shoot out of the box that doesn’t require a bunch of tuning the Vulcan 3 is a great choice. I have owned all you are interested in. I’ve had a Maverick and currently have a wildcat 3 BT VP. I’ve also had a Vulcan 3 700mm (.30)and currently have a 500mm .30 Vulcan 3. The Maverick I had went back for repairs and the wildcat is en route back as we speak from repair. This is a tough one for me. The fx guns are just a nicer shooting experience than the Vulcan. They just are. Smoother and feel better ergonomically. However with an fx you will have a more complex piece to fix at some point. The Vulcan 3 there is nothing too it. Super simple and hence the difficulty for me in deciding between the two . The fx is just nicer when it works but those amp regs flat out suck ass and the tiny and buried o rings in them are a flat pain in the ass. But damn they shoot good. I actually really want to sell the wildcat vp when it comes back. I know one of those little amp regs is going to fail again but right now it would probably be worth a couple baseball cards and the sticks of nasty gum that come in the card packs. It will probably stay and go right back when one of the regs inevitably leaks again. Needless to say it’s the only FX I have and may be the last.

One of the things that are drawing me more toward the FX then the Vulcan is that I like to tinker with stuff. I know many people would rather just get a gun and shoot and that is fine. But I love to mess with stuff. Having an external reg along with aftermarket parts is a large plus for me.
Although, having to fix stuff is a different story. The amount of people talking about their FX guns having to get sent out for repairs is really giving me pause on buying one.

 

[Perle]

Yes. If you stick to hobbies and make things work how you want them to, the expensive guns have been the most rewarding to me in my 30 years of airguns and 25 years of powder burners. Some of them are for tuners (most fx) and not "i spent a lot of money and it doesn't make it's own ammo and air out of the box" type guys

I wish I skipped about 12 airguns and 5 compressors and just went big the first time and saved money in reality.

I started pcp converting crosman 13xx and 22xx, then a Marauder for many years. And in came an impact m3, then a garbage rod aea hpss, and recently a dreamtac compact carbon bottle (the most used of the bunch).

I'm addicted to building things and pcp guns are fun when you can adjust every aspect.

I’m hurt and you know about what!!!!

 

[Perle]

A range of 1k to 2.5 k is a good and acceptable parameter.

Under 1k quality ismgoing to be poor.

Above 2.5 k probably you will be schemed.

Under 1k poor? Really ??
Wow the hubres

 

[rigbymauser]

In general there is a reason why some pcps are more expensive than other pcps. The question is however does one need it?.

 

[Sawney Bean]

Under 1k poor? Really ??
Wow the hubres

I think that some of the budget priced guns these days are really quite good. I picked up a used Avenger Bullpup for $150 and the only things I can really fault it for are minor and have been fixed with the updated version. It's an accurate and reliable gun at a very reasonable price. I've also heard nothing but good things about the Notos.

Some guns I've purchased that I have been disappointed by were the Jet, the Dragonfly and the Aspen.

 

[Dr. Kralenstein]

Any gun under 1999 dollars is trash and every gun over 2000 is overpriced for what you get.

Choose wisely.

 

[Troy Bakel]

Me and my daughter use a blowgun for chipmunks. Once we are extremely good we will get a squirrel!.

While working a contract in Bartlesville, Oklahoma I sat and ate my lunch watching a young girl from one of the Indian Nations take out 4 squirrels from Walnut Trees.

Very impressive.

 

[Scotay42]

It is funny how it goes sometimes. I used to love a kral but there is no way I would get rid of my bronze bombers. I listed both of them recently, but I wont be selling them, just dont tell the wife. There is nothing under $1k that looks sweeter than these 2 for me,nor shoots as well.

 

[WoodWelder]

@phoenix_cow one day since posted and you have over 1K views and 72 replies.....You're my new hero!

New math to date from the poll,

_ Are expensive PCP's worth it 50.6 %
_ Yes, but 2K is too much 20.7 %

Grand Total 71.3 %

 

[addison]

It is funny how it goes sometimes. I used to love a kral but there is no way I would get rid of my bronze bombers. I listed both of them recently, but I wont be selling them, just dont tell the wife. There is nothing under $1k that looks sweeter than these 2 for me,nor shoots as well.

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How's that daystate perform?

 

[Scotay42]

How's that daystate perform?

I have ran 30g varmint knockers thru it, 34g homecast from Kevin Meersman, FX hybrids jsb 25g and 34g. They are all a tight hole at 50yds average about .4in ctc usually .25 when serious, but I like to play. Smoothest action i have ever had, but no spring to fight so it should be.lol. It is smoothest with slugs, so smooth I can't even feel the mag cycle, so that is what she gets.

 

[coastal drifter]

yes, yes and yes.

 

[addison]

yes, yes and yes.

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I love me some wildcat!!

 

[L.Leon]

I love me some wildcat!!

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