The carbon fiber sleeve is only about $40 and one of the cheapest upgrades. Since you will be getting the sniper version, then you already will have the medium weight hammer as my was a originally a compact with the light weight hammer. If you are just interested in 50 yard performance, then this rifle will far exceed that out of the box without the carbon fiber sleeve. I wanted to be able to shoot long range slugs AND shorter range pellet shooting. Rest assured your rifle will be far more than adequate for what you want to do and quite a bit less expensive than FX flagship rifle.
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