FX Panthera with drop-down front bottle adapter ST0060

Why doesn't FX use 300 bar bottles by default?
I suppose only FX could answer that. Maybe meeting a price point, maybe there is more demand for lower psi bottles. Filling to 300 bar from 4500psi air tanks is impractical as you can only get a fill or two before you can't hit 300 bar anymore. It also works portable compressors much harder to fill to than 250 bar.
 
Got mine today and installed it a little bit ago.

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Nice mod that ST came up with, but I have to say, for some reason being lower and away from the block it just looks more prone to snapping off at the neck connection. Just my eyes is all. Maybe it’s the recent topics of bottles snapping off of guns I’ve been reading about lately.

Another opinion of mine and mine only, I think the aftermarket coming out with sleeves attaching to bottles to give one a bipod mount wasn’t a good idea. I’ve seen guys really apply that forward down pressure on bipods and common sense tells me that can’t be good for a bipod mounted on a bottle. Sometimes I wonder that during design, the bipod connection is last on the list and not much thought goes into that as the gun is being rushed out the door for sales demand. Thank goodness the aftermarket, folks like Saber Tactical and K&L, were able to design bipod support that looks like it came on the gun.
Hi, I’m new to this forum just signed up a couple days ago. I also just received my FX pantera 700 in 22 caliber. I also added a bottle, but I added a 580 with the offset and it works fantastic. It holds it up tight right against the arc or rail and it leaves just enough room for a nice bipod I see that I can attach a picture so I will do that to let you know what it looks like, I think with that configuration you really have to be rough on your rifle in order to snap off that tank .

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