Putting it out there for all. You can choose to believe me or not, but for the record FX does not hand pick barrels for any of our Pro Shooters or competitors. We simply send them out. Plus we really don't have the bandwidth to A/B test like that, and thankfully we don't have to - as the STX barrels do their job.
Certainly with anything manufactured, it makes sense that something could go wrong and a bad barrel is produced (though the barrels sold in rifles have all been tested with the rifle at Sweden, so really not those). That's the beauty of the FX Airguns warranty and the beauty of the interchangeable barrel liner system. That STX barrel can we easily swapped out!
Again, there will be those that choose not to believe me, but I personally took a gun off the rack, shot it for a couple of hours the day before RMAC, and made it into the finals. That is the reality of things. We have that level of trust with our rifles that there's no hand picking anything for any of our shooters.
- Jonathan