I am considering a carbon sleeve for my .22 FX Crown lightweight standard barrel . Can anyone provide some feedback on their results as far as accuracy improvement if any . Also Is it best epoxy it to sleeve? Thanks in advance.
Question on carbon sleeves for FX liners
- Thread starter Sharp Pog
- Start date
If you're just gonna shoot pellets I wouldn't bither with it too much. If shooting slugs, it will help dampening the harmonics. I tried epoxy on my 500mm barrel and I wouldn't do it again even if you epoxy it you may have spots on the outside of the sleeve that may not make full contact with the barrel. What I did with my 700mm liner was sleeve it and put 3 orings on each end. That guaranteed the sleeve to not move and a very snug fit into the barrel.
Upvote 0
Last year= BR target season, I was using a CF sleeve over the 600 and 700 liners (not bonded) aproximately 7-8K shots, this year I removed the CF sleeve and back to orings.
Upvote 0
The carbon liner doesn’t improve “accuracy” automatically by just putting it on. But for me it certainly improved consistency and ease of tuning, I always epoxy it on as it removes a variable by combining 2 parts into 1. I epoxy ALL my liners that I shot, even my 300mm 177 liners shooting at 8-14 FPE.
Any good quality 2 part epoxy will work!
Any good quality 2 part epoxy will work!
Upvote 0
Agree with qball. I have several of the cf sleeves in different lengths and cals on 3 different FX's. You wont get an improvement in accuracy as that is not the purpose of the sleeves. The main benefit imo is a more rigid barrel assembly which helps with both poi shifting and broadening the variety of speeds and ammos your liner will shoot well. I have found them to be made well, with a very small degree of tolerance variance. A couple of them are super duper stiff and I dont see the need to use any epoxy, and others are a bit more loose. I havent epoxied any of them, but I know there are people that saw some kind of improvement using epoxy.
Upvote 0