No surprise at all. Only thing made a significant different in accuracy and consistency in my 177 FX barrels (300, 380, 500 and 600 mm STX and superlite) is the carbon liner sleeve. Yes, even at 300mm shooting 8 FPE it made a difference for me and at higher power the different is even bigger. I don’t really need to fine tune my FX if it has carbon liner sleeves glued on, for the most part I just dial for the knee of the power curve and shoot. I take is that the liner sleev completely removed the variable with the stupid orings, I absolutely hate those liner orings.