I’m fortunate enough to own a slew of PCPs accumulated since the 90s. My only shooting sport is biathlon, which I have participated in for >2 decades, lately with a PCP, starting unofficially with a TalonP some 8 years ago, struggling with that single loading in the cold!
I'm also a tinkerer (not in the Motörhead/Rallyshark class) and have a bit of that rooting for the underdog syndrome. I tend to post about exploits involving the new/extreme (Pantheras lately) or surprising finds (eg. 10grain Zans shooting MOA at 100y from a Leshiy Classic).
This time however, I want to pay homage to the PCP that doesn’t do anything special but just works every time and hasn’t had a problem (or a clean) for 10000 rounds. I think many of us have one. As you probably got from the title, it’s an FX Wildcat Mk3. Started life as a tubed 700mm sniper 22. Modded with a slug port, slug probe, plenum and enlarged TP and then converted to a bottle. It’s spent portions of its life as a 177 compact, a 30 cal sniper and a 30 cal compact, which is where it sits now. It’s been on many trips and has taken out a wide variety of game and pests. Its main duty is to deal with night time chicken raiders, equipped with NV. It’s even shot a rack of ribs out of the hands of a large coon at 1AM. He ran into a nearby tree trunk and seemed dazed for half a minute before taking off. I haven’t seen a coon for over half a year in my yard, so I assume he passed along a message about the food being possessed.
Anyway, here is ol faithful in its current guise, 30 cal compact, fixed 10X optisan, a Koi mod and a 400cc bottle. It’ll crank up to >100fpe with a heavy hammer shooting Zan slugs but at present it’s set to shoot the FX 44grain pellets at 70fpe. On that tune, it’s very efficient, has a sedate shot cycle and is relatively quiet. It never leaks, creeps or shifts POI even after sitting for a month and the Es is never more than single digits. When it’s not guarding chickens, I like to shoot it at 50y into duct seal just to hear the thwacks. Only downside is that the therapy ammo is pricey!
Ahhh, I feel better now that I’ve given it some credit! Feel free to pay homage to your own ol’ faithful.
I'm also a tinkerer (not in the Motörhead/Rallyshark class) and have a bit of that rooting for the underdog syndrome. I tend to post about exploits involving the new/extreme (Pantheras lately) or surprising finds (eg. 10grain Zans shooting MOA at 100y from a Leshiy Classic).
This time however, I want to pay homage to the PCP that doesn’t do anything special but just works every time and hasn’t had a problem (or a clean) for 10000 rounds. I think many of us have one. As you probably got from the title, it’s an FX Wildcat Mk3. Started life as a tubed 700mm sniper 22. Modded with a slug port, slug probe, plenum and enlarged TP and then converted to a bottle. It’s spent portions of its life as a 177 compact, a 30 cal sniper and a 30 cal compact, which is where it sits now. It’s been on many trips and has taken out a wide variety of game and pests. Its main duty is to deal with night time chicken raiders, equipped with NV. It’s even shot a rack of ribs out of the hands of a large coon at 1AM. He ran into a nearby tree trunk and seemed dazed for half a minute before taking off. I haven’t seen a coon for over half a year in my yard, so I assume he passed along a message about the food being possessed.
Anyway, here is ol faithful in its current guise, 30 cal compact, fixed 10X optisan, a Koi mod and a 400cc bottle. It’ll crank up to >100fpe with a heavy hammer shooting Zan slugs but at present it’s set to shoot the FX 44grain pellets at 70fpe. On that tune, it’s very efficient, has a sedate shot cycle and is relatively quiet. It never leaks, creeps or shifts POI even after sitting for a month and the Es is never more than single digits. When it’s not guarding chickens, I like to shoot it at 50y into duct seal just to hear the thwacks. Only downside is that the therapy ammo is pricey!
Ahhh, I feel better now that I’ve given it some credit! Feel free to pay homage to your own ol’ faithful.
