Cant wait, very very impatient...

[Bent]

After a while, not having so much time for airgunning. I thought i should be nice to myself... 

So just ordered a brand new FX Bobcat in .25 with regulator and a load of extra magazines....

Cant wait to test it on 100 meter and for rook hunting later this spring.....

[454 Big Block Chevy]

Grats!  i'm waiting on the brown truck myself!  AF Condor SS .25.... come on late/early crhistmas!

[Bent]

Finally the long awaited call: "The Bobcats have landed"... 

A buddy and me ordered at the same time... Hard not to have a big GRIN on my face.. 

Bobcat .25 with the full monty, 470cc cylinder, regulator and 5 extra mags. I'm with Ted on this one... lovely gun.. 
Out of the box, putting on a scope, cleaning the barrel, sighting in....... and then an 11 shot group at 40 yards as one ragged hole...

Shooting the JSB Kings 25.4 grains at 920fps I got 85 shots from 240 to 120 bar....

I measured 40 shots first 20 and last 20 before coming of the regulater >> extreme spread of 16fps.....

[darren]

nice toy brent

[Bent]

The Bobcat pulled it first blood rookhunting yesterday... It's a real nice SMACK.. 

Today I've been putting on the cameramount and viewfinder, and after sighting in... I wanted to test whether I could use it for rookhunting..?
Oooh, I think it can......


Offhand shooting..
3 tins at 30 yards and 2 tins at 42 yards = 5 shots from the bobcat.. 

The loading handle on the Bobcat is just in the right place, and you dont have to take away the fokus from aiming... 

[Dave F]

Nice shooting. What type of camera setup do you have?

[Sfttailrdr46]

  Bent, Nice shooting I can remember a time 40 + years ago when shooting offhand was a whole lot easier . It looks like that Bobcat may help to make it look easy again great video. Keep us posted on the 100 yard shooting

[Bicycleman]

I like the way I saw the pellet going and hitting the third one.  Very nice.

[Bent]

I will sfttailrdr46... when I'm happy about the setting of the "Kitty"....
I'm not overexited about the accuracy of the Bobcat..  Cant get the groupsizes that I want, but on the other hand I haven't fiddled much on the gun yet.

Out of the box is was set to 278m/s and shooting the JSB's. The groups I could get was about 1" groups at 50 meters. Then tried turning the speed down to 265m/s... It's better but still nothing to bragg about.. 

Today I tried turning the power to max. and then giving ½turn back again on the springtension. Then tried different pellets over the chrony..

Pellet............... Weight grams................. m/s................... Joule
JSB King.......... 1.65 gr.......................... 284................... 66,5
TritonNVF......... 2.76 gr.......................... 232................... 74,3
SamyangNVF.... 2,27 gr.......................... 253................... 72,7
HN Baracuda.... 1,99 gr.......................... 269................... 72,0
Predator.......... 1,68 gr.......................... 282................... 66,8
Hunter............ 1,78 gr.......................... 279................... 69,3
Extreme.......... 1,83 gr.......................... 278................... 70,7
Solid NVF........ 3,33 gr.......................... 210................... 73,4
HN FTT............ 1,30 gr..........................313................... 63.7

Tomorrow I'll be testing some of the pellets at 50 and 100 meters.... And maybe blow up a few tins and cans.. 

PS. Sorry for the metric values.... I'm a "metric man"...

[Bent]

Bent, Nice shooting I can remember a time 40 + years ago when shooting offhand was a whole lot easier . It looks like that Bobcat may help to make it look easy again great video. Keep us posted on the 100 yard shooting

Nice shooting. What type of camera setup do you have?

It's a Casio Exilim with a homemade cameramount and a viewfinder. Dont have a recent picture, but below you can see it mounted on my Cometa Lynx..

Was out for a session with my buddy who also got a Bobcat... We where shooting 5 shot groups at 100 meter (110 yards).

My best group was 27.3mm and my buddys was 25.5mm... 

I shot this amazing group, but sorry to say that the lower one is also part of that group... 

[Dave F]

Something is wrong with your bobcakt. Mine is in 22 cal and when I first got it 50 yd groups were around 3/4 inch.
I sent it back to Airguns of Arizons and they replaced the barrel
Shootin JSB,s i consistsntly shoot 1/2 inch and under at 50 yds. The other day shot 7 5 shot groups, the best 2 were  0.12 & 0.21 inches all the others were 0.50 or less.
This is with non sorted pellets at full power.
I fill to 2800 psi and shoot down to 2100 and get 45 shots with ave. velocity of  885 fps.
I must admit though that AOA did adjust gun in addition to replacing barrel.
Before they tuned it  average velocity was 863 with about same shot count, bty the es is about 22 fps.
Hope this helps. These guns can really shot but i guess they hsve to be tuned if they dont out of the box.
For this much money they should come this way.
My S510 is almost as accurate right out of the box

[Dave F]

Also looks like your 25 cal is more powerful than my  22 cal.
Your velocity with the jsb is a good 40 fps faster than my 22 with jsb,s.
I only mention this comparison because it seems that JSB pellets seem to be the standard for these guns.
I know i have tried other top brand pellets in mine and only the kodiaks come close to the consistany but are less accuracy

[Bent]

Something is wrong with your bobcakt. Mine is in 22 cal and when I first got it 50 yd groups were around 3/4 inch.
I sent it back to Airguns of Arizons and they replaced the barrel
Shootin JSB,s i consistsntly shoot 1/2 inch and under at 50 yds. The other day shot 7 5 shot groups, the best 2 were  0.12 & 0.21 inches all the others were 0.50 or less.
This is with non sorted pellets at full power.
I fill to 2800 psi and shoot down to 2100 and get 45 shots with ave. velocity of  885 fps.
I must admit though that AOA did adjust gun in addition to replacing barrel.
Before they tuned it  average velocity was 863 with about same shot count, bty the es is about 22 fps.
Hope this helps. These guns can really shot but i guess they hsve to be tuned if they dont out of the box.
For this much money they should come this way.
My S510 is almost as accurate right out of the box

Mine is regulated so I fill it to 3400psi(250bar) and shoot it down to 1800psi. I get 65 shots @930fps or about 120 @880fps.

Never chronoed an entire shotstring but first mag after filling and last couple of mags before getting off regulator and ES for those are 6fps.

The 930fps for JSB Kings are a bit to hot... here shooting @55 yards:

[Dave F]

The groups in the video look rather larg compared to your 100 yd groups