Airgun Shooter

ADAPT AND OVERCOME

KEY SPECS

MAKER: FX Airguns, Sweden (fxairguns.com)

UK DISTRIBUTOR: Sportsman Gun Centre (sportsmanguncentre.co.uk)

MODEL: Impact M3 (black Sniper model tested)

PRICE: From £1,843 (£1,906 for model tested)

TYPE: Tunable, dual-regulated, multi-shot bullpup

CALIBRE: .177, .22 (tested), .25, .30 and .35

OVERALL LENGTH: 970mm (model tested)

LENGTH OF PULL: 360mm

BARREL LENGTH: 500mm, 600mm, 700mm (model tested) and 800mm

WEIGHT: 3.2kg (model tested without scope)

TRIGGER: Two-stage adjustable

POWER: Variable, to more than 70 ft-lb on model tested

The team behind FX Airguns has a remarkable talent for listening to what modern airgun shooters want and then designing and manufacturing guns that exactly meet their requirements. The new Impact M3 does just that, and I will say right now that it comes about as close as you can get to fulfilling every want and need that both pelletflingers and slug-slingers could possibly ask for.

One of the biggest crazes sweeping the airgun scene is tuning hardware to extract optimum performance with the shooter's ammo of choice, and that choice is leaning towards slugs. Most of us know that slugs are fussy

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