Cheek piece….

Had some time yesterday and grabbed a couple tins, the carbon fiber tank, cricket, EDgun and went for it. I had turned down the cricket to 900’s and had left it there but decided after hearing that these things are accurate in the 930’s I wanted to test that. But first up was the EDgun, after getting in the new adjustable scope rings and mounting the scope I was able to put the scope at mechanical factory elevation and just adjust the rings to the proper height so that I have pretty much equal adjustment range on either side of elevation. Over the crony, the EDgun was shooting around 905 right out of the box that would deviate about 5-6 FPS from shot to shot, not too bad. I am guessing that this is the new factory tune for these rifles and Ed doing his homework and reading/listening to what the forum members are saying works well for the most commonly used pellet. So to see that was pretty nice. No tuning out of the box except for the trigger to soak up some of that first stage. The second stage feels really nice and has a nice “wall” to it before a clean break. The nod goes to the EDgun for the buttery smooth glass break trigger. The cheek piece on the EDgun is also pretty comfy, for it being straight metal. I also can get away with medium rings as I need High rings for the cricket. The Edgun weighs less and is pretty noticeable against the cricket. The one real problem is the same with the majority, I have to shoot one at a time which can take a little time and doesn’t let me leave to far from the pellet tin. I know people don’t mind the single shot and I ultimately don’t either but will surly enjoy the rifle more when Ed releases his multi-shot kit.

The Cricket is for sure heavier and longer but not by much. After a tin of kings I can say the trigger feels almost artificial. I feel like the first and second stage kind of blur together and can be an issue when trying to take up first stage and hold on second to snap off the shot. I’m sure with a little trigger tuning I can take up some first stage and make the second stage more pronounced. Sorry I don’t have any shot stings for you guys as I didn’t want to spend the time to do that, I just wanted to use the crony to make sure I was getting a consistent string with both the rifles. When I get more time to shoot, I will post shot strings but there are some on the forum already and I’m sure mine won’t be much different. After shooting a few over the chrony and bringing the cricket up into the 930’s next was to check accuracy. I have one of Steel Plinkers quadrant targets set up at 50 yards and I have to tell you, the cricket was spitting the JSB kings at a very consistent 936 FPS and basically hitting a ¾ inch target every single time with only a 3-4 FPS deviation and sometimes only a .2 – .9 FPS deviation. More testing to come but to be honest I have to give a nod to the Cricket. The EDgun is an awesome, light weight, accurate shooter with a great trigger but there is something about the Cricket that I just keep coming back to it. The EDgun will stay for further testing not to mention it’s just an awesome rifle. Here are some pics of the family.

The 25 is pretty nice little hammer. From the pictures of it I thought it was going to be pretty long but once I got it, it fit nice and wasn’t too long at all. I laid it next to the EDgun 25 standard and to be honest, the 25 standard is not that much shorter than the 25 cricket, but it is noticeably lighter. Out of the box it was shooting 950’s with jsb kings. I noticed that I was getting ridiculous flier here and there and I couldn’t figure out why. At 60 yards it would stack a few than pull one about 3 or 4 inches off target. So I turned it down to 900’s and still got the same result. I than face palmed my forehead and took out the cleaning kit. In the height of excitement I forgot to clean the barrel and went right to shooting it. Wow was that the issue. After about 10-12 really dirty and borderline rusty looking patches she started to clean up nice and than I re-zeroed the rifle. I left it in the 900’s but thinking I’m going to turn it back up into the 920’s-930’s as I have talked to other that are getting laser accuracy at that speed, so hey why not. Haven’t had time to shoot the Edgun that much as I’m still waiting on rings from straight shooter to allow me to compensate for the rail cant.

I must have gotten lucky with my 25 cal, mine actually clicks into place and doesn’t move. I had actually put a set of these rare earth magnets in my amazon shopping cart and held out till I received the rifle to make sure I needed them. Looks like you did a clean job putting the magnets in there.

This is very useful information. Can you show a link of those magnets ?