WOW!!::Cricket Arrived::WOW!!
What can I say, I AM IMPRESSED!!!!
Received a standard Cricket 177 in the synthetic stock with two extra mags (4 total) today. Looks great, feels really, really good. It’s very, very quiet. Heavy, but I like that. Oddly enough it feels more solid than my Matador. 😐
The magazine install takes a bit getting used to. It’s my first lever action and it’s not bad at all compared to the ones i’ve tried. The magazine thing wasn’t as tough to work or easy to flip into the wrong slot as I expected.
Got all the mags loaded with some JSB pellets and looking forward to running it over the chrony tonight. I’ll take some photos too.
Will be at the range on Sunday to try it out at distance and verify my click charts.
Ordered some rail sections today from Ohio and will be installing 4″ in front of the forward stock screw. Going to tear off the butt pad and make a thigh rest adapter, i’ll probably have to come up with a new way to attach the original butt pad to the adapter, or I may just buy a really nice butt and hook for the adapter.
Working on turning this into a viable field target rifle for future competitions and possibly a national championship run. :8:
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My .25 Cricket, synthetic stock, weighs a whopping big 13.5 lbs, with scope and bi-pod, so it’s not for toting through the woods.
However, it is quite steady when resting on the bench or bi-pod.
It is very OEM quiet. I had Neil Clague make me a slip-on 10.5″ moderator. 8.5″ for the moderator with 2″ of slide tube, and two grub screws at the bottom. That way I can slide the moderator down over the shroud to where I can still pull my fill cap cover all the way up, and tighten her down. It works like a charm. Now the only sound you hear is the “clink” of the hammer hitting the valve, and I’ve got that down quite low with a 1/4″ closed foam rubber cover on the top of the air cylinder from the breech to the first scope rail.
I like the satisfying “Twhack!!!” that 30.1 gr Barracuda Domed makes when it slams into a target. Nothing will walk away from that impact within airgun range.
SyNopSys…have you not considered turning the Edgun scope rail around, so the slope goes the other way? You know…just saying…is all, just saying…. 🙄
Kind regards…
Uncle H 😯 😯 t
When I grow up, I want to be just like you Syn, owning both 🙂 I’ve talked to many owners who have both guns and they all told me the same thing you did. Both are great guns, laser like accuracy and hard to pick one over the other. So just user preference on look and brand name. I am going with the Edgun as my first gun because I wanted .25 cal in STD size. Cricket only has it in the long version(33 inches). I know its not that far off from the Edgun’s 30 inch but for my needs, 33 inch would be too long. Also I talked to Tony yesterday and he said if I put a deposit down now I can get a gun in Sept(check sent out today). I heard of others waiting almost a year so I thought it was a rare opportunity. Whereas Crickets are always available through different distributors here in the US. Edgun in September and .22 lady cricket in Dec/Jan. I can’t wait to shoot, ordered all the stuff for the gun today(Bipod, weaver rails, pellets, Hill pump).
Same here. I use them for different purposes and shoot Predators exclusively through the Standard .25 Matador. It is devastating on pests. The .22 Cricket is the sparrow gun with many shots beyond 70 yards with 18s. Its amazingly good at its job. :4: I think I would like a .177 Compact Cricket for carrying around.
The thing that gets me about the Matador stock is it looks like it was simply machined out of a 2×4. In contrast the Cricket has wider areas and skinner areas and looks like it was machined out of a wider blank. I have made many many things out of wood, including stocks, and for some reason the closer to a blank that a stock looks the more it bothers me. I made a stock like that once and I never got over it. 😆
It’s not just the color or that the Cricket stock is made of a plastic like compound. Although the wood on the EdGun could stand to be more dense, it’s pretty soft and the grain lends itself to tear out while the machine is making the stock. There are a few spots on my EdGun stock where the edges are rough due to the fragility of the wood.
They are both great rifles! To find flaws you have to nit pick. I am proud to have both of them in my collection and could never imagine selling either one. :8:
That about sums it up. Parts availability goes to the Cricket as you said but for all of the parts like stocks too which Edgun refuses to sell separately. I would buy an extra Matador stock just to make it like the Cricket stock in classiness. 😉 With the regulator I will suspect that the Cricket may outshoot the Matadors more frequently but just a guess. I’ll take that over shot counts.
The person who sold me my Cricket could not have been more friendly. I can find a few instances of EdGun suppliers being unfriendly, can you find one where the Cricket guys have been unfriendly? Sure the folks from Cricket don’t post here, but have they actually been unfriendly? One guy had an EdGun bolt that was not working well at all and it took him a long, long time to get Ed to replace it, at first he was told there was nothing wrong. Othesr received rifles with broken stocks and were told to live with it or pay for a non-broken stock. Not sure where you have been getting your information from but it’s incorrect.
So far the ONLY thing the EdGun has over the Cricket is the shot count (the Cricket is way more consistent). Not sure if it is a product of the air tube size or the regulator using air.
As far as durability goes one can’t determine that until each rifle has been used for years. And since those that have had both rifles have not have issues with either one I can’t see how the EdGun wins. Again the information you are getting is incorrect.
I pushed the EdGuns hard too, now that I have a Cricket it’s difficult to say which is better. The quality of the Cricket stock is far better than the EdGun stock. The way the Cricket fits into the stock is way better, I had to modify my EdGun stock to get the action to fit properly.
Honestly the design of the Cricket stock has a better shape and looks sexier. The action of the EdGun is sexier than the Cricket. The drop of the EdGun rail is WAY WAY WAY WAY too much for the caliber of rifle that I have and makes the rifle UNUSABLE. Yes, a $2000 rifle that I have to get a custom made rail so I can shoot it between 10-65 yards. A dropped rail that works for a 25 caliber has no business on a rifle in 177 caliber. Why this rail is on a 177 is beyond me, some people have had issues on their 22 caliber Ed’s as well.
Each one has it’s pluses and minuses.
Currently the Cricket is winning because the EdGun rail drop makes the rifle unusable.
A question for you.
Which has more power?
1. A JSB 18.1 grain pellet at 900 fps out of an EdGun?
Or.
2. A JSB 18.1 grain pellet at 900 fps out of a Cricket?
Yeah, a few things you state are totally biased and make no sense really.
I’d guess if I did my usable shot count would go dow since it would take more air for each shot.
Hemn, have you handles both the Cricket and EdGun?
Actually not yet, But i ordered an Edgun Matador R3M .22 Long, God Willing i will get it in August, but i have read almost all reviews and saw vids regarding both rifles, and i become to know which one is more efficient, powerful, durable, sexiest design and which one the owner is more friendly to his customers, I will post my story when i get the gun and see if Cricket owner can do this for his customers, i don’t believe.
I have read here in this forum that there are so many people have air leak issue with Cricket which is this issue is not exist in Edguns. ………
You don’t listen to my words just enjoy with your new gun, congratulations…..
Have a blessed day……
10 shot stings with 4 to 8 fps variation , effortlessly , should be able to shoot a can of pellets into a 1/2” at 50 yards . 😉
I was afraid the .177 Cricket was going to be fabulous. Now I will be torn between it and the compact .177. A little smaller, lighter, and maybe 25 or so less shots. What is an airgun nut to do? ❓
Dam near 100 shots, holy plethora of air batman!!!! 😯
Wow , that’s really bad ass, must be nice to have all those high end air tools in your stables , great consistency
how is the trigger now with the first stage adjusted? Can you post some details on how to do that?
Not sure I want to run my 177 10.34 grain pellets at that speed. In most rifles they really like 890fps.
I’d guess if I did my usable shot count would go dow since it would take more air for each shot.
Hemn, have you handles both the Cricket and EdGun?
Sir;
if you increase the power to 920 fps, how many powerful shots will you get?
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I was thinking a hose clamp and some duct tape should do the trick!!!
I have a nice AA replacement rail that is about 1/4″ too short. 👿
http://www.pyramydair.com/s/a/Welman_11mm_to_Picatinny_Drooper_Rail_22_MOA_Fits_Air_Arms_S410_S510_Air_Rifles/4214