Cricket 25 vs condor
Well I was ready to order a condor until I started reading about the cricket and now can’t make up my mind, can I get some pros and cons from y’all??? I’ve searched here and on YouTube and leaning towards cricket.
I want to shoot small game up to and including coyotes out to 100 yards will limit coyotes to 50yds.
Thx for any info
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I know nothing about the Condor but i do know something about the .25 Bug since i´ve now had mine a good while. It´s the best AG i´ve owned to date. Extremely accurate out to at least 100 yards (the farthest i´ve done grouping with mine is 90m though) and the reg is a thing of beauty in terms of consistency. Very easy to work on and a breeze to tune. I don´t think i´ll ever sell mine.
I like it so much i´ve now bought one in .177 Compact as well.
A Condor will be quite a bit more powerful.
I had a Condor that shot the JSB monsters .22/25.4 gr. Monsters at 1040fps., not wide open, and that was a killing SOB.
The Monsters had a great BC and hit very hard out to over a 100 yards.
But I’d take a regulated Cricket everyday over a Condor.
Twice on Sunday.
The Condor is nowhere near the level of the Cricket in terms of consistency through a cycle of an average of 60 shots (when it’s on the reg). The Cricket has one of the most consistent regulators on an airgun. The design of the Cricket allows it to maintain its accuracy due to the way the barrel and scope is mounted. I think its build quality far surpasses that of the Condor as well. I used to own a .22 Condor and that gun needed some work to get it to shoot to just 80% of my Cricket’s potential. But that was an older Condor. It’s a multishot gun, and the Condor is a single shot. I’ve turned down the power of my Cricket to shoot 16gr pellets at 720 FPS, and at these velocities I can get up to 140 very consistent shots…that’s within single-digit FPS variation.
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Unless you want to shoot slugs or put time and/or money to get the Condor shooting right, get the Cricket. I’ve had both. The Condor can be set up with an etac, regulator, custom hammer, TJ barrel, Dyotat valve, etc. and will deliver more shots, golf ball accurate at 100 yds w/Kings, or it can shoot slugs (if someone makes them!), but it’s work that requires know-how or someone to make the mods. The .25 Cricket can deliver one-hole groups at 40 yds. At fifty, the hole gets a little bigger. For ‘yotes and pellets, you need accuracy. See Chancer’s latest shot in the hunting section. Like many animals, draw a line from eye to ear, or better yet, study a skull. Brain-accuracy with the Cricket at 50 yds. + is not a problem.