And the winner is:
Over the past 6 months I considered, waited for, and researched several bullpups for an addition to my small personal airgun arsenal!
I waited for the Vulcan that never arrived!
I waited for the Colibri that arrived but missing the one feature that made me interested in it to start with.
I considered Cricket and Edgun for a 25 Cals
I considered Lelya, Veles, and compact Cricket for a small compact airgun
I even considered the P12 and the Storm as well
Well the wait is over and the winner is
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Cricket Compact 177
Shown with composite stock, atlas bipod, a hawke scope, and an add on Donny shroud.
The gun and gear were in excellent shape (thanks Muggs4u :8: ). The gun has also been tuned by master Ernest and did very well at the chrono test!
I do plan to change the rings and the scope with a new Hawke Tac SW that I got from the opticsplanet sale.
The choice was mostly based on personal reasons and needs, and not necessarily a downplay of the other guns. For example I decided to wait on a 25 cal option until I have a better setup to safely experiment and chrono test a 50 fpe gun, etc.
In the coming 2 weeks I plan to do some accuracy testing with this little guy comparing it to only the guns I can compare it to (i.e. what I have) mainly its bigger sibling the cricket standard 22 which is my favorite gun so far.
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Vulcan looks pretty nice but a bit heavy by the looks of it. How about Vulcan vs Hummingbird. Kinda leaning towards hummingbird in 177. For all you know the Vulcan will take a year to hit this market
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http://www.airguntechnology.com/pcp-bullpup-vulcan
http://www.airguntechnology.com/airguns -> 25.01.2015
Thanks shooter3,
Yes I saw that and I am keeping an eye. It still did not impact my decision to go with the cricket compact 177 because they are not offering something that compares to it. However it will be a strong contender for the 25 cal against the cricket and edgun. Lets wait and see the reviews and prices when it arrive to US. Patience is a virtue.
Awny how does Donny shroud stay on the gun, & how far out does it go? 🙄
GKU how many shots you getting in the 890 range on the reg?
Thx guys nice bullpups 😀
It’s a .177 Compact and I fill it to 210 bar shoot down to 110 bar that gets me 84 shots = 6 mags at 890 fps with JSB 10.34gr, the reg came set to about 107 bar.
~ GKU
Vulcan will be in town soon:
http://www.airguntechnology.com/pcp-bullpup-vulcan
http://www.airguntechnology.com/airguns -> 25.01.2015
GKU nice setup.
Zonk, handling the .177 pellets in the cricket is simple. I just do the palm shake-it and push-it method as Ernest showed in one of his videos. I can do in 5 sec and the mag is full. the rest is just shooting. If you are using a single loader that’s a different story.
This is my Speed Loader and pellet seater (to center pellets into the mag), loads all 6 mags in under a minute.
I keep and carry the mags in a pepper shaker when going on a hunt.
http://s1277.photobucket.com/user/GKU1/slideshow/HP-HPE/AirGuns/Speed%20loader
This is the Pepper shaker I used, it fits nicely into.
Again Awny a great buy !!!!! 
~ GKU
If I was shooting pigeons at 100+ yards then I would have picked a 25 cricket or edgun for my next gun, but I don’t have such supply of birds around. Not yet at least.
The reasons I went for the compact cricket 177 is that it provides me with the following goals I was looking for in the new gun
1) To be very quiet. This is very important for me.
2) To be compact. The smaller the better as long as good handling. Lelya would beat in this category alone, but combined with #1 the Lelya is loud and would have needed an extra shroud to bring to the acceptable report level which would make it longer than the cricket compact.
3) Cheap to shoot with on the long run. The cricket 177 brings the cost down to 2 cents per shot (JSB pellet and air). Yup that’s a low MPG nearly twice better than the cricket 22. Can even go down to 1 cents per shot for blinking.
4) To be very accurate. It’s a cricket enough said
5) To have variable adjustable power. I love this in an airgun and I take full advantage of it.
Those were the goals (without order of importance) and the compact 177 was a great match.
Sharpshot86, Thanks!
GKU, those are very good numbers you have. Mine does 74 shots at thr 890 fps. Have not long range accuracy yet but chrono is very tight!
Good choice on the skeleton, I have one on the 22 and will be looking for one for the compact later. It makes it 2lb lighter.
foxback, Donny shroud slides over the OEM shroud so its double shrouding. For some mysterious reason it has little impact on my 22 (which is very quiet to start with) but its very effective on the .177 making the very quiet a super quiet. You can contact donnyfl on the board he makes them. He also has a newer generation that replaces the OEM and more effective.
Zonk, handling the .177 pellets in the cricket is simple. I just do the palm shake-it and push-it method as Ernest showed in one of his videos. I can do in 5 sec and the mag is full. the rest is just shooting. If you are using a single loader that’s a different story.
Nice compacts guys love them.
Awny how does Donny shroud stay on the gun, & how far out does it go? 🙄
GKU how many shots you getting in the 890 range on the reg?
Thx guys nice bullpups 😀
Zonk I was beaten because I was not 100% sure I wanted one. Now it’s gone you know the rest of the story. Lol
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Good choice Awny!!
Nice and smart buy there you’ll won’t regret it !
I had the same problems in deciding what to get next also !
Also it seems that they brought the Compact back in stock/sale/manufacturing ???????
I chosen the same I got mine form WWAG and they picked me a winner !
I purchase the Skeleton stock separately before hand for it knowing it would not be made.
Still very new about 1600 rounds so far.
It does JSB heavy @ 890ish with a 210 bar fill down to 110, 6 mags – 84 shot string .
@ 70 yards with no wind it’s doing sub 1/2″ groups !!!!!!!
Shot Sparrows at 60-75 yards all day last week end with 5-8 mph wind.
~ GKU
Congrats Awny!! eelect is getting old and has arthritis in his fingers or he would have beaten you to the buy now button. I like the compact but I have enough trouble handling the .22 pellets let alone the .177.
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the weight is 2.9kg = a little over 6 lbs
the thing is the hb the design, it locks u into it too much, you can never have a stock thats like other bullpup stocks.
like the stock going to the end to the air tube to use a bipod.
crickets look great, but the hb too me the looks i don’t care for
the Vulcan looks sexy if i’m spending that much money on a gun, i want it looking good, i want to be able to put a different stock on it or a bipod if i want to. with the hb your hands are tied, your too much tied too its degisn if you ask me.
I would get the Vulcan over the Hummingbird, you can do more things with it if you want.
and you still have the same forward cocking action like the hb, thats why guys want them any way.