Battle of the Bullpups USA Edgun -vs- Cricket, 80 yards

I got inspired by the other Battle of the Bullpups thread by Wingman and the fella Today who sold his Talon and asking what to buy. So here is my rookie Spoof of Wing’s thread. :biggrinn: Well having played with the cricket all week I was feeling it would shoot right with my Edgun and not having any real good opinion of how to respond to the question of what to buy, I thought I’d get off my arse and go shoot some paper today. I went over to the factory to set up my impromptu indoor 80 yard range for some dueling .22 airguns action. I took the .22 Edgun short version and my newly aquired .22 Cricket Compact ” Shanu’s Gun ” . I tried to keep everything fair and equal as possible. Both guns were shot out of the same tin of Edgun/JSB .22 18.1 grain pellets received from Tony. I know there are better results out there from other shooters but these are good for me on this day !!

Here is the range, you can barely see the target in my camera phone quality pictures. It is sitting on a 15″ cube wood box at the other end on the floor, below and left of that white sign on the railing of the shelf.

Edit: The groups are, the Cricket was 1.100″ ctc and 1.000 ctc, the Edgun was 1.100 ctc and .950 ctc throwing out that one oops.

I know my Edgun best so I started out with it and shot this target straight out of the guncase with no sighters !! 80 yards. I will defend the gun on that one shot that is the furtherest out on the left group as it was my second shot and most definitely me I knew it when i let it go, man that pisses you off when you are trying for groups but not enough to hoof it down there and change targets !!. These targets bullseyes are 1.5″ and this is 2 separate 10 shot groups on each target. Also the Edgun target was shot as it is pictured but I had it upside down when I wrote on it, my bad.

Here is the Cricket. I first shot it about 20 rounds and was getting less than stellar results but felt it was the scope giving the disadvantage, or better said my ability to do well with that scope, so those targets are not pictured here. I changed over to the same type of scope that my Edgun 22 short wears, a Hawke 6-24×56 and shot this target after a half a dozen sighters. The Cricket sure had a lot more time on the bench today so that helped it a bit I feel. Once again this is 2 seperate 10 shot groups on the same target. The one stray shot way low was not part of the consecutively shot 2, 10 rounds groups. It was gonna be the first shot but I need a few more clicks in the scope to get started, the next shot was close enough so I started there.

I am of the opinion both guns are equal and I will stretch this exorcise out to 100 yards next time and see if a significant difference shows up but for now I am happy with both.

To the fella who sold his talon, Sorry, not much help here, all I can say and few will argue I would think ?? Machining and Stock work on the Ed seems a bit nicer to me, Cricket’s multishot and the overall feel and handling is just a little nicer for a guy like me with size 13 ring finger type hands. Although I have never had a parts issue with my Edguns, some have, and this advantage falls to Cricket I suppose. Air consumption is the Edguns advantage as the cricket is a bit of an airhog in comparison. There is a big cricket order on it’s way so that in it’s self may be the biggest factor.