Cricket Shorty! – Kalibrgun Cricket Compact .22
First off, I would like to apologize in advance for the crappy quality of some of the Pictures, the bad ones were taken by a shitty phone camera…
Allright, so I got myself a new gun, I have had it for a couple Days, not even a week yet. The gun is a Kalibrgun Cricket Compact in .22 This gun is new as in it has been laying around since 2013 without use, there is a story behind how I got a hold of it but I am not going to bore you with it, all in all, it would not be possible without Sir Ville.
Ville ordered this gun for me and tuned/fixed it up for me, he polished the barrel, set the reg/valve etc and got it shooting, these are the kind of Groups he got at 42m Indoors, 5 shots:
When he finnished he sent it to me and I have been out to shoot it about 4 times total, like I said, only been in my hands a couple Days.
So far I am very happy with it, I see now why peolpe praise the Compact and Mutant Shorty because for some reason (unexplainable to me) the shorter the gun the more fun. I guess it is like having a tiny mini with 500BHP….
The things I have done includes polishing the hammer and some receiver parts, then lubing them with a great Product called “Archoil AR8300 Severe Duty Synthetic Grease”
The trigger on this gun is absolutely Amazing, much better than on my old .177, not sure why but I am not complaining 
This is my setup:
Cricket Compact .22 (63cm long)
Delta Optical Titanium 4,5-30×50
Eaglevision Forward Infinity adjustable mount (FAE-L50)
Wheeler Engineering Anti Cant Indicator
Greenbase CNC Bipod (copy of the Atlas)
By the way, I am LOVING this scope, it weighs about 760 grams or so but with all else (scope mount etc) it weighs over a kilogram, but it is a really great scope.
Lets talk about my results so far, I shot it at 52m and here are best Groups:
4 shot – 0,96cm or 0,38″ CTC (last in the Magazine after two five shot Groups)
5 shot – 1,15cm or 0,45″ CTC
This gun outshoots me by far and when I get more trigger time I do not doubt I will be able to stack a full Magazine under 0,5″ at 52m. But that will take time and practice, once I put 2 tins of pellets through it I will do some more serious chrony work and see what I get, but at around 905 fps with 16gr I get at least 4 mags, but more on that later…
Here is my range, I can get up to 100m but now I am shooting at 52m The stump acts like a table, you slip your legs under it and rest the gun on top. Not by any means the best rest but better than prone IMO.
Hopefully you will join me on my journey with this gun, lots of things to do such as calculate BC get Strelok pro to line up with real World results etc. I am going to quote Ted here and say “I got my fire back guys” this gun has great potential and I am super exited to get back out in the Woods for some more target shooting, I have already taken a Crow with it :whistle:
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Is it 1/17″ inches or what???
So I haven’t shot my Cricket for a while now, I think it has been about 3, maybe even 4 months since I last had a serious shooting with it for various reasons.
Today I decided to do some quick chrony shooting in the garage just to check it was still functioning properly. And also I have some parts coming in for it, like a new airtube wich means I will have to disassemble the gun in order to swich out that tube. I thought it might be Nice to compare before and after chrony results.
I shot One mag of 18gr and One of 16gr, all in M/s
JSB 18,13gr
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FX 16gr
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Looks ok, I did not bother hooking it up to the computer in order to get more accurate results (decimals rather than rounded numbers)
You have a PM, for anyone else interested my specific type of throwlever is called a scope coaster. So just Google it and you will find something like this
Cricket
Where did u get the throw lever on your Swfa scope like the new set up by the way :8:
The synthetic stock weighs 1375 grams
The walnut stock weighs 710 grams. It is almost half the weight…
Thanks Cricket! I’ll check it out.
It is a SWFA 12×42 MQ scope bought from SWFA in Texas. Fixed power and the scope itself is 300 USD excluding shipping and extras.
Cricket, what brand and model is your scope? Does it have variable magnification? Also, whom did you purchase it from and for how much?
Yes, that knob makes it super easy to dial the parallax.
I would think it is very easy to remove this wrap, the thing about 3M wrap is that is is a thick sheet with a nice “semi-sticky” underside. It sticks but not in a way that will make it hard to remove I think. I once used some cheap china wrap and it was completely different, instead it was a very thin sheet that was super sticky and it was indeed hard to remove and left lots of residue. I don’t think you will have any issues if you go with the good high quality stuff. :2cents:
Nice looking Cricket Compact. Is the carbon wrap easy to remove in that it won’t leave any goo or adhesive residue? I was thinking of doing the same thing on my S410’s shroud and air tube to mask the scratches. Also, am I correct in thinking that your scope’s parallax adjustment is done at the rear via that attached dial/knob?
I don’t find it super comfortable and it is heavy to drag into the Field. However I have only used it once so I really can’t give it a fair judgement. I think if I used it a few more times I would get used to it and maybe like it more.
Nice combo Cricket!!!!!! How it is shooting from that death shot ? Its a comfortable ? :4:
My shooting place from 30y to 115y
This is how it looks like on the Deadshot
Thanks guys, I really like the carbon look as well, If anyone is thinking to tet some nice wrap, DON’T get cheap stuff from Ebay. Go with 3M or similar, you would not believe the difference in quality and texture.
Right now, I’m a happy man :biggrinn:
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Cricket Compact barrel specs:
CZ (LW) 390 mm (15.4″) long choked 12 grooved barrel, 450 mm (1 in 17.7″) twist
~ Greg