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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Do u guys know the twist rate for the barrel
I’ll need that info for strelock thanks
Why would anyone in their right mind buy a China scope when there are the Delta´s ??
Nope, stock barrel. I just had ville polish the outside of it as well.
By making the barrel silver we gained 10 fps (joke) :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Don´t forget the weight savings. :fishinghole:
Just Ville made his woodoo on cricket barrel and shoot magically :biggrinn: :rofl:
Nope, stock barrel. I just had ville polish the outside of it as well.
By making the barrel silver we gained 10 fps (joke) :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Cricket, do you have a custom barrel in your gun?
Hawke warranty worked really well for me but those scopes were brand new, will be interesting to see how they handle this
This might void your warranty but I’ve done it to cheap scope and it worked for me.
I used a couple drops of Ballistol on the joint on the magnification wheel on both ends.
Use compress air in a can to help blow it into the seal joint, work the wheel back and forth till it loosened up.
It might/should work on the illuminated knob as well ?
~ Greg
Greg, I tried using lube but didn’t have any luck with it. Thanks for the tip though. I tried calling Hawke this morning, but they were closed. So I sent an email and am waiting for a response.
50m / 55y – 18,13gr @ 266 mps / 873 fps – 5 shots 0,43″ ctc
75m / 82y – 18,13gr @ 266 mps / 873 fps – 4 shots 0.24″ fifth making it just over 1″ ctc
I will definantly be doing some more 18gr shooting and see if I can get some sub half inch groups with more than 4 shots 😀
Nice groups
Baddass I can’t wait to shoot some critters :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: with the compact
This might void your warranty but I’ve done it to cheap scope and it worked for me.
I used a couple drops of Ballistol on the joint on the magnification wheel on both ends.
Use compress air in a can to help blow it into the seal joint, work the wheel back and forth till it loosened up.
It might/should work on the illuminated knob as well ?
~ Greg
Nice, nice, nice… 😉 😛
Great shooting, Cricket! Keep it up!
First off, I would like to thank everyone who has posted in his thread, I really appreciate your feedback. If you have anything to say do not hesitate to do so, always nice to talk to you guys, but now I am going to bed, there is a long day ahead of me tomorrow probably wont be shooting any more for a couple of days :3:
Today I had mixed results, I will show you the good stuff. I tried out the 18gr JSB at 50 and 75m here are the results:
50m / 55y – 18,13gr @ 266 mps / 873 fps – 5 shots 0,43″ ctc
75m / 82y – 18,13gr @ 266 mps / 873 fps – 4 shots 0.24″ fifth making it just over 1″ ctc
I will definantly be doing some more 18gr shooting and see if I can get some sub half inch groups with more than 4 shots 😀
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In decimals 0.0588
I belive it is 1:17 or something but you need it in decimals
Correct me if I’m wrong