Fac airgun then quit?

[Hsing-ee]

I remember the days when a 14 fpe airgun was the stuff of mad pneumatigraphic fantasy.

Now an airgun can be made as powerful as some centrefires, who bought one on FAC then decided that it was not for them and either went back to sub-12 fpe or got a powder-burner?

[angrybear]

Bought one & realised what a superb tool it is in the vast majority of situations more like hardly shot my sub 12 since.

[jumbuck]

I've had a 30ft/lbs Rapid 7 since 2000 and thought it would render my 12ft/lbs stuff redundant but not the case. I use my .22lr most of the time and for closer stuff I use 12ft/lbs so the R7 doesn't get a great deal of use nowadays but it does come out with me sometimes and is rewarding to use

[lightning22]

Mine made my sub-12ftlb rifles redundant for hunting, unless the permission specifies sub 12.

[RichardH]

I've had a number of FAC airguns, I always return to a sub 12, a .22 rimfire and a centrefire or 3.......

The legal hassle is the same for an FAC airgun as a .22 rimfire and the extra power and range for me makes the FAC airgun redundant.

[Blackrider]

I've had a number of FAC airguns, I always return to a sub 12, a .22 rimfire and a centrefire or 3.......

The legal hassle is the same for an FAC airgun as a .22 rimfire and the extra power and range for me makes the FAC airgun redundant.

Ditto !

And that little box of Winnie/Eley subs in your pocket is much less bother than wrestling with air bottles, leaky cylinders, etc.

[Shed tuner]

As with most things it's horses for courses... plenty of situations where .22 RF unsuitable for the "rural" but basically overpopulated nooks of Surrey (most due to ricochet), but FAC air is fine. I would say however that I see little point in more that around 30 FP for air (I ran mine around 28) or it just becomes too noisy and air hungry - and 900-950 fps with a .22 pellet will flatten the trajectory a far as possible before things get unstable. Even with a midweight .22 (say 16 or 18 grain JSB), that more than enough to take any quarry at the ranges imposed by a subsonic trajectory. The same fps with a 21 grain magnum will have no useful affect on the end result (unless you are shooting in a gale), and make a lot more noise as it'll need an extra 10 FP.

I also ran my .25 ELi at "just" 20 FP with 20 grain H&Ns, and it was a brilliant squizzer gun. Don't fancy taking squizzers with a rimmy.

[angrybear]

I've had a number of FAC airguns, I always return to a sub 12, a .22 rimfire and a centrefire or 3.......

The legal hassle is the same for an FAC airgun as a .22 rimfire and the extra power and range for me makes the FAC airgun redundant.

Ditto !

And that little box of Winnie/Eley subs in your pocket is much less bother than wrestling with air bottles, leaky cylinders, etc.

Well personally speaking, sub12 or FAC both use the same air cylinder & my buddy bottles don't leak why the need to "wrestle" with anything ?? 50+ shots from a buddy bottle is more than enough for most days while a simple bottle swap doubles that, fill up at home job done.
The .25 pellets are around 4p each, .22lr about 10p each which speaks for itself, but way out in front by a country mile is that my FAC Rapid is WAY more accurate than any .22lr I've ever shot & the perfect hunting tool for Devon countryside.