{"id":1856,"date":"2012-04-16T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2012-04-09T08:47:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T15:47:40","slug":"the-handsome-and-accurate-fx-t12-ft-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/the-handsome-and-accurate-fx-t12-ft-part-i.html","title":{"rendered":"The handsome \u2013 and accurate \u2013 FX T12 FT \u2013 Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The FX T12 FT is one handsome bit of goods.<\/p><\/div>\n

I try not to get emotionally involved with the airguns I am testing. I have learned \u2013 the hard way, I might add \u2013 that beautiful rifles that make my heart go pitty-pat can also break my cardiac organ when it came down to shooting them. And I\u2019ve seen ugly airguns that suddenly became beautiful based on their performance on the firing line. As the hot-rodders say: \u201cThere\u2019s show, and there\u2019s go, and the two don\u2019t always walk hand in hand.\u201d So I try to stay dispassionate when I crack open the box of a new airgun.<\/p>\n

The FX T12 FT<\/a>, however, snuck up on me. When I lift the lid on its carton and slid away the foam insert that cradles it, I said, \u201cWow, that is one good-looking air rifle!\u201d<\/p>\n

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The cheek piece is adjustable.<\/p><\/div>\n

And indeed it is. The T12 stretches 44.75 inches from end to end and weighs just 6.8 lbs. At the extreme aft end of the T12, you\u2019ll find a rubber butt pad that is vertically adjustable. Just loosen a single screw and slide it up and down as needed to achieve an optimal shooting position. Forward of that is a black plastic spacer and, moving forward again, an ambidextrous hardwood stock which features an adjustable cheek piece. All you have to do is loosen a couple of set screwes and slide it to the position you want.<\/p>\n

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The forestock has checkering on either side.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Moving forward some more, the nearly vertical pistol grip has checkering on either side. Ahead of that is a black metal trigger guard which encloses a black metal trigger that is adjustable for first stage length of pull and second stage weight of pull. A couple of inches forward and underneath the forestock is a single Allen head bolt that secures the action in the stock. The forestock extends forward and has checkering on either side for a secure grip.<\/p>\n

Beyond the end of the forestock, the air tube extends another seven inches. There is a pressure gauge at the end of the air tube and a port for a filling probe just behind it. Above the air tube is the .22 caliber Smooth Twist match-grade barrel with built-in moderator.<\/p>\n

Moving back along the barrel toward the receiver, there is a gold colored section on the barrel where it fits into the breech block. The bolt probe is also gold colored, as is a spacer between the air tube and the receiver. On top of the receiver, fore and aft of the breech, are dovetails for mounting a scope. The breech is wide enough to allow \u2013 with a bit of fiddling \u2013 single loading of pellets but is designed primarily to accept the 12-shot self-indexing FX magazine.<\/p>\n

The black metal bolt protrudes from the right hand side of the receiver, which is equipped with two slots for locking the bolt in either the forward or aft position. That\u2019s it. The T12 FT is a very smart, efficient-looking air rifle, nicely highlighted with gold accents in a couple of places.<\/p>\n

But the most important question is this: does the FX T12 FT shoot as good as it looks? Next time, we\u2019ll find out.<\/p>\n

Til then, aim true and shoot straight.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0Jock Elliott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I try not to get emotionally involved with the airguns I am testing. I have learned \u2013 the hard way, I might add \u2013 that beautiful rifles that make my heart go pitty-pat can also break my cardiac organ when it came down to shooting them. And I\u2019ve seen ugly airguns that suddenly became beautiful…»<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,46,113],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1863,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/1863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airgunsofarizona.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}