Gene Beggs
Active member
Howdy folks! I guess this is as good a time as any to tell you about Bubba's most recent experience with the Beggs tuner. First, let me introduce you to this guy
Everyone, meet my friend "Bubba Benchrester."
Bubba is a fictitous composite of all the shooters I have known during the past twenty years. He is smarter than the average bear and to say, "He is hard headed and opinionated," would be an understatement. I love the guy!
Bubba grew up with guns and has always been interested in rifle accuracy. He has studied long and hard and figures there isn't much he doesn't know, but like all the rest of us, he doesn't know it all and is aware of this fact. Bubba pays close attention to others and once in a while stumbles onto something that really makes a difference.
Bubba's mind is not set in concrete, he will listen to what you have to say but will not accept anything as the truth without proof; you have to show him. Such was the case recently when introduced to my new tuner design. Bubba's first lesson was related in, "Tuners,, Oh No,, not again." If you will review that thread it will bring you up to date on his progress.
The first tuner lesson is meant to be an eye opener, a convincer if you will, and boy,, was Bubba ever convinced! This morning he grabbed me by the arm and sternly said, "Listen,, does anyone else know about this? Let's keep this to ourselves."
Allright, here we go! Lesson #2
Bubba, during your first lesson we demonstrated how the rifle can be brought into tune and taken completely out of tune at will by rotating the tuner a half turn in either direction. We also learned what is meant by 'zeroing' before the first match of the day. Demonstrate to me if you will, how to set the tuner on 'zero.'
That's correct, loosen the tuner with the tommy bars and screw it all the way in to the end of the threads, then back it out one revolution, place the reference mark at twelve o'clock and tighten securely. Now,, with that done and our cartridges loaded with your favorite pet load, which we never change BTW, let's go to the 100 yd firing line.
Under any circumstances, anywhere, anytime, what is the MOST we could possibly be out of tune? That's correct, one half turn in either direction, and there is a good chance we will be in tune to begin with. If you will recall, during our first session we found the rifle was completely out of tune. The test group showed two bullet holes of vertical, which was easy to fix; we simply gave the tuner a half turn and the rifle started putting them in a dot.
We were not that lucky this morning and you notice our test group is pretty good, but not as good as we would like. It shows about one bullet hole of vertical and a little unexplained horizontal. In this case, we judge the rifle to be out of tune by about a quarter of a turn, but,, a quarter turn IN or OUT? That's easy, we can give the tuner a quarter turn in either direction and find what we want to know. If we go the correct way the rifle will put the next three shots in a dot. If we go the wrong way, it will increase the group size and show two bullet holes of vertical, in which case, we give the tuner a half turn in the opposite direction and we are there. Pretty simple; huh?
Okay, practice with this for a while and we will continue tomorrow.
Later,
Gene Beggs and Bubba
Everyone, meet my friend "Bubba Benchrester."
Bubba is a fictitous composite of all the shooters I have known during the past twenty years. He is smarter than the average bear and to say, "He is hard headed and opinionated," would be an understatement. I love the guy! Bubba grew up with guns and has always been interested in rifle accuracy. He has studied long and hard and figures there isn't much he doesn't know, but like all the rest of us, he doesn't know it all and is aware of this fact. Bubba pays close attention to others and once in a while stumbles onto something that really makes a difference.
Bubba's mind is not set in concrete, he will listen to what you have to say but will not accept anything as the truth without proof; you have to show him. Such was the case recently when introduced to my new tuner design. Bubba's first lesson was related in, "Tuners,, Oh No,, not again." If you will review that thread it will bring you up to date on his progress.
The first tuner lesson is meant to be an eye opener, a convincer if you will, and boy,, was Bubba ever convinced! This morning he grabbed me by the arm and sternly said, "Listen,, does anyone else know about this? Let's keep this to ourselves."
Allright, here we go! Lesson #2
Bubba, during your first lesson we demonstrated how the rifle can be brought into tune and taken completely out of tune at will by rotating the tuner a half turn in either direction. We also learned what is meant by 'zeroing' before the first match of the day. Demonstrate to me if you will, how to set the tuner on 'zero.'
That's correct, loosen the tuner with the tommy bars and screw it all the way in to the end of the threads, then back it out one revolution, place the reference mark at twelve o'clock and tighten securely. Now,, with that done and our cartridges loaded with your favorite pet load, which we never change BTW, let's go to the 100 yd firing line.
Under any circumstances, anywhere, anytime, what is the MOST we could possibly be out of tune? That's correct, one half turn in either direction, and there is a good chance we will be in tune to begin with. If you will recall, during our first session we found the rifle was completely out of tune. The test group showed two bullet holes of vertical, which was easy to fix; we simply gave the tuner a half turn and the rifle started putting them in a dot.
We were not that lucky this morning and you notice our test group is pretty good, but not as good as we would like. It shows about one bullet hole of vertical and a little unexplained horizontal. In this case, we judge the rifle to be out of tune by about a quarter of a turn, but,, a quarter turn IN or OUT?
That's easy, we can give the tuner a quarter turn in either direction and find what we want to know. If we go the correct way the rifle will put the next three shots in a dot. If we go the wrong way, it will increase the group size and show two bullet holes of vertical, in which case, we give the tuner a half turn in the opposite direction and we are there. Pretty simple; huh?Okay, practice with this for a while and we will continue tomorrow.
Later,
Gene Beggs and Bubba