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Dave Shattuck
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Have you read the Holbrook Indoor match Results from March 1st yet? If not, you may want to before going any further with this one.
I have talked with Dan plus read what Paul has had to say about how miserable the conditions were for shooting this past Saturday at Holbrook, both due to the lack of heat combined with the added noise from the jackhammers pounding away. And because of both it gave me cause to wonder whether the added vibrations being created by the jackhammering moving through that much denser than normal, cold air may have possibly had an affect on their scores?
It is a well known fact that barrel vibration has a significant impact when shooting both rimfire and center fire guns, hence all the hubbub about tuning either the barrels for rimfire or changing the loads for centerfire in order to better balance that vibration out of the equation. But, so far with airguns we are finding that due to the lesser impact of the pellet being driven by a blast of air rather than an explosion of gun powder, there are lesser vibrations, or at least a different type of vibration to deal with and try to overcome. Of course, a few of us are playing around with the idea of applying the Purdi RX, but the vote is still out on that. Due to my experiences it is my opinion that with airguns a properly adjusted Air Stripper will do everything needed to both tune the barrel while at the same time creating a much less hostile environment around the pellet while it is obtaining free-flight. The trick there is to 1.) have a good quality Air Stripper which is designed to remove as much of the turbulent air from around the pellet as soon after leaving the bore as possible and 2.) take the time to find the sweet spot where it is properly in tune.
However, with what the boys were faced with on Saturday, it sounds to me more like there was little that could have been done to neutralize the situation. Most of what was happening would have had only a slight affect on the guns, but probably not enough to have caused much more than maybe a slightly lower X-count. But, with all that has been described, my guess would be that maybe with all the added vibrations passing through the denser than normal, near-freezing air, that could have had a much bigger affect on their pellets from immediately after their exiting the bore all the way to the point of impact.
What do you think? Remember, with the size of the X/10 Ring being what they are, and when considering the weight of the projectiles it wouldn't take much to disrupt an otherwise perfectly good shot.
Yup, Cabin Fever is running rampant here in the Northeast!
Dave Shattuck
I have talked with Dan plus read what Paul has had to say about how miserable the conditions were for shooting this past Saturday at Holbrook, both due to the lack of heat combined with the added noise from the jackhammers pounding away. And because of both it gave me cause to wonder whether the added vibrations being created by the jackhammering moving through that much denser than normal, cold air may have possibly had an affect on their scores?
It is a well known fact that barrel vibration has a significant impact when shooting both rimfire and center fire guns, hence all the hubbub about tuning either the barrels for rimfire or changing the loads for centerfire in order to better balance that vibration out of the equation. But, so far with airguns we are finding that due to the lesser impact of the pellet being driven by a blast of air rather than an explosion of gun powder, there are lesser vibrations, or at least a different type of vibration to deal with and try to overcome. Of course, a few of us are playing around with the idea of applying the Purdi RX, but the vote is still out on that. Due to my experiences it is my opinion that with airguns a properly adjusted Air Stripper will do everything needed to both tune the barrel while at the same time creating a much less hostile environment around the pellet while it is obtaining free-flight. The trick there is to 1.) have a good quality Air Stripper which is designed to remove as much of the turbulent air from around the pellet as soon after leaving the bore as possible and 2.) take the time to find the sweet spot where it is properly in tune.
However, with what the boys were faced with on Saturday, it sounds to me more like there was little that could have been done to neutralize the situation. Most of what was happening would have had only a slight affect on the guns, but probably not enough to have caused much more than maybe a slightly lower X-count. But, with all that has been described, my guess would be that maybe with all the added vibrations passing through the denser than normal, near-freezing air, that could have had a much bigger affect on their pellets from immediately after their exiting the bore all the way to the point of impact.
What do you think? Remember, with the size of the X/10 Ring being what they are, and when considering the weight of the projectiles it wouldn't take much to disrupt an otherwise perfectly good shot.
Yup, Cabin Fever is running rampant here in the Northeast!
Dave Shattuck
