Jackie Schmidt was on the money

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savet06

Mike Suhie
Jackie,
I am new to the benchrest game, and am still learning how to shoot my rig with any consistency. I have a tuner of the clamp on type on my 30br which I have recently begun adjusting to see if I can get the vertical out of my groups. I have about 200 rounds down the tube, and today I was going to try to fine tune my best combination with an adjustment in seating depth. On the 20th shot of the day my tuner flew off the muzzle out onto the range. Thankfully there was no damage to the tuner or the gun or, more importantly, to me or the shooter a few points down.
I loosened the screws and reclamped the tuner to the barrel. Could not get two shots to touch at a setting that had just before made a nice .25 with 1/2 bullet of vertical.
I will not be using this tuner beyond today for the reasons that you have stated previously regarding clamp on tuner types:
There is no way I can trust this rig to be 1) safe and 2) reliable and repeatable. Each shot will move the tuner body and eventually the load that was in tune will be out.
This post is for all those whom you refer to so often that depend on good, reliable, and accurate information about the world of benchrest.
Thank you for being so diligent.
Mike
 
Wow. Thank goodness that you or no one else were hurt. Disregarding all the safety issues, I would say the sight of that tuner being flung down range was hilarious. I'm sure that won't be the first time a tuner will be flung down range. :D tehehehee. But welcome to benchrest!!!! You are in a world of trouble, albeit good trouble. :D Good luck in the future.

Matthew S Keller
 
Matthew,
It was somewhat comical to watch, although I was more in shock than anything. It flew about 20ft straight out. I thought at first I had hit it with the round, but I realized that it would have had to be dangling off the end of the barrel and there was no spray of metal. The round, incidentally, did not go into the group, but went about two inches straight above the main cluster.
That's quite a bit of vertical, eh...
Mike
 
Mike

What Ever You Do, Do Not Thread the End Of That Barrel.!!! It Willl Destroy The Accuracy.!!!
At Denton this past week end, I was lucky enough to catch a sweet condition in the HV 200 and nailed a .160 screamer. Just think, if I had not threaded the end of that barrel to install my tuner, it could have been a .150.
I should have listened to Calfee.:D.......jackie
 
The tuner that Dick Wright shoots, designed by Dwight Scott, (of the offset variety) is a clamp-on design. I have a copy that is as close as we could make it, from the pictures, that clamps on a cylinder, at the muzzle that is.900 in diameter and an inch long. I have not seen it move. It slides on with some effort required, even with the clamping screws backed out all the way. I also have one of Jackie's. His has the advantage of all of the weight being moveable. Dwight's is less trouble to fit. I just told Curtis Helton what diameter and length that I needed, and he did it at the same time that he crowned the barrel. Neither is worth a damn at reading wind flags!:D
 
Are there pics available?

Boyd,
I'm very interested in the clamp-on tuner design of Dwight Scott.
Some pics might help.
Thanks in advance.
Bob.
 
savet06 said:
Jackie,
I am new to the benchrest game, and am still learning how to shoot my rig with any consistency. I have a tuner of the clamp on type on my 30br which I have recently begun adjusting to see if I can get the vertical out of my groups. I have about 200 rounds down the tube, and today I was going to try to fine tune my best combination with an adjustment in seating depth. On the 20th shot of the day my tuner flew off the muzzle out onto the range. Thankfully there was no damage to the tuner or the gun or, more importantly, to me or the shooter a few points down.
I loosened the screws and reclamped the tuner to the barrel. Could not get two shots to touch at a setting that had just before made a nice .25 with 1/2 bullet of vertical.
I will not be using this tuner beyond today for the reasons that you have stated previously regarding clamp on tuner types:
There is no way I can trust this rig to be 1) safe and 2) reliable and repeatable. Each shot will move the tuner body and eventually the load that was in tune will be out.
This post is for all those whom you refer to so often that depend on good, reliable, and accurate information about the world of benchrest.
Thank you for being so diligent.
Mike
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WOW... Roger that..

Kelly
 
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