Testing a new Idea

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I had an Idea to chamber up a barrel and when threading the tennon I undersized the last .200 and tired placing everything from rubber to teflon tape in the gap as a way to reduce vibrations. Every thing had a tight fit but most of the materials were a nightmare to get in place and keep it there. I knew from the begining this would probably be a waste of time and I had bad luck with my experiments. I will need to reduce the vibrations by not letting the shoulder of the barrel contact the face of the action. however I have given up on the idea because a .250" on a bad day gun has turned into a .600 to 1 inch gun with this done to it. Has anyone one else done something like this before? I know this sounds crazy and I really do not care I am thinking out of the box and attempting to learn as much as I can about this accuracy thing. Any suggestions and I know the standard threaded action has done great to this point but I gotta play with stuff. I hope to find some fun stuff to post about and get people talking so far just failures. Give me some ideas guys and if I can afford them I am willing to try intresting things out.
Thanks and send personal messages if you are not willing to share ideas publiclly. I hope to hear from you guys soon and the guys at Krieger Bartlien Shillen and others are always making more barrels so lets have some fun.
 
You never know. We got to where we are today with new ideas.

If I understand your idea, you would need to move the scope exclusively to the barrel.

Seems to me, though, that you are just moving the "tuner" to a different spot in the assembly, but don't let that stop you.

Thinking through this "improvement" project that there might be some merit in a methodology that would keep the firing vibration(s) constant through the days atmospheric changes. That way when you got the gun in tune it would stay in tune. That can be accomplished partially with a heavy tuner, a light tuner just changes tune for the moment not the day.
 
I've tried a few wild ideas, usually with bad results. I have tried to give a gentle "taper" to the end of the bore by putting on different kinds of compression devices on the barrel - they all shot really bad... Somehow Anshutz does this with some of their air guns, but I could never make a centerfire respond well.

Also once tried to put a soft rubber cue tip on a billiard cue - thinking it would give more English. Wrong again...

You can mess with the threads on a barrel, but the rear barrel face and the action face need to come back to the same position every shot to make for a consistent performer. By trying to damp this area you are probably just going to get sloppy repositioning from shot to shot. There may be some merit in damping vibrations, but a consistent repositioning of parts after firing may trump that.

Scott
 
Johnson, shooters will tell me, "you come up with some neat ideas". Well, yeh, so do a lot of shooters.

But, like most, I don't say a whole lot about the closet full of ideas that are left on the "boulevard of broken dreams".

Many of us do not poccess the education background or engineering skills to sit down and think things out and decide whether we are wasting our time before we start building, so we just dive in the deep end and see what happens.

Soon I am going to have to build another closet.......jackie
 
Read "Rifle Accuracy Facts" about tenion threads, recoil lugs, and "soft" recoil lug bedding............Interesting
 
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