Unlimited barrels and tuners?
- Thread starter Bro.D
- Start date
jackie schmidt
New member
Bro D
Yes, I tried a tuner on my Rail Gun, and ended up taking it off. Here is what I noticed.
With a Rail Gun, you can shoot very fast. So fast, in my opinion, that the barrel can still have residule vibrations left over from the preceding shot and the vibration set up when you place the top back against the stop and fire at the same time. (I now try to remember to push it back before I load).
I found this out the hard way. I could tune the barrel, just like with my bag guns, to shoot that favorite load. But, several times in Competition, I would get on a "run", and notice some shots pop straight up and down, sometimes killing the agg.
I finally figured out that the tuner was not letting the barrel settle. With a bag gun, there is no way a shooter, regardless how fast he is, can shoot so fast as to have what I was experiencing with my Rail Gun occur.
So, I took it off last year, and did OK.
This is not to say that I will not try a tuner on my Rail Gun again in the future.
I do have a "device" on the barrel now, it is not on the muzzle. If you go back to the tuner test thread running now, you will see a picture of it that Gary Walters posted. I have it on there for a reason that I will not even get into at this time, lest I have to endure the wrath of all of the "keyboard experts" who have all of this figured out, often without ever firing a shot.......jackie
.
Yes, I tried a tuner on my Rail Gun, and ended up taking it off. Here is what I noticed.
With a Rail Gun, you can shoot very fast. So fast, in my opinion, that the barrel can still have residule vibrations left over from the preceding shot and the vibration set up when you place the top back against the stop and fire at the same time. (I now try to remember to push it back before I load).
I found this out the hard way. I could tune the barrel, just like with my bag guns, to shoot that favorite load. But, several times in Competition, I would get on a "run", and notice some shots pop straight up and down, sometimes killing the agg.
I finally figured out that the tuner was not letting the barrel settle. With a bag gun, there is no way a shooter, regardless how fast he is, can shoot so fast as to have what I was experiencing with my Rail Gun occur.
So, I took it off last year, and did OK.
This is not to say that I will not try a tuner on my Rail Gun again in the future.
I do have a "device" on the barrel now, it is not on the muzzle. If you go back to the tuner test thread running now, you will see a picture of it that Gary Walters posted. I have it on there for a reason that I will not even get into at this time, lest I have to endure the wrath of all of the "keyboard experts" who have all of this figured out, often without ever firing a shot.......jackie
.