New experiment

[shooter65]

My buddy and I put some rubber shrink tube on our barrels today to see what effect it would have on barrel vibration and accuracy. Took almost 5 hrs to do two barrels. Need to clean the muzzle end up and put a tuner on it.
he did his Kidd barrel and I did my 52 barrel.

 

[clodhopper]

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Looking forward to reading the results.
Never thought of such a thing.

 

[shooter65]

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Should have results later this week.

 

[clayne_b]

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Looks interesting

 

[725franky]

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Looks like it'd make some good weather-shield. I'm curious to see the results of this experiment.

 

[TL Sr]

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Got it on 2 of my CZs and a rem 700. Great protection and it seem to act as a vibe dampener. I took some cheap 22lr ammo and at 50 yards it shot like the expensive stuff. The cheap stuff was eley club and the expensive stuff was eley black box.

I also tried it with some higher velocity ammo and it grouped just a little better than without the wrap.

On the R700 280 I thought the barrel was shot out, after +2000 rounds. But after 10 rounds of settling back into the stock, my son fired a 3/8" 3 shot group at a 100 yards off a bipod.

We used electrical shrink wrap purchased at the supply house for 50 cent per foot and used a torch and about 15 minutes of work.

As cheap as it is you can't go wrong giving it a try.

Of course YMMV.

 

[TOP PREDATOR]

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i've seen this done on another rimfire site, they built up the shrink wrap in one spot to give it tuner type of effect (buldge).

apparantly it worked to some effect. i'd imagine that putting it on the "dead spot" would help.

 

[Dylan in AZ]

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I am eagerly awaiting your report!

 

[shooter65]

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Hopefully tomorrow will get time for testing.

 

[shooter65]

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Did the test today with no tuner on the rifle. Weather was overcast and 50 degrees with light winds.

Ammo tested - Wolf Match, SK Standard, Eley Club, and Eley Blue Box 1073

No wind flags were used.

 

[gszeto99]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: shooter65</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Did the test today with no tuner on the rifle. Weather was overcast and 50 degrees with light winds.

Ammo tested - Wolf Match, SK Standard, Eley Club, and Eley Blue Box 1073

No wind flags were used.

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So which rifle? The ruger or winchester? Also what was the distance? So how were the groups before the tubing install?

 

[shooter65]

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50 yards with the 52. Wind right to left with no flags. Vertical was much improved. I say it was a win for sure.

 

[cab0154]

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are you cleaning the bore before you shoot the eley?

 

[shooter65]

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No. Doing ten shot fowlers between ammo changes the shooting groups

 

[HPLLC]

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I wonder how it would compare to its weight in additional barrel steel?

 

[cab0154]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: shooter65</div><div class="ubbcode-body">No. Doing ten shot fowlers between ammo changes the shooting groups </div></div>

thats the proceedure i use for everything. my cz never shot worth a darn with eley. then Neal Stepp at ISS told me to clean the bore before shooting eley. it was like night and day for my rifle. it shot the eley a lot better. i still just do foulers when shooting wolf/sk/lapua, ect.