We’ve been playing with several different barrel tuners lately and have been seeing some very positive results. I’ve posted some stuff here about it in the past. Both the ATS and EC versions have been solid for us. Erik sent me a new tuner/brake combo to play with quite a while back, but honestly I just didn’t have time to do anything with it………until today.
I had a great opportunity to put a tuner to the real test, so this would be the EC Tuner Brake’s chance to shine. I have a new 6 Dasher with only 30 rounds down the barrel. I also have a match on Sunday and no time for load development, and no back up gun at the moment. A full work week ahead of me leaves zero time for break in and load development. Perfect! Ha Ha
My plan? Load up 100 rounds of a charge weight I guessed would be below the pressure threshold based on my past barrels and hope the tuner would do what it claims to do! Just to muddy the waters further I decided to jump the bullets .050” instead of the traditional range I know they prefer. Doing all of this on a fresh barrel that will gain speed rapidly, should just about stack the deck against the tuner as far as I’m willing to stack it. If this worked, it would be hard to deny the tuner’s effectiveness.
I’m going to say it worked pretty good. Those groups where it came in on settings 3-6 were about as big as the actual mirage shift I was seeing(except 5 was on me). This rifle has TONS more potential as the barrel breaks in and I actually do some real load development for it………..but it is awesome to be able to start right out of the gate with some useful accuracy without having to wait 200 rounds for the barrel to “settle in”. Given the wide tune “node”, I should be able to keep it reigned in as it speeds up anyway. These things are pretty cool
I had a great opportunity to put a tuner to the real test, so this would be the EC Tuner Brake’s chance to shine. I have a new 6 Dasher with only 30 rounds down the barrel. I also have a match on Sunday and no time for load development, and no back up gun at the moment. A full work week ahead of me leaves zero time for break in and load development. Perfect! Ha Ha
My plan? Load up 100 rounds of a charge weight I guessed would be below the pressure threshold based on my past barrels and hope the tuner would do what it claims to do! Just to muddy the waters further I decided to jump the bullets .050” instead of the traditional range I know they prefer. Doing all of this on a fresh barrel that will gain speed rapidly, should just about stack the deck against the tuner as far as I’m willing to stack it. If this worked, it would be hard to deny the tuner’s effectiveness.
I’m going to say it worked pretty good. Those groups where it came in on settings 3-6 were about as big as the actual mirage shift I was seeing(except 5 was on me). This rifle has TONS more potential as the barrel breaks in and I actually do some real load development for it………..but it is awesome to be able to start right out of the gate with some useful accuracy without having to wait 200 rounds for the barrel to “settle in”. Given the wide tune “node”, I should be able to keep it reigned in as it speeds up anyway. These things are pretty cool
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