Shortening of spring air rifle Barrel

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Shortening of spring air rifle Barrel

Post by striker » Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:38 pm

Hi Ifgians :)
I read in a forum saying that shortening of spring powered air rifle barrel will reduce the Lock time and can improve the accuracy but it may affects the choke in the Barrel.Most of air pressure is utilised within 9"-12" to Boost up the pellets.Have any one tried This ? what is Barrel Harmonics does reduction of lenght affects it?
Any input on this topic is highly appreciated :mrgreen:

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Re: Shortening of spring air rifle Barrel

Post by Prabhath » Mon Feb 23, 2009 7:25 am

Sankar,

Found this discussion about shortening of airgun barrels on AirgunForum. Posting the link for you. See if it helps.

http://www.airgunforum.net/agf/index.ph ... =1&t=35937

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Re: Shortening of spring air rifle Barrel

Post by fantumfan2003 » Mon Feb 23, 2009 11:34 am

Sankar,

According to the gurus for springers, shorter is better. For Pneus and CO2s, longer is better.
Here are the details

http://www.pyramydair.com/blog/2005/10/ ... -long.html

http://www.pyramydair.com/blog/2007/08/ ... ty-in.html

http://www.pyramydair.com/blog/2007/07/ ... ty-in.html

The barrel on my SPAR is considerably shorter than the IHP 35 or Diana 35. The SPAR barrel is a Hammerli, so its difficult for me to to say if its the length or the make that's influencing accuracy in my case.

I intend to procure a spare .177 IHP 35 barrel and play with it. But thats some time away.

Manish


striker wrote:Hi Ifgians :)
I read in a forum saying that shortening of spring powered air rifle barrel will reduce the Lock time and can improve the accuracy but it may affects the choke in the Barrel.Most of air pressure is utilised within 9"-12" to Boost up the pellets.Have any one tried This ? what is Barrel Harmonics does reduction of lenght affects it?
Any input on this topic is highly appreciated :mrgreen:

Thanks
sankar
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Re: Shortening of spring air rifle Barrel

Post by striker » Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:57 pm

Prabath,manish
Thanks for sharing the Database.

cheers
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Re: Shortening of spring air rifle Barrel

Post by sitar » Thu Feb 26, 2009 2:27 pm

i think i have to sacrifice my barrel first
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Re: Shortening of spring air rifle Barrel

Post by dev » Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:56 pm

sitar wrote:i think i have to sacrifice my barrel first
Sitar,

You might have to sacrifice the rifle too. If you have an IHP that's pretty okay power. If you have a foreign one then get yourself a suitable tuning kit.

Normally unless you really know what you are doing it's not worth the time and the labour.

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Re: Shortening of spring air rifle Barrel

Post by sitar » Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:26 pm

dev ji

no qustion of even touching my foreign ones as they have venom diy kit (pretty well)

just doing experiment on junks. :D
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