mashburn
posted this
05 April 2022
Ken, You Hit The Nail On the Head Again,
I've often wondered, during the few years that I have observed the forum and reading the " Fouling Shot Magazine, why I have never seeen anything pertaining to harmonics effecting accuracy. I believe that I have heard you mention, at some time in your life, that you participated in .22 RF bench competition. I went the .22 BR route for a while and did I learn a lot on how to tune a rifle to it's optimum accuracy. People in the association were always waiting to see what I, and another gunsmith friend of mine, would show up with at every new meet. You know what kind of high dollar firearms that show up at these shoots, and my friend and I finished either 3rd. or 4th at every meet, Here is the crazy part, I was shooting a Winchester, Model 69A and he was shooting an old Remington Model 581. You can immagine how ticked off the high dollar boys were to get beat by such firearms. Most people appreciated our gunsmithing talents and thought it was funny.
I've still got some of my old gagets from those days laying around the shop. If people woud spend a little more time with such they would learn a lot.
When I first started building varmint rifle with the same ideas. I soon got tired of tuning and then the next day I would have to do it again, so I started building more simple ,easily maintained accurate varmint rifles. I also learned that no matter how accurate a rifle that you have, if you couldn't learn to dope 40-50 MPH wind speeds it didn't do any good to have a bench rifle.
Two important things that I did learn is, getting each bullet to exit the muzzle at the same point of barrel viberation, I know this next one is something that most of you cast bullet shooters don't believe in, and that is case neck tension. I know it effects jacketed bullets and I think it also effects cast bullets.
Good job Ken.
Mashburn