Comments on: Centerfire Benchrest Shooters Explore Benefits of Tuners

By: Old Texican

Old Texican — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 01:27:41 +0000

Say Pieter, are there many of those fr rifles still in use? I heard that you guys in Europe tend to stick to your hardware for decades whereas we’d rather phase out stuff in pristine condition instead of getting to know its limitations. The fr are supposed to be the very best sniper tools in some circles, aren’t they a little light for that purpose? Some Austrian axes use the kind of devices that you describe. Haven’t seem any, though.

By: Pieter Breuwaart

Pieter Breuwaart — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:59:53 +0000

Here is a link to that rifle specs:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/FR-F1

By: Pieter Breuwaart

Pieter Breuwaart — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:47:39 +0000

And you are happy with your ddevice? Please gentlemen, do not sing me the mass and you don’t need to wriggle your bottom to evacuate straight but I think the whole issue was settled once and for all by the Frogs with their outstanding FR-F1 and F2 sharpshooter rifles using a combination of barrel tuning device and indexed 3 vent or 4 vent flash hider (depending on the number of grooves in the barrel)
USRA which was the property of GIAT, the French military weapon conglomerate, went on to build a few thousands Winchester 70 rifles with the notorious BOSS device that was a crude attempt to bypass the French patent with less efficiency.
No use reinventing the wheel.

Peter

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:52:35 +0000

My guess like everything else in the competition world is if a few big matches are won and records are broken with them they will become the next must have item if the amount of items currently for sale is any indication lol.

By: BoydAllen

BoydAllen — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 07:58:23 +0000

The most successful CF tuner shooter, Gene Buckys, sets his tuner in the middle of a node, locks it, and never again moves it, preferring to tune by “normal” methods, used by shooters who do not use tuners, adjusting loads as needed, loading between individual matches.

I think that this is an important point to make, because it is counter to the impression that many have that use of a tuner for CF applications would introduce another variable that would over complicate finding and maintaining tune.