Comments on: Tech Tip: Pros and Cons of a Barrel Tuner https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2015/04/tech-tip-pros-and-cons-of-a-barrel-tuner/ from AccurateShooter.com Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:05:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.26 By: andrew https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2015/04/tech-tip-pros-and-cons-of-a-barrel-tuner/comment-page-1/#comment-47475 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 01:44:40 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=56292#comment-47475 My tuner came loose last match. I can almost certainly say that was why I had strange groups and random shots.

]]> By: Boyd Allen https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2015/04/tech-tip-pros-and-cons-of-a-barrel-tuner/comment-page-1/#comment-47468 Mon, 20 Apr 2015 06:28:22 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=56292#comment-47468 For good reason, most people assume that tuners have to be fiddled with all the time to be of any use. Gene Buckys is probably the most successful tuner user that I can think of, and with each new barrel, the tunes up a load without the tuner, adds the tuner, adjusts it to the widest possible tuning node, and then locks it, and leaves it alone, tuning from that point forward as if his barrel did not have one. He says that it broadens the tuning nodes, and has the shooting credentials to back up his claim.

We all have some idea of what a rifle barrel is “supposed” to look like. Perhaps the lesson we need to learn is that what we view as normal, may not be the most functional, distribution of material along the length of a barrel, that if the shapes of a barrels were totally driven by a desire to produce the highest levels of accuracy, that they might look quite different. An example that comes to mind is the reverse taper that has done so well in the sporter class of rimfire benchrest.

]]>