Thread: 22 RF Tuner strategies?

Yeah, the Lapua and Eley offerings I was using don't seem to be available now or have changed from what was the norm so aren't a worthwhile starting place (only have a few packets of each left for testing basically). If you wanted to be brutal the other tuning method I didn't mention was chopping sections off the barrel haha.

I agree with the barrel weights, pain in the bum - a bit of a bump and you're back all over the place. The muzzle weight is the least fluffing about and of the easily adjustable methods the most resistant to a whoops but also offers the least adjustment. What the guy had in that link up there was pretty much the process we were using more or less, start at one end shoot a group and record then a coarse adjustment and another group. Basically hunting for the suitable 'nodes' in the barrel harmonics. Once a node is showing itself as promising (there should be a few), fine adjustments as per. One thing that might be a factor with target rifles with really solid chunks of metal for barrels is the barrel weight might not have enough adjustment to find a suitable node given that a series of adjustment with a barrel weight might end up an inch or two forward or back. I doubt that it would be an issue on the Lithgow though, slimmer tube.

My go to option now for a hunting style rifle is some form of a pressure pad like cork shim wrapped with tape, with tape layers that I can peel off or add to and set up to slip between the foreend and barrel with a tag that I can haul it out with. Works on centerfire too...