Thread: Tube Rifles

Did anyone checkout their staggered fluting?

seen it in person, its real nice,

Scotts done a few things for me and has always given great sevice, and exactly what i wanted,

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Did anyone checkout their staggered fluting?

Now what does that do to the barrel as far as stiffness/rigidity?

Ha Ha good question! Presumably someone has used a clever program to work out the most weight removal for the least loss of rigidity.

Or maybe it just looks cool I couldn't tell ya.

Certainly looks like more metal is removed than "normal" fluting.

Who is a design engineer? Spanners? run some numbers

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Ha Ha good question! Presumably someone has used a clever program to work out the most weight removal for the least loss of rigidity.

Or maybe it just looks cool I couldn't tell ya.

Certainly looks like more metal is removed than "normal" fluting.

Who is a design engineer? Spanners? run some numbers

'Technically' and if it makes a gnats cock of difference, it would be stronger than full flutes, providing the interrupted portions are opposite each other, if not opposite 'technically' the barrel will go /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ like a spring lol
If I get bored during my next trip, I'll draw them all up and run finite analysis on the different types.

I like the golf ball fluting thats done overseas and some spiral stuff - not the spiral I've seen in NZ though.
Would be interesting the effect of say 1:8 RH spiral fluting on a 1:8 RH twist barrel?

Originally Posted by Spanners

Would be interesting the effect of say 1:8 RH spiral fluting on a 1:8 RH twist barrel?

It would be "interesting" if you were the one that pulled the trigger & it came unwound

338/378 30 inch tube. 300grain Gen 2 @ 2955fps

Jeez !! Thats a beast !

What breed ?