air stripper vs moderator

[Thaumaturge]

Reading article in a mag this month, highlighting the accuracy differential between an Air-stripper for Bench Rest Target air rifle and a Sound Moderator. The difference in windy conditions was quite marked in favour of the air-stripper for accuracy, so thoughts on having barrel threaded to take both.
Will possibly only get one very accurate shot at a bunny, but very loud, or not quite so accurate, but quiet. take your pick?
Field walking with a shotgun, one shot and all rabbits run for cover, but i only want to fill the onepot at home. choices, advice please?

[walrus1#]

It's a no brainer for huntingas the difference is actually a Fannies hair from stripper to silencer.You are not talking massive accuracy difference here .You are in reality talking a hairs breadth on a paper target.For hunting that is is niether here nor there on a killing shot.Don't go getting all tricked up for a field gun it really does not give any advantage whatsoever.
Next thing you know you will be washing and weighing your pellets before putting them in their own little nest so they are not damaged by contact with one another
Bit of common sense needed here I think,If there was a need for this then it would be widespread practice by those of us who knew that the stripper gave better accuracy for target shooting.But then we also know that a hairs width is only of value when scoring a card in competition.
Its horses for courses me old fruit,no need for strippers in hunting.Concentrate on your fieldcraft and even a springer will get you resultsyes thats right an old skool spring rifle can fill a bag just as easily as a pcp

[queens_own]

Hi,
Am I not right in thinking that technically speaking a sound moderator/silencer is a form of air stripper, in both cases the pellet has exited the barrel...in the stripper the majority of the air is released to the surrounding atmostphere and in the silencer the majority of the air is contained and slowed down in the baffled tube and exits after the pellet has gone, in both cases we are talking about milli-seconds.
Not sure why one should affect accuracy and the other doesn't.
Ken

[silver fox]

worry not my friend, buy yourself an AIRWOLF

[ian321]

My advise.....
If you want to hunt use a silencer
If you want to do target shooting i.e FT / HFT then go for the stripper

[riflehunter583]

when i use my mod i find the mod is just as accurate as with the mod off in fact the mod acts as a muzzle weight.
i cannot see how my gun could be more accurate at 30 yards, so see no need for an air stripper, however i have rairly used on.
its pellet on pellet at 30 yards.

if i put an air stripper on the rifle it could not be more accurate, so i do not see a need for it.
my atitude is if it aint broke don't fix it.