Imho with tuning you come up against a "law of diminishing return"
I have fired rifles that are far more highly tuned than my short stroked guns. They feel good but not an extra £200 good (with a couple of exceptions)
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Imho with tuning you come up against a "law of diminishing return"
I have fired rifles that are far more highly tuned than my short stroked guns. They feel good but not an extra £200 good (with a couple of exceptions)
Pete
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Very good and promising thread. i agree diminishing returns indeed. Get youselves a tinbum kit and get stuck in. Now, its a matter of pride that i tune my own springers. Its really rather simple. considering the result that you can get yourself very easily, is it worth up to a couple of hundred pounds. to get a totaly silent cocking stroke. Having spent this kind of money on a tune i supposed people are in the mood to enthuse about the result.
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The main reason I now do all my own 'tuning' (well alright just fettling and tidying up really) is that I once paid someone to sort my Lightning out for me. At that point I had never opened up a spring rifle.Originally Posted by Telephonepete
Got it back and after a week or two still wasn't happy. Followed some online instructions and opened it up, and it was pretty clear that it was the first time the gun had been disassembled. Meaning that this person had taken my money for nothing.
For similar reasons I won't send kit off to be modified if I can help it, after Nick from Magic 9 disappeared off the face of the earth with my 586 sight assembly.
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The short of it is, if I had a bog standard out of the box 95 that had a twang on shooting and was harsh and was a bit graunchy on cocking, then sending it off to Wonky and having his wonder tune WOULD blow your mind when you received it back and put a load of pellets through it but considering mine had had some tinkering done and a good tuners kit fitted and had been run in, then the difference wasn't overly noticeable at first, if I could have compared two rifles side by side, one Wonky tuned and one V-mach kitted then you'd probably tell the difference, when it was V-mach kitted it was smooth and twang free but it had a strange "Ting" on cocking (probably the piston rod touching the metal piston guide) and there was a tuning fork type of resonance upon firing which could be cured with a Delrin spring guide, to be honest it was perfectly usable but the "Ting" and resonance would have eventually got the better of me and would have had to had been sorted.
Pete
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I have a .177 95k that was short stroked by Dave Price (WW). It was done in 2015 and is the only rifle I wouldn’t ever part with, super accurate with a very fast firing cycle.
It had originally been bought by me from SFS with a stage 1 tune but within 6 months began to creep over 12 Fpe. Dave transformed it and it is a joy to shoot. Nowhere near £200 iirc.
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The tune cost £160 but I added the postage both ways into the equation, so come up with a £200 total.
Pete
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I spent over £400 on a vmach tune/shims and the rest on muy old fac 80 and it was horrid to shoot. It shot better before I sent it - never again.
Tuned my last couple of springers and got my own guides made, they shoot spot on.
I would keep your money and have ago yourself if able, you could be surprised with the results
Steve
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