Quote Originally Posted by piggy589 View Post
Dieseling,combustion and barrel length?
No. Well behave tuned guns with modern well fitting seals and very little lubrication.

Ive seen, or heard it several times now- a recent example is a full power (Norwegian full power, FAC to you) HW77k.
Little noise with the original spring, but a bit to lively, even with fitted guides. The gun makes somewhere around 13-14 fpe in the origginal format, I dont remember the exact figures.
I fit an after market spring on tight guides, and set preload with a delrin washer to give about 11fpe.

Suddenly the muzzle blast increases dramatically. what is happening? piston bounce?

I have had it happen with other guns too.