Has Anyone Ever Seen This?

[allisd17]

Saw these at Walmart, wondered if they really work.....

 

[someguy2800]

I've seen lots of them on guns in pawn shops. Usually in conjunction with an 8-32 barska or tasco

 

[.38 Special]

Theoretically, anyway. Ideally such things can be moved precisely and repeatably, a la the Browning "Boss" - which really did work.

Realistically, a lump of something placed randomly on the barrel is just as likely to hurt as to help.

 

[Cowhide Cliff]

They've been around for years. Better to just put on a real tuner.

 

[Electrod47]

Part of the Voodoo of barrel harmonics for precision shooting. I think proper load development and a good glass bedding would do better.

 

[Varminterror]

They work if you take the time to place them, but it’s kinda like duct tape - cheap and easy, but a more appropriate, permanent solution exists. The rubber doinker part of these things isn’t what’s doing the work, it’s the mass.

I’ve never heard either 1) a real example of any tuner making precision worse, or 2) any reasonable scientific hypothesis which supports that they COULD make precision worse through any true mechanism. So the worst damages they can do are lightening the pocketbook and potentially harming barrel finish. So they’re technically all upside, but a proper tuner is a better solution.

 

[adcoch1]

I have seen three VERY accurate rifles with those on the barrels. All of them were used to keep the rifle from sliding off the side of the bench or pickup truck and landing on the scope. So, yeah, they work for that, but as @Varminterror stated, there are better, more permanent solutions.

 

[troy fairweather]

They do work well but you have to make sure they don't move, so Mark where it is.

 

[Nature Boy]

I use a barrel tuner but it requires a process of very small adjustments to know how it’s effecting performance. I talked about it here:

https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/barrel-tuners.854700/

Not sure how the product you’re asking about works but if it isn’t too expensive pick on up, give it a try and let us know

 

[R.W.Dale]

They are very handy for propping up a rifle against a barb wire fence

 

[Skylerbone]

Tried one once on a 700 that was never overly accurate. Appeared to work to some degree so I left it at the point that shot the smallest groups but the difference was not significant and it didn’t polish the turd enough to make it a real bug hole shooter. After 5 or 6 years the whole works turned gummy and I remanded it to the circular file.

 

[Bcwitt]

A fixed bayonet is known to reduce barrel vibration & is often more accurate. Id rather have a very cool looking utility device then a blob of rubber, myself.

 

[Cowhide Cliff]

Part of the Voodoo of barrel harmonics for precision shooting. I think proper load development and a good glass bedding would do better.

That's apples and oranges. Bedding is all in building an accurate rifle. Tuners aren't for correcting inconsistencies from a poor rifle, they only help tune barrel harmonics to a particular load. Tuners are the final step in fine tuning once a load is developed for serious accuracy. They also are beneficial for tuning a rifle to factory ammo for those who don't handload.

 

[Varminterror]

Part of the Voodoo of barrel harmonics for precision shooting. I think proper load development and a good glass bedding would do better.

That's apples and oranges.

Agreed. Bedding, free-floating, and tuners (or “dampeners” as this Limbsaver device is called) are all different tools for different tasks towards similar objectives. Bedding and floating mitigate the rifle’s tendency to change in various conditions - one time solutions to future variability. Tuners and sliding doinkers like this are meant to enable additional control over the total system. I don’t tweak my bedding when I change loads or when it’s hot and humid instead of cold and dry, but I might move a tuner.

 

[351 WINCHESTER]

For some reason everytime I see this I think of a mini 14.

 

[4v50 Gary]

Reminds me of the stabilizers that archers use.

 

[kennedy]

this device is made my limbsaver, don`t know if it works, but the slip on butt pad they sell is great.

 

[mshootnit]

I've seen lots of them on guns in pawn shops. Usually in conjunction with an 8-32 barska or tasco

Why dems da best optics in da hole werld yer talkin bout!!...

 

[someguy2800]

Why dems da best optics in da hole werld yer talkin bout!!...

wanna buy some!?!?

 

[bluetopper]

Why not just apply a thin coating of rubber over the entire barrel.

 

[mshootnit]

wanna buy some!?!?

well I wood, butt, we alereedy gots are one holer sittin over yonder inda corner.

 

[Varminterror]

Why not just apply a thin coating of rubber over the entire barrel.

Because the rubber dampening does effectively nothing - it’s the positional dampening of the mass which is tuning the harmonics.

 

[batmann]

I really can’t comment, I don’t use them.

 

[Swampman]

I really can’t comment, I don’t use them.

Amen brother!

Looks kinda like something you'd see for sale in the back of a sketchy men's magazine...

 

[Patocazador]

Ideally such things can be moved precisely and repeatably, a la the Browning "Boss" - which really did work.

I had a 700 rechambered to .338-06 AI with a BOSS installed. I wasted so much ammo trying to find the sweet spot and eventually removed the BOSS and placed a small thread cover. That proved to be the sweet spot.