Bent my Alpha Wolf barrel 🥺/ UPDATED 😁

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Richieg

Richieg

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I had my Alphe Wolf on a cleaning stand on my table, I was moving gun cases and stuff around and backed around the table and my side pushed against the barrel that was sticking off the table. It pushed it right off the stand onto the floor, I turned to watch it nose dive onto my basement floor, the floor has carpet squares with rubbet backing on it. Picked up the rifle and it looked like the barrel wad now slightly bent upward.
The next morning I took it to the range and it was shooting 11+ inches high at 25 yards and 2 inches left.
Pulled off the barrel and checked it my lathe to see how bad it was. Here is before and after videos. I'm hoping it will shoot OK again.


 
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Jaxjax said:
How did you get it back so close to true.? That barrel is in the the .625 ish OD range ? Bent at breach interface? or I should say was bent.
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I had the barrel brace installed on it and it bent right next to that. I marked that spot and choked the barrel up in my lathe with the jaw right on that spot, took a piece of 3/4 pipe about 2 feet long over the barrel and slowly pried down and checking it until it ended up where it was...very primitive, but I figured it was already bent, so what would it hurt to try to bend it back.
 
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Motorhead said:
A slightly bent barrel is no less accurate than a straight one ... its POI is just different.

A Bow or gradual bend is not an issue and can be straightened.
A Creased or barrel having a very specific bend that has straight barrel either side of it in close proximity is a problem indeed
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My concern is, if it is bent and shooting left, and I zero it at 25 yards, at 50 yards it will be shooting twice as much left and at 100 yards 4 times as much left and zero will not be zero due to the pellet traveling more left the farther out it goes....or am I not understanding trajectory correctly?
 
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Richieg said:
My concern is, if it is bent and shooting left, and I zero it at 25 yards, at 50 yards it will be shooting twice as much left and at 100 yards 4 times as much left and zero will not be zero due to the pellet traveling more left the farther out it goes....or am I not understanding trajectory correctly?
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That would be INCORRECT .... Once pellet leaves barrel the trajectory does not hook progressively. It simply fly's once exited in the direction it left barrel aimed at.
 
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Richieg said:
My concern is, if it is bent and shooting left, and I zero it at 25 yards, at 50 yards it will be shooting twice as much left and at 100 yards 4 times as much left and zero will not be zero due to the pellet traveling more left the farther out it goes....or am I not understanding trajectory correctly?
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With my limited knowledge, but with a good grasp of angles, I would think you are correct. The barrel, even though bent could be adjusted to hit at whatever specific distance you are shooting. But if the barrel cannot be aligned parallel with the scope, then you will have varying points of impact at different distances.
 
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Martin3528 said:
With my limited knowledge, but with a good grasp of angles, I would think you are correct. The barrel, even though bent could be adjusted to hit at whatever specific distance you are shooting. But if the barrel cannot be aligned parallel with the scope, then you will have varying points of impact at different distances.
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That's how my mind is thinking it SHOULD perform...
 
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Richieg said:
So if it's going slightly left when it leaves the barrel it won't continue to travel the direction it was going as it left the barrel?
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Grasp NOT BEING ZEROED ... absolutely if your POI is left at say 25 yards it will exponentially continue further left further it travels down range.

Said BENT barrel, scope corrected to be zeroed at say 25 yards it WILL STAY straight & true further it travels down range.

What I stated was ... ONCE PELLET has exited, it fly where pointed .. Not scope pointed but BARREL pointed !!
Correct its sighted path via Scope windage and all is as it should be.

Now if scope won't adjust that far left or right .. then the angle of barrel needs to be corrected to get within the scopes windage adjustment range.
 
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Richieg said:
My concern is, if it is bent and shooting left, and I zero it at 25 yards, at 50 yards it will be shooting twice as much left and at 100 yards 4 times as much left and zero will not be zero due to the pellet traveling more left the farther out it goes....or am I not understanding trajectory correctly?
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You are correct that is how it would work, hopefully re-truing the barrel is of some success, I wouldn't get too bent out of shape until its deemed bin worthy.

-Matt
 
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Motorhead said:
Don't agree if post # 3 statements are not creating an issue .
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So if I'm understanding what you are saying, once the scope is zeroed on the point at 25, it is now angled from the center of the scope along the same trajectory of the pellet. Here's a crude picture to help show what I'm trying to say..

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Richieg said:
So if I'm understanding what you are saying, once the scope is zeroed on the point at 25, it is now angled from the center of the scope along the same trajectory of the pellet. Here's a crude picture to help show what I'm trying to say..

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Don’t get it either. If the scope and barrel aren’t aligned with each other in the windage realm of things they can only share one same POI point with each other right ?
 
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