Bent my Alpha Wolf barrel 🥺/ UPDATED 😁
- Thread starter Richieg
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You would be thinking wrong. I f'd up one of my Mavericks doing that, need a whole new receiver, fun exercise replacing it. Have a Remington Nitro break barrel that wouldn't shoot in a straight line, turned out the barrel was bent, so, I simply took it out of the gun, multiple times and bent it back straight to the receiver.
Also an object in motion stays in motion along the same path, bullets/pellets do not curve along a horizontal plane, it doesn't happen they may spiral but they don't curve laterally.
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I fall in with the 3 or 4 other "poors" on this site and if I had the skill and tools to bring that barrel back as close as the OP did, it would go back on and be content in lieu of spending good pellet purchasing money on a new barrel.
On the other hand, if I fell in with the rich kids, I would buy a new exact same gun and compete the two against each other to see which one was the best.
I once dropped a powder burner on its scope and the scope bent. A paper weight? Not in my book. I chocked it in a padded vise and whacked it with a rubber mallet until it was straight by the best measurements I could muster up. Mounted the scope and it was a few clicks off, made the adjustment and used that scope for years thereafter.
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velocity is another matter lolAs i recall this was done at the FWB factory to prove a point ...think they stated accuracy was hardly if at all compromised
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So, as sighted in at 25yds with the 18.1's, did you try shooting it out to 50 or 75yds with no windage adjustments? Curios if the accuracy is as good as before the damage.I took my Alpha to the range today after my straightening on my bent barrel. Here is my target shooting 5 shot groups of JSB 18.1 @ 25 yards. I shot group 1, adjusted my Vortex, shot group 2 adjusted my Vortex and shot group 3. Seems good @ 25 yards.
The other target is a 5 shot group of JTS 18.1@ 25 yards. I dont shoot with a moderator, but put on my Odb and shot 5 to see how it shot. With the moderator it shot low and right. Close enough for steel and animals, but for shooting paper...not so good...unless I adjust for it. So I took it back off.
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Being computerized electronic wonder just punch the info in the computer and let it make the trajectory calculations.
Or just say hay Alexa.. compensate for the bent barrel
Or just say hay Alexa.. compensate for the bent barrel
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A friend of mine dropped his TM1000 and bent the barrel. Martin at airguns-usa.com straightened it for him and it works perfectly.
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Man I tried but by the time I figure it out my fingers are all tied up and I cant pull the trigger
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Heres a couple short videos I took shooting my fixed bent barrel at 25 yards today, playing around with different pellets,and their differing POI. It was bent .055 up and .020 left before I attempted to straighten it. 18 gr. pushed around 880fps.
What do you guys think...a new barrel would cost me 400.00 from AOA.
What do you guys think...a new barrel would cost me 400.00 from AOA.
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Our range is windy, when there is no wind LOL. But after I shot some at 25 I shot a few at 50. They hit slightly left but the wind was pushing from right to left about 4 oclock. I'm thinking it's all good
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What matters is the trajectory of the pellet after it left the barrel not what path it took to get to exit the barrel. Once it exits it is always a straight path (ignore the gravity, the air resistance, the wind, …). When we correct the alignment of the barrel and the scope (we call it “zeroing the scope”) we are actually compensating for the angle between the barrel and the scope. That angle does not change no matter how far the target is.
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
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Op finally grasped what some of us were saying from the start ... direction pellet exits staying on that trajectory path.
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You are incorrect with your reply about my inability to grasp the pellets trajectory path. My question was that the scope zeroed at 25 yards, would continue to be zeroed, out past 25 yards shooting a barrel that was bent. Thinking the scope was a straight line adjusted to the poi of the pellet, or intersecting that point,and as the pellet continued on it trajectory, the scope would not be aligned to the poi as the pellet continues becaue it was adjusted in a straight line to the distance of 25 yards. If you look at post 16, you will see my question was not about trajectory of the pellet but the scope being aligned the whole flight path of the pellet...have a quality day.
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If its fixed it's fixed!Our range is windy, when there is no wind LOL. But after I shot some at 25 I shot a few at 50. They hit slightly left but the wind was pushing from right to left about 4 oclock. I'm thinking it's all good
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