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Fancy doing a few tests with muzzle weights on my TX,
has anyone done anything like this ?

Never seen it done on the competition circuit, Prosport yes but, not TX/HC.
What are you hoping to achieve?
If I recall it is an HC that you have, the whole point of which was to be shorter and lighter than the full length TX. If the balance is not to your liking you would be better off in the long run swapping for a full length TX.

Sake-san wrote:Never seen it done on the competition circuit, Prosport yes but, not TX/HC.
What are you hoping to achieve?
If I recall it is an HC that you have, the whole point of which was to be shorter and lighter than the full length TX. If the balance is not to your liking you would be better off in the long run swapping for a full length TX.

the aim is to tune the harmonics of the barrel, to the exit point of the pellet at a node, TDC/BDC where the barrel is not in motion. the firing action causes the barrel to vibrate. if you consider another senario: a piston in a internal combustion engine. at BDC the piston speed is 0 fps, it accelerates, as it reaches the mid point of the stroke it reaches its max velocity, it then decellerates until at TDC is speed is 0fps. in the action of the barrel harmonics the you would want the pellet to exit at TDC/BDC as it is stationary, if it exits at mid point its at max velocity, making the chance of the pellet reaching its desired POI much more difficult. of course the same can be achieved by an increase/decrease in the muzzle velocity to match the barrels harmonics. adding weight to the barrel or in engineering terms if its free floating "a cantilever" effects the harmonics by damping, by adding a few gramms can alter it greatly, add it at the breech end it will have little effect, at the muzzle end greatest effect. just look at what happens when your car wheel is balanced, a few gramms can make it smooth or if placed in the wrong place undrivable. getting it right is the key.