TwiceHorn,I understand that the AA TX 200 has a 10.5" barrel.-Y
Quote from: Yogi on June 10, 2018, 04:17:18 PMTwiceHorn,I understand that the AA TX 200 has a 10.5" barrel.-YFrom PyramydThe TX200HC has Barrel Length 9.53"The standard TX200MkIII has Barrel Length 13.19"I LOVE the short barrels on the TX, HW97k and Walther LGU which has 11.81" barrelTony Leach on the Facebook Lost Volume group thinks 14 to 16 inches is best for efficiency when tuning .22 caliber but I don't think my LGU with 11.8" could shoot any better in my hands.
Longer barrels only slow down a pellet in a spring powered air rifle, longer barrels add weight and length to a spring gun! The only thing a longer barrel on a spring gun does is either aides as cocking leverage for a break barrel or a longer sight radius if using iron sights, spring piston air rifles only need 10" of barrel to reach maxium velocity!!! Longer barrels create drag on pellets,
Quote from: Mark 611 on June 10, 2018, 09:52:38 PMLonger barrels only slow down a pellet in a spring powered air rifle, longer barrels add weight and length to a spring gun! The only thing a longer barrel on a spring gun does is either aides as cocking leverage for a break barrel or a longer sight radius if using iron sights, spring piston air rifles only need 10" of barrel to reach maxium velocity!!! Longer barrels create drag on pellets, Oh, no doubt, but I'm kind of surprised that it doesn't come up, for better or worse, in discussions, with someone ascribing some mythic functionality or advantage (or lack thereof) to the longer or shorter barrel.
my experience with chopping barrel has been nothing but positive, I either don't lose any velocity or gain velocity, for example my HW35 in.22cal before I chopped the barrel from its OEM length it shot the 16gn AA pellets at 595fps after chopping it to 12.25in same pellet is now shooting 605fps, IMO I think it has allot to with how tight the bore is and how tight the pellet fits the bore and the how soft the lead of the pellet is? but on the other hand same barrel chop on my Beeman R1.20cal lost some velocity from 825fps down to 785fps, that was from 16'' down to 12.25'' but I also changed out springs with a JM spring that doesn't have the proper spacing for that spring as it was designed in its kit forum from JM, I used the factory rear guide and a top hat that I had so its not really a fair evaluation of the power loss, just my thoughts on that! I have not any accuracy with the rifles favorite pellets either, just about every break barrel rifle I own has had the barrel chopped down to 10.5 or 12.25'' and have had no Ill effects from doing so, and almost all of these rifles are HW's so take it for what it worth, IMO it makes these guns easier to handle and more nimble, but I have also added cans on these rifles that put about 7.5'' in length back to the OAL of the rifle, but work for me