by Supercharged86 on Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:58 am
Hi Lyle, Welcome to the forums. In case your not fully aware, increasing the hammer spring tension unnecessarily will only reduce it's shelf life. I'm assuming where you have indicated "shortening", what you are really referring to is "increasing" the spring tension, in other words you have turned the spring tension adjustment clockwise in fully (about 6 revs). So with full hammer spring tension and full hammer stroke, I'm guessing you've preferred a 3000 psi start fill? But with only 25% (one turn out) on the transfer port this is somewhat counter productive, especially if your only using a 14.3 grn pellet. Remember, energy is a by-product of velocity, therefore, increasing the transfer valve (which puts NO additional strain on the internal parts, ie hammer spring), would give you the additional velocity and increased energy you seek. At the same time you could back off on the spring tension and stroke length, reduce the fill pressure some and have the same if not more velocity/energy you want. Unfortunately, having a chrony is key to proper adjustment and without it will be like searching for a needle in a haystack (unless of course your Greg Davis-master Mrod tuner). Perhaps someone that is using the same ammo can give you the setup based on a given muzzle velocity (say 900, which equals 26 fpe). Cheers. Steve
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