"crgabel"Sean,
Reply only after spending time with your family from your trip.
Hope that your visit to bike week went well. The big question is how was your visit with Ken.
Was the Donnyfl unit quiet?
Craig
Craig,
I’m in flight right now on my way home, so I can reply now...
I stopped by and met Ken in person on my way to JAX this morning. As you already know, Ken is a super nice guy, and was very hospitable in person as well. Ken has a great range at his house, with multiple concrete table top shooting stations and had two other RAW owners there shooting (Chris and Vince)-also super nice guys as well!
Ken let me shoot two of his RAWs-one in .25 polygon with the DonnyFL installed (more in a moment), the other was his National winning setup for BR (25m gun). Both super accurate and really nice to shoot (I was putting pellets through the same exact hole with the 25m gun-really nice!).
I wanted to see how the standard length BR stock would fit me before putting in my order, and got my questions answered while there. I also wanted to pick up a Crown Saver pull through as a gift for my buddy, now that he is a RAW owner as well-so I grabbed that too.
While shooting, I got to use Ken’s rest-what a fantastic unit! I will have to get one if I start shooting BR competitively!
Really a nice time.
Now onto your question regarding the DonnyFL: I was able to shoot it on the .25 cal polygon (60 fpe) setup and can confirm it is definitely quieter than my standard moderator, for sure! It’s hard to convey through wording what the comparison is like, but it reminds me of some of the AZ guns I’m heard in the past-though that comparison isn’t fair, because those guns were .177 cal putting out like 16-20 fpe (so they were quieter-but not by much). In all, it was a definite upgrade to the stock moderator.
I don’t want to speak on Ken’s behalf, so i will leave the details to Ken to share. The setup is in prototype phase at the moment, while Ken and Donny figure out the best overall way to finish the product.
At first, I was concerned that the Donny added a bunch of length to the gun-because it is installed on a modified version of the stock moderator. But before I could even ask, Ken pointed out that the stock mod was shortened considerably, and then the Donny installed on the end. He estimated that the overall length was perhaps about 2” longer than stock-which could be shortened by screwing on a different Donny model.
As with any prototype development, Ken was in the testing phase and working on optimizing the design for best overall performance. I think it will end up being a very nice unit when it is complete.
Please take my numbers and comments as totally ‘unofficial’ as there’s a good chance I didn’t get everything correct (Ken: feel free to modify / revise anything I’ve stated so I don’t misrepresent anything).
As for now: I simply can’t wait to get home and away from the Florida sunshine! I have become and ‘official’ red neck after my time down at Bike Week, LOL!
It was really, really nice to hang out with the guys down there to shoot! I really wish I could have stayed longer and shot with them.
Hopefully that gives you some useful feedback on the Donny setup?
(Edit): Oh yeah, I am definitely going to order a BR stock for my RAW through Ken as well-those stocks ride the bags much nicer than my LRT. I can’t wait to order mine... (End Edit)
Sean