Hey all,
I picked up a used Rainstorm in .30 this month tuned by W.P. and pushing 90-100 FPE, It was making very nice groups at 60 yards, and I ordered up a Donny FL adaptor so I can quiet it down some. I had some Huma Mod30 chambers that were not being used, so I screwed them together and put them on the gun, without an end cap as I don't have an endcap in .30. The three chambers did a decent job making the gun quiet enough, but I couldn't hit the 48x48 piece of plywood behind my target. I could hear the pellets sailing out into the corn field.
I disassembled the moderator, it was full of lead, and the chamber baffle openings were battered badly. I don't know if I would call that clipping. More like battering-ramming, the openings were horribly deformed. I pulled out my calipers and checked the holes in one of the Mod30 baffles on my .25 Taipan, and they are about .31 diameter. Huma does sell a .30 Mod30 moderator, so I assumed the chambers were the same for 22, 25, and 30, but maybe I was wrong about this.
This gives me two questions:
1) Does a .31 baffle seem big enough for a .30 moderator, or is too small and very likely to cause clipping.
2) Is is possible the Donny FL adaptor isn't seated quite right and might be slightly non-concentric, leading to the clipping? Is there a way to verify how concentric the adaptor is to the barrel?
Thanks all,
-pg
I picked up a used Rainstorm in .30 this month tuned by W.P. and pushing 90-100 FPE, It was making very nice groups at 60 yards, and I ordered up a Donny FL adaptor so I can quiet it down some. I had some Huma Mod30 chambers that were not being used, so I screwed them together and put them on the gun, without an end cap as I don't have an endcap in .30. The three chambers did a decent job making the gun quiet enough, but I couldn't hit the 48x48 piece of plywood behind my target. I could hear the pellets sailing out into the corn field.
I disassembled the moderator, it was full of lead, and the chamber baffle openings were battered badly. I don't know if I would call that clipping. More like battering-ramming, the openings were horribly deformed. I pulled out my calipers and checked the holes in one of the Mod30 baffles on my .25 Taipan, and they are about .31 diameter. Huma does sell a .30 Mod30 moderator, so I assumed the chambers were the same for 22, 25, and 30, but maybe I was wrong about this.
This gives me two questions:
1) Does a .31 baffle seem big enough for a .30 moderator, or is too small and very likely to cause clipping.
2) Is is possible the Donny FL adaptor isn't seated quite right and might be slightly non-concentric, leading to the clipping? Is there a way to verify how concentric the adaptor is to the barrel?
Thanks all,
-pg
