So I bought a Taipan Long in .22
It shot pretty damn well honestly, but seemed to be somewhat finicky with a flier pretty regularly. And being overly critical, I thought it could do better. As I like to do with any new gun I pulled the barrel to give her a good look over and push a pellet through to feel it out. The last couple CZ barrels I've dealt with had really tight chokes, but were otherwise very nice. That's exactly what I felt with this one, except I noticed the pellet didn't slip right out of the muzzle. More like it hung up and then "popped" out. I've seen this before in barrels that I cut a crown on myself, and the bit didn't cut just right and left a smeared cut/burr.
In my prior experiences with hacking around with different barrels, I knew this was a red flag.
So I turned a pilot to indicate the bore and get the barrel running true in the lathe. I faced off around .100" from the muzzle, and cut a new crown and gave it a quick deburr with some 600 grit lapping compound on a big Qtip.
Then I flipped the barrel around, and added a slightly shallower radius to the leade/breech/entry/whatever, just to ease loading.
Turned out okay I guess considering the equipment:
Crown:
![taipan crown2.jpg taipan crown2.jpg](https://www.airgunnation.com/attachments/taipan-crown2-jpg.321670/)
![taipan crown.jpg taipan crown.jpg](https://www.airgunnation.com/attachments/taipan-crown-jpg.321671/)
Leade/Inlet/Entrada:
And here's why this thread is mostly useless.......I didn't take any pics of the barrel or groups beforehand. Facepalm.
BUT!
I did take a pic of a pushed pellet before and after the hackjob. So there's that.
Left is before, right is after.
And here's the result in the groups. Barrel was dirty/seasoned and just had the chips blasted out with air and a cotton swab fired through with shop air. Rested the forearm on a cooler, sitting on my butt at 25 yards. 5 shot group:
With a good solid rest, and a cleaned barrel, I think we might have something here!![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Sitting on the couch bored, thought I'd post this rambling in case you were bored too.
It shot pretty damn well honestly, but seemed to be somewhat finicky with a flier pretty regularly. And being overly critical, I thought it could do better. As I like to do with any new gun I pulled the barrel to give her a good look over and push a pellet through to feel it out. The last couple CZ barrels I've dealt with had really tight chokes, but were otherwise very nice. That's exactly what I felt with this one, except I noticed the pellet didn't slip right out of the muzzle. More like it hung up and then "popped" out. I've seen this before in barrels that I cut a crown on myself, and the bit didn't cut just right and left a smeared cut/burr.
In my prior experiences with hacking around with different barrels, I knew this was a red flag.
So I turned a pilot to indicate the bore and get the barrel running true in the lathe. I faced off around .100" from the muzzle, and cut a new crown and gave it a quick deburr with some 600 grit lapping compound on a big Qtip.
Then I flipped the barrel around, and added a slightly shallower radius to the leade/breech/entry/whatever, just to ease loading.
Turned out okay I guess considering the equipment:
Crown:
Leade/Inlet/Entrada:
And here's why this thread is mostly useless.......I didn't take any pics of the barrel or groups beforehand. Facepalm.
BUT!
I did take a pic of a pushed pellet before and after the hackjob. So there's that.
Left is before, right is after.
And here's the result in the groups. Barrel was dirty/seasoned and just had the chips blasted out with air and a cotton swab fired through with shop air. Rested the forearm on a cooler, sitting on my butt at 25 yards. 5 shot group:
With a good solid rest, and a cleaned barrel, I think we might have something here!
Sitting on the couch bored, thought I'd post this rambling in case you were bored too.