I've been asked to clear up some of the misconception and conjecture on the ART barrel by Daystate. First, a little background.
My airgun interest began with the purchase of my first in 1975 while in the military. Over the years, I've collected, repaired, and modified hundreds. I studied engineering in college but never finished.... life has a way of getting in the way. All my working adulthood has been in communications and electronics and I retired in 2016. My wife and I began shooting FT in 1991 and a little later, met Robert, Steve, Larry, and Greg at AOA. We've been friends from this time through competition and my purchasing lots of airguns from him, camping out, and hangin out. I also equipped myself with a lathe and a mill and have fitted many barrels and made lots of parts. I've won one national open championship and place highly in many. I've shot quite a variety of competition AG's, including many Daystates.
For these reasons and more, I was asked to participate in testing a collaborative barrel project between Daystate and LW. Guess I'm part of the Accuracy Research Team that these barrels are given an acronym for. We shot thousands of pellets through a factory stock RW, my own 22 RW HP, and a Wolverine HP on an indoor 100 yard range plus a lot of different outdoor conditions, including elevations from 1200 to 7000 ft, extreme temps, wind.... always lots of wind, over the course of a year. We tested each of 25 different bore profiles with JSB 25.4's, 33.4's, and H&N Baracudas. We chose the 2 best to carry into the final phase. We also tested and documented the bc of each barrel with each pellet using a LabRadar at 50 yards. What I'm trying to get across, this is a HUGE project that hopes to push the Daystate HP series into the 100 yard arena in a quality way. Keep in mind, this is ONLY for the 25 cal. There is discussion to use the data acquired to further development of the 22 and 177 but that was not part of this project. The result has been a couple of barrel profiles that shoot typically sub moa and are slow twist with fairly low rifling profile in the bore. I used the programmer to vary the velocities over quite a wide range on my own, while keeping the factory 25 RW stock. We made no changes to the Wolverine 25 HP.
Sooo.... if you have a 1 in 17 twist barrel..... it is not an ART. There are no 22 or 177 ART barrels at this time, as well. Keep in mind... there are a huge number of extremely fine shooting rifles out there that are not ART, so there is no need to feel like you are missing out.
There have been numerous other contributors to the project, but I do not know all those details. All I can say at this point.... there is a lot to look forward to. One additional interesting tidbit.... we rarely shot better groups indoors, though they were pretty good. The best were in some constant wind where it seemed easy to shoot paintballs, pellet marks, etc at 100 yds, sometimes we could actually get pellets touching at 191 yds on one of the ranges.
Thanks for your interest,
Bobby
My airgun interest began with the purchase of my first in 1975 while in the military. Over the years, I've collected, repaired, and modified hundreds. I studied engineering in college but never finished.... life has a way of getting in the way. All my working adulthood has been in communications and electronics and I retired in 2016. My wife and I began shooting FT in 1991 and a little later, met Robert, Steve, Larry, and Greg at AOA. We've been friends from this time through competition and my purchasing lots of airguns from him, camping out, and hangin out. I also equipped myself with a lathe and a mill and have fitted many barrels and made lots of parts. I've won one national open championship and place highly in many. I've shot quite a variety of competition AG's, including many Daystates.
For these reasons and more, I was asked to participate in testing a collaborative barrel project between Daystate and LW. Guess I'm part of the Accuracy Research Team that these barrels are given an acronym for. We shot thousands of pellets through a factory stock RW, my own 22 RW HP, and a Wolverine HP on an indoor 100 yard range plus a lot of different outdoor conditions, including elevations from 1200 to 7000 ft, extreme temps, wind.... always lots of wind, over the course of a year. We tested each of 25 different bore profiles with JSB 25.4's, 33.4's, and H&N Baracudas. We chose the 2 best to carry into the final phase. We also tested and documented the bc of each barrel with each pellet using a LabRadar at 50 yards. What I'm trying to get across, this is a HUGE project that hopes to push the Daystate HP series into the 100 yard arena in a quality way. Keep in mind, this is ONLY for the 25 cal. There is discussion to use the data acquired to further development of the 22 and 177 but that was not part of this project. The result has been a couple of barrel profiles that shoot typically sub moa and are slow twist with fairly low rifling profile in the bore. I used the programmer to vary the velocities over quite a wide range on my own, while keeping the factory 25 RW stock. We made no changes to the Wolverine 25 HP.
Sooo.... if you have a 1 in 17 twist barrel..... it is not an ART. There are no 22 or 177 ART barrels at this time, as well. Keep in mind... there are a huge number of extremely fine shooting rifles out there that are not ART, so there is no need to feel like you are missing out.
There have been numerous other contributors to the project, but I do not know all those details. All I can say at this point.... there is a lot to look forward to. One additional interesting tidbit.... we rarely shot better groups indoors, though they were pretty good. The best were in some constant wind where it seemed easy to shoot paintballs, pellet marks, etc at 100 yds, sometimes we could actually get pellets touching at 191 yds on one of the ranges.
Thanks for your interest,
Bobby
