Received my Raptor today

I could sure get them to go where I wanted easier for those first few groups. That's why I came to the conclusion that I got to that point of dirty barrel somewhere during shooting. 

Best groups were shot when gun first went from heated house to cold garage. 

Travis just told me he put a few hundred down it, I did something like 120-140 today. So, most of a tin probably, through a new, unpolished bore. 

During testing he told me the bore hadn't been cleaned, just machined and put on the gun. So, the "flyers" are likely dirty bore. And even the flyers aren't too bad, just not dead center like most of the shots. They should go away with a good clean.

Barrel cleaning.

Sorry about the lighting, it is absolutely horrible. 

Knife, I turned the phone, just for you. 

(The stool in front of the front door is to try to slow down sleepwalking kids or at least make them make enough noise that we hear em going out the front door, not for security-realized it looks weird when i watched the video).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B5xo6QyLp0&t=335s

I would thought the same Scott, but that aluminum seemed pretty soft. I couldn't get it to show very good with the lighting, but the scratches were much less severe after I worked on it a bit. Also was getting black, which polished aluminum seems to do.

Do you think the rifling is just gonna overwrite those minimal scratches anyway?

Didn't mention it in the video but I'm also wondering if that thimble is sort of acting like a pellet sizer prior to the pellet getting to the rifling. Could sure see where the inner walls of the thimble have squeezed down the skirt-same idea as your .22 sized down to .20, just obviously not as severe. 

Steve, you are more than welcome to shoot it as much as you want the next time we're in the same place. You've let me do the same with many of your own guns, nice to be able to return the favor. 

Frank, may I ask what you wrapped your carbon fiber tank with for protection? Thank you in advance!

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Nothing, it came with that white look to it. Dunno if all the 500cc bottles look like this or if Travis matched it up to the silver scheme. That creamy kinda color is just the carbon fiber/epoxy. 

You stated .... but the scratches were much less severe



There should be NO SCRATCHES as the pellet passes by the transfer port .. ZERO NADA NOTHING

If the pellet when loaded and action in battery is seated within the barrel and not the thimble ? You would not want any squeeze / sizing happening by the thimble wanting the barrel to size the pellet with bore.

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Pellet on left was pushed through the thimble. Parallel scratches from the two sides of the transfer port are still there, more than I thought last night. 

You can also tell, at the base of the pellet, that the thimble is sizing it down slightly. 

Yes, when a pellet is loaded and ready to shoot, it is seated in the barrel, past the transfer port.