Magnetospeed v3 and air rifle?

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Anyone had any luck trying to clock an air rifle with a Magnetospeed v3?

Tried clocking my old Beman .20 R9 with mine yesterday. Didn't work for crap. Had the deck height dialed in perfect according to MS instructions. Played with sensitivity settings every which way. Played with bayo placement relative to muzzle every which way.

Altogether, got two readings out of about 40 shots. Everything else either did nothing (lower sensitivity settings) or gave various errors (higher sensitivity).

Not actually "that" big a deal to me. But, it was advertised as working with air rifles and it would have been nice if it actually did. But so far, I'm going to say maybe it doesn't.

Anyone else had better luck? Any tips?

- DAA
 
I have not tried it but I have read that setting high sensitivity along with getting the bayonet a little higher worked with air rifles.
Guess maybe not??? Might give the folks at Magnetospeed a call see if they have some other tips.
 
Dave, I had the exact experience as you.. I also played with the sensitivity readings with no luck.. The readings I did get were all over the place..
 
Funny part is my old beta Chrony worked fine. Sold it Saturday, tried to clock the Beman on Sunday and was wishing I'd kept the old Chrony!

- DAA
 
No, not the same. Instructions just say to manually set the sensitivity between 7 and 9 for air rifles and that's about it. There isn't a setting for copper or lead. I tried from 5 to 11 on the sensitivity. The only two readings I was able to get, were at 8, so, the instructions might be right. But I only got two readings out of about forty shots.

- DAA
 
Works perfectly with mine.......extremely accurate but I shoot mostly PCPs and have not tried it with my springers yet. I had to adjust the sensitivity like it says to in the manual and I am very impressed. I'm guessing the problem is that you are trying to use it on a spring gun. If you are in to airguns....I'm sure you know your Beeman recoils in both directions. This may be the cause of your issues. May want to make a call to the company and ask them. By the way.....that R9 is a fine rifle.
 
The bi-directional recoil is a plausible explanation. With the high sensitivity settings, you can cause it to error by bumping it.

- DAA
 
So, just got it to work quite well. Recorded a 10 shot string without an error (avg. 686 fps w/FTS, 7 fps ES).

The only thing I did different, was move the deck higher in relation to the muzzle. Last time, I had it setup with the top of the alignment bar even with the bottom of the bore - as per the illustration in the manual. But, the manual says, the projectile needs to be between 1/8" and 1/4" above the deck. With the alignment bar being 1/4", having it at the bottom of the bore puts the pellet at 1/4" above, on the far end of the range.

So, I tried it with the top of the alignment bar centered on the bore - putting the pellet 1/8" above the deck. Tried sensitivity 8, since that was the only setting that got any readings at all last time. And, it worked perfectly.

Have a Vortek PG-2 on the way, be interesting to see what it does with the same pellets after a reasonable break-in period with the "drop in" tune. This rifle had previously had two different "tunes" done on it, the first one resulting in a broken spring guide, the last one involving a custom guide, new spring, seal and traditional "lube tune". Have had no complaints, really, but it has still been just a bit twangy and the velocity has gradually dropped off a bit over the years.

Really, just doing the Vortek, because I can, and I'm curious. If it just tames the last little bit of twang, I'll be happy. Would expect some velocity increase too though. We'll see...

- DAA
 
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