Improving accuracy?
 

I'm wondering if any company makes a tight bore barrel for TM AK47's?

I have an AK and find the accuracy ok, but could be better. Maybe I'm too picky, but if I fire indoors at a 2 1/2 inch round target (like the little targets you get when you buy a new gun from TM) at 20 feet away, I get maybe 3 shots just inside the circle (but far from center) out of 13 shots. The shots seem to pull to the right, ever so slightly. Adjusting hop-up and my sites does very little, if anything.

Anybody else shoot an AK, and find the same problem, or any gun for that matter? ... will a tight bore barrel (if they are made for AK's) help?

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Actually thats not horriable. However I am able to do the TM 8-9 rings from 25ft standing.

many companies make toghtbore barrels for the AK.
If its your 1st gun, yah, reality sets in fast. Airsoft guns are the last thing from accurate.
but 20ft is a short distance to measure it really. really wanna try it a 50 to 100ft.
In general, you want to be able to hit a man sized target at over 100ft.

hopup wont do much at 20ft. its ment to flatten your trajectory and usually isnt noticed at short distances.
but if its not having an effect at 100ft, then lube it with silicone lube spray.

I'm going to have to toss a comment in here.

I find tightbores 100% worth it.
and...
Definately get a Systema. It's not worth spending twice as much to get a Prometheus barrel. I've owned both and noticed little difference.

Forget 6.03 & 6.04. Take the big step and get a 6.01mm tightbore!! :wink:

Aernt those like $100 each and can jam if there is even the slightest deformation in the BB?

There's always the mystical Tanio Twist barrels... :D

6.04 is the largest bore, right?

Only designed for guns shooting under 350 fps, though. If you play outdoors with heavy underbrush, you need more than 350 to punch through the foliage at ranges beyond 40 yards.

I've seen as open as 6.09 on some cheap HK knockoffs and springers.....stock TM barrels are 6.08-ish by comparison.

No.

However, if you're talking about for a TM Kalashnikova, then I don't know.

Thanks for the info... I'm definitly getting a tight bore barrel now, but just not sure what size. I'm guessing from what I've read here, a Systema 6.03 is what I want. If anyone thinks this is wrong, please tell me now.
I thought at first my in-accuracy problem could be becuase of the upgrade I had done (new gears / 170 spring - 390 fps) but then I thought, if anything, that would make it MORE accurate.

Make sure you clean your barrel every thousand shots or so. I've seen shitty accuracy in guns shoot great after a good barrel cleaning. Includes GBBs BTW. Example, my sniper rifles, I clean the inner barrel every 30-40 shots to keep the accuracy & consistancy at it's max. My M700's C&A goes to crap after about 40 rds.

I beleive I saw them for sale on here on ASC for around $80 or so CAD.

Kokanee IIRC, was selling them, there is the PDI barrels & then these custom ones made by an airsoft retailer just across the border in Washington. I do recall the barrels being black.

I had the link bookmarked but during a hard drive failure in the last few days I lost the link.

Muwahahaha!! I found them!
http://www.deescustoms.com/prod_custom-barrels.html

Definetaly a barrrel I will put in my next gun.

Well, what's wrong is that Systema 6.03s don't exist. You must mean either a Systema 6.04 or a Prometheus 6.03. They're both good, the Systema is cheaper.

Ok, I guess I'm going for the Systema 6.04.... has anyone here installed a barrel? Is it hard to do?, or should I leave it to a airsmith / gunsmith?