Tuners on a hunting rifle? Anyone tried it?

[ronsatspokane]

Browning did their BAR hunting rifles with tuners years back.

 

[Dave M.]

I know there are some competition guys that have been using tuners, bit I am not involved with that whole scene. Other than the old browning boss years ago that ended up going away, I have never heard of anyone using one on a hunting rifle. So for you guys that have used them on br guns and such, I have a few questions:
Do you think it would be beneficial? Ex: There have been times where I have had two nodes and sometimes the lower node was a little better, but god knows we all like the faster node because it makes us feel better. For that situation do you think maybe it would improve the higher node? Would there be any other benefit? Or is there just plain and simple a reason its not common?

Why?? Minute of a pie plate harvests animals out to 300 yards easily. Most guys I hunt with have a 1 MOA rifle and generally take 2-3 deer with 2-3 shots per year. Tough to use a tuner to adjust when you can’t see a pattern on the target, and even when it is out of tune the bullet at 300 yards would only be less than 1/2-1” away from the in tune shots and still be a successful harvest. Finally, the largest factor that would make tuners not practical on hunting rifles would be that most of them are using lighter weight pencil barrel. Just my two cents.
Dave

 

[Dave M.]

Last year Zack Donovant built me a Model 7 30BR hunting rifle. I asked him to thread the barrel so I could use a tuner since I knew I could run a 125 gr. Nosler B T and A B @ 3000 fps to hunt with and then play at the bench with it too. No regrets at all. Love it.

I get doing this if the rifle will serve a dual purpose and be shot as a target rifle as well.