Do air strippers / muzzle brakes work on air rifles? 

After doing a lot of forum post reading on the subject as found no good videos I decided against buying an air stripper. After watching this video I now wish I hadn't spent all my pocket money on rum and a cheeky kebab.

Great video, very thorough. I have spent a lot of time making my own carbon fibre silencers, experimenting with many different designs. I have found that a lot of the problems with silencers are likely to be caused by turbulence through the baffles more than clipping. My latest designs have a built in air stripper in the base and special venting, this has greatly increased accuracy and also decreases down range noise.

Very thorough and informative. You can't beat a free floating barrel also. Great job- thanks.

Thanks for taking the time to make yet another interesting vid ... And bonus sunshine again

Binge watched all your videos over the last couple of days, learnt a lot and enjoyed them all. Inspired me to possibly have a go at stock making for my hw 100 bottle conversion and wildcat. Looking forward to the next vid 👍🏻👍🏻

Very interesting results and should be even more interesting with a harder pellet. I think I’m going to do the same experiment with my R10 to see what the difference is between the silencer (Weihrauch) and an airstripper is. Thanks Tilly, another great video.

I have a 20year old S200 Mk2 with Huma reg, fitted a Rowan airstripper set at 4.5 mm. Has definitely tightened the groups. I use JSB Exact 451s. Great video, very informative.

That rifle brother looks amazing!!!!!

I have a wooden stocked Walther LG400 FT (sub 12ft/lb .177) which I use for HFT. With the standard airstripper , is a loooong rifle. I decided to try and shave a few inches off it by replacing the stripper with a short muzzle brake to protect the crown of the muzzle and balance the harmonics with a 100gm sliding jacket weight. After all, I thought, what do Walther really know about accuracy? Turns out, quite a lot! With the standard LG400FT airstripper, from prone HFT style, it is literally pellet on pellet at 25 yards, at 45 yards it is a one hole 5 shot group. Nothing I did to balance it without the stripper gave the same result. The groups weren't terrible, some might have been happy with them, but they were not even close to those shot with the stripper. Conclusion: A rifle fitted with a correctly set up quality air stripper IS more accurate than one without.........and I don't know better than Walther.

Just brilliant

One of my hobbies is model engineering, so I have made quite few of these air strippers during the years. Some my own design, in fact. My experience is that they are more beneficial on barrels of less than 400mm length, particularly carbine barrels, such as the ne I had on my HW 100 KT. With such barrels the air behind the pellet still has considerable enrgy on exit, which can overtake the pellet on exit and disturb the dynamics of the flight. Very good demonstration.

Good one Tommy, I did similar years ago with a FTP900 and Rowan stripper to see if the cone distance made a difference, however I only went with increasing distance and found 4.5mm was better than bigger. Will look forward to the next round of testing

Mmm interesting , it would also be interesting to see how different pellets behave with the air stripper ( both shape and weight ) , had one on my Goldstar SE , soon replaced it with a silencer ... just couldn't get the blighter to work ...

These are legal in the UK, but illegal in Canada/US, I believe? I'm not sure about the effort of trying to build one is a bad move, but it's just an airgun I use in the basement so I'll do as I please. I have a Canadian 495 FPS air rifle that I've modded to get 760 fps, with more parts on the way that should take it over 900 (.22 cal). I love modding, but I also like the quiet of a 'quietner' and muzzle brake. Don't need the neighbors calling ERT (Canadian SWAT) when I want to plink at Monster Energy tins.

I honestly think you may need a new barell. It seems to randomly shoot fliers. Thanks for sharing your testing, that was interesting. I think everyone always assumes air strippers are better but after seeing this I’m thinking if the dimensional dynamics are correct (cone to muzzle to exit) perhaps they may be.

Great video Tommy very interesting and didn’t want it to end😁 Try 730fps👍

I played around with 3 or 4 air strippers on a Steyr LG110 a few years ago. A couple were made by chaps on the forums and 1 or 2 from small firms. Spent days playing around with each one to see what would work out best. I ended up with a similar result as you did here. Tighter groups but on average only by a couple of mm here and there. With all the other variables considered it's not a very conclusive result. Maybe with some more tweaking and perseverance but it didn't seem worth it at that point. If your silencer is clipping and you can get that resolved it looks to have more potential here. I recently added a SAK mod to my Steyr ProX. My groups at 40 meters look like your silencers group but without the clippings.

Pretty interesting gadjets! In kenada you cannot use any sound moderating device's but I would like to test some kind of muzzle break or air stripper one day

I've tested my Hatsan Galatian with many DonnyFL, 0dB, and a Hatsan air stripper. The only one that tightened up the groups was the air stripper!

Good video. Now I wonder if the included moderator on my Beeman Mantis helps with accuracy? It is quiet even at 1,000 fps shooting 8.3 gr Superdomes. But the accuracy surprised me for a $129 US dollar air gun. 0.3" at 30 meters is not bad. Or is it the German quality? It says made in China. I think, assembled in China.... With German parts... Or else we may be in real trouble... Anyway, the moderator may or may not be helping accuracy, but it does not seem to hurt! Great for pest conttol. They dont hear the gun at all... Can do follow up shots though rarely needed. Will always use a moderator on loud guns from now on.

I may have missed this but what length are the JSB shorts? I have a Rowan stripper on my HFT rifle I use the normal JSB 4.52 and after experimentation have set the stripper to the length of the pellet.

Interesting to watch. That Anschutz 9015 looks gorgeous with the air stripper. How is the report with an air stripper? I was hoping for some reduction in db. Perhaps another video?

When you say “lead in” is this the barrel being lubricated by the particular type of pellet?

These rifles have a long unsupported barrel what happens if it is braced back to the air chamber

I have a Cometa Fusion in .177, it is more accurate than my hw 77, 97 & 99s, but gun snobs won't have it, factory fitted with an air stripper, your loss.

Would this reduce any horizontal movement on a springer?

I had the best results with airstripper with hole just 4.6mm and "stripping edge" 4mm from crown (Steyr LG110FT)

is an airstripper like an airguitar , ie its invisible so you cant see it getting naked 🙂

Didn't realise the hammer forged barrels can be off-centre. You'd think the manufacturers would correct this.

Surely weighed pellets would make a difference...45 yards wo u ld make a big difference....

I don't matter, they look good anyway 😏

OK, so maybe I'm being pedantic but such a test should have been carried out with "Weighed" pellets!! After all, you are (presumed) to be an impartial air gunner??

Speak,speak,speak,..terrible...😮.go slowly........