Accuracy Bench Test Results: GZ Timmy vs. M98RT vs. Automag Retro (pics)

[Jack & Coke]

Good point! However, I think that the secondary reg plays more of a role in this test.

BL Tornado Reg

vs.

Palmer Stabalizer

vs.

Automag (built-in reg)

Although difficult to do, it would probably be best to run the test with the same reg on all guns. Not practical with the Automag, but possible with the Timmy and M98.

[Smokee_2_7]

Sorry im a bit of a latecommer to this thread, While this was going on I was down in the florida keys- - -hehe.

For the most part, i do like the way this test was set up. Yes, a litle more work on the target area would have been nice, but I definitly understand working with what you have.

All that being said, I played around with the numbers from your results. My parameter of interest is not so much accuracy, but consistency. I did not go totally off the deep end with these numbers, but it looks like there may be somthing a bit interesting here. . . Please, others check my work and make sure that i didnt mess somthing up. I did this in about 2 minutes, and have not rigorously checked it.

Here is the copied numbers from my excel sheet:
GZ trial 1 GZ trial 2
285 288
287 291
292 289
295 292
292 292
292 294
290 290
293 292
293 291
292 295
Totals 2911 2914
Mean 291.1 291.4
S.D. 2.998147576 2.118699811
Average of SD 2.558423694

M98 1 M98 2
294 294
292 298
292 298
292 300
290 300
288 302
288 301
297 298
289 298
291 295
Total 2622 2984
Mean 262.2 298.4
SD 2.790858092 2.503331114
AVg. of SD 2.647094603

RT mag 1 RT mag 2
287 292
285 294
284 295
283 292
280 290
282 296
287 293
283 290
281 290
281 294
Total 2833 2926
Mean 283.3 292.6
S.D. 2.45175674 2.170509413
Avg. SD 2.311133076


Everything should be pretty much self-explanatory.
For anyone that dosent know, S.D. is standard deviation - - basicly the average amount that each shot differs from the mean of the string. You can use it as a measure of consistency. The lower the S.D., the more consistent the gun was for the string.

I also took the liberty of averaging the standard deviations for each gun. This shows just another general indication of how consistent each gun was.

For the Automag, notice that the standard deviations are roughly 2.4 and 2.2. For the timmy they were 3 and 2.12 (rounded) when the 2 strings are compared, the timmy's second string was just a little bit more consistent than the mag. However, both of the mags strings were a good bit more consistent than the timmy's first string.

If you average the S.D.'s together, you may come to the conclusion that the mag was overall more consistent than the timmy (mag 2.31 vs timmy 2.56) However, this could be due to some testing error on the timmy's first string- - - it IS a bit off.


In order to come to a more positive conslucion, much more testing needs to be done. There were simply not enough trials run to see any REALLY significant, "Its this way all the time" information. Yes, the mag was a bit more consistent, but many people comented that the timmys groupings LOOKED tighter. Although that could definitly be due to observational error, as well as problems with testing (camera positioning AND using rough cut bricks for reference) Perhaps this information could be cross -applied to the Physics discussion on accuracy from Deep blue - - -



At any rate, its fun to think about

Carl