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The importance of bullet-to-barrel alignment and fit: Part Two

Part 1

This report covers:

  • Fitting a bullet to the bore
  • Patched ball
  • Results of patching
  • Conical lead bullets
  • Pellet head
  • An experiment
  • Pellet skirt
  • Summary

I am hopefully in Las Vegas at the SHOT Show and today at Industry Day at the Range.

Today we look at the fit of a bullet or pellet to the bore of a barrel. Since pellets do differ from bullets I will discuss them after the groundwork has been laid.

Fitting a bullet to the bore

Before around 1850, the word bullet meant a round ball. Fitting a round ball to a rifled barrel can mean fitting the naked ball to the rifling and ramming the ball down the bore to the powder charge. That effort deforms the bullet. Ramrods were iron to take the force of repeated blows, and the top of the soft lead bullet mushroomed flat from being struck. But mutilated noses don’t affect accuracy much, so the rifled ball was far more accurate than a ball fired from a smoothbore. 

Patched ball

The patch was discovered sometime after the year 1700. A ball that was much smaller than the bore was covered with a leather, parchment or fabric patch that tightened the fit within the bore. The patch engaged the rifling, spinning the ball that was inside, yet the patch came off the ball easily when it exited the muzzle. Loading went faster plus patches could be reduced in thickness as the bore fouled, giving more shots before the weapon had to be cleaned. As time passed riflemen not in combat learned to clean the bore as they shot, making it possible to shoot patched balls indefinitely.

Results of patching

Patch material, alone, can tighten a 5-shot group from 10 inches to 2 inches at 50 yards. So a muzzleloading enthusiast will find a certain ball he likes and then he will try to lay in a lifetime supply of the right patch material.

Conical lead bullets

Conical lead bullets fly farther accurately than round balls. But they must fit the bore of the barrel! Let’s cut to the chase and see what it looks like when you get the right bullet fit.

Webley target
Ten shots at 15 yards from a .45 caliber handgun. It measures 2.271-inches between centers.

That’s not such a bad group, is it? I bet you would be happy to shoot one like it. So, the question on everyone’s mind is—what gun did that? Was it a tuned 1911? Or perhaps an S&W model 25 with target hammer, target trigger and target sights? Not even close.

The gun that shot that target was a battered .455 World War I Webley Mark VI revolver whose cylinder has been shaved to allow the use of American .45 ACP cartridges — as long as they are on moon clips! Yep, it’s a 1916 war bunny that’s been fooled with!

Webley
The revolver that shot the target.

Now .45 ACP bullets are sized 0.451-0.452-inches in diameter. In this revolver they will scatter everywhere. But the bullets I shot were sized 0.455-inches, to match the larger 0.455 caliber Webley bore. Ain’t it nice when the stuff I tell you really works? Now let’s turn to pellets.

Hunting Guide

Pellet head

The size of the pellet head determines whether the pellet rides the bore straight or on a slight angle to the axis of the bore. A pellet whose head is too small will be slightly cocked in the bore and will exit that way. The spin from the rifling and the drag on the skirt will straighten the pellet in flight once it leaves the muzzle, but there may also be a slight bit of instability (wobble) introduced at that time.

Pellet

An experiment

The curious might try this. Throw a throwing dart at a dartboard tail-first. You will see the dart swap ends in flight and hit the board point-first. This will happen in as little as 7 feet 9.25-inches/237cm of flight! The dart is weighted and aerodynamically designed with a high-drag tail to always fly point-first. Diabolo pellets work the same way.

pellet flight

But no dart champion ever threw a dart that way in a match! They hold the dart carefully the same way every time and their arm moves in the same way each time for consistency. And so it must be in a pellet rifle for the best accuracy. The pellet head is what guides the pellet as it leaves the muzzle, so the size is critical.

Pellet skirt

The pellet’s skirt seals the back of the bore so all the air or gas pushes on the pellet. Pneumatic guns are extremely gentle to pellets and do not deform the soft lead skirts at firing. There may be 4,500 psi inside their reservoir, but the valve releases the air slowly at a much lower pressure. So, when shooting pneumatics and especially PCPs, look for pellets with larger skirts.

Spring guns generate a much smaller amount of compressed air, but they do it so violently that they blow the pellet skirt into the walls of the barrel. The power of the spring gun will determine whether this is something you have to consider, but with powerful springers, it always is. A skirt that’s blown out too much will affect the pellet in flight, reducing its accuracy potential.

Summary

Bullet/pellet fit and alignment to the bore is very important to its performance. In this short series I have shown how this works.

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Tom Gaylord (B.B. Pelletier)
Tom Gaylord, also known as B.B. Pelletier, provides expert insights to airgunners all over the world on behalf of Pyramyd AIR. He has earned the title The Godfather of Airguns™ for his contributions to the industry, spending many years with AirForce Airguns and starting magazines dedicated to the sport such as Airgun Illustrated.

57 thoughts on “The importance of bullet-to-barrel alignment and fit: Part Two”

  1. BB,
    OK, the most interesting thing (for me) in this report is the paragraph labelled “Pellet head.”
    Perhaps you’ve said that before, in a slightly different way, but I don’t recall.
    (Plus, “the old dave brain she ain’t what she used to be!” =>)
    Anyway, that paragraph really registered with me this time; so, thank you for that. 🙂
    I hope you’re enjoying the SHOT show!
    Blessings to you,
    dave

    • This topic really got my attention due to owning an Hatsan 135 in .25 cal. It was a scatter gun that vexed me greatly when I first received it from PA. It was sent to Hatsan USA for repair and they replaced the whole unit. However, it was still a spray-and-pray kind of piece. Then I read a blog piece about .25 domed rounds from JSB that were too tight fitting for a .25 rifle by another manufacturer.

      I ordered some of them and low and behold, the rifle started to shoot reliably and straight. The bore of the Hatsan was and remains WAY oversized. The Mark III domed pellets fit tight and ran true down the bore. The complete jump in performance confirmed that the standard H&N pellets were bouncing around down the bore and the pellet departed the muzzle opposite the last hit of the bore wall.

      It was a slightly costly process of finding a slightly oversized pellet to mate with a much oversized Turkish bore. When the two came together, the accuracy magic happened. Somethings one has to play around with a while to find the solution to a manufacturer’s defect.

      I keeping with the theme of the blog, the problem was NOT with the skirt as the air blast would expand it to fit bore. The problem was wholly the oversize vs the contact point of the head of the pellets. There was no consistency possible because the head was microscopically wandering down the barrel. Once oversized head pellets were pushed into the breach, the accuracy immediately became obedient to the sights and a rifle that is good became what it was supposed to be.

      One would think that there could be some simple checking of bore diameter and compliance with the caliber dimensions. Maybe a sizing tool run down the bore? From such could come a pellet recommendation based on measurements of the various pellets? Yeah….I suggested some QA work for the PA Crew!

      Hope that PA and all its people have a great new year!

  2. Tom,

    Makes me sort of wonder if making a cast of the bore would be a shortcut in finding THE pellet for each barrel. Then again those who lubricate their pellets might be actually ensuring better fit of their pellets to the bore.

    Siraniko

    • Siraniko,

      This is one of the reasons for the “choke” with most Lothar Walther barrels, although you can now get LW barrels that do not have a “choke”. You can also get standard and polygonal rifling.

      Does lubrication provide for better fit? That is a good question. Possibly. It would likely depend on the thickness (viscosity) of the lubricant. I myself would be concerned with dieseling or detonation with any but a few select lubricants.

      Casting. Seems a little extreme to me. Either push a pellet through the bore and measure the rifling marks or just shoot different pellets until you find the right one. There is more to all of it than just pellet fit.

  3. BB,

    I do hope you are enjoying yourself at the range. It is a bit chilly here at the moment. I do hope it is a lot warmer where you are. I also would like Hank to come down here and take his weather home.

    Do enjoy the SHOT Show. Say hello to some of the old gang who just might still be hanging around.

    • LOL! I did warn you!

      Come on eh! It’s not THAT cold RR! We have two months of this weather every year.

      Cold is when your engine won’t start if you forgot to plug in the block heater.

      Cold is when you have the run the car for 20 minutes before the transmission thaws enough to work.

      Cold is when you spit and it bounces! 😉

      Hank

      • Vana2,
        this made me chuckle. I live in mid Michigan, and Lake Michigan really moderates our weather. This morning it was 1F on the way in to work. And that feels cold, but I keep thinking back to a conversation I had with a guy from Minnesota several years ago. His daughter was complaining that it was cold waiting for the bus. He told her that’s what you get for wearing a dress when it’s -30F. I know there are other places in the country that get colder than that. So after that, I try not to complain about the cold in Michigan.

        CB

        • CB, our daughter is in Ann Arbor; we’re gonna talk to her and see how Former FL Girl is holding up in that weather up yonder. This will be her fourth Michigan winter.

          The FMs will stay holed up in FL for life.

          • Shootski,
            On the climate link, that is COLD! Colder than anyplace I have been.

            On the Pyramyd link, I must be missing something. I didn’t read all the reviews, but I didn’t see anything related to my post?

            CB

            • CB,

              I don’t know how that link intended for Elmer Fudd about the H&N pellets got there?

              Most of the places are in the same degree just a few tenths off. But the Southern Continent is colder and by a lot: The lowest air temperature reliably measured on Antarctica was set on 21 July 1983, when a temperature of −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F) was observed at Vostok Station. I’ll bet we couldn’t feel the difference.
              I have seen lower temperatures (-130C) but they were all at altitude and actually not all that high. Above the air breather altitudes it gets colder still; and then at the Mesopause it gets warmer quickly but i never got close to that.

              shootski

              • Shootski,
                no worries on the link.

                On Antarctica, I didn’t realize the lowest temp was than low. I literally can’t imagine that cold. I’m not 100% sure, but I think it was in Wager with the Wind by James Greiner that the effects of the cold started to impact my mind. Talking about tires cracking if you tried to drive under -50F.

                On the west side of Michigan they get a lot of lake effect snow, but we are far enough away that we don’t get a lot of snow, and we get the benefit of Lake Michigan moderating our weather. Or at least, that is my understanding. For as far north as we are, it really doesn’t get that cold.

                If you don’t mind me asking, what were you doing when you experienced those temps? Work, vacation, glutton for punishment?

                CB

                • CB,

                  Before i retired from my second career (Naval Aviator) it was work related either flying Cold War missions (pun intended) or Winter Survival/SEAR School training opportunities.
                  In Utah and Montana it is hunting/vacationing and Back Country skiing/snowshoeing. I also kayak year round as long as the ice isn’t solid or dangerously moving.
                  I hate the humid bug season! Had my fill of that.

                  shootski

                • CB,

                  I suspect i would have liked Don Sheldon. I’m going to get a copy of the book.
                  The first airplane i got to fly was a Piper J-3 (Cub) with and without floats. I snagged a few hours in the PA-18 Super Cub as well.

                  Thank you,

                  shootski

                  • It has been years since I read that book, but this conversation has made me want to read it again. I really enjoyed it.

                    I’m not fond of the hot and humid weather either. That’s quite a resume you have. And thank you for your service.

                    I always wanted to learn to fly, but the only thing I could afford was rc planes. I’ve had a lot of fun with them, though most were scratchbuilt foamies. Not quite the same thing. 🙂

                    CB

                    • CB,

                      I just got my grandsons their first RC aircraft for Christmas; representing the T-28B/C Trojans the second aircraft i trained in as well as my initial CQ (Carrier Qual) in. They have been out flying them to drained batteries every time the weather is good enough. Take Offs (TO) and flying are moving along nicely…landings are still an area of difficulty but they will prevail. They just need to learn that FULL THROTTLE is not needed other than for TO and maneuvering in the vertical…okay Control Tower, Birdfarm flybys, and Cat Shots require FT and Burner : O

                      shootski

      • Hank,

        You did indeed warn me it was coming. That is still no excuse for not keeping it on a stronger leash.

        This time of year we normally have temperatures in the 30s and 40s. This morning it is below 15. You had better get down here and take your weather home. I do not live up yonder for this very reason.

        So much for that global warming stuff.

      • Hank: You got most of the images of northern Ohio COLD WEATHER alright. You missed one!

        “It was so cold, I had to break three male dogs off of fire hydrants!” I just hate it when that happens. At least when I was a volunteer fireman in a rural district, we didn’t have to do that because we had NO hydrants, but putting away hundreds of feet of relay hose after the action was a huge PITA.

  4. BB,

    I’m so glad that you mentioned it: that the springers may blow the pellet skirt in. I observed it many times – the difference between .177 pellet shot from PCP and from a springer. There is a theory that the springer may have some wind advantage due to blowing in the skirt so the side surface of the pellet is smaller than shot from PCP and the wind affects it less. As you mentioned – it may go also in to the trousers when the skirt is too soft and will be blown too much towards the pellet head.
    Nevertheless I’m so happy that your observation is similar to mine! How often there was a discussion on airgun forum about that topic and nobody actually has catched the pellet correctly (undeformed) to make a solid investigation and comparison: same pellet shot from PCP and springer.

  5. BB

    “So, when shooting pneumatics and especially PCPs, look for pellets with larger skirts.”

    Does logic imply that shooting a pellet with smaller skirts in powerful springers is more accurate if all else is impossibly equal? Like RR suggests above I try a number of pellets to find the most promising but I admit I have never thought about skirt size. I just shoot and measure the groups but if skirt size helps narrow the selection field I’ll certainly try it.

    BB, enjoy the show. This report may keep some of us busy for awhile. I hope so.

    Deck

    • Deck,

      If I am not mistaken, it is not the skirt size that is the issue. It is the head size not fully engaging the rifling and allowing the pellet to “tilt”.

      Pellet Head

      “The size of the pellet head determines whether the pellet rides the bore straight or on a slight angle to the axis of the bore. A pellet whose head is too small will be slightly cocked in the bore and will exit that way. The spin from the rifling and the drag on the skirt will straighten the pellet in flight once it leaves the muzzle, but there may also be a slight bit of instability (wobble) introduced at that time.”

      • And if the head size is insufficient for the bore, my theory is that it allows for instability at the muzzle. Yeah, the aerodynamics will straighten out the flight, but if the pellet leaves the muzzle in a flightline not in keeping with the bore axis, one is still going to be off target as I understand the process. That idea was certainly affirmed, in my part of the world with the Hatsan M-135 in .25 Cal. A wobbly pellet head made accuracy as accurate as my Gamo Viper Expresss air shot gun, except IT has more than 13 pieces of shot that MIGHT hit something….

  6. Interesting subject BB!

    This all makes good sense – then the pellet hits the choke and gets “extruded” out into the world.

    I wonder what happens as the pellet head and skirt compress going through the choke. Chokes must help of the manufacturers wouldn’t waste the time/money adding them.

    Solid bullets/slugs don’t appreciate chokes which makes finding the right slug for a choked pellet barrel such an adventure.

    Yesterday, I was checking/scoping out a new Lothar Walther barrel that has no choke. It’s reputed to shoot pellets and slugs very well. Unfortunately, it will be a couple of months before I can test that.

    Hope you’re enjoying the show!

    Hank

    • Hank,

      The choke will stop the air / gas behind the pellet to run through at the end of the muzzle. If the barrel crown is made correct it will help to make the pellet leave the barrel always in the same way, without partial air / gas run-outs which may distabilize the pellet (if it gets a side air-kick for example). There is endless discussion about it – is it better with choke or not. Many people with good barrel quality without a choke are same accurate as choked ones…
      Especially the springers with not so much power and long barrel will not get the pressure high enough at the end of the barrel to keep the pellet skirt tight to the barrel – the choke may help at the very end to realese the pellet always same way.
      What I think is the match .177 airguns may be more “target friendly” with a choke when the pellet cal. is a bit smaller than .177 (to make a smaller hole in the target) 🙂 🙂

    • Hank,

      What he said.

      The choke also resizes the pellets that may be varying in size minutely, often improving accuracy. This was one of the common methods that was used to do such. The choking can prevent the use of “slugs” in a particular barrel so has recently fallen out of favor.

      • RidgeRunner,

        I wish more airgun barrel makers would gauge barrels and better still air gauge barrels as SIG did on the ASP20.
        Why?
        At their very best, mechanical gauges are capable of measuring down to 50 millionths, but that requires extreme care. Air gauges handle 50 millionths with ease, and some will measure to a resolution of 5 millionths.

        Just what is it? The barrel is set in the fixture in a vertical position (muzzle down) and a rod (like a cleaning rod) with a mandrel is lowered down through the bore of the barrel while an “air reading” is taken. Next a different mandrel is put on the rod. The second mandrel has the proper matching rifling cut into it. Again, an “air reading” is taken. The readings are compared at corresponding locations and this shows how CONSISTENT the bore and rifling is for the entire length of the barrel.
        Some manufacturers shortcut this inspection process by only doing the first step…after all time is money.
        The results are still more QUALITY than most of us can expect from our barrels, firearms or airguns, of course if they have we get the “rejects” for less cost in the CHEAP airgun.

        I think i’m going to schedule a vacation down by Destin on the Gulf of America soon ;^)

        shootski

        • shootski,

          I, as usual will take a staycation. With the money I save I may buy a Sub MOA barrel for my 3622 or 3677 I will likely buy in the near future. First I will have to see how well my new BSA R10 SE shoots.

          • RidgeRunner,

            You will no doubt enjoy your staycation living where you do.
            The Sub MOA barrel is certainly one thing to fund with the $$$$ you will save; there are other potential airgun things you might be interested in…
            Have you seen the SHOT SHOW stuff on the REGULATED AirForce TexRex in .510 caliber with a 36″ barrel?
            I would be interested in something in .30 caliber with the right choice of twist to see if it will go at two miles/3.218 kilometers (3,520 yards) or farther ;^)

            shootski

            • shootski,

              I read a brief blurb about this air rifle. I am not that overly impressed. When such is available, I may get the regulated tank for my Texan LSS in .457, but I am not likely to rush out and buy the latest and greatest. I do like that fore stock though. Hmmm, maybe a little accessorizing is in the future.

              I have noticed that UTG has decided to price their stuff up there with the other high ticket stuff. They are quickly falling out of favor with me.

              As for shooting that far, I cannot see that far. Why would I want to shoot that far?

  7. Thanks for the interesting report BB. Recently I received my Barra 250z along with some of their “The Clyde” pellets (see image). These are a little different in that the wasp waist isn’t as small as it is on most pellets we see. And the flare on the skirt is therefore smaller. I haven’t yet searched for a ballistic coefficient for The Clyde pellets. But I suspect that it might be better than most pellets. So far these have been pretty accurate for me. A few 10-meter groups have been great. But I haven’t yet been able to consistently get the really great groups, probably due to my own inconsistencies.

  8. B.B. and Readership,

    I enjoyed: “Now .45 ACP bullets are sized 0.451-0.452-inches in diameter. In this revolver they will scatter everywhere. But the bullets I shot were sized 0.455-inches, to match the larger 0.455 caliber Webley bore. Ain’t it nice when the stuff I tell you really works? Now let’s turn to pellets.”

    But for those even more interested in firearm accuracy due to Internal Ballistics this Link is a great resource:

    https://www.hornady.com/team-hornady/ballistic-calculators/ballistic-resources/internal-ballistics

    For airgun pellet only shooters you can jump to Bullets & Accuracy paragraph in the above link that is also of interest. Do ignore the effects of powder burn rate pressure spike and heat effects that don’t play in airguns.

    shootski

  9. Sorry you guys are so cold. It’s 48 degrees her in San Diego. Just have to live with wind that sounds like a low flying jet and no electrical power, as in right now.

    I would not be surprised if a light weight .177 pellet shot through a very powerful magnum springer simply pushes the pellet so fast it has no time to engage the rifling and spin it. Just kind of shaves it off all the way around as it passes straight through. Pushing a pellet through rifling may not reveal the true impact it has on the pellet compared to blowing it through at 1200 fps.

    It appears the pellet / barrel relationship has not been looked into enough in this race for air gun performance and accuracy, aside from information obtained here.
    Hopefully we will draw attention to the relationship here for manufacturers to assist in providing specifications for us to find the perfect pellet match for each type of shooting. It may even help them with sales.
    It is becoming increasingly clear the right pellet, or type, needs to be used to get the best accuracy out of almost every airgun. We have entered the world of High-Tech in Air gunning and with pellets, and BB’s, as well. Now we just need to find the best compatibility and document it.

    • Bob M,

      Documentation will only get you so close as each airgun is slightly different in its performance, et cetera. This is why there is such a variation of ammunition available. I have tried pellets that others have raved about and had terrible results and have shot pellets which others think of as junk that performed wonderfully.

      It is true that some of the fancier pellets are like fishing lures, designed to catch the eye of the fisherman more than the fish. With experience a person quickly learns what will work and what will not for them and the particular airgun they possess.

      A very good example of this is I possess an air rifle that will shoot the RWS Superdome fantastically. Most folks think of that particular pellet as a fishing sinker. I also have an air rifle I have yet to find the proper pellet for.

    • Bob M,

      “I would not be surprised if a light weight .177 pellet shot through a very powerful magnum springer simply pushes the pellet so fast it has no time to engage the rifling and spin it. Just kind of shaves it off all the way around as it passes straight through. Pushing a pellet through rifling may not reveal the true impact it has on the pellet compared to blowing it through at 1200 fps.”

      https://forum.accurateshooter.com/threads/bullet-blow-ups.3961627/

      Your comment would indicate potentially too fast of a twist rate on the rifling. Actually the heavy PURE Lead projectiles are at greater risk of being blown through the rifling (called SMEAR) Interestingly that is how it works in both Black Powder muzzle loaders and why our airgun rule of thumb is for slower Rate of TWIST than the projectile stability formulas call for.
      In jacketed bullets, typically Copper jacketed, the Lead core will disintegrate (or perhaps by Lead melting) in the barrel which some folks identify as the spin rate being to high because it LOOKS like the bullet explodes once outside of the barrel which they then INCORRECTLY blame on too high of a Rate of SPIN.

      There is a great deal of BS on this on forums and the Internet resources as usual.

      shootski

      • Shootski,
        Never got that deep into shooting. First I heard of exploding bullets. Sounds like something that could be exploited for profit.
        I know the military has them now, something that explodes over a target in a fox hole, or beyond the wall they hide behind. Larger calibers I imagine.
        Beginning to believe pellet selection is as critical as trigger pull now.
        So what was done to barrels that are not pellet picky?

        • Bob M,

          The bullets are not exploding in the sense you are taking.
          The projectiles i was discussing are fragmenting due to the centrifugal force the supposed excessive spin is generating; although in reality it is faulty design or more likely manufacturing defects that are causing the bullet to fail. Bullets that actually contain an explosive charge are part myth part reality:
          https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1770159/

          This is as close as you get to what you are thinking of: https://targetammostore.com/product/50-bmg-he-raufoss-mk211-5-rounds/
          In reality 60 and 81mm mortar are the cartridges used to do what you are talking about.

          “So what was done to barrels that are not pellet picky?” Most believe that lapping a bore is the secret and hand lapping by a really good barrel maker even better. From what little i know there is way more to it than that. My opinion is that reaming the bore after the gun drill is done forming the bore (or if a drawn tube is used as on many airgun barrels reaming that first) and before rifling with a button is the important set of steps. This debate will rage fo as long as barrels are made.
          There are many ways that barrels are made…often the choices are made by the green eyeshade types or marketing as in the current Cold Hammer Forge (CFD) FAD.
          The final step is rejection and scraping of all the barrels that don’t pass the two step air gauging.

          Remember reamed, button rifled, and (hand lapped for firearms) = EXPENSIVE.

          You may have seen this already: https://quackenbushairguns.com/Airgun_barrels.htm

          shootski

  10. Shootski,
    The exploding bullets I was referring to were programed to explode at a given distance without impacting anything. A special / range finder / transmitter / scope fed the information to the projectile (bullet) I believe it was on something like a “Future Military Weapons” TV show. They could program the ‘bullet’ to explode 1 foot beyond a brick wall or directly over a fox hole. Kind of like a flying grenade. I believe they said it would be too cost prohibitive for anything but Government Sanctioned takedowns. But it exists.

    I understand that barrels can be worked to perform flawlessly, but I was interested in the off the shelf air gun that you occasionally hear about that is not pellet picky. I get great accuracy from my FX with just about any premium pellet for example. Perhaps it just luck or that one extra step taken in manufacturing. Could be first run of tooling? Something simple, overlooked, that actually works?
    Where is Sherlock when you need him? Thanks for the links.

  11. BB,
    I have satisfied my desire to find out why many air guns are not accurate, especially right out of the box.
    I would like to say I Troubleshot the problem, but it was mostly analyzing the problem by starting with the premise, you can’t fix something if you don’t know how or what makes it work.

    I started out by looking into ‘Rifling’ the various types and how they affect accuracy. One statement I found opened my eyes and gave me a starting point to develop my opinion.

    I’ll hold off till Friday or the next part to this blog to continue. No great revelation. We probably are all aware, but nobody will admit the obvious or put it all together.

    I’m in a power Blackout now and my ex fell and can’t stand up to get out of bed now. Hand, leg fractures and torn skin problems to deal with.

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