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Brian from Oregon started a great thread on this topic. There are several sub threads there so I'm breaking out and asking a specific question:
Has anybody patterned a rifled slug barrel to see if the pattern is thrown off the point of aim?
But Joe, you say, you're going the wrong way on this.
Yes I am, but quite intentionally to try to shed some light on the claim that straight rifled barrels keep spinning wads flying straight and you therefore get more consistent patterns in relation to your aim point. I believe the incidence of this to be quite low (caused by cocked wads) so straight rifling would act more like an insuruance policy against that one-in-a-thousand problem. If we can see what happens with an intentionally spun wad, we can know exactly what it is we're correcting with straight rifling.
Anybody?
Joe
Has anybody patterned a rifled slug barrel to see if the pattern is thrown off the point of aim?
But Joe, you say, you're going the wrong way on this.
Yes I am, but quite intentionally to try to shed some light on the claim that straight rifled barrels keep spinning wads flying straight and you therefore get more consistent patterns in relation to your aim point. I believe the incidence of this to be quite low (caused by cocked wads) so straight rifling would act more like an insuruance policy against that one-in-a-thousand problem. If we can see what happens with an intentionally spun wad, we can know exactly what it is we're correcting with straight rifling.
Anybody?
Joe