Inside The Barrel Of A Rifle

[pianoman 3,587]

The grooves, turns, rifling lands call them what you like, are there to simply impart spin to the round and provide gyroscopic stability in flight. The greater the precision in the way the lands are cut, the more accurate the bullet or pellet fired from that barrel will perform. This is why headsizes of air rifle pellets are so important to get right and maximise the accuracy from the barrel of your rifle.

 

The lands or rifling are the fingerprint of the rifle as no two barrels are ever identicle in a particular make/model and calibre. There are always microscopic differences. And it is these differences that police forensic laboratories are equipped to find and determine whether a particular weapon of a particular calibre was used or not, from among any number of identicle weapons tested.

 

The utter bloody rubbish you hear from people who claim to have something of an interest in things like this, are a constant source of amazement to me!

Edited January 31, 2016 by pianoman

[just-A-snap 1,269]

The grooves, turns, rifling lands call them what you like, are there to simply impart spin to the round and provide gyroscopic stability in flight. The greater the precision in the way the lands are cut, the more accurate the bullet or pellet fired from that barrel will perform. This is why headsizes of air rifle pellets are so important to get right and maximise the accuracy from the barrel of your rifle.

 

The lands or rifling are the fingerprint of the rifle as no two barrels are ever identicle in a particular make/model and calibre. There are always microscopic differences. And it is these differences that police forensic laboratories are equipped to find and determine whether a particular weapon of a particular calibre was used or not.

 

The utter bloody rubbish you hear from people who claim to have something of an interest in things like this, are a constant source of amazement to me!

Think it is called the I can do that syndrome.

[Deker 3,478]

The grooves are rifling to impart twist to the bullet and give it stability in flight. In theory the grooves on a bullet could be matched to the rifling on a particular gun if the bullet wasn't smashed or squashed on impact - which they are. Unless of course Gil Grissom from CSI has a way of unsquashing the bullet for examination.

 

In answer to your mate - No it's not there to match the bullet to the gun and Yes, he is a bellend.

 

 

And that's about the size of it, but a quick rider, the crown may well be more of a give away forensically, if it shows any damage patterns or cutting inaccuracies, otherwise the rifling will be the main source of evidence!

[treecreeper 1,136]

 

 

The grooves, turns, rifling lands call them what you like, are there to simply impart spin to the round and provide gyroscopic stability in flight. The greater the precision in the way the lands are cut, the more accurate the bullet or pellet fired from that barrel will perform. This is why headsizes of air rifle pellets are so important to get right and maximise the accuracy from the barrel of your rifle.

 

The lands or rifling are the fingerprint of the rifle as no two barrels are ever identicle in a particular make/model and calibre. There are always microscopic differences. And it is these differences that police forensic laboratories are equipped to find and determine whether a particular weapon of a particular calibre was used or not.

 

The utter bloody rubbish you hear from people who claim to have something of an interest in things like this, are a constant source of amazement to me!

Think it is called the I can do that syndrome.

It's more commonly known as bullshit,

[andykllhr 91]

100% Bell-End

[mad4it 694]

I think your mate is 100% twat.

[steg 609]

Sounds like he can't handle his winter warmer's. ...Bless him!

 

 

Not saying i can like..?

Edited February 2, 2016 by steg