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What is the difference between a musket and a rifle?
A musket is smooth bored, like a shotgun's bore. A rifle has rifling inside the bore (grooves).
What are smooth bores?
Smooth bores are bores or barrels in guns that do not contain rifling. Rifling is made up of lands and grooves that cause the bullet to turn within the barrel of the gun. This turning gives the bullet and gun its accuracy. A smooth bore gun is much less accurate than a rifled bore gun.
Why smooth bore gun?
some firearms, like shotguns, have smooth bores. Due to the wide variety of different projectiles a shotgun is expected to shoot (from a fine dust-like shot, to a single, solid chuck of lead called a slug), the best type of bore, in this case would be a smooth bore. With a rifled barrel, you want to shoot ONLY a projectile of a specific diameter. This way, the rifling grooves can grab the projectile and impart a spin to it. With a shotgun, the presence of rifling would only confound things, and likely the rifling would get worn out / damaged by the wide variety of projectiles sent through it.
Why is rifling present in the bore of the barrel?
The rifling is there to spin the bullet, which gives greater accuracy.
Is a cannon a gun?
In the true sense of a cannon (smooth bore) yes. If the field piece has a rifled bore then it is technically a rifle. Modern artillery is primarily composed of large bore rifles. Tanks are an exception to this, their main armament is commonly smooth bore, although more and more are starting to revert back to rifled bores.
Is there rifling in a black powder ball muzzleloader?
It would depend on the type of gun,for the most part anything that is called a "rifle" has rifling in the barrel. A musket generally doesn't have rifling and is considered a "smooth bore" There are cases in both instances that cross the line such as rifled muskets (used in the Civil War) and weapons mistakenly called "rifles" as in you will hear a Brown Bess or charliville musket called a rifle. There are also guns called "Fowler's" these are for the most part smooth bore and meant for shot, but can also fire a ball, much the same as the musket.
What is the original part of the bore left after rifling grooves are formed?
Lands
What is the original part of the bore left after rifling?
When rifled, the rifling tool cuts the GROOVES. Material left between the grooves is the LANDS.
What direction does a bullet spin?
Direction of spin is dependent on the direction of the rifling on the inside bore of the barrel. A bullet will spin the same direction as the rifling.
Whats The original part of the bore left after rifling grooves are formed?
Lands
What is smoothbores?
For guns, a "smoothbore" is a gun that was smooth on the inside of the barrel(or bore). These were also called "muskets" or "smoothbore musket". Later, gunsmiths began to cut a spiral groove in the bore which was called "rifling" that gave a spin to the bullet, resulting in a straighter trajectory and longer range. These were called "rifles".
What are two types of bore site tools?
Rifled bore and Smooth bore
