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Gun with a 180 bent barrel -- will it explode or will it fire Tom and Jerry way?

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GlennSprigg:

--- Quote from: KL27x on July 18, 2020, 08:27:47 pm ---The sawn off shotgun trick? I assume he installed a choke. The choke is what makes the spread tighter; the length of the barrel doesn't matter, unless you allow it to take up a significant percentage of the distance to the target. When you saw the end off a shotgun, you are removing the choke in the muzzle end; that's why the spread increases. The choke is basically a slight reduction in the bore and it has an effect something like a focusing lens.

The silencer can work on any length barrel. It can't work (very well) on a revolver because there's a gap between the cylinder and the forcing cone of the barrel. The gases shooting out of there will be enough to wake the dead. This is also the reason you can't shoot lead reloads in a revolver or a blowback pistol without making a lot of smoke. Lead bullets require lube, and the hot lube shooting out the gap produces the smoke. In a locked breech firearm, the bits that make the smoke can get fully combusted.

There is a revolver called the Nagant (early 1900's or maybe late 1800's?) with a cylinder that moves forward and back. The brass case is longer than the cylinder but crimped over. When fired, the case mouth flares open to seal the cylinder gap. It was military issue in its day. Britian? US? Don't remember. But it was sometimes used with a silencer.

The gases shooting out the cylinder gap can cause damage to the shooter, in extreme cases. You have to be careful how you hold a S&W 500 revolver, or you can end up in the ER with a nasty finger wound.

Your brother sounds like a colorful chap, spreading colorful theories.

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Thanks for your info. That's interesting, thank you.  However, regarding your last line, it wasn't 'theory'!!  :)
As I first explained, that "Seeing, (and hearing), was believing", as he demonstrated it all on the Range.
It was maybe 20-25 years ago, so I forget if he mentioned a 'choke' in the shotgun barrel. Maybe so? However,
he had about 3 or 4 'sawn-offs', (amongst many other rifles/pistols). He explained, (and demonstrated), how the
pellets can move in a 'wave' pattern down the barrel, and by 'tuning' the length precisely, just when the pellets
were at the point of converging again, (or the 'pressure' wave surrounding the pellets?), they would stay together.  :-//
Evidently this also required precise home-assembled cartridges, for consistency. 

Ed.Kloonk:
The Lithgow factory now is a museum.

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