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Offline Ken Prather

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Re: French inspired Colonial Fowler
« Reply #25 on: October 13, 2019, 05:35:18 PM »
FYI, John Getz informed me that this barrel has "tapered rifling."  The depth starting at the breech is .017" I wonder if tapering the rifling depth might act similar to a choke?
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Offline Mike Brooks

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Re: French inspired Colonial Fowler
« Reply #26 on: October 13, 2019, 05:57:01 PM »
FYI, John Getz informed me that this barrel has "tapered rifling."  The depth starting at the breech is .017" I wonder if tapering the rifling depth might act similar to a choke?
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Re: French inspired Colonial Fowler
« Reply #27 on: October 14, 2019, 11:40:05 PM »
Just checked and there is only .003 difference in the taper so probably not any significant choke effect.
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