Inventions Needed: Exterior counter rifled gun barrels.
Background: The trend
in firearms today both military issue and hunting is to have barrels that are
thin walled at the end. The other extreme
to this is the bull barrel that does not taper to the end of it and remains
thick walled. Solders and hunters need
light barrels when they are in the field because it increases endurance and
therefore the distance one can travel.
Why? You are carrying less
weight.
What is the problem with light barrels? They are not as accurate because that tapered
end is not as stable and tends to “Wobble” as the bullet leaves the muzzle.
One simple solution that should be standard issue for all
AR-15 and M-16 rifles would be a barrel that has a rifling ridge pattern on its
exterior that is the opposite direction to the internal rifling that spins the
bullet. The exterior rifling would
indeed provide a balancing force to the bullet as force is created when it is
pushed through the internal rifling and forced to spin. Internal rifling increases accuracy but is
also creates a back-force inside the barrel.
This back-force or pressure is what creates wobble on the thin barrel
end and is therefore more stable.
A exterior counter rifled gun barrel would increase accuracy
without adding the weight of the bull barrel.
Why because the back pressure created by what can be termed partial
obstruction of the internal rifling is counterbalanced by the exterior ridged
rifling pattern. What we might indeed
find out is that a barrel such as this would be more accurate than a heavier
bull barrel with a uniform cylinder.
They might indeed become the new standard and should be.
You wont want a foreign country to get these first.
Copyright 2012 Thomas Paul Murphy, all rights reserved.
Originally published on 05 21 2012 at: www.themilwaukeeandwisconsinnews.blogspot.com
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