Doz wrote:
Not disputing your own findings Sim G, but we have two recently-retired members of the national squad in the club who swear the opposite is the case! Having said that, I've never seen any great results using wads but Sainsbury's semolina is a different matter... :)
Likewise, not disputing that. But there's two things that really don't make sense with seating the ball close to the chamber mouth in a B/P revolver.
Firstly, the cylinder gap. Whether the ball is way back, or wa forward in the chamber, it still has to "jump" over the cylinder gap. The ball will be in mid air, unguided and unobstructed for a nano second whilst this gap is crossed before reaching the forcing cone. Also, the cylinder rotates and regardless of how tight that revolver is, the cylinder will not stop in exactly the same position it did on the previous advancement....
Secondly, some of the most accurate caretridge revolvers involve shooting a .38 special wadcutter seated all the way back in the case chambered in a .357 cylinder.....
And what I did find is that balls started closer to the chamber mouth didn't have as much velocity as those seated further back!
In 1978 I was told by my grand dad that the secret to rifle accuracy is, a quality bullet, fired down a quality barrel..... How has that changed?
Guns dont kill people. Dads with pretty Daughters do...!