Stan in Oly, WA
Well-known Member
I know that this is a question which would be more appropriately asked on a firearms forum, but I don't participate in any of those, and anyway, people on this forum know plenty about firearms. So, a few years ago I watched a movie where a couple of lowlifes committed a robbery with the only firearm one of them had been able to get---a double barreled sawed off shotgun with the barrels sawed off so short that the front ends of the shells protruded beyond the front of the barrels. I know that with firearms that shoot bullets, greater barrel length will normally produce higher bullet velocities, but I actually know very little about shotgun ballistics. Would the velocity of the pellets fired from such a shotgun be substantially less than if they had been fired from a shotgun with normal length barrel?
While I'm asking, how about a rifle bullet fired from a rifle from which the barrel had been removed, so that the bullet was fully supported by the chamber, but there was no barrel in front of it. Besides poor accuracy, how would such a bullet perform?
Stan
While I'm asking, how about a rifle bullet fired from a rifle from which the barrel had been removed, so that the bullet was fully supported by the chamber, but there was no barrel in front of it. Besides poor accuracy, how would such a bullet perform?
Stan