Some of these artillery pieces have been used so frequently that their barrel liners, where the rifling is, has worn out. Once a barrel has fired over 2,500 shells, the wear on the barrel causes ...

I admired my late father’s skills as a tinsmith. I was amazed at what he could do with sheet metal, aluminum and copper. I took a different path, but in my teens, I was his “helper” in his sheet ...

Winchester's new .21 Sharp cartridge is designed to solve some of the longstanding problems with .22 Long Rifle and give ...

The 4.49" long Glock Marksman barrel features a competition-style recessed crown to help protect the rifling at the muzzle. These barrels have been tightened up in and around their chambers and ...

Coin flip, toss up, dice roll, or whatever metaphor you prefer — that’s how it feels whenever a contest comes to Peniche’s ...

Cyclone Alfred brought world-class surf to Kirra Point, where many everyday surfers nabbed the waves of their lives. And got ...

This is the distance from the case neck to the beginning of the leade — the gentle cone that funnels the projectile into the rifling. A shorter freebore ... of 1:12 — 1 revolution per 12 inches of ...

Barrel optimized for recoil reduction.

The rifleman’s European name is thought to have arisen either from its habit of foraging around tree trunks in a spiral pattern (as per the rifling of a gun barrel) or from its similarity in colour to ...