What if They Rifled Bullets Instead of Barrels?

[Certaindeaf]

The Gyrojet rockets would spin.. no rifling.

 

[Acera]

If you want to hide the results from CSI there is an easier, common way.

Use Frangible bullets. Nothing left with identifying marks. And you don't have to reinvent the wheel.

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

I just wondered if technology was expanding to such a level. All the things mentioned above would lead us to believe that improvements in projectile stability might lead designers to try to create rifled or finned projectiles as alternatives to the rifled bore concept. I'll bet some lab somewhere had already done it with suitable accuracy.

 

[Grey Morel]

I guess I needed to specify. I'm talking handgun and rifle. I know about rifled "slugs".

Please explain why you think either of those projectiles would behave differently?

 

[MilsurpShooter]

You're thinking of the Armstrong Rifled Cannon. The Parrot had a attached dish on the rear of the shell that the detonation of the powder expands into the rifling.

Could have been. Going off of memory, think I saw it on Lock and load with R. Lee Ermey, shot it at a load of oil drums.

 

[possom813]

How about the old Accelerator rounds with the plastic basket housings

 

[GLOOB]

If you're worried about CSI, use #00 buckshot in a breechloader.

Or howsabout a 35 gr varmint bullet out of a 22-250?

 

[SharpsDressedMan]

Please explain why you think either of those projectiles would behave differently?

Really? Everythjing about a rifle or pistol cartridge is different than a rifled shotgun slug. Size, weight, design, accuracy, range, etc. I'm asking about improved technology and results for the use of rifled pistol or rifle projectiles in smoothbore barrels. The question is still out there.

 

[MistWolf]

Smoothbores are classified as shotguns by the BATF regardless of caliber.

The problem with rifling the projectile is that it won't get traction inside the barrel and won't spin reliably

 

[Cosmoline]

Well there was the Whitworth with its custom bullets. Worked incredibly well when you could get the bullets. Easily MOA or better.

But of course the barrel still has "rifling" of a sort, it's just a different system from the usual groove and land.

Do M-16 bullets tumble in flight?

When you fire the wrong weight in the wrong twist rate barrel, they certainly can.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

Or how about a gun that holds on to the bullet, but the barrel goes shooting at the target! Yeah, it's a single shot!

Is that a speer gun?