Deeper rifling grooves?

[harleynut]

the most important thing for accuracy is located behind the bore past the barrel, it is the shooter. there is a lot of sweet music left in a worn-out fiddle, as long as the man playing it knows how,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Well Said!!

 

[M. De Land]

the most important thing for accuracy is located behind the bore past the barrel, it is the shooter. there is a lot of sweet music left in a worn-out fiddle, as long as the man playing it knows how,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

That is very true and a good shot can tell if his rifle and load are preforming to potential or not when shots do not register to point of aim at trigger break. That is know as calling ones shots , good or bad.

 

[Relic shooter]

The main thing is determining wither or not the author was using paper or cloth patching , conical or ball projectile. The requirements of rifling depth and pitch are not the same for top accuracy.

Correct

 

[longcruise]

The main thing is determining wither or not the author was using paper or cloth patching , conical or ball projectile. The requirements of rifling depth and pitch are not the same for top accuracy.

He was all about big bore round ball guns. I think he hunted a lot in india. I might be wrong on that though.

 

[Billy-by-gosh]

The main thing is determining wither or not the author was using paper or cloth patching , conical or ball projectile. The requirements of rifling depth and pitch are not the same for top accuracy.

Well, here's the opportunity to get all his details from the free text version of Forsyth's book:
Full text of "The sporting rifle and its projectiles" by J Forsyth

 

[WonkyEye]

I am 67 years old and have been handloading since I was 10. over the course of my existence, I have done some shooting too and saw a bunch of different shooters and have had the chance to train quite a few in my life. the hardest person to train to shoot is a man that has been a casual shooter that really can't hit the broad side of a barn. the easiest to train is a woman that has never shot. a man thinks he just supposed to know how to shoot because he is a man, and it goes in one ear and out the other. a woman will listen and follow orders, on a gun range anyway my point is you definitely need to know how to shoot before you start trying to get all the accuracy out of a gun that you can. not saying that about any of the people that have chimed in or the original poster, just sayin most guns can shoot better than the shooter to start off with,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Ha! You must have never tried to instruct your own wife before My wife won't listen to a damn thing if it comes out of my mouth, get somebody she doesn't know and she takes it as gospel though. My buddies wives are exactly the same with them. My brother and I have successfully traded wives at the range when we took both to shoot the first time.