MikeFromON
40 Cal.
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Hello all. I noticed that the under-barrel ribs on my flinters were only held on with little screws so I took them off just for fun. Both rifles felt noticeably lighter and more swingable and felt much more balanced in my hands, particularly my Mortimer which is ordinarily very muzzle-heavy. After a few dozen shots through each gun it seemed to me that my groups were opening up bigtime in the horizontal plane (side to side). Generally, both guns would shoot groups about 3 inches wide and 10 inches tall but without the ribs the groups were up to 20 inches wide, although the same 10 inches tall. I shoot offhand from 50 yards, using several different projectiles including PRBs, REALs, Hornady PA and Remington conicals, and even some sabots. Has anybody else tried the same experiment and had similar results?