Bullet Flight

Hello to all,

Since I'm not a physicist or engineer I won't try to explain  the facts and opinions in the discussions of this post. I don't know about low velocity cast bullet loads but there are barrels that do something  way down the range that cause high velocity jacketed bullets to start flying very well, and I suspect cast bullets are affected the same. The fellow at Beanfield  Rifles described it as putting the bullet to sleep. I can't remember how many of his high quality barrels were said to perform as such. Seems like only 1 in 7. Don't hold me to that number, because i think that it was fewer than 1 in 7. I have built several rifles and have only had one which seems to perform in that manner. I''m speaking of a Model 70 Winchester re-barreled with a Shilen barrel and chambered in 22-250. When I got the rifle to a test basis, I took it to the 100 yd range and was kind of disappointed in the 100 yd performance. About  a month later I took it to the prairie dog fields and man did I get a surprise when I started shooting out past 200 yds. Something happened. The consistent accuracy at long distance  couldn't be explained by me and at the time I had never heard of barrels that would put the bullet to sleep, but evidently I own one of them.

Mashburn