Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process or operation of cutting spiral grooves in a rifle barrel.
- noun Grooves cut in a rifle barrel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of plundering or pillaging.
- noun plural The waste from sorting bristles.
- noun The operation of cutting spiral grooves in the bore of a gun.
- noun A system or method of spiral grooving in the bore of a rifle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.
- noun The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon.
- noun rifling for cannon, in which one side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.
- noun The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon. Shunt rifling, rifling for cannon, in which one side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves.
- verb Present participle of
rifle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm
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Examples
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This stupid practice of Reloaders believing to seat the bullet until it barely touches the rifling is the best way to blow your head off!
Does anyone load for a Weatherby with the long throat? What should I do with it? 2009
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This stupid practice of Reloaders believing to seat the bullet until it barely touches the rifling is the best way to blow your head off!
Does anyone load for a Weatherby with the long throat? What should I do with it? 2009
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In theory it keeps your shots more consistent because the amount of force it takes to launch the bullet into the rifling is uniform from shot-to-shot.
Rifles of Interest: Remington Model 700 Custom Shop AWR II 2009
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In theory it keeps your shots more consistent because the amount of force it takes to launch the bullet into the rifling is uniform from shot-to-shot.
Rifles of Interest: Remington Model 700 Custom Shop AWR II 2009
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The rifling is scorched about a third of the way up the barrel.
.270 vs. 2007
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Twenty-caliber cartridges are not a new idea but have not been a popular one because of the difficulty in rifling bores that small and making good bullets to fit them.
Ammunition 2007
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When you get a tube smoking hot and keep it that way, its rifling is going to erode.
Barrel Life, Part II 2006
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The advantage claimed for cut rifling is that it creates no stresses within the barrel because nothing is bashed, pounded, or stretched.
Roll Out the Barrel 2005
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The rifling is not cut “Sharp”, there’s rounded edges … to my eyes anyway.
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I still don’t know if “cut” rifling is better than “button”, or if a hammer-forged barrel is best.
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