Mick

You are a Christian and generous man not to join there and flame this fellow.

Have a look at the following photo and see if you can work out how these old makers made these damn rifles so

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with a larger chamber area, to accommodate the seating of a cartridge, with case, as opposed to that same barrels bullet exit hole where there is no need to accommodate a case. At some point this left to right taper will send a bullet out to a range

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