Without being asked.... Jocelyn of Cibles Canada Targets, has already mailed the balls without waiting for payment to arrive by U.S. mail......
It is rare to find trust at this level anymore!. Those Graphite & Copper Clad balls are not cheap for him to acquire from Germany.
Since I am on the subject.... I anticipate the .22 Graphite balls may very well be much lighter in weight than the Lobo lead in addition to being better made. They should "Fly like Hell". Anyone know for sure?
The Copper Clad should be slightly lighter than the generic lead .22's too because Copper is lower in the Periodic Table.
One other question relating to rifling and balls.... were smooth bore .22 caliber rifles ever made for balls?.... and if so, were the balls held in place with a spring like the old Daisy .177 airguns?.
As was pointed out to me earlier by a shooter(name forgotten, sorry.)..... rifling serves no useful purpose(?) other than to hold balls in the barrel and prevent them from rolling out in modern guns. -LarryS
Cibles (AKA Jocelyn) is a credit to the airgun community!
Re: Cibles (AKA Jocelyn) is a credit to the airgun community
I don't believe that's true. Rifling was added to firearms when round balls were still in use.LarryS wrote:As was pointed out to me earlier by a shooter(name forgotten, sorry.)..... rifling serves no useful purpose(?) other than to hold balls in the barrel and prevent them from rolling out in modern guns. -LarryS
When a ball is fired in a smoothbore, the ball slides down the barrel and takes up spin with an unknown direction. The ball moves in the direction of it's spin.
With a rifled bore, the ball is spun around it's axis giving a more consistent trajectory.
-LarryS