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  2. Accurizing - Wikipedia

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    Accurizing is the process of improving the accuracy and precision of a gun (firearm or airgun). [1] For shooting sport, accuracy is the gun's ability to hit exactly what the shooter is aiming at, and precision is the ability to hit the same place over and over again in a

  3. CCI Phantom - Wikipedia

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    The CCI Phantom is a Nelson-based pump action paintball marker developed and produced by Mike Casady. Production began in 1987 after about six months of prototype work. The name for the marker was derived from the much more stealth-oriented and drawn-out style of play that was typical when the game was first developing.

  4. Spray painting - Wikipedia

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    Spray paint being applied to a piece of equipment An LVLP system spray gun. Spray painting is a painting technique in which a device sprays coating material (paint, ink, varnish, etc.) through the air onto a surface.

  5. Glossary of firearms terms - Wikipedia

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    For double-barreled guns that use one shotgun barrel and one rifle barrel, see combination gun. Double action revolver: A revolver whose trigger performs two actions, firing the round, and cocking the hammer. Double rifle: A rifle that has two barrels, usually of the same caliber. Like shotguns, they are configured either in over-and-under or ...

  6. Bluing (steel) - Wikipedia

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    Rust bluing is also used on shotgun barrels that are soldered to the rib between the barrels, as hot bluing solutions melt the solder during the bluing process. Large scale industrial hot bluing is often performed using a bluing furnace. This is an alternative method for creating the black oxide coating.

  7. KS-23 - Wikipedia

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    The barrel for the KS-23 were made from 23 mm aircraft gun barrels that were rejected due to manufacturing flaws. These rejected barrels were deemed to be acceptable for the lower stress of firing slugs and less-lethal rounds, and thus were cut down in length for use as shotgun barrels.

  8. Forensic firearm examination - Wikipedia

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    The caliber is the diameter of the barrel. The twist is the direction of the striations left by the barrel's rifling, clockwise (right-handed) or counterclockwise (left-handed). Most barrels will have a right-handed twist with the exception of weapons created by the Colt's Manufacturing Company which uses left-handed twists.

  9. Tapering (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    Gun Research Declassified Visit to Mauser-Werke 2022. Page 52; The Ultimate in Rifle Accuracy By Glenn Newick · 1990; Gunsmithing at Home: Lock, Stock & Barrel - Page 79, John E. Traister · 1996; Gunsmithing Modern Firearms: A Gun Guy's Guide to Making Good Guns Even Better, Bryce M. Towsley · 2019; Gunsmithing - Page 176, Roy F. Dunlap · 1963