Andrea Nash - Firing Range

[masterofgunfu]

 Andrea is making the best of what she sees as a bad situation. Bar had refused to give her either real guns or live ammunition but had instead given her two pistols armed with paintballs. Now Andrea is alternating between single targets and multiple, all the while growing more and more frustrated as stray breezes are messing with her aim. Of course, her idea of bad aim–5-10 mm off–might not be the same as anyone else's.

Damn but she misses her P226s.

[OOC: And just to avoid confusion, Millitimed to the day before Ellen's return EP.]

Comments

[masterofgunfu]

"But Davy Crockett was an excellent marksmen," Andrea counters. Don't mess with her culture icons there Alfred. "And he used a musket rifle."

[battle_butler]

"Yes. A rifle, not a smooth-bore. And it was the original smooth-bores that had the accuracy issues. Same as with those, really," he says gesturing to the pistols Andrea's holding. "It's exactly what rifling was invented to solve."

[masterofgunfu]

"Longer barrel give the ball time to get a good spin while you can still have a chance of control its path?" she guesses.

[battle_butler]

"Rifling makes the round spin in a controlled manner. So, it deviates far less from it's intended trajectory," Alfred replies. Then, he continues, clarifying, "The original rifles were the same length and design as a standard smooth-bore musket of the time, but had a, I'm not quite sure, but I'd guess about 50% increase in accuracy, relative to the smooth-bore."

[masterofgunfu]

"Was this when they started the spiral bore to guide the path as well or was that later?"

[battle_butler]

"That is rifling," Alfred says, smiling.