One thing I find amazing
is I never hear of Smiths being at all interested in what is going on here. They seem to continue to simply do things the way they always have done them, i.e. cut the barrels off to make weight and pay no attention to the bore diamater or where the bow in the barrel is or any of the other stuff that is discussed here.
In the race car hobbies there is a constant flurry to seek new knowledge and to make the cars go faster and or handle better. In this hobby people seem to simply "poke & Hope" with barrels as they come from the makers. Some of em shoot pretty good, there is the ocasional great one and some are very marginal. There has to be more to them shooting that the molecular structure they are made of. There has to be more to where the tight spot occurs and where the dead spot tells one to cut it off. There has to be way more we all can learn that simply hoping we get a good one. We have a guy who is trying to tell us something and many of us ridicule what he is saying.
In my mind, an internal combustion engine is an internal combustion engine. what can be learned on a smaller scale doesn't mean that the knowledge is not transferable to the degree it is relevent. If we need to EXPAND on a theme then let's try.
