The Stock must be aligned with the Barrel

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Bob Kingsbury

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I would not disagree that this is a good thing. It has been said
here , However,that beyond impressing your pals with tracking, a rail gun
doesn't need it.
 
Bob

You are correct. The only time that "dead on tracking" is a concern with a Rail Gun is if one of your buddies happens to look through the scope and move the top back and forth. If it by chance happens to track dead on, you can give him the old speech about the hours you spent getting it that way.

Aside from that, as long as you remember to place it against the stop for each shot, it is of little consequence.

When stockers say that the action is dead in alignment, how true is that. Since some ID's of barrels can be somewhat in miss-alignment with the OD, whats the point.

And then there are the Gunsmiths who align just the first few inches of the barrel for chambering, and leave the muzzle to do what ever it is going to do. Heck, that barrel sure isn't in "alignment with the stock".

A shooter at Rachels Glenn ask me this week end why his Rifle did't return to exactly the same spot every time after each shot, or even if he moved it back and forth witout shooting. I told him I didn't have a clue, because mine didn't either, and it didn't seem to make any difference at the endof the day.........jackie.
 
Bob Kingsbury said:
I would not disagree that this is a good thing. It has been said
here , However,that beyond impressing your pals with tracking, a rail gun
doesn't need it.
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Most winning railguns, that I know of, have their barrels in alignment with their rail tracking "v" ways, and the rails track true to POA. I am sure there are some exceptions, but not many.

And, this not to say that these true running railguns have indexed barrels that match the rail tracking pattern, probably not, since indexing seems to be a little followed practice...................Don
 
When I first built my rail, it tracked super and shot very well. Years
later , having been apart a few times, it tracks in a verticle path
about 2 bullet holes, and shoots that way also. Its tough to prove
these things. What does a few groups prove
 
a few groups don't prove nothin. but just look thru any good railgun and it tracks true. that's more than a few groups. get in a 10 shot run and let it go off before it hits the stop and see if that 2 bullet holes of vertical matters then.
 
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