how does this work with a .22 bullet?

Question

I tried to take a bullet and fit it in to the end of the barrel but the bullet is too big!

if the bullet is too small then how does it come out?

I was going to add a rubber piece of tubing on to the end to see if it would increase the accuracy (I know it wont work) but I what would happen to the rubber tube when the bullet enters it?

I measured the end of the barrel and got rubber tubing of the same size.

Answer 1

DON'T ever put anything in the barrel of a gun. It can easily become jammed and cause the action to blow up in your face causing severe injury or DEATH. At the very least it will destroy the barrel and ruin the gun. Other than pointing the gun at someone, this is about the least safe thing you could possibly do.

Answer 2

The caliber of the rifle is measured in the diameter of the barrel before it's rifled. The bullet is then made to fit the diameter of the cut rifling which will be a bit bigger....so a bullet compresses as it slides down the barrel. That's how the police can match rifling grooves cut into a fired bullet.

An easy way to estimate barrel wear in milsurp weapons has always been to try to insert a bullet down the muzzle....if it's good, it won't fit....if the rifling's worn away too much, it will. So if your bullet *did* fit down your barrel easily, your rifling would be very well worn.

Tubing? It can't match the axis of the barrel perfectly, so it'll be blown off the muzzle. The bullet will leave the muzzle of the barrel and hit the tubing and be slowed....and that speed change will either split the tubing radically or blow it off the muzzle.

Answer 3

Don't even try to add rubber tube to the end of the barrel, it will ruin the barrel or even blow up in your face. The bullet is to big because it needs to catch on to the rifling to spin the bullet when it comes out.

Answer 4

Do not ever put anything into the barrel, or damage the crowning tip of the barrel.
to increase accuracy, get a scope, or lenghten the distance between the front sight and the rear sights if you are using open sights. also, once you zero in your scope or sights, take note of the bullet you use. Do a trigger job. This is all that can be done to a gun, the rest is upon you to improve your shooting abilities.
I don't think you can outshoot a gun's accuracy... in the field.

Answer 5

Throw the rubber tubing away, you have no use for it... I believe you have a 22 caliber firearm... If it is a 22 caliber you can fire it into a bucket of water and recover the bullet.. On the bullet will be rifling marks. No marks on the bullet, no rifling, bad barrel........

Answer 6

first of all there are different size bullets that you putt in a clip or a tube on the bottom of the gun.as for the rubber it would melt to the end of your gun and probably would cover the hole and shift the bullet