Name: Abrea, Ericka Mae G.

Year/Section: 4-Bravo

Activity
Learning Check

I. What are the stages in the manufacture of barrels? Briefly discuss each.
Answer: The four (4) stages manufactured of barrels are drilling, reaming, rifling and lapped. To
begin with, drilling is a special deep hole that used and at this stage, the interior surface of the
barrel will bear numerous scars and scratches resulting from the irregular cutting of the drill and
the metal chips which mark the finish under pressure. On the other hand, is the reaming stage, in
this process, some of the scars or scratches left by the drilling operation are removed. It includes
roughly finishing and burnishing the reamer to have a smooth bore barrel. Another stage is
rifling; this process is necessary for the making of the holiday proves inside the barrel. Rifling in
the bore of the firearm is a helical groove consisting of the depressed portion (grooves) and an
elevated portion (lands) which is responsible for the rotation motion of the projectile as it leaves
the gun muzzle. The last stage is lapped which is the polishing operation in which a lead plug
closely fitting the inside of the barrel is drawn back and forth on a rod carrying with it a
polishing compound.
II. Differentiate Class from individual characteristics and give examples.
Answer: Let’s begin with bore diameter which it is the diameter to which the bore was reamed,
and it is the distance measured between two opposite lands inside the bore in hundredths or
thousandths of an inch. Example of this is in shotguns, they are either in gauge or an inch, such
as 10 gauge (.775), 12 gauge (.729), 20 gauge (.615), 24 gauge (.579), 30 gauge (.537) 36 gauge
(.506), and the smallest of which is gauge .410. While on number of lands and grooves this class
refers to the number of lands and grooves inside the barrel of a given firearm are always the
same or equal. It may run from 3 to 8, but the most in the modern firearm are five and six. On the
other hand, width of the lands is a dependent class upon the bore diameter of the gun, grooves,
width, and number. Proceeding to the width of the Grooves which this class is measured as the
shortest distance between the two dies or the edge of a groove while the direction of twist is for
the rifling inside the barrel of the gun and it could be either twisted to the left or to the right
which causes the bullet to rotate as it passes through the bore, in order to ensure gyroscopic
stability in its flight. Another class is what we called pitch of Rifling, the pitch of rifling is the
measure of the twisting of the lands and grooves. And the last class is the depth of the grooves,
the groove’s depth is measured on the radius of the bore.