Rifle Accuracy Facts

The author, who spent his career studying trajectories of nuclear missles and artillery shells, wrote this work after becoming dissatisfied with the accuracy of commercial rifles. Through years of research, he examined a variety of gunsmithing and handloading issues in search of the ultimate in rifle accuracy, including barrel-receiver joint motion, barrel vibration and rigidity, chamber and throat design, case neck tension, and bullet imbalance.

The author served as the supervisor of the Aeroballistics Division of the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque from 1959 to 1986, which provided the flight dynamics and aerodynamic research for nuclear weapons.