2-piper, there is so much misunderstanding about the Birmingham Gun Trials I have been considering putting together an article reviewing the entire trial complete with all the tables and methodology used. Perhaps some magazine would like to publish it. Some years ago I believe the DGJ published an article on it but was so incomplete and misleading that much of what we hear today probably stemed from it. Little known is that so much was left out in the original trial that the Field magazine conducted their own tests later on using fewer barrels but chambered them and tested them to complete failure. Very interesting stuff.

John McCain is my war hero.