I think it's important that we keep all this in perspective. It's a gun, belonging to the person wanting the cone lengthened, not someone else's grandmother.
I've posted my description of what my patterning results were on this site at least a couple times. It convinced me. I don't have quantitative data, so if you want that, you'll have to do your own testing. While I'm certainly no proponent of taking a pristine high value collectable or even low value rare high condition gun, and modifying it, I will modify my mostly bottom-feeding guns to suit me and sleep well at night.
If something developed a hundred years ago was as good as it could get, you'd be riding in a Wright Flyer when you bought an airline ticket and we'd still be pouring gravel in a large bore and lighting the saltpeter with a torch.
Thankfully, there's something new under the sun everyday.
Last edited by Chuck H; 04/01/11 11:44 PM.
