roadrocket
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can anyone enlighten me i have been looking at adverts for these guns and it seems they have rifled barrels i have just seen one which was a smooth bore is this unusual? it is 36 cal.
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pietta 1851 navy smooth bore
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bedbugbilly
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I'd be curious to know if the smoothbore you saw was new or if it might have been a used one that was altered? Possibly the bore reamed to use as a "snake gun" to shoot shot? I can't imagine why anyone would do it but hey, some folks get some strange ideas. If it was new . . . perhaps it "slipped through"??
roadrocket
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It belongs to a friend of mine. It's comparatively unused but I don't know it's age. It's definitely smooth-bore and a 36 calibre. I'll be posting some pictures and a video tomorrow
roadrocket
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The next frame shows it down. I'm guessing that it is a photographic anomaly rather than actual blowback since it didn't go full auto or rotate out of battery for the next shot. The hammer is at full cock. Maybe there is some "memory" of the film or pixels that leaves a microsecond ghost of the hammer before it drops. Maybe someone else can more fully explain it or correct me. I'm just guessing.
The same occurrence has been seen before in other photos. One speculation was linked to the transfer rate of the camera's processor. The reality is that cameras are suppose to record video at a fixed rate of say 30 frames per second, all while processing and storing it at the "same time" which may create a lag or back up flow of streaming yet not fully recorded pixels. So the imagery may be somewhat limited by technology and not capable of perfectly mirroring reality, but rather it only provides a distorted reflection of it.
For instance, I've notice that when taking video with a small digital camera that the sound will be heard long after the actual visual of the shot.
The sound track does not mesh with the visual due to the limitation of the processor.
Maybe the photo above is actually in between 2 frames, or a composite of 2 or more frames during the switch from one micro frame to the next.
It's just like when an internet page loads on the monitor, there's a process of how the page loads, and how it appears before its fully loaded. If it were viewed in slow or stop motion then maybe it would be more noticeable. Everyone's computer and internet connection has a different data transfer rate.
What if the camera processes the video images that it take from right to left, then that might explain the inconsistency of the image.
Similarly, if a camera processes the visual images before the sound track, then that would explain why on a small digital camera video, the sound of the shot is heard after the visual of the shot.
For instance, I've notice that when taking video with a small digital camera that the sound will be heard long after the actual visual of the shot.
The sound track does not mesh with the visual due to the limitation of the processor.
Maybe the photo above is actually in between 2 frames, or a composite of 2 or more frames during the switch from one micro frame to the next.
It's just like when an internet page loads on the monitor, there's a process of how the page loads, and how it appears before its fully loaded. If it were viewed in slow or stop motion then maybe it would be more noticeable. Everyone's computer and internet connection has a different data transfer rate.
What if the camera processes the video images that it take from right to left, then that might explain the inconsistency of the image.
Similarly, if a camera processes the visual images before the sound track, then that would explain why on a small digital camera video, the sound of the shot is heard after the visual of the shot.
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