check that the firearm is unloaded. Then check it again. Close the action. Take a wooden dowel slightly smaller than the inside of the barrel, and slide it into the barrel until it rests on the face of the bolt. Mark the dowel at the muzzle. Withdraw the dowel, and measure from the end to the mark.
You would measure the inside of the barrel from land to land (In other words, you would not include the depth of the rifling)
I do not personally, but yes, there is a single shot rifle that can have the rifle barrel replaced with a shotgun barrel.
That term refers to the outline shape of the outside of a rifle barrel.
A bayonet is the name of a knife attached to the barrel of a rifle.
No.
One difference is that the inside of a shotgun barrel is smooth and the inside of a rifle barrel is what they call "fluted" which puts rotation on the bullet as it moves though the barrel.
the musket does not have a rifled barrel and a rifle does
It depends.. if you have a carbine length barrel and will be using it on a rifle with a carbine length barrel, then yes. If you took it from a rifle with a rifle length barrel, and are putting it on a rifle with a carbine length barrel, then it won't function properly.
More accurately, it would be IN a rifle- inside the barrel. If you look through the EMPTY barrel of a rifle or pistol, you will see spiral lines- the rifling. It consists of GROOVES- the lines cut into the barrel- and LANDS- the part of the barrel between the grooves.
The barrel of a rifle is characterized by rifling, helical grooves that impart spin on the bullet, stabilizing the projectile in flight.
The barrel guides and accelerates the bullet out of the rifle, and imparts spin to the bullet to stabilize the bullet in flight.
The main body of the rifle/weapon into which the barrel is attached.