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No, they are different.
A rifled barrel is a solid bar of steel which has a hole drilled through it down the center. The hole is spiral cut with lands and grooves (called rifling) such that when the bullet is fired, the bullet contacts the lands and spins as it moves down the barrel. This spinning stabilizes the bullet to improve range and accuracy.
A Damascus barrel starts with a stack of many different kinds of steel bars. The stack is hammer welded (pounded to the point where the steel flows together) to make a flat sheet. The sheet is wrapped around a steel bar to form a shotgun barrel and hammer welded to make it complete. When new, Damascus barrels are beautiful with the many colors in the steel. They don't age well, though, and often will have subsurface corrosion which weakens them to the point where they shouldn't be fired, even with the proper black powder ammunition. They should NEVER be fired with smokeless powder ammunition.
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What barrel do I use for rifled slugs?
a slug is normally use in a shot gun and they are not rifled a gun with a rifled barrel should shoot a Shell that is the same caliber as the gun.
Is a mossberg 54169 combo rifled?
Neither barrel is rifled.
Can rifled slugs be fired through rifled barrel?
Not safely
How do you check if a gun is rifled?
You look down the barrel and if it is swirled it is a rifled barrel and if it is not swirled it is a smooth bore
Can you shoot a smooth bore slug through a rifled barrel?
Shooting rifled slugs is the ONLY way to shoot thru a smoothbore for deer. If you shoot sabot slugs thru a smoothbore, it will not spin and therefore not be accurate. For accuracy, the slug must spin out of the barrel. Either shoot a rifled slug thru a smooth barrel, or shoot a saboted slug thru a rifled barrel.
What is the size of the forearm on a Mossberg 500 with a 24'' rifled barrel?
The same size forearm is used on all barrel lengths of the 500.
What is a button-rifled barrel?
All grooves are made at the same time with a tool called a "button" that is pushed or pulled down the barrel
What are smooth-bores?
Smooth-bore refers to a firearm or cannon which does not have a rifled barrel (a rifled barrel is one with ridges that corkscrew down the barrel to impart a spin to the bullet)
Best ammo for rifled shot gun?
Slugs! If its rifled it is a deer hunting barrel.
Which guns have rifled barrel?
Rifles and pistols
Can you change the barrel of a pellet rifle from a rifled to a smooth barrel?
Yes it could be done, but you would have to locate a smooth bore barrel to change it with. Remember smooth bore barrels are not as accurate as a rifled bore barrel.
Can you use steel shot in a lead barrel?
Assuming you mean a barrel that is for lead pellets, if the barrel is not rifled, steel shot will not damage the smooth barrel. If it is rifled however, steel shot will in fact damage the rifling.
