Everyone knows that you can ring a chamber.
Everyone knows that you can ring a barrel.
So why didn't the breech loaders of the 1860's, Sharp's, Smith's, Maynard's, etc. ring their chambers when there was air space in the chambers?
Not enough axial length distance for the acceleration of the pressure wave?
But, but... chambers get ringed too. But civil war carbines, nah.
It's just something I've wondered about and never resolved in my own mind.
Everyone knows that you can ring a barrel.
So why didn't the breech loaders of the 1860's, Sharp's, Smith's, Maynard's, etc. ring their chambers when there was air space in the chambers?
Not enough axial length distance for the acceleration of the pressure wave?
But, but... chambers get ringed too. But civil war carbines, nah.
It's just something I've wondered about and never resolved in my own mind.