[John Rogers]

Sorta tried I'd say with the direction of the barrel twist direction. We have a Schuetzen fellow with a rifle made by Harry Pope with two barrels, one right hand twist and one left hand twist. Since the bullet is small diameter and very long the direction it is spinning in relation to the wind direction can cause the bullet to either climb or drop slightly? With a patched round ball the tightness of the patch and width of the rifling can affect how the lead ball travels. As an example I have a "chunk gun" that was made including the rifling in the 1 1/2 inch 50 caliber barrel by a Midwest master gunsmith named Web Terry that has the lands and grooves the same diameter and is made to use a very tight ball and linen patch and it goes in an arc but straight as an arrow even in a healthy wind. I have several others with different rifling and they are very easily affected by side wind so I have to refer to my note book every time I shoot them.