Just a speculation. I remember reading memoirs of a XIX-century Russian gunsmith, the man was evedently a good handiman but short on theory. So, apparently, his most common job was honing. Like, the customer isn't satisfied with how the gun patterns? Hone it! No improvement? Hone it again! So, what I'm driving it is, can it be that flaring started out as a method to fix some muzzle defect. So that the guns actually patterned better after it, and it started the myth that all flared barrels shoot better than all non-flared ones?
Last edited by Humpty Dumpty; 11/21/08 08:37 AM.
