On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: > This allowed you to use normal rather than tapered barrels. But in the > vacuum of space you can't fin-stabilize rounds, so you need actual tapered > bores to get the effect. Er. In the vacuum of space, why would you *need* to fin-stabilize rounds? I mean, it's not like there's a cross wind.... Dan -- "Any sufficiently advanced parody is indistinguishable from a genuine kook." -Alan Morgan