Are short guns ever rifled?
Like handguns? Yes.
The rifling stabilizes the bullet. I’m not sure why you wouldn’t rifle any modern firearm, unless of course you had a projectile that was inherently stable. Maybe I’ll invent the football lace bullet.
I think some cap and ball revolvers were/are gain twist rifled, don’t know about rifles. Been in and out of fashion for years obviously. Possibly more applicable to slower velocities and/or heavier projectiles.
>Are short guns ever rifled?
Yes, Sometimes.
I saw a video where they were putting regular shot down one and comparing it to the normal scatter-patterns of a shotgun.
(It tended to make ‘O’ patterns.)
>>>Are short guns ever rifled?<<<
Ummm, Maybe when they get scraped for gonorrhea, maybe they spiral it.
Ok, sorry, couldn’t resist.......
By "short guns" you mean handguns? Yes. As far as I know, they all are. About the only type non rifled gun is a shotgun because what good would it do all the shot, but even with a shotgun if you fire a slug, which would benefit from rifling, there's rifling on the slug instead of the barrel.