A tapered barrel is a more properly engineered barrel (unless we are talking about heavyweight precision barrels). The main design point of Noveske is to have the lightest yet stiffest barrel, which is done by careful contouring (this was stated by John Noveske in an interview I read). The N4 for instance took the M4 barrel as a maximum desired weight, but redistributed the steel to where it does the best to promote accuracy- thickest near the chamber, and thinner near the muzzle, as per hundreds of years of gun barrel experience. The M4 barrel, with its forwards-backwards profile, is an embarassement, in terms of design logic.
Last edited by wild_wild_wes; 10-16-10 at 23:13.
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