Why/how does a bayonet on a rifle reduce the accuracy ?
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Lots of answers here, it’s not common for someone to own a bayonett for a bayonett capable weapon (some weapons need a special lug attachment to accept one, such as the modern AR rifles), but it is relatively more common to use silencers, especially if you’re doing fancy hunting.
It actually has to do with shooting from a cold barrel vs a hot barrel. single shot, cold barrel points will hit the same silencer/bayonett on or off, but once the metal starts warming up and expanding the bayonett acts as big asymmetric heatsink that curves the barrel slightly, curvature changes with temperature and can make shots pretty inconsistent.
That’s exactly why for accuracy barrels are “floated” as some have mentioned, which is the practice of having nothing touch the barrel after it comes off the “action”, floated barrels will expand consistently with heat. Even the plain ol m4 ar rifles relatively inaccurate since it’s got the handguard and sling attached to the barrel
But you’re probably not going to notice any of this at normal iron sight distances, most of this stuff you would notice at sniper ranges 300+ yards
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