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Originally Posted by Shipwreck
The failure to take barrel wear into account is a MUCH MORE IMPORTANT factor than the wear itself.
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Simple math dictates that if the barrels were worn on average to 42% then many of these barrels (on NJ and her sisiters) were in even worse shape given the high percentage of wear.
Wether you take the barrel wear into account or not you still have excesive wear and not only effects accuracy but also effects velocity and striking power.
New Jerseys guns were quite effective during her former commision for Vietnam and Muir's book is loaded with accounts of men (Marines etc) that were there and calling for support and boasted of said accuracy. If we check how many 16" shells were fired against the life of those liners then it is understandable as to the "why" her guns were not as accurate and her Vietnams deployment. If the liners were not replaced pending the wear then she went off to Lebannon with the very same worn liners that she finished her Vietnam tour with and who knows what testing took place between then and 1983 when she was off Lebannon. Accuracy explained from the mechanical side of things.