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    I assume that if the ball burnishing squeezed out small irregularities in the diameter of the rifling; it would actually change the width of the lands at the areas that were tight. After all the metal has to go somewhere! That does not seem like a good thing for the projectile.
    Or is there a second part to the process that I'm not aware of?
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