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Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Six

11th February 2019 Tom Pudding 2302 Comments

Introduction Sometime in mid-2017 I casually remarked to the chap shooting at the next bench to me that I had long been fascinated by the Westley Richards ‘Monkey Tail’ transitional rifle but had never actually [more…]

19th Century

Milestones in Nineteenth Century Firearms Development, Part Five

4th February 2019 Tom Pudding 2268 Comments

Introduction By inducing a projectile to spin around its own axis its flight is stabilised and accuracy and range are vastly improved. Rifling a barrel by cutting spiral grooves in a variety of forms and [more…]

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