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To: mamelukesabre

Uh, they do if it’s a rifle, and the first line says “a muzzle-loading rifle”. A smooth bore you would be right, but muzzle loading rifles sure do leave rifling marks.


40 posted on 12/20/2011 10:02:20 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

no. There is a plastic sabot


55 posted on 12/20/2011 10:10:57 AM PST by mamelukesabre
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius; mamelukesabre

A patched round ball does not have rifling marks - the marks are on the patch that drops off a short distance in front o the rifle.

A saboted round also does not have rifling marks - marks are on the sabot just like the patched round ball.

A slug round operates on the minnie ball principle and will have the rifling marks.


70 posted on 12/20/2011 10:28:18 AM PST by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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