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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
It was a muzzle loading rifle.

So what am I missing here? It was a muzzle-loader, smooth bore, no rifling grooves on the projectile, so how do they identify it. Enlighten us all.

231 posted on 12/20/2011 6:54:19 PM PST by X-FID
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To: X-FID

Muzzle-loader does not equal smooth bore, rifled versions have been around for 150 years.


241 posted on 12/20/2011 7:56:05 PM PST by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: X-FID

The Kentucky was first developed in the 1740s to 1750s and was a rifled muzzle loaded weapon. So are you saying that you have only heard of smooth bore muzzle-loaders?


245 posted on 12/20/2011 8:13:57 PM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: X-FID
It was a muzzle-loader, smooth bore, no rifling grooves on the projectile,

where does it say it was a smooth bore?

282 posted on 12/21/2011 2:28:07 AM PST by verga (We get what we tolerate and increase that which we reward)
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