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Pac-Nor POLYGONAL rifling anyone?????
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<blockquote data-quote="Centre Punch" data-source="post: 94172" data-attributes="member: 3048"><p>Mindcrime,</p><p>I do believe that the 12 pounder whitworth had a screw on breech cap and fired its projectile from hexagonal tin or zinc plated charge cases which extremely rare.</p><p>Another British design, the Armstrong rifled field gun saw action as well as the Whitworth but had a convential rifled bore and had a transverse breechblock locked in place by a threaded breech plug.</p><p></p><p>I too have an extensive library but i am no expert on any, let alone US civil war artillary unlike your self, but i thought that might impress you. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif</p><p></p><p>Back in the late 1980s i had the privalige to shoot a Parker-Hale replica Whitworth rifle loaded with lovingly cast by the owner, .451 cal hexagonal projectiles.</p><p>I seem to remember some difficulty in seating these projectiles properly without deforming the nose.</p><p></p><p>I shot this rifle at 600yds on our club range just for the experience of it, after one of my Pistol shooting sessions (i had little interest in rifles in those days), so i didn't take much notice of the guns accuracy and handling.</p><p></p><p>Ian.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Centre Punch, post: 94172, member: 3048"] Mindcrime, I do believe that the 12 pounder whitworth had a screw on breech cap and fired its projectile from hexagonal tin or zinc plated charge cases which extremely rare. Another British design, the Armstrong rifled field gun saw action as well as the Whitworth but had a convential rifled bore and had a transverse breechblock locked in place by a threaded breech plug. I too have an extensive library but i am no expert on any, let alone US civil war artillary unlike your self, but i thought that might impress you. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Back in the late 1980s i had the privalige to shoot a Parker-Hale replica Whitworth rifle loaded with lovingly cast by the owner, .451 cal hexagonal projectiles. I seem to remember some difficulty in seating these projectiles properly without deforming the nose. I shot this rifle at 600yds on our club range just for the experience of it, after one of my Pistol shooting sessions (i had little interest in rifles in those days), so i didn't take much notice of the guns accuracy and handling. Ian. [/QUOTE]
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