Deep dive into one of the very first military purpose built percussion firearms and boy did they go to town on it. Not content with simply altering the ignition mechanism, they spared no expense and included all the best aesthetic and technical features of the time, including the very latest in accurising techniques, the Delvigne breech.
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Very interesting piece. How fantastically labor intensive it must have been to implement that rifling. Do you know what kind of process, tooling, machine was used to make that barrel rifling??? Is the wood steamed? or carved? or did they seek out naturally occurring knees?