Thread: Black Powder Witchcraft. Regulating a BP Double Rifle

I guess you would call the Belted Ball a technological dead end.

It had its moment when someone thought it was the answer.
Whitworth rifling was another answer that didn't last

I personally find the odd mechanical rifling systems to be very interesting.
This rifle sits well with my Whitworth as an example of things that were certainly an improvement but were superseded very quickly.

Then there was Henry Rifling, Metford Rifling as the last evolution of BP rifling and Enfield Rifling and others to usher in the smokeless types