Thread: Flint and Ball

Originally Posted by Bavarian_Hunter

I was more referring to the whitworth's integrated rifling that matches the projectile.

So for the belted ball, is it loaded bare? If so is it lubed? do the deep grooves get hard to load quickly? I imagine they're pretty good fouling traps?

It was loaded patched, the military stuff had it wrapped and sewn into a pouch with marks to show where the belt was. Big groove with rounded corners it didn't foul badly by accounts of the day.
The whitworths a whole world away in terms of precision machining . The oval bore rifling concept is an interesting mechanical "rifling" system one that showed much promise but never went anywhere really.