Anonymous
8/14/2025, 3:07:01 PM
No.938437544
>>938437325
even making the rifled barrel assuming you can do that now you need to figure out how to mass produce it, and that itself probably required the invention of new tools and processes. all the while they were still running into low firing rates due to increased blackpowder fouling of rifled barrels which dampened enthusiasm for development i`m sure. an issue not solved until the minie ball which relied on a smaller round to get into a fouled barrel and then deformed to seal the barrel during firing. so theres a chicken and an egg thing going on where the rifled barrel was barely worth developing without the minie ball and the minie ball was barely worth developing without mass produced rifling.
even making the rifled barrel assuming you can do that now you need to figure out how to mass produce it, and that itself probably required the invention of new tools and processes. all the while they were still running into low firing rates due to increased blackpowder fouling of rifled barrels which dampened enthusiasm for development i`m sure. an issue not solved until the minie ball which relied on a smaller round to get into a fouled barrel and then deformed to seal the barrel during firing. so theres a chicken and an egg thing going on where the rifled barrel was barely worth developing without the minie ball and the minie ball was barely worth developing without mass produced rifling.