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Differences Between a Fowler and a Fusil?

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Bushfire said:
I would love to hear more about this gun and see some pics.
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It has a restrained elegance in my view. The iron furniture is very well crafted. It has a large bored, thin-walled barrel with straight grooves. Converted to percussion and perhaps made into a half stock then.
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rich pierce said:
It has a restrained elegance in my view. The iron furniture is very well crafted. It has a large bored, thin-walled barrel with straight grooves. Converted to percussion and perhaps made into a half stock then. View attachment 154259View attachment 154260
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That is a beauty, I quite like the simplicity and understated nature of some guns.

How does straight rifling work?
 
Bushfire said:
That is a beauty, I quite like the simplicity and understated nature of some guns.

How does straight rifling work?
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Thanks. I believe the idea is that straight rifling allows somewhere for fouling to go as a number of shots are taken without wiping. But it’s a bore type that did not last into the 1800s as far as I know. Because the barrel is octagonal to the muzzle I do not think it was intended for shot. Certainly there would have been octagon to round barrels available for that. But I’ve heard that straight rifling and shot are not incompatible.
 

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