Rifled bores may be described by the bore diameter ( the diameter across the lands or high points in the rifling ), or by groove diameter ( the diameter across the grooves or low points in the rifling ).

Rifled flintlocks did see some military use by sharpshooters, skirmishers, and other support units ; but most rifled flintlocks were used for hunting.

Rifled muskets typically used percussion lock systems, with some exceptions like the Springfield Model 1855 which used the Maynard tape primer system.

Rifled muskets were heavily used in the American Civil War.

Rifled tank guns have fallen out of favor in modern battle tanks however, the British Army has persisted with a rifled cannon on their Challenger 1 and Challenger 2 battle tanks partly to preserve the general purpose capability of HESH ammunition.

Rifled muskets increased the effective range to about 200 or 300 yards, and a rifled musket could often hit a man-sized target up to 500 yards away.

Claud E. Fuller, in his book The Rifled Musket, shows tests of a rifled musket firing Minie balls, and a smoothbore musket firing round ball and buck and ball rounds at various ranges.

Rifled guns have been kept in use by some nations ( the UK and India, for example ) because they are able to fire other ammunition such as HESH rounds with greater accuracy.

The Elswick Ordnance Company ( sometimes referred to as Elswick Ordnance Works, but usually as " EOC ") was originally created in 1859 to separate William Armstrong's armaments business from his other business interests, to avoid a conflict of interest as Armstrong was then Engineer of Rifled Ordnance for the War Office and the company's main customer was the British Government.

Rifled barrels for shotguns are an unusual legal issue in the United States of America.

* Hotchkiss ' patent application for Improvement in Projectiles for Rifled Ordnance

British 64 Pounder Rifled Muzzle-Loaded ( RML ) Gun on a Moncrieff disappearing mount, at Scaur Hill Fort, Bermuda.

* Rifled Traditionally, artillery projectiles have been spin-stabilised, meaning that they spin in flight so that gyroscopic forces prevent them from tumbling.

* Friedrich Engels, “ On Rifled Cannon ," articles from the New York Tribune, April, May and June, 1860, reprinted in Military Affairs 21, no.

Armstrong became employed as Engineer of Rifled Ordnance to the War Department.

Rifled muskets of the mid-19th century, like the Springfield Model 1861, were significantly more accurate, with the ability to hit a man sized target at a distance of or more.

Following the Second Period, eleven Armstrong 64-pounder Rifled Breech Loaders were installed on traversing carriages.

It originally contained 36 Rifled Muzzle Loaders with calibres from 9in to 12in.

Only a decade later in 1872, three of the emplacements were altered to take enormous 12 ton RML ( Rifled Muzzle Loading ) guns.

As part of the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, work started on the main part of the fort consisting of 23 granite casemates, originally housing 22 9-inch Rifled Muzzle Loaders ( RMLs ), one 10-inch RML gun and 180 men.

The Rifled cannon proved its superiority to brickwork fortifications but not to the endurance of the Confederate artillerymen who continued to man Fort Moultrie.

guns in the caponiers and three Rifled Howitzers.

gun and two 6. 3-inch Rifled Muzzle Loading howitzers.

With thirty-six guns, including the new James Rifled Cannon and Parrott rifles, Union troops began the long sustained bombardment of Fort Pulaski.

Rifled cannon made vertical-walled masonry fortifications obsolete during the Civil War, and in the last decades of the nineteenth century great advances in military technology brought a whole new generation of long-range guns mounted in inconspicuous emplacements.

: For the M68 105 mm Rifled Tank Gun, see Royal Ordnance L7.

Rifled muskets, like smooth bore muskets, were always muzzle loaded.

* Smoothbore / Fin-Stabilized In modern artillery smoothbore tubes have been used mostly by mortars.

This gun / launcher could fire conventional 152 mm rounds like High Explosive, anti-personnel, High Explosive Anti-Tank ( HEAT ) and Armor Piercing Fin-Stabilized Discarding Sabot ( APFSDS ) rounds, but also the Shillelagh missile, a 152 mm guided missile, which had a combat range of some.

The image is the combination of the 2. 2-metre MPG / ESO telescope of the La Silla Observatory in Chile and a 0. 4-meter amateur telescope.

Once this occurs, corrosive elements act as an electrolyte and the zinc / iron combination as electrodes.

In principle all three color encoding systems can be combined with any scan line / frame rate combination.

The AIM-54 / AWG-9 combination was the first to have multiple track capability ( up to 24 targets ) and launch ( up to 6 Phoenixes can be launched nearly simultaneously ); the large missile is equipped with a conventional warhead.

The combination of this modulus and a relatively low density results in an unusually fast sound conduction speed in beryllium – about 12. 9 km / s at ambient conditions.

The combination of these ( BR and EDR ) modes in Bluetooth radio technology is classified as a " BR / EDR radio ".

If the rider is sitting upright, the rider's body creates about 75 % of the total drag of the bicycle / rider combination.

When a backplane is used with a plug-in single board computer ( SBC ) or system host board ( SHB ), the combination provides the same functionality as a motherboard, providing processing power, memory, I / O and slots for plug-in cards.

* Given any combination of complex numbers, bras, kets, inner products, outer products, and / or linear operators, written in bra-ket notation, its Hermitian conjugate can be computed by reversing the order of the components, and taking the Hermitian conjugate of each.

A frame is a stable structural combination of both bodies maintained through the dancers ' arms and / or legs.

* On systems that support one-button mice, context menus are typically opened by pressing and holding the primary mouse button ( this works on the icons in the Dock on Mac OS X ) or by pressing a keyboard / mouse button combination ( e. g. Ctrl-mouse click in Mac OS ).

In combination with other aspects, theatrical costumes can help actors portray characters ' age, gender role, profession, social class, personality, ethnicity, and even information about the historical period / era, geographic location and time of day, as well as the season or weather of the theatrical performance.

These risks are the product of a combination of both hazard / s and vulnerability.

The combination of focal length, subject distance, and format size defines magnification at the film / sensor plane.

A combination of rapidly increasing stock prices, market confidence that the companies would turn future profits, individual speculation in stocks, and widely available venture capital created an environment in which many investors were willing to overlook traditional metrics such as P / E ratio in favor of confidence in technological advancements.

which is shown as reduction but, in fact, the SHE can act as either the anode or the cathode, depending on the relative oxidation / reduction potential of the other electrode / electrolyte combination.

* 1964 – U. S. Air Force launches a satellite employing a US Air Force Atlas / Agena combination from Point Arguello ( LC-2-3 ) in California and from Cape Kennedy in Florida.

:* combination ore / oil: 8

Newer advances in synthesizer and sampler technology have allowed Lee to store familiar sounds from his old synthesizers alongside new ones in combination synthesizer / samplers, such as the Roland XV-5080.

Because SSL operates below HTTP and has no knowledge of higher-level protocols, SSL servers can only strictly present one certificate for a particular IP / port combination.

HK was contracted by the U. S. Army to produce the kinetic energy subsystem ( see: kinetic projectiles or kinetic energy penetrator ) of the Objective Individual Combat Weapon, a planned replacement for the M16 / M203 grenade launcher combination.

In 1985 Classical historian Georg Luck, in his Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds, theorised that the origins of the Witch-cult may have appeared in late antiquity as a faith primarily designed to worship the Horned God, stemming from the merging of Cernunnos, a horned god of the Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan / Faunus, a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to convert to Christianity, rallied and that this deity provided the prototype for later Christian conceptions of the Devil, and his worshippers were cast by the Church as witches.

Georg Luck, repeats part of Murray's theory, stating that the Horned God may have appeared in late antiquity, stemming from the merging of Cernunnos, a horned god of the Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan / Faunus, a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to convert to Christianity, rallied and that this deity provided the prototype for later Christian conceptions of the devil, and his worshippers were cast by the Church as witches.