Whitworth Rifles Accuracy

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Looking around I sometimes see other rifles with Whitworth and Henry patent rifling. The Beasley military percussion target rifles and W. Richards breechloading monkeytail rifles are two with Whitworth rifling but there are others.

The Monkey Tail, although referring to Whitworth's patent, has 8 sides to the rifling rather than the 6. Westley Richards was the gun maker that worked with Whitworth during the the latters experiments.

The importance of Whitworth is not so much the form of rifling (which was ousted by Metford and Rigby in the target shooting arena) but in deriving the relationship between, bullet weight, bore size and rifling twist rate.

David