"The long guns: History of US military rifles" Topic
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| Tango01 | 22 Dec 2016 9:50 p.m. PST |
"Even before there was actually a "United States" there was what could arguably be considered the first true "American rifle." Known as the Pennsylvania rifle, the Kentucky rifle or simply the long rifle, it was designed for hunting and was characterized by an unusually long barrel, a unique development that was uncommon in the European rifles of the era. Military history consultant and former United States Marine Corps Captain Dale Dye told FoxNews.com that, in the flintlock era, the long gun was the first to have grooves in the barrel. "These grooves, or rifling, along with the longer barrel, made the guns much more accurate than the British Brown Bess musket," he said…"
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| bsrlee | 23 Dec 2016 4:55 a.m. PST |
Faux News and Dale Dye, little wonder the article is erroneous from the start. First up, there had been rifled firearms since at least the 1500's in Europe. Then is just waffles on. |
| John Treadaway | 23 Dec 2016 5:04 a.m. PST |
It is largely chest beating piffle |
Gunfreak  | 23 Dec 2016 12:09 p.m. PST |
Dale Dye. The man that put Vietnam back in ww2. |
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