Historical Firearms, Long Range Target Shooting & Military History
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A rare Whitworth sporting rifle. Caliber .451, but unusual with back action lock. Note the separate ram rod within the case – no provision for fitting to the rifle. One of a small batch made in 1859.
Courtesy Tom Rowe collection
The Hex Bore project has a good archive / library of Whitworth research material, but now and again something new surfaces.
‘The Guns of the Ironclad “Riachuelo” and Their Alteration to the Armstrong System’ is a treatise by Duarte Huet Bacellar Pinto Guedes, First Lieutenant of the Brazilian Navy.
Whitworth Research Project – database management summary 2024.
One of the great joys of archival research is handling original 19th century documents.