rifled

PERFORMANCE CENTER T/CR22 rifles feature ergonomic Hogue Overmolded and Laminated thumbhole stocks and precision rifled heavy contour barrels.

It had double-set triggers, aiding accuracy, and could fire up to ten shots per minute, more than three times the rate of fire offered by the standard-issue Springfield .58 rifled musket.

The 19.7-inch rifled barrel is made of German steel, fully shrouded and choked for accuracy.

Navy adopted the Remington Rolling Block Model 1867 carbine to replace the bewildering assortment of various rifled muskets, Spencer, Jenks and Sharps & Hankins breech loading rifles and carbines.

WW Greener wrote in his book, The Gun and its Development, a smooth bore arm was as accurate as a rifled arm out to 60 yards as well as the advantages of higher velocity, less recoil, and easier to clean--all due to the absence of rifling grooves that would cut into the projectile upon ignition.

At the Old Stone Fort in Schoharie, New York, not only is there displayed a percussion-converted double rifle attributed to Murphy but also a page dated February 19, 1776, from the ledger of gunsmith Isaac Worly of Easton, Pennsylvania, reading, "A rifle made for Timothy Murphy, a two-barrel rifle--with both barrels rifled, only one made."

Jeff Sipe of The Montana Rifleman tells me bores to be chromed are rifled to dimensions that allow for plating thickness.

Long-range shooting enjoyed a tremendous boost during the Industrial Revolution when the means to mass produce consistently-made rifled firearms became reality.