Reddit reviews The British Sporting Gun and Rifle: Pursuit of Perfection 1850-1900

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u/Brogelicious · 3 pointsr/guns

I am an English shotgun-aboo

I Started here

https://www.amazon.com/British-Sporting-Gun-Rifle-Perfection/dp/0811704424

Michael McIntosh “Best Gun’s” will be more of a generic overview of fancy Pants gunmaking and give good primers for different gunmakers and regions

u/form_1gunsmith · 2 pointsr/guns

The book goes over all kinds of different rifling types, it was almost like every English gunmaker had their own. Rigby rifling was like Metford but with semi-round lands, Holland and Holland semi-smooth bore had a ton of very shallow round lands and Alexander Henry rifling was like polygonal with extra triangular lands in the corners of the hex. Pretty crazy stuff.

I imagine rifling a muzzleloading cannon would be a chore. Its not like you can push a broach through so it must have been done with a single point cutter.

Edit: Heres the book. It normally retails for $100 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0811704424/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=