Jacob four-groove rifle
Jan 23, 2020
3 minutes
A muzzle-loading rifle made in the 1840s with open sights sighted up to 2,000yds? This must be some kind of salesman’s pitch, as the normal range for a muzzle-loading rifle was around 100yds to 200yds. But no, this is absolutely true, as the Jacob muzzle-loading rifle was sighted right up to that impressive distance and was intended to be quite devastating at extreme range.
Firing a muzzle-loading rifle at extreme range was always risky owing to the low velocity and poor trajectory of such
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