THE JACOB RIFLE
Sep 10, 2020
2 minutes
BY MARK MURRAY-FLUTTER
HE 19th century saw huge strides in rifle development, moving in some 50 years from the muzzle-loading rifle to the bolt-action cartridge rifle we would recognise today, a development that often crossed back and forth between the military field and sporting field. The percussion double-barrelled rifle was developed for military use by the then Major,
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