"The concept of a rifled barrel might work on land," Llewellyn said, "but it'll never serve at sea."
It was one of the first pure infantry weapons to feature a rifled barrel.
A point of interest in the design of this mortar is the rifled barrel.
Mossberg also has a 12-gauge slide action shotgun with a rifled barrel, the Model 500.
It was considered an improved Columbiad, especially the later models with rifled barrels.
Artillery shells are fired through a rifled barrel, which forces them to spin during flight.
Now many manufacturers offer shotguns for sale with rifled barrels already installed.
Some weapons were also retrofitted with rifled barrels in the 1860s.
There was a tiny trigger, and a rifled barrel, but he couldn't see the works.