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[-] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 5 points 11 hours ago

I'm not sure what you're No-ing. Rifling was around longer but the Civil War introduced it as a standard.

Smoothbore muskets were issued in the Union and Confederate armies during the beginning of the Civil War, though both armies quickly adopted a rifled musket; this was the first time in military history that most infantry soldiers were equipped with a rifled musket

https://historymaking.org/textbook/items/show/275

[-] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 hours ago

Rifling wasn't invented until right before the Civil War.

My bad, I took this bit to be saying that rifling was new to the scene, rather than new to industrial-scale manufacture.

[-] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Oh yeah. My bad. I guess I said that wrong. There were more advances in the rounds that made the rifling better, but I was trying to simplify it.

I was interested in the Civil War cause the weapons advanced faster than the way we fight wars. You wouldn't see people lining up and walking toward another army now.

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