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Unread 12-12-2014, 11:31 PM   #21
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To digress even further I believe that "swamping" the barrel(s) perhaps originated in European Jager flintlock rifles which were the immediate predecessors of the "Kentucky" or "Pennsylvania" rifles.

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You are quite right George.
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