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Rifling
Minié ball
Percussion rifle-musket
Caplock firearm
Single-shot breech-loading rifle
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Rifling
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Percussion rifle-musket
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Rifling was used in percussion muzzle-loading rifles such as the Pattern 1853 Enfield.
Minié ball
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Percussion rifle-musket
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The Minié ball and related improved projectiles were used in 19th-century rifled muzzle-loaders, combining a projectile design with a complete firearm.
Percussion rifle-musket
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Caplock firearm
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Percussion rifled muzzle-loaders are a type of percussion firearm combining rifling with muzzle-loading construction. This is a classification relation and does not imply that they were the universal successor to all percussion firearms.
Single-shot breech-loading rifle
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Percussion rifle-musket
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Museum examples of the Snider-Enfield show a specific path for converting an Enfield muzzle-loader to breech-loading. This relationship only summarizes that conversion, which is supported by surviving objects; it does not claim that all single-shot breech-loaders originated from it.