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Ornate flintlock gun with heart-shaped muzzle, Germany, ~1765 AD (lemmy.world)

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[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

it shot heart shaped bullets, obv

[–] bestagon@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I wonder if anyone ever tried to develop rifling with irregularly shaped bullets

[–] TwanHE@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Whitworth rifle is the only one with a non round rifled bore that I know of.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Rifling being the grooves inside the barrel that make the bullet spin, I'm thinking not. I can't imagine anything but a cylinder working.

[–] bestagon@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I thought maybe if you had a shaped barrel and then just twisted it, you could spiral a bullet without cutting groves. Not sure if you’d ever find that easier than conventional rifling but people have tried wackier shit