![]() ![]() The French had the Chassepot 11mm bolt action rifle the Prussians the Dreyse 15.4mm needle gun. Sniper rifles advanced in design through the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, when the first bolt-action breech loading rifles became available. They fit very tightly in the bore and had much less friction than round bullets fired through standard rifling. ![]() The bullets were long for the caliber and they were hexagonal instead of round. The bore of the barrel was hexagonal with a 1 in 20 inch twist. What made the Whitworth stand out and have such excellent accuracy was the design of its rifling – which it didn’t really have. The Confederate States of America used some of them during the American Civil War. Around 13,000 of them were built between 18. ![]() It was a single-shot muzzle-loaded 45 caliber percussion-fired rifle with an accurate range out to 2,000 yards. The first true sniper rifle is generally thought to be the British Whitworth rifle invented in 1854 by Sir Joseph Whitworth, under commission from the British War Department. The military sniper came into being back at the turn of the 18th century. One definition of a sniper rifle is “a precision rifle used to insure more accurate placement of bullets at longer ranges than other small arms.” The word “sniper” is derived from the snipe bird which was very hard to shoot as its flight path was highly erratic. The K98k Mauser is above the Springfield M1903A4.
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