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Originally Posted by tropple
So those Kentucky long rifles aren't really rifles then. ;-)
They must really be parrots or african swallows.
You have to be careful not to confuse caliber with barrel diameter. The 16-inch/50 caliber Mark 7's on US Navy battleships are commonly referred to as "rifles" in most documentation.
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I was under the impression that calibre was generally equivalent to inner barrel diametre. I don't see what good it would do one to have, for example, a .75 inch diametre barrel, firing .5 inch bullets, since that would make the weapon inaccurate as all hell.