Not to dump on a potential sale (but this is the Small Arms board) my friend and I used our trips to BPCR matches to shoot our Volunteer and Whitworth rifles at the 500 meter ram silhouettes.
My impression was the Whitworth was superior to the Volunteer by a slight margin, as far as goups on the animal went.
Interestingly, we also shot quite a few rounds of swaged and as cast bullets in the Whitworth to see if a hexagon bolt shot better than a round one. Our results, unscientific as they were, showed the extra step wasn't really necessary. It seemed like a soft lead bullet bumped up quite nicely to fill the hex rifling and accuracy was about the same. We shot pretty hefty charges so maybe the swaged bullet would be superior with lighter charges for use at 100 yards and less.
Bob Anderson
Company C, 1st Michigan Volunteer Infantry
Small Arms Committee
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