Well, I'm learning something new here I guess.

Still not sure why the need for rifling though.

The original Lemat was not rifled and Pietta makes a copy of it. I do not know if the repro is rifled.

FWIW...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeMat_Revolver


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