![]() Total production of Whitworth Rifles ultimately reached 13,400 units with the French Army being its only other operator.ĭespite British neutrality in the American Civil War, private British gun firms were not restricted in offering their wares to interest buyers. ![]() As such, the Whitworth Rifle was rebuffed at home but the Whitworth Rifle Company was able to interest the Confederate States of America in some quantity. However, the Army thought the barrels too temperamental and the guns, on the whole, too expensive to procure in the numbers required. During evaluation against the Model 1853, Whitworth's gun held firm and outperformed the entrenched Enfield design. The British Army, already having taken on stocks of the new Enfield Model 1853 rifle-musket, took some interest in the product. The main advantage lay in a conformed bullet shape better gripping the rifling design and leading to a more effective, accurate long gun. ![]() Sir Joseph Henry Whitworth developed a twisted, hexagonal barreled rifle-musket when attempting to bring the concept of hexagonal barreled field guns to a portable, infantry-level long gun form. ![]()
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