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Originally Posted by id10t
Not hexagonal, but still happens today. I have a buddy who has been naughty, so he does muzzle loaders only. Including modern inlines, using smokeless powder (yes, they exist and this is a thing). For people shooting bullet to bore it is very common when having a barrel put on to use a couple inches of the cut off to make a barrel-specific sizing die. When it comes time to load, the bullet is pre-engraved with the rifling of *that* barrel, making loading very easy and shooting very accurate.
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Yup. "There is nothing new under the sun." These are known as "false muzzles", very common on late 19th Century Schuetzen rifles. Most of these rifles were "breach / muzzle loaders", in that the bullet was introduced from the muzzle in an otherwise breach loading rifle. A shell charged with powder was loaded from the breach after the bullet was loaded from the muzzle. This ensured proper bullet alignment, since it did not have to jump into the rifled barrel from the shell, passing through the throat and the leade where it could easily become misaligned. Some of the most accurate rifles ever made were these breach / muzzle loaders.
That little peg was placed so as to block the sight picture, lest one launch his false muzzle downrange...
