Originally Posted by
tacfoley
My Parker-Hale Whitworth rifle has what Parker-Hale described at the time as a 'Patent or High pressure' breech. The .451cal hexagonally-rifles bore terminated at the breech end into a reduced volume chamber about two inches long, this effectively raising the internal pressure on ignition over that of the larger, full-calibre 'hole'.
tac
That does sound a lot like I imagined the LePage breech as earlier described. Clearly there are more than one breech designs and patents to go with them. Ever the search for improvement.
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