Research Press Digest features newly written articles and reprints of scarce 19th and early 20th century texts relating to firearms, long range target shooting and military history. The military smooth-bore flintlock musket and round ball ammunition saw general issue well into the 19th century, finally being supplanted by the percussion rifle firing a hollow based self-expanding bullet. This volume explores rifle development during this remarkable period, commencing with a chronological history of the British service rifle (1800-1870). D.W. Bailey’s analysis of ‘The Much Maligned Brunswick’ follows. Lieut.-Col. Lane Fox’s paper of 1858 highlights the views and conflicting opinions of those seeking to improve the rifle in the mid-19th century, while W.S. Curtis and D.B. Minshall look back at the work of two key figures of the 18th century. A brief history of Enfield rifle bullet base plugs charts their evolution through contemporary trials reports. The comparative tool, ‘Figure of Merit,’ is also explained. A comprehensive lecture presents experience at a Hythe Course of Instruction in Musketry, 1859, demonstrating the advanced state such had reached.