Rifled
Rifled adjective - Of a firearm; having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel.
Smoothbore is an antonym for rifled.
Smoothbore
Smoothbore adjective - Of a firearm; not having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside the barrel.
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Rifled is an antonym for smoothbore.
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However, making Civil War-era rifled weapons requires precision tools, so they, instead settle for Revolution-era muskets and smoothbore cannons.
Source: Giving Radio to the Romans - They are normally smoothbore weapons firing a shell that has fins at its rear to stabilize it, though rifled mortars have also been manufactured.
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May appear to be Truth in Television on account of older weapons, but muskets issued at the time were rifled, not the inaccurate smoothbore weapons of previous decades.
Source: Film / Dances with Wolves
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