In the Annual Report of the National Rifle Association (USA) for 1875, General Alexander Shaler (President 1875-1877) reported on experiments with powder charges for long range shooting. Although relating to breech loading rifles, the information may also be of interest to muzzle loaders.
The Times wrote in Halford’s obituary: “The country owes to him the debt which is due to a man who made the science of rifles, as well as the practice of rifle-shooting the main pursuit of his life, who, without thought of pecuniary advantage, laboured without ceasing to discover all that could be discovered about the infantry weapon and to bring that weapon to a state of perfection.”
