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Wuzh: /* Russian Infantry Musket M1845 */

2023-03-09T00:18:42Z

Russian Infantry Musket M1845

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	[[File:Russian M1845.jpg\|thumb\|none\|600px\|Russian percussion cap musket M1845 - .70 smoothbore]]		[[File:Russian M1845.jpg\|thumb\|none\|600px\|Russian percussion cap musket M1845 - .70 smoothbore]]

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Wuzh: /* Russian Infantry Musket M1845 */

2023-03-04T20:14:44Z

Russian Infantry Musket M1845

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	[[File:Russian M1845.jpg\|thumb\|none\|600px\|Russian percussion cap musket M1845 - .70 smoothbore]]		[[File:Russian M1845.jpg\|thumb\|none\|600px\|Russian percussion cap musket M1845 - .70 smoothbore]]

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Evil Tim: /* Musket vs Rifle */ ...as opposed to smoothbore firearms WITH rifling?

2018-12-03T08:53:52Z

Musket vs Rifle: ...as opposed to smoothbore firearms WITH rifling?

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	==Musket vs Rifle==		==Musket vs Rifle==

	The term "musket" refers specifically to ~~smoothbore~~ firearms without rifling, which are inherently inaccurate and can typically only be used to about 75 yards. "Rifle" refers to rifled firearms, whether breech or muzzle loading. While rifling dates back to the 15th century, rifles only really came into serious military use in the late 18th: earlier rifles required either breech-loading at a time before such a mechanism could be mass-produced or bullets made to tighter tolerances than were realistically possible with period technology, and early powders tended to foul and corrode a rifled bore. Even in the 18th century rifles were a specialist weapon used by soldiers separate from the musket-armed line infantry, as although they were far more accurate they could take up to a minute to load due to the difficulty of ramming the projectile down the rifling grooves. When the introduction of the Minié ball in the 1850s speeded loading, allowing all infantry soldiers to be armed with rifled weapons, the rifles adopted were of musket length and sometimes referred to as rifle-muskets. Rifle units typically received as shortened version of the infantry rifle-musket, referred to simply as a rifle. This practice was gradually abandoned by the 1870s (earlier in the United States due to the Civil War) and all long guns that fired bullets were simply referred to as rifles.		The term "musket" refers specifically to firearms without rifling, which are inherently inaccurate and can typically only be used to about 75 yards. "Rifle" refers to rifled firearms, whether breech or muzzle loading. While rifling dates back to the 15th century, rifles only really came into serious military use in the late 18th: earlier rifles required either breech-loading at a time before such a mechanism could be mass-produced or bullets made to tighter tolerances than were realistically possible with period technology, and early powders tended to foul and corrode a rifled bore. Even in the 18th century rifles were a specialist weapon used by soldiers separate from the musket-armed line infantry, as although they were far more accurate they could take up to a minute to load due to the difficulty of ramming the projectile down the rifling grooves. When the introduction of the Minié ball in the 1850s speeded loading, allowing all infantry soldiers to be armed with rifled weapons, the rifles adopted were of musket length and sometimes referred to as rifle-muskets. Rifle units typically received as shortened version of the infantry rifle-musket, referred to simply as a rifle. This practice was gradually abandoned by the 1870s (earlier in the United States due to the Civil War) and all long guns that fired bullets were simply referred to as rifles.

	The term musket enjoyed a brief revival in late 19th and early 20th century America as a marketing term used by various companies to refer to the militarized versions of their commercial products. Thus the militarized Winchester 1866 as used by the Turkish army was referred to as the Winchester 1866 Musket, and so on, however this was not a technical term and further details are outside the scope of this article.		The term musket enjoyed a brief revival in late 19th and early 20th century America as a marketing term used by various companies to refer to the militarized versions of their commercial products. Thus the militarized Winchester 1866 as used by the Turkish army was referred to as the Winchester 1866 Musket, and so on, however this was not a technical term and further details are outside the scope of this article.

Evil Tim: /* Musket vs Rifle */

2018-04-21T07:28:10Z

Musket vs Rifle

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	==Musket vs Rifle==		==Musket vs Rifle==

	The term "musket" refers specifically to smoothbore firearms without rifling, which are inherently inaccurate and can typically only be used to about 75 yards. "Rifle" refers to rifled firearms, whether breech or muzzle loading. While rifling dates back to the 15th century, rifles only really came into serious military use in the late 18th: earlier rifles required either breech-loading at a time before such a mechanism could be mass-produced or bullets made to tighter tolerances than were realistically possible with period technology, and early powders tended to foul and corrode a rifled bore. Even in the 18th century rifles were a specialist weapon used by soldiers separate from the musket-armed line infantry, as although they were far more accurate they could take up to a minute to load due to the difficulty of ramming the projectile down the rifling grooves. When the introduction of the ~~Minie~~ ball in the 1850s speeded loading, allowing all infantry soldiers to be armed with rifled weapons, the rifles adopted were of musket length and sometimes referred to as rifle-muskets. Rifle units typically received as shortened version of the infantry rifle-musket, referred to simply as a rifle. This practice was gradually abandoned by the 1870s (earlier in the United States due to the Civil War) and all long guns that fired bullets were simply referred to as rifles.		The term "musket" refers specifically to smoothbore firearms without rifling, which are inherently inaccurate and can typically only be used to about 75 yards. "Rifle" refers to rifled firearms, whether breech or muzzle loading. While rifling dates back to the 15th century, rifles only really came into serious military use in the late 18th: earlier rifles required either breech-loading at a time before such a mechanism could be mass-produced or bullets made to tighter tolerances than were realistically possible with period technology, and early powders tended to foul and corrode a rifled bore. Even in the 18th century rifles were a specialist weapon used by soldiers separate from the musket-armed line infantry, as although they were far more accurate they could take up to a minute to load due to the difficulty of ramming the projectile down the rifling grooves. When the introduction of the Minié ball in the 1850s speeded loading, allowing all infantry soldiers to be armed with rifled weapons, the rifles adopted were of musket length and sometimes referred to as rifle-muskets. Rifle units typically received as shortened version of the infantry rifle-musket, referred to simply as a rifle. This practice was gradually abandoned by the 1870s (earlier in the United States due to the Civil War) and all long guns that fired bullets were simply referred to as rifles.

	The term musket enjoyed a brief revival in late 19th and early 20th century America as a marketing term used by various companies to refer to the militarized versions of their commercial products. Thus the militarized Winchester 1866 as used by the Turkish army was referred to as the Winchester 1866 Musket, and so on, however this was not a technical term and further details are outside the scope of this article.		The term musket enjoyed a brief revival in late 19th and early 20th century America as a marketing term used by various companies to refer to the militarized versions of their commercial products. Thus the militarized Winchester 1866 as used by the Turkish army was referred to as the Winchester 1866 Musket, and so on, however this was not a technical term and further details are outside the scope of this article.

Evil Tim: /* Flintlock vs Percussion */

2018-01-05T15:48:45Z

Flintlock vs Percussion

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	==Flintlock vs Percussion==		==Flintlock vs Percussion==

	The flintlock, introduced in France in the early 17th century, was the first method of firing a gunpowder weapon without using a burning match that was suited to mass production (wheelocks having always been prohibitively expensive due to their complexity). It used a piece of flint held in a set of jaws called a cock, striking a piece of steel called a frizzen, igniting a small powder charge in a flash pan which the frizzen also acted as a cover for. This would then ignite the main charge. This "true" flintlock was an evolutionary development of early flint-ignited lockwork patterns, the snaplock, snaphance, Miquelet and doglock, incorporating all of the improvements of these individual designs (flint ignition, a self-opening pan cover, the combination of striking steel and pan cover into a single part and a half-cock position that allowed the flint to be aligned with the pan without having the weapon in a ready-to-fire position: the latter is the origin of the phrase "going off half-cock") into a single one.		The flintlock, introduced in France in the early 17th century, was the first method of firing a gunpowder weapon without using a burning match that was suited to mass production (wheelocks having always been prohibitively expensive due to their complexity). It used a piece of flint held in a set of jaws called a cock, striking a piece of steel called a frizzen, igniting a small powder charge in a flash pan which the frizzen also acted as a cover for. This would then ignite the main charge. This "true" flintlock was an evolutionary development of early flint-ignited lockwork patterns, the snaplock, snaphance, Miquelet and doglock, incorporating all of the improvements of these individual designs (flint ignition, a self-opening pan cover, the combination of striking steel and pan cover into a single part and a half-cock position that allowed the flint to be aligned with the pan and the pan filled without having the weapon in a ready-to-fire position: the latter is the origin of the phrase "going off half-cock") into a single one.

	[[Image:flintlock.jpg\|thumb\|none\|400px\|Flintlock mechanism - reproduction Brown Bess musket]]		[[Image:flintlock.jpg\|thumb\|none\|400px\|Flintlock mechanism - reproduction Brown Bess musket]]

Evil Tim: /* Musket vs Rifle */

2017-10-14T06:39:30Z

Musket vs Rifle

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	==Musket vs Rifle==		==Musket vs Rifle==

	The term "musket" refers specifically to smoothbore firearms without rifling, which are inherently inaccurate and can typically only be used to about 75 yards. "Rifle" refers to rifled firearms, whether breech or muzzle loading. While rifling dates back to the 15th century, rifles only really came into serious military use in the late 18th: earlier rifles required bullets made to tighter tolerances than were realistically possible with period technology ~~to actually render them useful~~, and early powders tended to foul and corrode a rifled bore. Even in the 18th century rifles were a specialist weapon used by soldiers separate from the musket-armed line infantry, as although they were far more accurate they could take up to a minute to load due to the difficulty of ramming the projectile down the rifling grooves. When the introduction of the Minie ball in the 1850s speeded loading, allowing all infantry soldiers to be armed with rifled weapons, the rifles adopted were of musket length and sometimes referred to as rifle-muskets. Rifle units typically received as shortened version of the infantry rifle-musket, referred to simply as a rifle. This practice was gradually abandoned by the 1870s (earlier in the United States due to the Civil War) and all long guns that fired bullets were simply referred to as rifles.		The term "musket" refers specifically to smoothbore firearms without rifling, which are inherently inaccurate and can typically only be used to about 75 yards. "Rifle" refers to rifled firearms, whether breech or muzzle loading. While rifling dates back to the 15th century, rifles only really came into serious military use in the late 18th: earlier rifles required either breech-loading at a time before such a mechanism could be mass-produced or bullets made to tighter tolerances than were realistically possible with period technology, and early powders tended to foul and corrode a rifled bore. Even in the 18th century rifles were a specialist weapon used by soldiers separate from the musket-armed line infantry, as although they were far more accurate they could take up to a minute to load due to the difficulty of ramming the projectile down the rifling grooves. When the introduction of the Minie ball in the 1850s speeded loading, allowing all infantry soldiers to be armed with rifled weapons, the rifles adopted were of musket length and sometimes referred to as rifle-muskets. Rifle units typically received as shortened version of the infantry rifle-musket, referred to simply as a rifle. This practice was gradually abandoned by the 1870s (earlier in the United States due to the Civil War) and all long guns that fired bullets were simply referred to as rifles.

	The term musket enjoyed a brief revival in late 19th and early 20th century America as a marketing term used by various companies to refer to the militarized versions of their commercial products. Thus the militarized Winchester 1866 as used by the Turkish army was referred to as the Winchester 1866 Musket, and so on, however this was not a technical term and further details are outside the scope of this article.		The term musket enjoyed a brief revival in late 19th and early 20th century America as a marketing term used by various companies to refer to the militarized versions of their commercial products. Thus the militarized Winchester 1866 as used by the Turkish army was referred to as the Winchester 1866 Musket, and so on, however this was not a technical term and further details are outside the scope of this article.

Evil Tim: /* Flintlock vs Percussion */

2017-10-12T09:13:48Z

Flintlock vs Percussion

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	==Flintlock vs Percussion==		==Flintlock vs Percussion==

	The flintlock, introduced in France in the early 17th century, was the first method of firing a gunpowder weapon without using a burning match that was suited to mass production (wheelocks having always been prohibitively expensive due to their complexity). It used a piece of flint held in a set of jaws called a cock, striking a piece of steel called a frizzen, igniting a small powder charge in a flash pan which the frizzen also acted as a cover for. This would then ignite the main charge. This "true" flintlock was an evolutionary development of early flint-ignited ~~rifle~~ patterns, the snaplock, snaphance, Miquelet and doglock, incorporating all of the improvements of these individual designs (flint ignition, a self-opening pan cover, the combination of striking steel and pan cover into a single part and a half-cock position that allowed the flint to be aligned with the pan without having the weapon in a ready-to-fire position: the latter is the origin of the phrase "going off half-cock") into a single one.		The flintlock, introduced in France in the early 17th century, was the first method of firing a gunpowder weapon without using a burning match that was suited to mass production (wheelocks having always been prohibitively expensive due to their complexity). It used a piece of flint held in a set of jaws called a cock, striking a piece of steel called a frizzen, igniting a small powder charge in a flash pan which the frizzen also acted as a cover for. This would then ignite the main charge. This "true" flintlock was an evolutionary development of early flint-ignited lockwork patterns, the snaplock, snaphance, Miquelet and doglock, incorporating all of the improvements of these individual designs (flint ignition, a self-opening pan cover, the combination of striking steel and pan cover into a single part and a half-cock position that allowed the flint to be aligned with the pan without having the weapon in a ready-to-fire position: the latter is the origin of the phrase "going off half-cock") into a single one.

	[[Image:flintlock.jpg\|thumb\|none\|400px\|Flintlock mechanism - reproduction Brown Bess musket]]		[[Image:flintlock.jpg\|thumb\|none\|400px\|Flintlock mechanism - reproduction Brown Bess musket]]

Evil Tim: /* Flintlock vs Percussion */

2017-10-12T09:01:43Z

Flintlock vs Percussion

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	==Flintlock vs Percussion==		==Flintlock vs Percussion==

	The flintlock, introduced in France in the early 17th century, was the first method of firing a gunpowder weapon without using a burning match that was suited to mass production (wheelocks having always been prohibitively expensive due to their complexity). It used a piece of flint held in a set of jaws called a cock, striking a piece of steel called a frizzen, igniting a small powder charge in a flash pan which the frizzen also acted as a cover for. This would then ignite the main charge. This "true" flintlock was an evolutionary development of early flint-ignited rifle patterns, the snaplock, snaphance, Miquelet and doglock, incorporating all of the improvements of these individual designs (flint ignition, a self-opening pan cover, the combination of striking steel and pan cover into a single part and a half-cock position that allowed the flint to be aligned with the pan without having the weapon in a ready-to-fire position) into a single one.		The flintlock, introduced in France in the early 17th century, was the first method of firing a gunpowder weapon without using a burning match that was suited to mass production (wheelocks having always been prohibitively expensive due to their complexity). It used a piece of flint held in a set of jaws called a cock, striking a piece of steel called a frizzen, igniting a small powder charge in a flash pan which the frizzen also acted as a cover for. This would then ignite the main charge. This "true" flintlock was an evolutionary development of early flint-ignited rifle patterns, the snaplock, snaphance, Miquelet and doglock, incorporating all of the improvements of these individual designs (flint ignition, a self-opening pan cover, the combination of striking steel and pan cover into a single part and a half-cock position that allowed the flint to be aligned with the pan without having the weapon in a ready-to-fire position: the latter is the origin of the phrase "going off half-cock") into a single one.

	[[Image:flintlock.jpg\|thumb\|none\|400px\|Flintlock mechanism - reproduction Brown Bess musket]]		[[Image:flintlock.jpg\|thumb\|none\|400px\|Flintlock mechanism - reproduction Brown Bess musket]]

Evil Tim: /* Musket vs Rifle */

2017-10-12T05:29:10Z

Musket vs Rifle

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	==Musket vs Rifle==		==Musket vs Rifle==

	The term "musket" refers specifically to smoothbore firearms without rifling, which are inherently inaccurate and can typically only be used to about 75 yards. "Rifle" refers to rifled firearms, whether breech or muzzle loading. While rifling dates back to the 15th century, rifles only really came into serious military use in the late 18th: earlier rifles required bullets made to tighter tolerances than were realistically possible with period technology to actually render them useful, and early powders tended to foul and corrode a rifled bore. Even in the 18th century rifles were a specialist weapon used by soldiers separate from the musket-armed line infantry, as although they were far more accurate they could take up to a minute to load. When the introduction of the Minie ball in the 1850s speeded loading, allowing all infantry soldiers to be armed with rifled weapons, the rifles adopted were of musket length and sometimes referred to as rifle-muskets. Rifle units typically received as shortened version of the infantry rifle-musket, referred to simply as a rifle. This practice was gradually abandoned by the 1870s (earlier in the United States due to the Civil War) and all long guns that fired bullets were simply referred to as rifles.		The term "musket" refers specifically to smoothbore firearms without rifling, which are inherently inaccurate and can typically only be used to about 75 yards. "Rifle" refers to rifled firearms, whether breech or muzzle loading. While rifling dates back to the 15th century, rifles only really came into serious military use in the late 18th: earlier rifles required bullets made to tighter tolerances than were realistically possible with period technology to actually render them useful, and early powders tended to foul and corrode a rifled bore. Even in the 18th century rifles were a specialist weapon used by soldiers separate from the musket-armed line infantry, as although they were far more accurate they could take up to a minute to load due to the difficulty of ramming the projectile down the rifling grooves. When the introduction of the Minie ball in the 1850s speeded loading, allowing all infantry soldiers to be armed with rifled weapons, the rifles adopted were of musket length and sometimes referred to as rifle-muskets. Rifle units typically received as shortened version of the infantry rifle-musket, referred to simply as a rifle. This practice was gradually abandoned by the 1870s (earlier in the United States due to the Civil War) and all long guns that fired bullets were simply referred to as rifles.

	The term musket enjoyed a brief revival in late 19th and early 20th century America as a marketing term used by various companies to refer to the militarized versions of their commercial products. Thus the militarized Winchester 1866 as used by the Turkish army was referred to as the Winchester 1866 Musket, and so on, however this was not a technical term and further details are outside the scope of this article.		The term musket enjoyed a brief revival in late 19th and early 20th century America as a marketing term used by various companies to refer to the militarized versions of their commercial products. Thus the militarized Winchester 1866 as used by the Turkish army was referred to as the Winchester 1866 Musket, and so on, however this was not a technical term and further details are outside the scope of this article.

Evil Tim: /* Musket vs Rifle */

2017-10-12T05:27:54Z

Musket vs Rifle

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	==Musket vs Rifle==		==Musket vs Rifle==

	The term "musket" refers specifically to smoothbore firearms without rifling, which are inherently inaccurate and can typically only be used to about 75 yards. "Rifle" refers to rifled firearms, whether breech or muzzle loading. While rifling dates back to the 15th century, rifles only really came into serious military use in the late 18th: earlier rifles required bullets made to ~~tight~~ tolerances to actually render them useful, and early powders tended to foul and corrode a rifled bore. Even in the 18th century rifles were a specialist weapon used by soldiers separate from the musket-armed line infantry, as although they were far more accurate they could take up to a minute to load. When the introduction of the Minie ball in the 1850s speeded loading, allowing all infantry soldiers to be armed with rifled weapons, the rifles adopted were of musket length and sometimes referred to as rifle-muskets. Rifle units typically received as shortened version of the infantry rifle-musket, referred to simply as a rifle. This practice was gradually abandoned by the 1870s (earlier in the United States due to the Civil War) and all long guns that fired bullets were simply referred to as rifles.		The term "musket" refers specifically to smoothbore firearms without rifling, which are inherently inaccurate and can typically only be used to about 75 yards. "Rifle" refers to rifled firearms, whether breech or muzzle loading. While rifling dates back to the 15th century, rifles only really came into serious military use in the late 18th: earlier rifles required bullets made to tighter tolerances than were realistically possible with period technology to actually render them useful, and early powders tended to foul and corrode a rifled bore. Even in the 18th century rifles were a specialist weapon used by soldiers separate from the musket-armed line infantry, as although they were far more accurate they could take up to a minute to load. When the introduction of the Minie ball in the 1850s speeded loading, allowing all infantry soldiers to be armed with rifled weapons, the rifles adopted were of musket length and sometimes referred to as rifle-muskets. Rifle units typically received as shortened version of the infantry rifle-musket, referred to simply as a rifle. This practice was gradually abandoned by the 1870s (earlier in the United States due to the Civil War) and all long guns that fired bullets were simply referred to as rifles.

	The term musket enjoyed a brief revival in late 19th and early 20th century America as a marketing term used by various companies to refer to the militarized versions of their commercial products. Thus the militarized Winchester 1866 as used by the Turkish army was referred to as the Winchester 1866 Musket, and so on, however this was not a technical term and further details are outside the scope of this article.		The term musket enjoyed a brief revival in late 19th and early 20th century America as a marketing term used by various companies to refer to the militarized versions of their commercial products. Thus the militarized Winchester 1866 as used by the Turkish army was referred to as the Winchester 1866 Musket, and so on, however this was not a technical term and further details are outside the scope of this article.