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Talk:Gods and Generals
There are at least a couple of flintlocks in this. Early in the film, a flintlock rifle is handed to someone about to go and join up - it could even be a small gunsmith's shop. Also, when the 20th Maine first muster, still in civilian clothes, at least one flintlock is visible.
Among the defenders of Fredericksburg, manning barricades on the riverfront, one has a percussion muzzleloader with telescopic sight. Is this more likely to be a dedicated target rifle?
One of the bullets removed from General Jackson is shown, and correctly described as a smoothbore musket ball.
-I don't have a DVD available at present, but if I had to guess, the aforementioned scoped rifle may be a depiction of the Whitworth rifle. Or it could also be a bench rifle; many sharpshooter regiments kept a few bench rifles (scoped or otherwise) handy for use in defensive positions (as they were too heavy and finicky to be used in attacking.)--E2theSamps 21:20, 29 October 2011 (CDT)