The development of breech-loading firearms using self-contained cartridges, introduced by Casimir Lefaucheux in 1835, began to make muskets obsolete. The first reliable repeating rifles, the 1860 …

3 days ago · We sell historically accurate muskets and pistols in a non-firing state for demonstration purposes. This allows us to comply with various local, state, national and international firearms …

The Traditions® 1861 Springfield Musket Kit is made for the serious hunter or reenactor. The 1861 Springfield maintains the classic styling and ha... The Brixia™ Arquebus Musket Spanish-style kit is …

Musket, muzzle-loading shoulder firearm, evolved in 16th-century Spain as a larger version of the harquebus. Muskets were matchlocks until flintlocks were developed in the 17th century, and in the …

Early in the war, committees of safety let contracts to local gunsmiths to produce muskets of a standard size and caliber; in the age before manufactured parts were interchangeable, all muskets were still …

In your hands, you hold a weapon that has shaped the course of history—the musket. This firearm, with its long barrel and smoothbore design, played a pivotal role in military tactics and engagements for …

The meaning of MUSKET is a heavy large-caliber muzzle-loading usually smoothbore shoulder firearm; broadly : a shoulder gun carried by infantry. Did you know?

Musket firing from a recreation of a Thirty Years' War battle. The Musket is a type of firearm that typically featured a long, smoothbore barrel and fired either a musket ball or (from the 1840s) a Minie ball.

5 days ago · The infantry's history to 250 years of U.S. military standard-issue weapons, from the smoothbore musket to the M7 rifle

Listing of musket long guns throughout the world history of firearms.