Musket - Wikipedia A musket is a muzzle-loaded long gun that appeared as a smoothbore weapon in the early 16th century, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating plate armour [1]
Musket | Definition Facts | Britannica musket, muzzle-loading shoulder firearm, evolved in 16th-century Spain as a larger version of the harquebus It was replaced in the mid-19th century by the breechloading rifle
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MUSKET Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster As the practice of rifling firearms—incising the barrel with spiral grooves to improve the bullet's accuracy—became more common, the term musket gradually gave way to the newer word rifle in the 18th century
Muskets and Musketry - Encyclopedia. com A soldier's musket, if not exceedingly ill-bored (as many of them are), will strike the figure of a man at eighty yards; it may even at 100; but a soldier must be very unfortunate indeed who shall be wounded by a common musket at 150 yards, provided his antagonist aims at him…