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the gun so slow you could lose a duel, a sandwich, and your faith reloading it
means A muzzle-loading, smoothbore long gun fired from the shoulder, the standard infantry firearm from the 16th into the 19th century.
from From French 'mousquet,' borrowed from Italian 'moschetto'—a word that originally meant a kind of small sparrowhawk or crossbow bolt. Italians had a habit of naming weapons after birds of prey (a 'falconet' was a small cannon), and 'moschetto' itself traces back to Latin 'musca,' a fly—possibly because the dart or hawk darted about like an insect. So the heavy, ponderous musket carries, buried in its name, the memory of something small and quick.
- reload speed
- three shots per minute by a trained soldier
- terrible aim
- smoothbore barrel made hitting anything past 80 yards luck
- name origin
- named after a male sparrowhawk, the musket
- bite the cartridge
- soldiers tore paper cartridges open with their teeth
- powder hazard
- a stray spark could ignite your whole ammo pouch
brown bess — british military musket used 1722-1838, fired over 116 years of service
springfield model 1855 — us military musket with rifling, issued 1855-1865 during american civil war