The Springfield Model 1840 was a flintlock musket manufactured by the United States during the mid-19th century. The .69 caliber musket had a 42-inch...
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1842 was the first primary U.S. muskets to be produced with a percussion lock; however, most of the Model 1840 flintlocks ended up being converted to percussion...
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The Springfield Model 1835 was a .69 caliber flintlock musket manufactured in the United States during the early 19th century. The Model 1835 was manufactured...
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The Springfield Model 1816 was a .69 caliber flintlock musket manufactured in the United States during the early 19th century. The War of 1812 had revealed...
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caliber flintlock smoothbore musket. Springfield Model 1835 – .69 caliber flintlock smoothbore musket. Springfield Model 1840 – .69 caliber flintlock smoothbore...
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resistant to fire (rather than the flintlocks of the 18th century; the last U.S. flintlock musket was the Springfield Model 1840). Well-trained troops were able...
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variety of models. In 1717, a flintlock musket for the French infantry was standardized. This became the first standard flintlock musket to be issued...
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Percussion) Springfield Model 1812 Musket (Flintlock musket; .69) Model 1808 Contract Musket (Flintlock musket; .69) Model 1795 Musket (Flintlock musket; .69)...
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Charleville 1766 heavily influenced the design of the Springfield Model 1795 musket. Many muskets were produced locally by various gunsmiths in the colonies...
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government for making the model 1841 percussion rifle. Machinery and fixtures for making the 1822 contract flintlock musket had to be retooled or replaced...
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British military rifles (section Remington Model 1901)
British military rifle are within its predecessor the Brown Bess musket. While a musket was largely inaccurate over 100 yards (91 m), due to a lack of rifling...
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Composite Flintlock Musket | Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution". collections.si.edu. Retrieved 2025-05-24. "Miquelet Lock Musket Presented...
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from the Lincoln administration, manufacturing muskets under their own brand, such as the Springfield Model 1861, in partnership with Samuel Colt, and dealing...
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produced weapons such as the Springfield Model 1861. Parts were interchangeable with these weapons and with the Colt musket parts. They had received a special...
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American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume III: Flintlock Alterations and Muzzleloading Percussion Shoulder Arms 1840–1865 (pdf). American Military Shoulder Arms...
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American Military Shoulder Arms, Volume III: Flintlock Alterations and Muzzleloading Percussion Shoulder Arms, 1840-1865. UNM Press. pp. 98–99. ISBN 978-0-8263-5002-2...
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include an 1833 Whitney percussion musket converted from a flintlock; five 1960s RuddSpeed whiskey decanters modeled after the grilles of automobiles including...
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in Colonial Connecticut (Yale UP 1990) pp.16–32. Douglas Edward Leach, Flintlock and Tomahawk: New England in King Philip's War (1958) pp.11–13. online...
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and heavy bullets. There were also kegs filled with flints used in flintlock muskets. The boys took the cartridges down to the meadows where fires burned...
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