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249 pages 29 cm Early muskets and muzzle-loading pistols: The Wheellock ; Snaphaunce ; Miquelet ; Flintlock ; "Brown Bess" ; Revolutionary period muskets ; Short land service musket ; Committee of Safety muskets ; French muskets in the American Revolution ; Changes in musket design ; Military flintlock pistols ; Percussion muzzleloading pistols -- Muzzle-loading ammunition: The powder horn ; Musket cartridges ; Cartridge boxes ; Black powder ; Ballistic tests ; Ease of loading and accuracy ; Civil War cartridges ; Exterior ballistics -- Muzzle-loading rifles: Rifling the barrel ; Barrel manufacture ; During the Civil War ; Cast steel barrels ; Commercial flintlocks ; Over-under flintlock firearms ; U.S. flintlock rifles ; U.S. percussion rifles and musket-rifles ; Artillery and Sapper musketoons ; Rifled carbines ; Remington Zouave ; European percussion rifles -- Breech-loading ammunition: Paper cartridges ; Manufacturing bullets ; Sharps ammunition ; Maynard ; Burnside ; Smith & Wesson ; Spencer ; Experiments with center-fire ammunition ; Berdan design ; Long-range accuracy -- Early breech-loading rifles: Breech-loaders with separate chambers ; Ferguson ; Hall ; Comparative tests

Author

David F Butler

Publisher

Winchester, 1971.

Published

1971

Language

EN

ISBN

9780876910306

Updated

2026-03-25