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To: Inyo-Mono

No, I bought a Thompson/Center Hawken flint lock RIFLE!


28 posted on 10/26/2016 6:19:07 PM PDT by TaMoDee (Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2016!)
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To: TaMoDee
No, I bought a Thompson/Center Hawken flint lock RIFLE!

Which is not a musket or blunderbuss. Very few real Hawkens were made in flintlock in the 1830s and '40s by the Hawken Brothers, most were percussion. A blunderbuss is a flared, short barreled gun used for repelling attackers boarding a ship in the 1700s, range was about 10 yards. A musket is a smoothbore rifle length weapon used during both the Revolutionary and Civil War by both militia and Federal troops.

29 posted on 10/26/2016 6:27:14 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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