"Military-style, assault rifle" used by the British government troops and the civilian American farmers at Concord and Lexington.
"Military-style, assault rifle" used by the British government troops and the civilian American farmers at Concord and Lexington.
Saw a demonstration of this one up close in Lexington MA (by two women no less). I could not believe how loud it was, and I can’t imagine 100 hundred of these going off at the same time in close battle. I bet some of those guys went deaf.
I have one similar to that one. Only mine is a confirmed 50Cal Pennsylvania long rifle in perfect shape and has a walnut stock, also I have a flint lock pistol that is paired with it(walnut stock). It has a smashed bull dog head on the grip. Someone said that it was a slam on the king of England at that time.
These suckers work fine. Got them when I lived in Pa. Like neeeeew.
Looks to be an “assault musket”, except that it has no bayonet. The things were only good for massed Volley fire, but could be reloaded more quickly than contemporary rifles, which were mostly used for shooting officers on the other side, and the Colonials used more of them than the Regulars, at least early on. Because they had them, and the regulars did not. But you had to shoot and scoot, because they took a long time to reload, you had to pound the bullet down the bore with a rod and mallet. They often did NOT have bayonets. Technology changes.