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LibertyLover

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18. Actually, British front line troops could load and fire a musket 3 to 4 times in a minute

Reply to tex-wyo-dem (Original post)

Thu Dec 27, 2012, 11:00 AM

Dec 2012

- granted they couldn't keep that rate of fire up for very long, but they didn't need to because after several volleys, you went after the enemy with your bayonet. Poorer trained troops could still fire twice a minute. I've fired both a Brown Bess type musket and a rifled musket and while the recoil was there it wasn't that bad. It certainly didn't knock me on my ass.

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Flintlock muskets... [View all] tex-wyo-dem Dec 2012 OP

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