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    Rifled Musket Componenet Overview During the Civil War, rifled muskets were all the rage. The Rifled Musket was adopted by the U.S. Army in 1858. These new type of muskets had grooves inside of the barrel, meaning that if this gun was partnered with the Minié ball, it would increase both the range and the accuracy of the bullet. The smooth-bore musket (the previous generation of muskets) did not have grooves in the barrel. This means that the bullet is not spinning as it exits and there is a margin

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    What Were the Effects of the Rifle? Essay

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    than a musket, is the fact that it has rifling throughout the barrel of the gun. Rifling is a system of spiral grooves in the surface of the bore of a gun causing a projectile when fired to rotate about its longer axis (Merriam-Webster). The rifle changed America by starting long range warfare, enforcing a new industry of American weaponry, and leading to the sniper rifle which now has many important uses such as protecting the white house.

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    the Industrial Revolution the rifle became more powerful and advanced. The way we reload rifle has become easier and faster. The musket would only shoot one at a time, now modern advances allow it to be easier to shoot more than one at a time. When they added a magazine to the rifle around the late 1800’s, it made shooting a rifle much faster than the standard musket. The accuracy of the rifles has improved in many ways. The accuracy improved when

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    with the right to own a gun. The symbolism behind the musket in the monument I am creating is that it was one of the major guns used during the revolutionary war. The second amendment is mostly about gun rights and allowing them in the states to the people, to protect themselves. The musket was used by many american soldiers, because it was light weight and shot a smaller bullet these were a favored gun to the continental soldiers. These muskets were the best at close range in the battle next to rifles

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    was a savage killer and it only was the one true word that I heard the crowd say and it was that word that put me in this new world. ¨Fire¨ No one new how said it but then i shot my musket at the crowed and then I spotted that devil of a man Mr Gray and as sone as I laid my eyes on he I ran at him with my loaded musket and then he tripped and his was my chance he looked scared and in that new world I thought it was fun to shoot him and I did and when I did I felt good and then for fun stabbed him

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    Index Page 1: 1. Annotate the poem and research. 2.The romantic epic. 3.Casting characters. 4.Create a character through the camera 5.Desing a costume. 1. Annotate the poem and research: Summary of poem: The poem starts out with a highwayman (this is a thief who use to hold people’s carriages they usually come on horseback) visiting his girlfriend Bess who is the daughter of an innkeeper. He's on the move (meaning he will be back the next day after he has robbed some people) so he only

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    Army Musket

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    varied, however at the beginning of the war the British Short Land Service Musket, often referred to as the Brown Bess, was perhaps the most common musket on hand. In 1777, the French allied themselves with the American cause and began sending arms and equipment. After the revolutionary War the Army transitioned to The U.S. Musket Model 1795 this rifle

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    Musket Procedure

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    The process of reloading a musket isn’t too big now a days, but back early on it was. This was one of the ways of war back then and what they were used to. A musket has saved and took many lives also they have took countries, with the help of the person behind the gun. I think it is important to at least know how to load and shoot a musket in respect of the men who had to do it, in order to fight for what they believed in,or had to do.     Step 1, make sure the musket isn’t primed,that means there

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    their enemies without ever having to fire a shot or go into full combat through different types of bombs that were in disguise. Among the advancements in the Civil War were the torpedo, the carbine rifle, the minie` ball, several models of rifle-muskets, rocket launchers, rocket bombs, "Greek Fire," and a wide array of other secret weapons. Torpedoes were quite possibly the most

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    Matchlocks In Japan

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    long after, news about the weapon began to spread towards other parts of Japan. In 1545 the lord of Bungo on Kyushu, called Otomo Yoshiaki heard about the weapon and requested a demonstrating of the musket (Lidin 2002, 6). Otomo also became impressed by the power of the weapon and as a result, muskets were included on its military arsenal. However, the gun was presented with some technical problems, which was not reliable to be used in the wars. One of those problems was that it could not perform

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