#musketry

[thefrontierfacade]

cuirassiers be like

source for top image. Harness source.

[maltascapes]

Valley Steps & Musketry Loopholes - Victoria Lines - Wied il- Faham - Gharghur

[grumpyswordsperson]

Fire! Morishige-ryu Hojutsu and matchlocks | BUDO JAPAN

I’ve never really thought about it, but a koryu school that teaches musketry makes a lot of sense.

[pattern-53-enfield]

“King’s Light Dragoon with Paget Carbine”, 1812, by C. Hamilton Smith.

[historicalfirearms]

Effectiveness of the 18th Century Musket

I stumbled across this fascinating short documentary looking at how effective 18th century musketry was. The film was produced by the Old Fort Niagara Association based at Fort Niagara in New York State. 

It draws upon the collection and interpretation staff of the Fort as well as various subject matter experts including Matthew Spring, author of the excellent With Zeal and With Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America 1775-83.

The film attempts to test the accuracy of the British Brown Bess musket, first with a skilled marksman firing at ranges between 200 and 50 yards. Then, even more interestingly, with a group of the interpretive staff from the Fort. In full uniform and equipment they make a staged advance on a group of targets representing an enemy line. 

They fire are various ranges and the results are interesting - showing that despite its perceived limited accuracy, en mass the smoothbore musket was quite effective. While this does little more than affirm the tactics of the period it is never the less an interesting short documentary.

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[pervocracy]

How did you verbally distinguish between "14" and "40" since they sound so similar? Do you say like "fourteen-one four" or did you have another system?

I say “fourteen-one-four” or else just really stress “fourTEEEEN.”

[maltascapes]

Musketry Loopholes - Ospizio Complex - Floriana

[historicalfirearms]

Musketry of 1914, Pt.2

Rob over at BritishMuzzleLoaders returns with the second part of his series on the Musketry of 1914. He digs, literally, into, the average British soldier’s preliminary musketry training - including posture, positions and the various exercises which were repeated to gain muscle memory. Rob also discusses some of the training aids and the targetry used during range exercises. At the end of the video he gives a brilliant demonstration of just how the miniature landscape targets, such as the Solano system, were used on the Army’s 30 yard indoor ranges. As always, well worth a watch!

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