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Flintlock pistol in "Queen Anne" layout, made in Lausanne by Galliard, c. 1760. On display at Morges military museum. Flintlock pistols were used as self-defense weapons and as a military arm. Their effective range was short, and they were frequently used as an adjunct to a sword or cutlass. Pistols were usually smoothbore although some rifled ...
Effective firing range: ... The Belton flintlock was a repeating flintlock design ... was sold to the East India Company in 1785 in rifle, carbine, and pistol form, ...
The Pattern 1800 Infantry Rifle, better known as the Baker rifle, was a flintlock rifle designed by English gunsmith Ezekiel Baker and used by the British Armed Forces from 1801 to 1837. First seeing action during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars , it was the first British-made firearm to be issued as a service rifle to all soldiers ...
Effective firing range: 50 to 100 yd (46 to 91 m) ... the Model 1822 was a .69 caliber smoothbore flintlock, with a 42-inch (110 cm) barrel and an overall length of ...
Effective firing range: ... Around 700,000 were made, more than any other flintlock in U.S. history. [4] ... United States Army rifle 1816-1855
The longer range and better accuracy of the rifle were also considered to be of little value on a battlefield that was quickly obscured by black powder smoke. Like all smoothbore muskets, the Charleville flintlock musket was only accurate to about 200 yards against a column of men, or eighty to a hundred yards against a man-sized target.
Pennsylvania's flintlock deer hunting season started 50 years ago. Heritage is one reason new hunters take it up and others return year after year.
Flintlock: Rate of fire: User dependent; usually 2 to 3 rounds every 1 minute: Muzzle velocity: 1,000 to 1,200 ft/s (300 to 370 m/s) Effective firing range: 100 to 200 yards, in reality 50 to 75 yards: Maximum firing range: 300 yd (275 m) [1] Feed system: Muzzle-loaded: Sights: A front sight cast into the barrel band