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X-ray of a Brown Bess musket recovered by LAMP archaeologists from an American Revolutionary War-era shipwreck from a ship lost in December 1782. It is believed to be a 1769 Short Land Pattern, and is loaded with buck and ball. Many variations and modifications of the standard pattern musket were created over its long history.
While this was the main British musket, it was briefly used by the Americans until 1777. This musket was used to fire a single shot ball, or a cluster style shot which fired multiple projectiles giving the weapon a "shotgun" effect. There were two types of the Brown Bess: the Short Land Pattern and the Long Land Pattern.
X-ray of a Brown Bess musket recovered by LAMP archaeologists from an American Revolutionary War era shipwreck lost in December 1782. It is believed to be a 1769 Short Land Pattern, and is loaded with buck and ball.
‘Brown Bess’ Land Pattern Musket ©Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons. Approximate Units Sold: 4,300,000. Country of Origin: United Kingdom. 28. Carcano Modello 1891 ©Wikipedia - Original ...
Brown Bess musket – precursor to the early British rifles. The origins of the modern British military rifle are within its predecessor the Brown Bess musket.While a musket was largely inaccurate over 100 yards (91 m), due to a lack of rifling and a generous tolerance to allow for muzzle-loading, it was cheap to produce and could be loaded quickly.
The lock plate was smaller, flat, and had a steeped-down tail, a raised semi-waterproof pan, a flat ring neck cock, and a sliding safety bolt. With the introduction of a new pattern Short Land Pattern Flintlock Musket ('Brown Bess') in 1810, with its flat lock and ring-necked cock, the Baker's lock followed suit for what became the fourth pattern.
'Brown Bess' Land Pattern Musket: Musket United Kingdom: 3,000,000 [56] [57] 4,300,000 [58] 3 million India Pattern Short Land Carbine made from 1795 [56] 1.6 million made in Birmingham and 2.7 million in London [58] Remington Model 1100: Semi-automatic shotgun United States: 3,000,000 [59] 4,000,000 [60] Ruger Single Six/ Blackhawk/Vaquero ...
Bear in mind a well disciplined and trained soldier could reload and fire the flintlock musket once every 20 seconds. The Brown Bess musket is a muzzle-loading, smooth bore, 990 mm long barrel, flintlock, weighing about 5 kg, shooting a 0.75 calibre projectile. Its effective firing range is 100 to 300 metres.