That brief intermediate of paper or metal cartridges with an external priming source. My favorite bit of esoteric weaponry.
>>64657070Slant-breech Sharps, my beloved.
In 1700, the flintlock musket was the most advanced standard infantry weapon in the world. In 1800 it still was. In 1840 a capping breechloader would be the most advanced infantry weapon. By 1860 metallic cartridge breechloaders were already taking over.
>>64657070Did you read my mind and started a musket thread? I was just going to post something. Basically I’ve started actually reading historical books on the revolutionary war. Now I’m getting interested in muskets. What would be a budget friendly repro from that time period that I could learn with or research?
>>64657091I remember reading somewhere about a group of frontiersmen who went into gold panning. They used the barrels of their old Hawken rifles as pry bars when they bought Sharps rifles.
