http://www.gun-pictures.com The best pictures of guns! Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:33:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.gun-pictures.com/musket/ http://www.gun-pictures.com/musket/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:50:53 +0000 admin http://www.gun-pictures.com/?p=174 Weapon introduced towards the end of the sixteenth century, according to the practice adopted by some riders, using a reinforced armor capable of withstanding the firing of a gun. It had a caliber more support, and therefore heavier than the musket – up to weigh 11 kg with a diameter of up to 24 mm and a range of about 220 meters (though the possibility of hitting a target at this distance is very small ). To be shot, was used with a fork.

Musketeer being attacked by heavy cavalry, century. XVI. On the battlefield, the slow rate of fire of the weapon made with such a conflict favored the cavalry.

Musketeer. From Gheyn, 1607.

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