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    A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an
    army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for
    which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and
    finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm
    has been generally superseded by the rifle.

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      From your Hand cannon to your conical all muskets are single shot and very slow firing. They require your primer(if using a percusion cap you dont need this)gun powder put down the barrel. Then you ram with a ramming rod your projectille down the barrel
      A musket was first made back in the 1300s . They where first just simple metal tubes that had gunpowder, a ball, and a hole to stick a flaming piece of rope down.These where called hand cannons. The ottomans where one of the first groups to use a matchlock musket.
      A matchlock musket was shaped about 5 to evn six feet long . It was fired by the trigger being pulled and slaming a lit piece of rope down on a hole that gunpowder was in.
      Then came along the wheellock. It was fired by a piece of gyraphite slaming on a wheel inside the musket causing sparks .
      The next musket was a flint lock . When you pulled the trigger a piece of flint would slam on to a piece of metal . The sparks created by this would light the powder.
      For hundreds of years muskets wher very innaccurate and only had a maxium distance of 100m. Until rifling came into the picture. Rifling is a set of spiraled groves in the barrel. It gives the projectille a spin and makes it more accurate and go longer distances.
      This made there effective range skyrocket and in some muskets , the ball would hit where you aimed for 300 yards. During the revolutionary war the British standard weapon was the brownbess which was a rifled musket and some of the colonist had kentucky long-rifles.
      Two more major inventions came for muskets during the 1800s . The percussion cap was the main one.
      On a percussion cap musket there is a tube called the nipple. You place the percussion cap on ther and fired. This allowed powder to burn much better and due a way with the use of primer and reduced fowling or the barrel getting so dirty it couldnt fire.
      After that a french man invented something called the minne ball or as we know the conical bullet. It was shaped as a cone like a modern bullet.
      alot of muskets could have this shoved down there muzzle and still fire or there was a gun called a breach loader which is not a musket could fire them.
      The conical made alot of guns have accuracy with the proper sights up to 1000 yards.

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        A man who can only cum once before having to rest to get another shot. Like a musket.

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          A [musket] is a small cardboard tube (one typically found in a pack of RAW cones)with a filter, filled with the weed left over from rolling a cone or joint. Using a [ramrod] the weed is packed down and the tube is trimmed. A [Muskets] resemble a one hitter but can last for multiple hits.

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            An infantrymans light gun with a long barrel, typically smooth-bored, muzzleloading, and fired from the shoulder.

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