Here is the loading procedure of a Land Pattern Musket (Brown Bess):
1. Open the frizzen (make sure the weapon is set to half-cock)
2. Take a paper cartridge from your cartridge box
3. Tear off the top of the cartridge with your teeth; keep the ball in your mouth
4. Pour a small amount (1/8) of the gunpowder into the pan
5. Close the pan
6. Cast about (so the muzzle faces upwards and the ramrod to you)
7. Pour the remaining powder down the barrel
8. Spit down the ball
9. Withdraw ramrod and ram (ram the ball to the bottom of the barrel)
10. Return ramrods
11. Shoulder arms (bring the musket up to your shoulder)
12. Make Ready (cock the hammer, bringing the weapon to full cock)
13. Present (aim the weapon at the enemy)
14. Fire (pull the trigger)
A trained soldier could fire two shots a minute. An experienced soldier, however, could manage three.
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brown bess
A lot of the chapters contain information about the Brown Bess. The Brown Bess is the family gun of the Meekers, and is taken by Sam to fight in the Revolution.
The Brown Bess is a firearm, a bayonet is an attachment to a firearm like a knife.
Although popular to the ill-informed masses , the Brown Bess was not named for the color of its stock, nor its barrel, nor for the Queen, it was called the 'brown bess' because of then common use of the word 'brown' as meaning drab or cheap, and the word 'bess' was used to refer to a cheap woman or harlot. The barrel was often cheaply treated or painted brown to protect it from rusting. Thus among the lower class of soldiers that often carried them, the term ' brown bess', that was first used in the 1600's, became an appealing name for their own 'harlot' piece.
The Brown Bess and the Charleville muskets
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depends on overall condition...............
The Brown Bess musket with a bayonet attached.
Brown Bess, definitely no! That's a weapon of the 1700's. It took too long to reload. American Military did not have bayonets attached to their weapons but the Japanese did.
brown bess
It was a British musket used in much of the 1700s and the first half of the 18000s.
The Musket ''Brown Bess'' they used in the american revolution