Carbine, rifle, firearm, or gun. Those are synonyms for musket.
A musket is an old fashioned, smooth barreled long gun.
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Well bows and slingshots were the first use of fire arms ever. The first "GUN" was the musket and musketoon,a fire arm capable of firing anything that will fit.
Earlier gun than the Old West.
Rifle.
A musket is an early kind of a gun. A musketeer was a soldier who had that gun as his main weapon.
An old fashioned gun could be a cannon or a musket.
It was the gun. The first mass produced gun with interchangeable parts was produced the percussion ignition smooth bore musket produced by the Springfield Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1850.
the winchester Rifling refers to the grooved twists in a gun barrel that imparts spin to a bullet thus stabilizing it and producing more accuracy. The earliest rifled guns were made in the 15th century which would predate Winchester by quite a bit.
If it has unquestioned provenance, priceless.
Double barrel musket shotgun