Most ordinary modern manaufacture caplock muzzle loaders are selling for about $100-$150, depending on make/model/condition.
Yes, a muzzle loader or a musket can be unloaded without having to be fired. It can be unloaded, however it is dangerous to do so.Ê
Yes you can. Most of the modern in-line muzzle loaders are set up for mounting a rifle scope. However, a muzzle loader will still have a relatively slow bullet, and a very high arc when fired at long range. Your ability to accurately estimate range and hold over will be important.
The muzzle is the opening at the end of the barrel where the bullet exits when fired.
The breech is the rear of the barrel, where a cartridge would be loaded. The muzzle is the front end of the barrel. When fired, a bullet is driven up the barrel, and out of the muzzle.
-- If fired parallel to the length of the field, it will take360/(horizontal component of muzzle velocity, fps)seconds.-- If fired parallel to the width of the field, it will take160/(horizontal component of muzzle velocity, fps)seconds.
muzzle velocity is 3100 feet per second
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The lock on a muzzle loader consisted of sear, hammer and hammer spring. With some modern guns (a Winchester 94) the hammer/ hammer spring would be a close match. For a striker fired weapon (no outside hammer) it might be the firing pin and spring.
This is a device which dampens the flame which comes out the muzzle of the gun when it is fired. The supressor reduces the dazzling light that would temporarily blind the shooter or reveal his position.
The term "rifle" means that the inside of the barrel (also called the bore) has spiral lines engraved in it. These spiral grooves are known as rifling- they cause the bullet to spin when fired, causing it to travel straight. If a firearm has no rifling, then it is a smoothbore- and may be called a musket or a shotgun. So- some muzzle loading firearms- such as the Brown Bess Musket from the 1700s- ARE smoothbore- but they are not rifles. A muzzle loader like the .50 Hawken I hunt with IS rifled, and not a smoothbore. There is a neat little article on this at the link below:
50 calibur muzzleloader
Even most muzzle loaders use a spring somewhere. The only ones I can think of offhand were a type of shotgun designed for covert operations, where it was essentially a two-piece rod (often disguised as a cane or umbrella), and it would be fired by pushing the rear section of the rod into the front section - this would push the firing pin forward, which would strike the primer.