it looks like a rifle with a horse on the end
It improves that accuracy and distance of the bullet by causing the bullet to spin not tumble like a smooth bore barrel musket.
A musket is smooth bored, like a shotgun's bore. A rifle has rifling inside the bore (grooves).
The lock, the stock, and the barrel. The lock is the mechanism with hammer, trigger, pan, and other parts to fire the musket. The stock is the wooden furniture which allows the operator to hold and aim the musket. The barrel is the tube through which the projectile is fired, exactly like a modern weapon, except that musket barrels were smooth bored like a shotgun instead of rifled.
No musket does not have an antonym
Musket or Musket or maybe a Musket.:D
A pistol would generally be considered a weapon with a relatively short barrel length like a handgun, whereas a musket would be a long barreled weapon more like a rifle.
Can you imagine a cow holding a musket...trying to hold it with great big hooves, putting the power and shot in the muzzle...you must be getting the picture now...they would look and be clumsy and making a difficult job of it (or to keep in line with farm life, making a pig's ear of it - but that's another phrase to look up!).
A soldier with a musket that doesn't need anything to hold it (like a tripod).
the musket does not have a rifled barrel and a rifle does
George Musket was born in 1583.
George Musket died in 1645.
The Codfish Musket was created in 1936.