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Gun Control & RKBA

mitch96

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4. It just amazed me how anybody with a smooth bore musket could hit anything unless up close... I remember

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Mon Jul 14, 2025, 12:50 PM

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watching a civil war documentary and one of the things that stuck in my head was that the troops with the smooth bore muskets were told to aim for the feet and knees of the opposing troops... That way they would hit SOMETHING and not just shoot over the heads of the opposing troops..
And then came the rifled bore and Minie ball... nasty stuff....
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How Powerful are Black Powder Guns? [View all] struggle4progress Jul 13 OP

Interesting, I have a 44 cap and ball black powder revolver. Compared to my 9mm Ruger LCP doc03 Jul 13 #1

" I used to have 50 cal Hawkins" When I was a kid I had one also.. .After the third shot, it got so fouled mitch96 Jul 13 #2

I bought my Ruger Old Army 44 cal. in doc03 Jul 13 #3

It just amazed me how anybody with a smooth bore musket could hit anything unless up close... I remember mitch96 Monday #4

And, to top it all off, those smoothbores were usually BIG. yagotme Thursday #5

Love shooting my pistols, HATE cleaning them, lol. nt yagotme Thursday #7

I used Pyrodex in my BP guns, a substitute, fouled less, but still fouled. yagotme Thursday #6

BP firearms have a completely different melm00se Yesterday #8