16095 Colonial Militia Standing Loading Musket W. Britain-Redcoats & Bluecoats Until 1941

Until 1941

“The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men” made back in 1952

Burke Trammel

The gun required at least 2 men to operate and carry it

16095 Colonial Militia Standing Loading Musket W. Britain-Redcoats & Bluecoats Until 1941There are a series of 12 actions needed to load and fire a flintlock musket this soldier is on step eight. He has already primed the pan and returned the frizzen. He has poured gunpowder down the guns barrel, seated a ball in a portion of wadding paper at the barrels opening. He has removed the ramrod from its storage pipe and channel beneath the barrel and is preparing to ram the wadding and ball down the barrel to the end of the tube (the breech),