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Musket and Springfield Model 1861

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Difference between Musket and Springfield Model 1861

Musket vs. Springfield Model 1861

A musket is a muzzle-loaded, smoothbore long gun that appeared in early 16th century Europe, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating heavy armor. The Springfield Model 1861 was a Minié-type rifled musket shoulder-arm used by the United States Army and Marine Corps during the American Civil War.

Similarities between Musket and Springfield Model 1861

Musket and Springfield Model 1861 have 14 things in common (in Unionpedia): American Civil War, Bayonet, Breech-loading weapon, Brown Bess, Caplock mechanism, Flintlock, Minié ball, Muzzleloader, Paper cartridge, Rifle, Rifled musket, Rifling, Smoothbore, Springfield Model 1855.

American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Bayonet

A bayonet (from French baïonnette) is a knife, sword, or spike-shaped weapon designed to fit on the end of a rifles muzzle, allowing it to be used as a pike.

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Breech-loading weapon

A breech-loading gun is a firearm in which the cartridge or shell is inserted or loaded into a chamber integral to the rear portion of a barrel.

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Brown Bess

"Brown Bess" is a nickname of uncertain origin for the British Army's muzzle-loading smoothbore Land Pattern Musket and its derivatives.

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Caplock mechanism

The caplock mechanism or percussion lock was the successor of the flintlock mechanism in firearm technology, and used a percussion cap struck by the hammer to set off the main charge, rather than using a piece of flint to strike a steel frizzen.The caplock mechanism consists of a hammer, similar to the hammer used in a flintlock, and a nipple (sometimes referred to as a "cone"), which holds a small percussion cap.

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Flintlock

Flintlock is a general term for any firearm that uses a flint striking ignition mechanism.

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Minié ball

The Minié ball, or Minni ball, is a type of muzzle-loading spin-stabilized rifle bullet named after its co-developer, Claude-Étienne Minié, inventor of the Minié rifle.

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Muzzleloader

A muzzleloader is any firearm into which the projectile and usually the propellant charge is loaded from the muzzle of the gun (i.e., from the forward, open end of the gun's barrel).

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Paper cartridge

This article addresses older paper small-arms cartridges, for modern metallic small arms cartridges see Cartridge (firearms).

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Rifle

A rifle is a portable long-barrelled firearm designed for precision shooting, to be held with both hands and braced against the shoulder for stability during firing, and with a barrel that has a helical pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the bore walls.

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Rifled musket

A rifled musket or rifle musket is a type of firearm made in the mid-19th century.

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Rifling

In firearms, rifling is the helical groove pattern that is machined into the internal (bore) surface of a gun's barrel, for the purpose of exerting torque and thus imparting a spin to a projectile around its longitudinal axis during shooting.

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Smoothbore

A smoothbore weapon is one that has a barrel without rifling.

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Springfield Model 1855

The Springfield Model 1855 was a rifled musket widely used in the American Civil War.

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Musket and Springfield Model 1861 Comparison

Musket has 99 relations, while Springfield Model 1861 has 86. As they have in common 14, the Jaccard index is 7.57% = 14 / (99 + 86).

References

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