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Have had a fun day so far. Three loads of laundry, blew up my closet by hanging my new school clothes and purging the rest, and am currently writing lessons for the start of the school year. I'm almost done with week 1. The wife is off having her hair done, and the critter is supposed to be cleaning his room.

My eyes started to wander to my antiques rack, and I came up with this quiz. I took down all my muskets and put them in random order. I took care to align the barrels parallel with each other and cropped the photo to show only the butt stocks, so the curves, pitch, and angles are correct relative to each other. Can you identify the muskets based on their butt stocks? Kind of an interesting view into stock evolution from 1795 to 1862.

In chronological order by date they are: U.S. M1795, U.S. M1816, Prussian M1839, U.S. M1842, U.S. M1861, and British P1862.

If you care to play, identify the muskets and list the type from top to bottom:

1842
1862
1795, etc.

I hope to slip to the range with the Winchester again when the wife comes home if its not raining to badly.

T
 
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Here is my guess 1795-2,1816-1,1839-4,1842-3,1861-5,and 1862-6
 
God no. Can we see the rest?

1822 M1816/T2 Belgian style percussion conversion .69 cal
1812 M1795/T3 .69 cal
1854 M1842 .69 cal
1862 P1862 .58cal rifled (marked "24" on left breech for out of spec bore rather than '25' for .577)
1861 M1861 .58cal rifled
1849 M1839/55 Prussian rifled musket .72cal

This time I lined them up by their hammer screws. I find the Brit the hardest to shoot of the six as it has the farthest trigger pull .

T
 

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