| 11. | Armies therefore tended to favor smooth bore weapons.
|
| 12. | Earlier muskets had mostly been smooth bore flintlocks.
|
| 13. | Charleville muskets had a smooth bore barrel.
|
| 14. | Yet the Mini?type rifled muskets were much more accurate than smooth bore muskets.
|
| 15. | Other configurations feature a smooth bore in which the mate simply slides into to connect.
|
| 16. | Modern Soviet tanks, like the ones mentioned, are typically armed with smooth bore guns.
|
| 17. | These weapons are typically smooth bored and fire a shell containing small lead or steel balls.
|
| 18. | The loose fitting ball in a smooth bore musket was accurate to ranges of, or less.
|
| 19. | Rifles were more accurate than smooth bore muskets, and could have been made using shorter barrels.
|
| 20. | The Model 1842 had been produced as a smooth bore musket, but many were later rifled.
|
