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The average musket measured 5 feet and weighed about 10 pounds. Though not especially accurate, it could be primed, loaded, fired, and rapidly reloaded and fired again. A good musket man could get off three to four rounds per minute, or a
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I can’t imagine how much skill and concentration under fire it took in order to reload
American Westerns
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The American Westerns group provides a forum for the appreciation and discussion of classic and current fiction of the Old West.
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