Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Unreliable gunpowder and variation in powder flask sizes

Pukka Bundook · 3rd January 2018, 03:19 PM

Philip,

If some powder was Very good as Elgood states, plus these barrels often being made with a large powder chamber, this could very well account for them out-ranging the muskets of the period. Smaller bore and higher velocity. Makes sense. :-)

3rd January 2018, 03:19 PM	#2
Pukka Bundook Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 803	Philip, If some powder was Very good as Elgood states, plus these barrels often being made with a large powder chamber, this could very well account for them out-ranging the muskets of the period. Smaller bore and higher velocity. Makes sense. :-)