| 1. | Rifled muskets, like smooth bore muskets, were always muzzle loaded.
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| 2. | Rifles were created as an improvement in the accuracy of smooth bore muskets.
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| 3. | The Model 1717 also standardized the smooth bore barrel and flintlock firing mechanism.
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| 4. | The barrel of a musket was usually smooth bore.
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| 5. | The barrel had a smooth bore with no rifling.
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| 6. | The term was only used for weapons that directly replaced smooth bore muskets.
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| 7. | Most smooth bore muskets did not have sights.
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| 8. | This type of cannon would use a shell, projected from a smooth bore.
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| 9. | Such long range firing with smooth bore muskets caused little loss to either side.
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| 10. | It was a smooth bore musket and fired a . 69 caliber round ball.
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