16095 Colonial Militia Standing Loading Musket W. Britain-Redcoats & Bluecoats Burke Trammel

Burke Trammel

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In the optimal situation the left tricep would be resting just before the left knee

Until 1941

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16095 Colonial Militia Standing Loading Musket W. Britain-Redcoats & Bluecoats Burke TrammelThere are a series of 12 actions needed to load and fire a flintlock musket this soldier is on step eight. He has already primed the pan and returned the frizzen. He has poured gunpowder down the guns barrel, seated a ball in a portion of wadding paper at the barrels opening. He has removed the ramrod from its storage pipe and channel beneath the barrel and is preparing to ram the wadding and ball down the barrel to the end of the tube (the breech),