Musket
Materials
These guns were basic-grade smoothbore flintlocks and doglocks. Native Americans and indigenous peoples took traditional Western-made guns and adapted them to their own specific needs and preferences. To enhance, reinforce and decorate the wooden furniture that often swelled and cracked in field conditions, tacks were applied, as were leather wraps. Bulky 30-inch barrels were cut down to make them easier to carry in the wilderness.
Description
From the time the British and French first arrived in what was then termed the New World, fur agents and military officers began to earn Native harvested animal pelts and strategic alliances with what was called Trade Muskets. Some of these guns may have differed from military-grade arms of the time in the respect that they did not have the same fit and finish, were often a smaller caliber (so they could not use captured stocks of military ball in time of war), and had no provision to fit a bayonet.
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