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Musketeers often used paper cartridges, which served a purpose similar to that of modern metallic cartridges in combining bullet and powder charge. A musket cartridge consisted of a pre-measured amount of black powder and ammunition such as a round ball, Nessler ball or Minié ball all wrapped up in paper. Cartridges would then be placed in a ...
Cartridge: Musket ball undersized (.65/16.510 mm) ... The Charleville musket was a .69 caliber standard French infantry musket used in the 18th and 19th centuries. It ...
Cartridge: 16.54 mm, 27.19 g lead ball 12.24 black-powder propellant: Caliber: 17.5mm (.69 inch) musket ball: Action: Flintlock/percussion lock (conversion) Rate of fire: User dependent; usually 2 to 3 rounds a minute: Muzzle velocity: Variable 420 m/s (1,400 ft/s) Effective firing range: Variable (50–100 yards) Feed system: Muzzle-loaded: Sights
The Enfield Pattern 1853 rifle-musket (also known as the Pattern 1853 Enfield, P53 Enfield, and Enfield rifle-musket) was a .577 calibre Minié-type muzzle-loading rifled musket, used by the British Empire from 1853 to 1867; after which many were replaced in service by the cartridge-loaded Snider–Enfield rifle.
Paper cartridges varied in their construction based on the specifications of the buyer or the practices of the builder; a cartridge tended to be built with a specific weapon in mind, with a specified powder charge and a correctly sized ball or bullet. A cartridge built for a .65 caliber musket obviously could not be used in a .50 caliber weapon.
Springfield Model 1861 "Colt Special" rifled musket Colt Model 1861 Special Musket Lamson, Goodnow & Yale (L.G & Y.), Springfield Model 1861, built 1864. The Springfield Model 1861 was a Minié-type rifled musket used by the United States Army during the American Civil War.
Derived from the .50-60-400 Joslyn, the cartridge was developed after the unsatisfactory results of the .58 rimfire cartridge for the Springfield Model 1865 rifle. The .50-70 Government cartridge used the Benét internal center-fire primer design and became the official cartridge of the U.S. military in 1866 until being replaced by the .45-70 Government in 1873.
Cartridge: Paper cartridge, musket ball undersized to reduce the effects of powder fouling: Calibre.69 (17.526 mm) [1] Action: Flintlock/percussion lock (conversion) Rate of fire: User dependent; usually 2 to 3 rounds every one minute: Effective firing range: Around 47 yards: Feed system: Muzzle-loaded: Sights: A front sight cast into the upper ...