Baker Rifle with elevator music

[Gatling]

Me own ancestors were Scot by way of Ireland.  So, God bless SCOTLAND and Ireland says I.  And God bless Mutant Musket.  (The first round is on him!)

[Melbob]

Me own ancestors were Scot by way of Ireland.  So, God bless SCOTLAND and Ireland says I.  And God bless Mutant Musket.  (The first round is on him!)

Rise the Campbells!

(Aye..Uncle Mutant should get the first round   )

[toad]

Well old Ben was pretty smart but he had now experience or had not read much military history.  The old chivalry hated gunpowder weapons because anybody could play the game and it was quite upsetting to have your noble father killed by some peasant.   The musket pretty much put paid to the long bow and the cross bow as weapons that could be used in open field mass warfare.   While aimed fire with a military musket of the time was laughable the fire from a regimental or company line doing volleys was nasty at longer ranges.  At close range it wasn't uncommon for those large lead balls to go through a soldier on the first rank and wound or kill the man behind him.  In America the Brits discovered or I should say rediscovered that there were lots and lots of forests to get through, ambush country, and the militia could use Indian tactics.  Kill officers, attack forage parties at close range, and strangle the supply line.  When it came to open ground around the cities and more inhabited farming areas and when you had to take a town or block an assault, then the massed muskets came into play.  This is the reason Washington wanted regulars.  The Baker rifle is the result of lessons learned by the Brits in the Revolutionary War.  The Baker was a supplement too, not a replacement for the Brown Bess.
Those green uniformed guys orignially were from Loyalist Soldier who fought for the King.  They became the group that went out before the main musket line  and working in pairs would snipe the opposition, they'd retreat back through the musket line as the masses of asses got too close.

As for the Indian wars, it should be noted that Indians really liked to get hold of firearms when they could.  I remember reading about the winter wars against the Indians,  the indians would be in winter camps on the plains and here would come the infrantry with their wagons behind them.  They'd tramp through the snow and form line and open up with the trap door Springfields.  It was relentless and the Indians gave up since they couldn't leave their women and children behind.

[g.willikers]

I'll see yer wee puny rifle and raise ya' a ballista.

[Mutant Musket]

Aw see, ye lads'r a mighty good lot. Got bless the lot ye too.  
Unkle Musket may nae be a fillosiffer, spook, special saljer or man 'o the cloth wot hears the minda Got, anna I try hart not commit felonious acts of armchair statecraft, but I'll do tell ye wot I do know for true, an may the powers strike me iff'n I speak false, an thass the common folk. The common folk are, by a ninedynine outa hundred margin, good people. Be they in County Cork, Kilkenny, or Roscommon. And perchance they be in some place not a county attall, common folk are common folk all the same, I swar it on both me musket and pint!
Got bless Michael Collins, John Adams, Ireland, Scotland, an these Unitied Colonies all togetha!  
I care not war ye from, ye'll always be welcomed in Unkle Musket's Pub, and ye can bet yer boots an stick that ye can keep yer pistol an knife in yer belt the hall time! Even iffn' ye preffer arrows te ball. But don't let it slip yer mind...it takes balls te shoot a musket!

Nae look et the beuty of this honest musket an enjoy the music too, less'n youd rather I start signing instead!

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[Melbob]

It's lookin rather handsome...for a replica. 

[Mutant Musket]

Replicas are neato! I don't feel like I'm committing a heretical act when I put them through their paces with stout charges. And they're cheaper!

[Melbob]

Replicas are neato! I don't feel like I'm committing a heretical act when I put them through their paces with stout charges. And they're cheaper!

While that IS a lot of fun, this particular case is a non-firing replica... 

[Gatling]

Aw see, ye lads'r a mighty good lot. Got bless the lot ye too.  
Unkle Musket may nae be a fillosiffer, spook, special saljer or man 'o the cloth wot hears the minda Got, anna I try hart not commit felonious acts of armchair statecraft, but I'll do tell ye wot I do know for true, an may the powers strike me iff'n I speak false, an thass the common folk. The common folk are, by a ninedynine outa hundred margin, good people. Be they in County Cork, Kilkenny, or Roscommon. And perchance they be in some place not a county attall, common folk are common folk all the same, I swar it on both me musket and pint!
Got bless Michael Collins, John Adams, Ireland, Scotland, an these Unitied Colonies all togetha!  
I care not war ye from, ye'll always be welcomed in Unkle Musket's Pub, and ye can bet yer boots an stick that ye can keep yer pistol an knife in yer belt the hall time! Even iffn' ye preffer arrows te ball. But don't let it slip yer mind...it takes balls te shoot a musket!

Nae look et the beuty of this honest musket an enjoy the music too, less'n youd rather I start signing instead!

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If'n we both start singen, the wolves will howl with shame! (I hope)

[Mutant Musket]

Howlin with dogs is a fine sport! There's no great schism between the hearts of men and dogs!

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