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"I own a Musket for home defense"


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1 hour ago, BrasilNuts said:

 

I may have to re-evaluate my HD plan.

The next time someone makes the "that's not what the Founding Fathers had, so it's not covered by the Constitution" argument, please gleefully inform them of your new and improved plan. 😁

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I agree with using a musket for home defense.

A .75cal lead ball makes a heck of a mess!  The foot long flame will burn off their facial hair and set clothes on fire at close range.  Then think of the terror effect when they see my pissed-off naked self charging out of the smoke cloud behind six feet of bayonet tipped musket!!!

Hiding behind a wall or closed door won't protect you from an 18" bayonet blade!

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3 hours ago, 1gewehr said:

I agree with using a musket for home defense.

A .75cal lead ball makes a heck of a mess!  The foot long flame will burn off their facial hair and set clothes on fire at close range.  Then think of the terror effect when they see my pissed-off naked self charging out of the smoke cloud behind six feet of bayonet tipped musket!!!

Hiding behind a wall or closed door won't protect you from an 18" bayonet blade!

In the quiet, sitting there bleeding:

"Eddie?"

"Yeah Dave?"

"I think we picked the wrong house..."

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1 hour ago, Chris said:

That's why you have multiple muskets and train the wife and kids how to reload for you. You can maintain a pretty high rate of fire that way. Muskets as crew served weapons.

The original New York reload. 

I either read or heard that crew  served rifles was developed by riflemen in the Revolutionary War. The best shot would climb the tree. Two other guys would sit at the base of the tree and reload. Loaded rifles were tossed up, empty rifles dropped down. 

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I learned about that technique reading about the South African Boers - The Voortrekkers. When attacked by Zulus they would put their wagons into laager (like circling the wagons) and the men would shoot while the women and children would keep handing them fresh rifles. Doing this they could put up a wall of lead. It proved quite effective.

 

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Back when I was still in NY, back before they became a complete police state (SAFE ACT), I knew a guy from seeing him selling at flea markets for years. When you could still do private sales he always kept a few long guns in his camper with a small sign, if you were interested he would take you in. I had some long guns from my Dad's that I didn't want so I asked if we could do some trading and was invited to his house. First thing I saw when I was invited into his single wide house trailer was a small canon with something over an inch bore sitting beside his easy chair pointing at the door. He said that was his first line of defense.

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