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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Smoothbore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The smoothbore musket was a long-ranged firearm derived from the earlier arquebus (or hackbutt) during the 16th century.
		The use of skirmishers during the period of the smoothbore musket to harass the enemy was not uncommon.
		Despite the inaccuracies of the smoothbore musket, studies were made by various nations in the 18th and 19th centuries to determine the effectiveness of a body of musketeers against the enemy.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Smoothbore (820 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Smoothbore refers to a firearm or cannon which does not have a rifled barrel.
		In the 18th century, the standard infantry arm was the smoothbore musket; by the 19th century, rifled barrels became the norm, increasing the power and range of the infantry weapon significantly.
		Mortars are often smoothbore; since the projectile is dropped down the barrel under the force of gravity, a smooth barrel makes the projectile easier and faster to load.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=smoothbore (647 words)

	J. Stanage - The Rifle-Musket vs. The Smoothbore Musket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Of these cartridges, A and B were used in the smoothbore muskets, C was used in a rifled version of the same muskets and D was used in the Springfield, the Enfield and many other arms of that same caliber.
		This indicates that for all practical purposes the smoothbore musket is ineffective at 300 yards and greater.
		The smoothbore with only ball is obviously worse than the rifle musket, while the smoothbore with buck and ball is better than the rifle musket at 100 yards and is better than the smoothbore with ball alone at 200 yards.
	www.iusb.edu /~journal/2000/stanage.html (3543 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Civil War Times \| Weaponry: The Rifle-Musket and the Minie Ball
		About 1610, the muzzleloading, smoothbore flintlock musket was invented as an improvement on the matchlock musket, a similar firearm that depended on a lit match for ignition.
		As the name muzzleloading, smoothbore flintlock musket suggests, the gun was loaded (with loose gunpowder and a round ball) at the mouth of its barrel.
		What made the smoothbore flintlock musket so dominant an infantry weapon for so long was that it was easy to load; an experienced soldier could load and fire up to four times a minute, a rapid rate of fire for the time.
	www.historynet.com /magazines/civil_war_times/3036371.html?featured=y&c=y (1465 words)

	Arlin Blair Smoothbore Frolic
		Smoothbores, called such because of their lack of rifling, were considered a close range firearm and not very accurate.
		At a two-day rendezvous it seemed to be common to shoot rifles on Saturday and pistols and smoothbores on Sunday.
		Smoothbores were used widely on the frontier as an all-around gun.
	www.seidata.com /~gjohnson/smborefrolic.html (1073 words)

	Pea Ridge NMP: Artillery (The Guns)
		The inner surface of the smoothbore was like a pipe, while the rifle's bore had grooves that spiraled the length of the barrel.
		At Pea Ridge, the Federals were not able to take advantage of the superior range and accuracy of their rifled artillery due to the woods, thickets and ravines where most of the heavy fighting took place.
		During both days of the battle, most of the artillery fire was at ranges from 400 to 800 yards, where the smoothbore guns and howitzers excelled.
	www.nps.gov /archive/peri/art3.htm (553 words)

	Smoothbore Musketry - ScotWars
		This article analyzes the factors related to the smoothbore musket that should be addressed in wargame rules and simulations for this period.
		The invention of the greased patch and the rifling of the musket barrel in the 1850s ended the span of four centuries of the domination of the smoothbore musket in warfare.
		The smoothbore musket was a firearm that dominated the battlefield from the 16th until 19th centuries.
	www.scotwars.com /html/equip_smoothbore_musketry.htm (3829 words)

	Smoothbore Loads
		The first round ball I ever shot from a smoothbore was actually done with a double barrel side-by-side flintlock shotgun, a twenty gauge.
		That was long before the current craze of smoothbore shooting had come about, and getting information about round ball loads for one was essentially impossible.
		Fouling is more of a problem in a smoothbore than in a rifle, in my experience.
	home.insightbb.com /~bspen/SmoothboreLoads.html (2138 words)

	Artillery, Artillerymen, and Artillery Legends
		With smoothbore weapons, firing round, gently tumbling projectiles with reasonable range and accuracy, the difference in size was not too important.
		The difference in range and accuracy between a smoothbore and a rifled artillery piece was like the difference between throwing a basketball or a football.
		While rifled cannons were ideal for long-range sniping, smoothbores, with their large bore sizes, were better at firing canister (a tin can filled with small iron balls) like a giant shotgun at massed troop formations in close quarters at 400 yards or less.
	www.landscaper.net /artillery.htm (6643 words)

	Smoothbore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		But like a curveball, even a relatively smooth sphere will curve when rotating on any axis not parallel to the direction of travel.
		In the 16th century, the standard infantry arm was the smoothbore musket; by the 17th century, rifled barrels became the norm, because they could fire elongated projectiles, which provided better external ballistics.
		This is the exact opposite of the desired even distribution, with an fairly even number of pellets across a carefully expanding region.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/s/sm/smoothbore.html (325 words)

	The 1855 Rifle Musket
		Much of the army's existing stock of.69 caliber smoothbores was rifled in the years preceding the Civil War, but these, often called 'rifled muskets' to reflect the fact that their rifling was a later modification, were considered second-class weapons and were usually kept in reserve at arsenals or issued to militia units.
		In 1855 the army finally approved the design of a series of rifled weapons which were all to use a standard.58 caliber round- a long infantry 'rifle musket,' a slightly shorter 'cadet musket,' a still shorter 'rifle' and, finally a 'pistol-carbine' that was issued with a detachable shoulder stock.
		Before writing off the smoothbore altogether, however, it should be mentioned that it had another ability that was never, apparently, adapted for use with the rifle.
	www.eclectichistorian.net /RifleMusket (3636 words)

	Smoothbore Loads
		The first round ball I ever shot from a smoothbore was actually done with a double barrel side-by-side flintlock shotgun, a twenty gauge.
		That was long before the current craze of smoothbore shooting had come about, and getting information about round ball loads for one was essentially impossible.
		Fouling is more of a problem in a smoothbore than in a rifle, in my experience.
	members.aye.net /~bspen/SmoothboreLoads.html (2138 words)

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	Mammoth Guns
		Inexpensive earthwork batteries were armed with existing smoothbore guns, primarily the 15-inch Rodman.
		In 1896, while waiting for guns and carriages, three 15-inch smoothbore cannons were mounted at Fort Washington.
		When rifled steel guns replaced the smoothbores, the old cannons were considered junk.
	www.nps.gov /fowa/mammoth.htm (1393 words)

	Selecting the Proper Slug Gun System
		Bullet configurations and sabot designs vary widely by manufacturers and their types of loads, but all sabot ammo is based on the principle that the bullet "sheds" the enclosing sabot in flight (through wind resistance or the centrifugal force of spin imparted by rifling) or on impact.
		A smoothbore barrel with a screw-in rifled choke is somewhat better because it will impart at least some stabilizing spin to a departing solid or sabot-design slug, and a full-length-rifled barrel is best (which is why high-power rifles are not smoothbore).
		A smoothbore barrel with rifled choke tube will be somewhat less accurate, and a pure smoothbore offers the least accuracy.
	www.gameandfishmag.com /hunting/whitetail-deer-hunting/gf_aa106402a (1378 words)

	Chinese Defence Today - Type 89 Tank Destroyer
		Because West Germany turned down China’s request to obtain its latest L44 120mm smoothbore tankgun technology, the PLA was forced to develop the 120mm gun indigenously.
		In 1978, the PLA officially approved to develop a 120mm smoothbore gun which would be used by both new generation MBT and division self-propelled antitank artillery weapon system.
		The main armament is a 120mm/50-calibre high-pressure smoothbore gun with a thermal sleeve and a semi-automatic gun loader.
	www.sinodefence.com /army/artillery/type89at_120mm.asp (929 words)

	Hunting Information
		When hunting during the overlapping firearms seasons for deer and when in possession of the proper permits for the current season, hunters may carry the firearms legal for the current seasons.
		For example, when Sixday Firearm and Permit Muzzleloader seasons run concurrently, a hunter may be in possession of a shotgun and a muzzleloading rifle and/or smoothbore muzzleloader.
		Only one muzzleloading rifle or smoothbore muzzleloader may be in possession while deer hunting.
	www.scottsbt.com /hunting/huntmisc/legalarms.htm (629 words)

	May 1996 - Smoothbore Breakthrough
		I added the.69 smoothbore to my gun cabinet to be able to compete in the smoothbore classes at the NMLRA shoots as well as to compete in the smoothbore N-SSA class, but it's first duty was at Warren County Middle School, in Front Royal, Virginia, for a living history demonstration on May 1.
		Although I have not seen the DGW yet, it is another over-the-counter option for so many of us who have been waiting for a smoothbore to reenact or shoot with but didn't want to part with the green required for an original or custom-made smoothbore.
		The Ordnance Manual published in 1860 calls for a load of 110 grains behind a.65 round ball, which was the standard military load for.69 smoothbore throughout the lifetime of that caliber in military service.
	www.civilwarguns.com /9605.html (845 words)

	UNC-TV:The Civil War Experience
		Smoothbore: Having a barrel of perfectly smooth surface.
		Smoothbore cannons were typically used during battle because they shot at a shorter range.
		Smoothbore guns were also short range and were not accurate unless soldiers ran directly into the enemy firing line.
	www.unctv.org /thecivilwarexperience/weapons.html (208 words)

	smoothbore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A thick cloud of smoke billowed in front of Lincoln Hall Saturday as West Point emergency responders quickly arrived on the scene to quench a fire blazing from a van that was part of a mass casualty exercise.
		The exercise, called Operation Smoothbore ‘05, simulated a terrorist attack with an improvised explosive device detonated into the side of building 607, resulting in about 50 casualties that caused a jam of emergency vehicles along Cullum Road next to Doubleday Field for much of the afternoon.
		The annual mass casualty and anti-terrorism exercise is named Operation Smoothbore in memory of Knapp’s good friend, Andy Fredericks, who was a firefighter killed in 9-11.
	www.usma.edu /PublicAffairs/PV/050415/smoothbore.htm (483 words)

	Smoothbore Flintlock Pistols
		The large caliber, smoothbore flintlock pistols Hamilton and Burr used in their encounter typified the American dueling weapons.
		Large caliber, smoothbore flintlock pistols were typical American dueling weapons.
		Particularly in demand are Hege-Manton smoothbore flintlock pistols, original flint duelling pistols, and European-style matchlocks.
	www.medievalmagic.com /search/133/smoothbore-flintlock-pistols.html (226 words)

	Cannon Balls, field use up to 24 pounder
		The Confederates used the side plug as a way to load iron balls into the shell formed around the fuse shaft, avoiding the problem of trying to drill a space through iron balls and gunpowder to make room for the fuse, the hole was then plugged after loading.
		The 24 pounder smoothbore was uncommon, not a very practical weapon because of its excessive weight for field use, most were used as flanking guns in the forts or as Coehorn mortars.
		Fuse generally intended for smoothbore balls up to 24 pounder, it is occasionally found in larger caliber case shot balls.
	www.relicman.com /artball.htm (2223 words)

	Aflex Hose Ltd - Products
		A product which is sufficiently flexible, like convoluted, yet which retains the advantages offered by smoothbore, like fast flow rate and cleanability.
		Smoothbore PTFE hose including specialist 'High Pressure Gas' and 'Anti Static' varieties.
		It is designed to replace conventional all-silicone rubber hoses in applications where the inner silicone rubber liner may be subject to chemical reaction with fluids passing through, which may either contaminate the fluid, or degrade the rubber liner.
	www.aflex-hose.com /products_&_applications (496 words)

	Weapons Glossary
		Rifled Cannons are almost exactly like the more common Smoothbore cannons, but with a couple differences, namely a cheaper price and the inability of Rifled Cannons to use Special Ammunition.
		The Smoothbore Cannon is the type most commonly found on today's units.
		Smoothbore Cannons can be used for indirect fire.
	www.shellshock.com /rules/old/weaponsglossary.php (1071 words)

	Amazon.com: smoothbore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy: The Death of Stonewall Jackson and Other Chapters on the Army of Northern Virginia by Robert K. Krick (Paperback - Mar 2004)
		The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy: The Death of Stonewall Jackson and Other Chapters on the Army of Northern Virginia.(Book Review)(Brief...
		Undisciplined Valley Cavalry," in The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy:...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=smoothbore&index=blended&page=1 (715 words)

	Weapons Used by the Soldiers
		Although there were dozens of different types of cannon used during the Civil War, they all fell into one of two categories: smoothbore or rifled cannon.
		The favorite artillery piece in both the Union and the Confederacy was the Napoleon, a smoothbore, muzzle-loading, 12-pounder "gun-howitzer." Relatively light and portable, the Napoleon was used as both an offensive and defensive weapon by both armies.
		During the Civil War, small arms included muskets, which were smoothbore, long-barreled shoulder arms; rifles, shoulder guns with spiral grooves cut into the inner surface of the barrel; carbines, short-barreled rifles; and handguns, including pistols and revolvers.
	keep3.sjfc.edu /students/sms8519/unitplan/weapon.htm (795 words)

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