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by brownbess
Fri Feb 06, 2009 9:22 pm
Forum: Day to Day
Topic: Mommy, why did they call their guns muskets? That's silly!
Replies: 7
Views: 48620

the age of horse & musket

Hi Pud, I never travelled to Canada, but 2 friends of me have families there since the 80’s, and they told me that they love the country and people, very polite and respectful of the law, they said. I hope someday to know the plains of Abraham !! Well, some shooters here are using muzzleloaders gu...
by brownbess
Fri Feb 06, 2009 6:09 pm
Forum: Day to Day
Topic: Mommy, why did they call their guns muskets? That's silly!
Replies: 7
Views: 48620

Re: Mommy, why did they call their guns muskets? That's silly!

Thanks Pud, I knew this page just a few days ago, looking for some articles about the brown bess musket. Well, now we are in summer here, so we had today + 27 centigrade or celcius degrees, really hot, and the worse, dampness, please send some snow... By the way congratulations, serious reenactment ...
by brownbess
Tue Feb 03, 2009 9:06 pm
Forum: Day to Day
Topic: Mommy, why did they call their guns muskets? That's silly!
Replies: 7
Views: 48620

Re: Mommy, why did they call their guns muskets? That's silly!

Hi, I´m new here, and please sorry my english. Maybe it can help, is a strange hipotesis from the origin of the word musket/moschetto/mousquet/muskete/mosquete.... "The word originally signified a male sparrowhawk (Italian moschetto, derived perhaps ultimately from Latin musca, a fly) and its ...