Muzzleloading is a term used to describe any firearm, but more particularly historical firearms, which are loaded at the muzzle, or open end of the gun barrel. Muzzleloading usually, but not always involves the use of a loose propellent (i.e. gun powder) and projectile, and a separate method of ignition or priming. A firearm is a kinetic energy weapon that fires either a single or multiple projectiles propelled at high velocity by the gases produced by action of the rapid confined burning of a propellant. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...

Muzzleloading is also the term used to describe the sport, or pastime of firing muzzleloading guns. Muzzleloading guns, both antique and reproduction, are used for target shooting, hunting, historical re-enactment and historical research. The sport originated in the United States in the 1930's, just as the last original users and makers of muzzleloading arms were dying out. The sport received a tremendous boost in the 1960's and 1970's, and a flourishing industry manufacturing working reproductions of historic firearms now exists in the United States and Europe, particularly in northern Italy near Gardone. A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ...

See Also

• Firearms
• Gonne
• Matchlock
• Wheellock
• Snaplock
• Snaphance
• Miquelet
• Flintlock
• Caplock mechanism
• Black Powder

A firearm is a kinetic energy weapon that fires either a single or multiple projectiles propelled at high velocity by the gases produced by action of the rapid confined burning of a propellant. ... Hand Gonnes from the Historisches Museum, Bern The Gonne, Hand Gonne or Hand Cannon, as it was called, was the first working product in the firearms development. ... The Matchlock was the first firearm to have a trigger mechanism for firing. ... Wheellock, also referred to as Wheel-Lock, was the next major development in firearms technology after the matchlock. ... Snaplock refers to a mechanism for igniting a firearms propellant usually in a muzzleloading gun. ... Snaphance or Snaphaunce refers to a mechanism for igniting a firearms propellant usually in a muzzleloading gun. ... Miquelet (miguelet) is a modern term applied to a distinctive form of flint-against-steel ignition mechanism (lock) prevalent in the Mediterrean lands in the late 16th to early 19th centuries. ... A flintlock is a firearm that operates in the following manner: The operator loads the gun, usually from the barrel end, with black powder followed by shot or a bullet wrapped in a paper patch, all rammed down with a special rod; A cock or striker tightly holding a shaped... The caplock mechanism was the successor of the flintlock mechanism in firearm technology, and used a percussion cap struck by the hammer to set off the main charge, rather than using a piece of flint to strike a steel frizzen. ...

External Links

National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association

Muzzle Loaders association of Great Britain

Muzzleloading Forum