Pennsylvania Long Rifle, A Gold Standard 

It’s a musket if smoothbored, rifles have grooved barrels ,putting spin on the fired balls

@@kennethhamby9811 no, that’s a common misconception. Musket is a military arm. Smoothbored but heavy stock and fitted for a bayonet. Other smoothbore guns include hunting guns made for single ball or buck and ball loads, called fusils. Or light guns made for fowling. Light guns the ancestors to shot guns.

@@jeffreyrobinson3555 Wrong. He is right. Muskets were ALWAYS smooth bore. Rifles were often shorter than muskets. In 1895, Winchester produced a "Rifled Musket" under contract for Czarist Russia. A model 1895 with an unusually long, "musket length" barrel. Fusil is a French/ Belgian term that is as specific to a rifle or shotgun as the term "firearm" is to either. The confusion comes from the constant misuse of terms, either accidently or deliberate. A short-barreled musket is a blunderbuss. The reason muskets were so long is so they could be loaded while remaining mounted on horseback. Riles initially copied this pattern but were rapidly shortened as they were not favored for military use until the practice of coning barrels to make them faster to reload. By about that time, percussion caps and paper cartridges enabled mounted riflemen to use shorter rifles with no coning necessary.

@@Phuc_Socialist_You_Tube all muskets are smooth bore, except the late rifled muskets from the time of the Crimean war and the American civil war. However musket is a particular type of gun. All muskets are smooth bore but not all smooth bores are muskets Muskets were never made to be loaded off of horse back. Musket was always an infantry gun. The first muskets were two man guns. But by 1650 had evolved in to single man arms. Blunderbuss was smooth bore but never a musket. It was made for specific work A short barreled military arm is a musketoon or a carbine. Carbines used by Cavalry , musketoons used by artillery and light forces. Coning barrels were made for round ball rifles. These shot a patched round ball and coning made it easier to load. Was a civilian invention. I don’t know of a military rifle that used it, but may have been used on European rifles from napoleonic wars. Paper cartridges were the rule for military from the time of the thirty years war. Gustov Aldophson made them universal in the Swedish army. They were quickly adopted by all Europeans. However we have no documentation of them being used in civilian smoothbores

@@jeffreyrobinson3555 Blunderbusses followed by musketoons and then fowlers and foragers were always smoothbore. Calvary was historically, almost always valued more than infantry, due to speed and mobility. Capt. Pickett's charge at Gettysburg illustrated the error. Muskets are what the U.S. cavalry was issued prior to the Civil War. By the time of the Civil War they had breechloading Sharps carbines with paper cartridges, (discounting paper cartridges where the paper merely served as a powder measure.) revolving carbines and revolvers etc. Try to load any front stuffer from horseback and the length of muskets becomes apparent. The 1863 Springfield was a rifled musket. It was also obsolete at the onset of the war as were all muzzleloaders. The govt was slow to invest in upgrades, and military generals were slow to embrace new tech. Even The Trapdoor Springfield was a reluctance to trash weapons stores in favor of new tech. It was obsolete when it went into service. The only reason there were not more Cavalry present is cost. The widely held assumption of the superiority and even the invincibility of Calvary was disproven by Pickett's Charge and the Indian Wars. Only in the U.S. did Calvary start to fight as dismounted infantry. In foreign wars they fought mounted over open ground.