Talk:Baker rifle
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Nitpicking, maybe, but...the Baker's bore might be .625, but isn't the cal actually .58 or .59? Trekphiler 02:24, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Man, this page is a mess. I'll try and fix the rest of it later.
The link to the "Rifleman Thomas Plunkett: 'A Pattern for the Battalion.' is broken
The factoid saying that the Baker rifle fires 2 to 3 rounds per minute is downright wrong. This is a musket's rate of fire, not a Baker rifle. While the musket could easily be loaded within a 20 second timeframe by a well-drilled soldier, the Baker rifle required its ball ammunition to be wrapped in a leather patch so that it would grip the rfles within the bore that gave it its famed accuracy. However, in more hectic fights, the leather patch might be foregone in favour of a reload speed closer to that of the standard musket, but then its accuracy would only be a slight improvement of a musket's accuracy.
If the BR could hit at 600-800 yards, how can it be said that a musket's range is much farther? Muskets aren't even reliably lethal at beyond 300 yards. ATK102587 011:51, 21 June 2006 (EST)
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