Swedish Land Pattern Musket | |
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Type | long gun |
Place of origin | Kingdom of Sweden |
Service history | |
In service | Royal Swedish Army (1560s—1860s) |
Used by | Swedish Empire (1560s—1721) |
Wars |
Northern Seven Years' War First Polish War Russo-Swedish War 1590—95 War against Sigismund Polish–Swedish War (1600—29) De la Gardie campaign Ingrian War Kalmar War Thirty Years' War Torstenson War First Bremian War Little Northern War Second Bremian War Scanian War War of the League of Augsburg Great Northern War The War of the Hats Pomeranian War (part of the Seven Years' War theatre) Russo-Swedish War 1788—90 Theatre War Barbary Coast War Franco-Swedish War 1805—07 Finnish War Dano-Swedish War of 1808—09 Anglo-Swedish War 1810—12 War of the Sixth Coalition Campaign against Norway |
Production history | |
Manufacturer |
Nerike Faktori Jönköpings Gevärsfaktori Söderhams Gevärsfaktori Norrtelje Gevärsfaktori Örebro Gevärsfaktori Husqvarna Group Carl Gustafs Stads Gevärsfaktori |
Produced | 1560s—1840s |
Specifications | |
Mass | 8,86–<10,97 lb |
Length | 57.63–~59.05 in |
Barrel length | 40.86–~43.50 in |
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Cartridge | paper cartridge, buck and ball/solid shot (~.59–~.76), undersized to reduce the effects of powder fouling, cartridge weight: ~1.0864 oz[1][2] |
Calibre | .63–~.81 |
Barrels | 1 (smoothbore) |
Action | matchlock, snaphauncelock, flintlock (doglock), percussion lock (doglock until Model 1840) |
Muzzle velocity | 984.252–1312.336 ft/s, max 1476.378–1640.420 ft/s[3] |
Effective firing range |
100 yards (point target) 300 yards (area target)[4][5] |
Maximum firing range | >500 yards[6] |
Feed system | muzzle-loaded |
Sights |
fore sights open sights |
The Swedish infantry musket, or the Swedish Land Pattern Musket, was a muzzle-loaded 0.63(16.002 mm) to 0.81(20.7mm)[7] inch calibre smoothbored long-gun. These weapons were in service within the Royal Swedish Army from the mid XVI century until the mid XIX century.
History[]
At the end of the XVI century, the Swedish musket of military nature became style-forming. Its style remained the same until about the year of 1660 within most armies.[8] In Sweden, its basic style lasted for many years—until the end of the 1680s.[9] The matchlock was the dominant mechanism on the muskets of the hands within the Swedish army among other European armed forces, and so came to remain until the latter half of the 1600s when the snaphaunce mechanism took over increasingly. But it was not until the flintlock mechanism as well as the bayonet, seriously had taken over—at the time closest to the turn of the century 1600/1700—that the matchlock came to be completely obsolete among the various squadrons within the Swedish Empire. However, some weapons equipped with wheellock mechanism were primarily reserved for the cavalry. The Swedish, purely warlike musket design, remained in its basic form from Model 1696 until Model 1775. Before that, long-guns – military as well as civilian – were produced in a variety of designs.[10]
Clear variants[]
Model 1673[]
Model 1688[]
Matchlock Musket M1688[11]
Snaphaunce Musket M1688[12]
Model 1690[]
Model 1696[]
The flintlock carbine M1696 was the first bayonet-equipped.[13][14]
Model 1704[]
Model 1716[]
Model 1725[]
Model 1738[]
Model 1762[]
Krävan with the krävan-fitting was abandoned in favour of a third scouring stick-pipe, where a scouring stick (now in iron) instead rested and a fourth scouring stick-pipe (all now in brass) next to the chamber. And the stock was equipped with a nose cap, that one too in brass.[15]
Model 1775[]
With the manufacturing of the 1775 model, the pins holding the barrel in place were abandoned in favour of two scouring stick-pipe-bands with associated kräkor and a front barrel band nose cap with bow-shaped foresigts in brass infused.[16]
Model 1784[]
Model 1791[]
Model 1805[]
Model 1815[]
Model 1840[]
Model 1848[]
See also[]
External links[]
References[]
- ↑ From, Peter (2005). Karl XII:s död: gåtans lösning. Höganäs: Historiska media. ISBN 9185057568.
- ↑ Swedish Army Museum
- ↑ From, Peter (2005). Karl XII:s död: gåtans lösning. Höganäs: Historiska media. ISBN 9185057568.
- ↑ Hughes, B. P. (1974). Firepower: weapons effectiveness on the battlefield, 1630-1850. London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 978-0-85368-229-5. OCLC 1551982.
- ↑ Haythornthwaite, Philip (2001). Napoleonic infantry: Napoleonic Weapons and Warfare. London: Cassell. ISBN 978-0-304-35509-9. OCLC 43501345.
- ↑ From, Peter (2005). Karl XII:s död: gåtans lösning. Höganäs: Historiska media. ISBN 9185057568.
- ↑ Swedish Army Museum
- ↑ Military Heritage
- ↑ Swedish Army Museum
- ↑ Swedish Army Museum
- ↑ Swedish Army Museum
- ↑ Swedish Army Museum
- ↑ Åberg Göransson, Alf Göte (1976). Karoliner. Höganäs: Bra Böcker. p. 28.
- ↑ Swedish Army Museum
- ↑ Swedish Army Museum
- ↑ Swedish Army Museum
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