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Swedish Land Pattern Musket
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

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[]

  1. From, Peter (2005). Karl XII:s död: gåtans lösning. Höganäs: Historiska media. ISBN 9185057568. 
  2. Swedish Army Museum
  3. From, Peter (2005). Karl XII:s död: gåtans lösning. Höganäs: Historiska media. ISBN 9185057568. 
  4. 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. 
  5. Haythornthwaite, Philip (2001). Napoleonic infantry: Napoleonic Weapons and Warfare. London: Cassell. ISBN 978-0-304-35509-9. OCLC 43501345. 
  6. From, Peter (2005). Karl XII:s död: gåtans lösning. Höganäs: Historiska media. ISBN 9185057568. 
  7. Swedish Army Museum
  8. Military Heritage
  9. Swedish Army Museum
  10. Swedish Army Museum
  11. Swedish Army Museum
  12. Swedish Army Museum
  13. Åberg Göransson, Alf Göte (1976). Karoliner. Höganäs: Bra Böcker. p. 28. 
  14. Swedish Army Museum
  15. Swedish Army Museum
  16. Swedish Army Museum
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