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A gunsmith would've made the barrel, and the rest of the parts required for the gun as well. For the most part a blacksmith made tools and farm equipment. A gunsmith typically would use a lathe to bore out the barrel once it had been made, which was a process in itself, dropforging onto a mandrel before small adjustments and some milling were done. Once the bore was complete many early gun barrels would be ready for the assembly of the gun. In most cases with a smooth-bore the lack of rifling negated the need for the lathe at all. In later years, (civil war era) a rifling breach was used to apply rifling to the inside of the barrel. This greatly improved accuracy and muzzle velocity.
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What are facts about blacksmiths?
Blacksmiths make hot fore.
Does blacksmiths make shield's?
Yes, blacksmiths made and still make shields
What are the parts of a musket?
The lock, the stock, and the barrel. The lock is the mechanism with hammer, trigger, pan, and other parts to fire the musket. The stock is the wooden furniture which allows the operator to hold and aim the musket. The barrel is the tube through which the projectile is fired, exactly like a modern weapon, except that musket barrels were smooth bored like a shotgun instead of rifled.
What do blacksmiths make?
blacksmiths make items using metal
Why were blacksmiths important?
Blacksmiths were important because they were the ones who were able to make iron into useful items.
Did blacksmiths make spoons?
yes
What did the Ancient Roman blacksmiths have to make things and what did they make?
in the roman time the blacksmiths only had anything big and metal to make other big metal things. metal was very popular in the roman period and so the blacksmiths had an easy time
What Items a cooper would make?
He would make barrels. Everything was shipped and stored in barrels.
How much money did blacksmiths make in the 1800s?
alot
Why did blacksmiths come to the colonies?
to make metal stuff
What did blacksmiths commonly make in 1870?
Blacksmiths in 1870 would make wagon wheels, horse shoes and farm implements. Almost any ironwork was done by the blacksmith.
What is a rifle musket?
A rifle musket is a musket that has a rifled barrel. Until the mid 19th century, the standard infantry weapon of most of the world's armies was a smoothbore, long-barreled, muzzleloading musket with a relatively large bore. Rifles, with shorter barrels and smaller bores were also in use, but primarily by specialized troops. With the invention of the Minie style bullet, which allowed much faster loading than the traditional patched ball, the more accurate rifling started to replace a smooth bore as the standard for infantry use. Initially, existing smooth bore muskets were converted to "rifled-muskets". The term meaning a musket that had been rifled. In the mid 1850s new musket designs such as the British Pattern 1853 (Enfield) and the US Model 1855 (Springfield) became the standard. These weapons, which were originally designed with rifled barrels, were called "Rifle Muskets" or "Rifle-Muskets" to distinguish them from the shorter barreled rifles.
