The Charleville musket was a.69 caliber standard French infantry musket used in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was made in 1717 and was last produced during the 1840s. However, it still saw limited u
Charleville Musket, exploded view
Model 1777 made during the French Revolution
Crude Khyber Pass copy of a Russian 1808 Tula musket (left).
The French-made Tulle musket or Fusil de chasse, originally meaning "hunting gun", was a light smoothbore flintlock musket designed for hunting. A later military variant known as the Fusil marine ordi
Charleville musket
…but could fire other ammunition such as buck and ball or shot. After numerous musket designs in the late 17th and early 18th century, most notably the Tulle Musket, the infantry musket was standardized in what would become the Model 1717. This model standardized most of the design features that would be common to…
French fusil marine ordinaire of the French and Indian Wars era. The nonstandard brass barrel bands were added by a previous owner to replace the worn-out metal wedges.
Painting of an Iroquois Indian hunter with French trade gun.