Comments by "Britta Kriep" (@brittakriep2938) on "From the American Revolution: Short Land Pattern Brown Bess" video.

According to an article in Schweizer Waffenmagazin of 1980s, there had been mostly french made overlong flintlock muskets , mostly similar to 16 gauge of modern shotguns. This rather long guns had been simply made and mostly used either as ship equipment gun or as trade gun for african trade. In the noted article was written, that there had been in addition to the usually 1,7 /1,8 m long versions also such ones, which had been 2/2,5 m long. This extra long versions had been sold to chiefs or kings, as a symbol for their Power.
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@ST-zm3lm : In flintlock era, muskets had been fullsize battle rifle, and carbines had been weapons of cavallry, artillry and transport units. But some units got slightly shortened muskets: Dragoons ( Dragoner, i am german), and Sea Soldiers/ Marines.
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@scottmccrea1873 : Those raw flintstones are often found on both sides of Dover straight . As far as i know, some old guys still collect this stones to cut them into flintlock stones for african and reenactors market.
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@skoshman1 : German person here. With current idiots in german gouvernement, a war is Impossible. Nobody must fear my country:-))
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@herbertbrown119 : Even at start of wwl Line infantry soldiers had rather long rifles and bayonnets for this reason.
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