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It was decided that the powder charge of the Norwegian smoothbore 16 bore (lødig) percussion muskets should be 101.5 grains. Flintlock muskets were loaded with 180 grains. The 16 bore muskets used a 20 bore roundball. The original charges seem... Read more ...

1 December 1841

Loads for Norwegian muskets
It was decided that the powder charge of the Norwegian smoothbore 16 bore (lødig) percussion muskets should be 101.5 grains. Flintlock muskets were loaded with 180 grains. The 16 bore muskets used a 20 bore roundball.

The original charges seem quite heavy compared to the powder charges most shooters use today, but back then the balls were quite undersized. That allowed some of the powder gases to escape, so that the recoil was actually quite light. If they had used a tight fitting patch and ball combo like we do today, the recoil would have been noticeably harder.


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    1. Cock screw
    2. Cock spur
    3. Neck of the cock
    4. Body of the cock
    5. Tumbler screw
    6. Upper jaw
    7. Piece of leather
    8. Flint
    9. Lower jaw
    10. Face of frizzen (steel)
    11. Pan cover
    12. Tail of frizzen
    13. Pan cover screw
    14. Pressure arm
    15. Frizzen spring
    16. Frizzen spring screw
    17. Pan
    18. Lockplate
    19. Threaded hole for foremost lock plate screw
    20. Threaded hole for frizzen screw
    21. Bolster
    22. Pan screw
    23. Threaded hole for rearmost lock plate screw
    24. Anslagsflater
    25. Studdelskrue
    26. Studdel

    		 27. Stangfjærskrue
    28. Stangfjær
    29. Stang
    30. Stangskrue
    31. Nuss
    32. Nusskrapp
    33. Tumbler hook of mainspring
    34. Slagfjærskrue
    35. Lower limb of mainspring
    36. Slagfjærøre
    37. Upper limb of mainspring
    38. Cup of tumbler
    39. Stangarm
    40. Gjengehull for slagfjærskrue
    41. Gjengehull for fengpanneskrue
    42. Gjengehull for stangfjærskrue
    43. Gjengehull for stangskrue
    44. Forsterkningsknast for gjengehull
    45. Firkanttapp for hane
    46. Nusstapp
    47. Halvspennro
    48. Helspennro
    49. Springkile