asu66 wrote:Yosef wrote:I like it too. Trying to get away from using official App State logos (or their likeness) as a part of our logo. I do like the idea of adding a musket somewhere in there and think a rocking chair would be cool too.
Yosef wouldn't ever be caught short-handed with a mere Napoleonic musket or a later Enfield musket.
They were terribly inaccurate in war and virtually useless in hunting small game for the family supper table. Their worth was really in close-order hand-to-hand combat with bayonets.
Think custom-built
*long rifle* for Yosef's firearm of choice.
Highly accurate at long range; with impressive stopping power for the era.
While I agree that a longrifle would be the perfect choice for Yosef, your evaluation on the merits of a smooth-bore military musket for practical uses are inaccurate. .69-.75 caliber muskets such as the French Charleville and British Brown Bess are more accurate than given credit for and are capable of hitting man sized targets out to ~80 yards. The ability to load them with round ball, small shot, or a combination of the two made smoothbore muskets, or fowling pieces, very popular in Colonial America as a versatile weapon choice for hunting/protection.
It actually bothers me a lot that the rifle Yosef carries around, that the ROTC guys fire after a score, is replica of a Hawken Rifle that would have been more prominent on the great plains of North America with fur trappers/buffalo hunters heading west during the second quarter of the 19th century.
He should be portrayed with a smaller caliber flintlock rifle resembling something found in the Southern Appalachians such as this:
Sorry for the rambling...the development of small arms and their impact on society in American History is one of my main areas of study, and I kind of went overboard there haha
