Musketeers needed, please!

Posted by Linden on August 11, 1998 at 23:38:05:

As I know next to nothing about firearms, either now or in JA's day, please will someone help me out with an incident in the plot I'm writing.

Could a musket or other firearm of the sort available to an ordinary soldier shoot through a door, or would the bullet be stopped by the wood?

If it depends on the wood and the gun, please could you tell me what would be needed for the bullet *not* to go through the door?

(One of the great thinks about fiction - I can make the door as thick as I want!)

Thank you in anticipation, military minded Pemberleyans

Linden

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REPLIES:

• Thanks, gentlemen, but Oh, darn! Linden 20:08:11 8/12/98 (3)
  • Doors Captain Everett 07:32:58 8/13/98 (2)
    • Oak Ken 08:21:28 8/13/98 (1)
      • Gentlemen, you are wonderful. Thanks muchly (nfm) Linden 19:27:07 8/13/98 (0)
• Musket Balls and Doors Captain Everett 16:51:29 8/12/98 (0)
• Depends Ken 07:53:55 8/12/98 (1)
  • Firearms Roger V 14:26:15 8/12/98 (0)

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