Musket Designs

The Form of the Ramrod

This uses iron to create the Loader original: "Songzi." Literally "the child-sender," this is a technical term for the ramrod used to seat the ammunition..

The Form of the Musket

Method for Internal Loading of the Musket

This musket is shaped like a Bird-Gun original: "Niao chong." The Chinese term for a matchlock musket, named for its perceived accuracy in being able to hit a bird in flight.. However, at the location of the Powder Cover original: "Yao gai." This refers to the flash pan or priming pan cover., there is a hole. Above this hole, an iron tube is installed. Insert several lead balls into the tube; the gate fixes the opening so that one ball from the tube then falls into the barrel.

The text describes an early form of a repeating musket or a gravity-fed magazine system. By mounting a tube (magazine) over the breech, the shooter could potentially load projectiles more rapidly than by manually placing them in the muzzle.