Springfield musket

They are sometimes incorrectly referred to as "Springfield rifles". Rifles have grooves on the inside of their barrels. Smoothbore muskets do not. The term "Rifled musket" originally referred to smoothbore muskets that later had their barrels rifled for Intended use of the Minié ball. This term was extended to include weapons that were produced with rifled barrels, as long as the overall design was very similar to the original smoothbore musket. Smoothbore musket: • Springfield Model 1795 –.69 caliber flintlock smoothbore musket and first longarm to be manufactured at Springfield. • Springfield Model 1812 –.69 caliber flintlock smoothbore musket. • Springfield Model 1816 –.69 caliber flintlock smoothbore musket. • Springfield Model 1822 –.69 caliber flintlock smoothbore musket. * • Springfield Model 1835 –.69 caliber flintlock smoothbore musket. • Springfield Model 1840 –.69 caliber flintlock smoothbore musket. • Springfield Model 1842 –.69 caliber percussion lock smoothbore musket. • Springfield Model 1847 –.69 caliber percussion lock smoothbore musketoon. Rifled musket: • Springfield Model 1855 –.58 caliber Maynard tape primer/percussion lock rifled musket. • Springfield Model 1861 –.58 caliber percussion lock rifled musket. • Springfield Model 1863 –.58 caliber percussion lock rifled musket.