Actually it is easier to ram the round ball into a smooth bore, as such that part is faster. The musket priming is the time consuming part. I have never fired a musket but that is what I am told.
central_va wrote:
“Actually it is easier to ram the round ball into a smooth bore, as such that part is faster. The musket priming is the time consuming part. I have never fired a musket but that is what I am told.”
Fitting in reality a primer cap onto a tube’s end, and the primer cap size is the thumb-pushing end of a Bic Clic, can be a bear. Not much easier with a flintlock - with flashpan powder being of a finer grainage than the barrel powder - making it a two-flask operation.