That, of course, was enthousiastically encouraged too. Mind you, officers lead from the front in those days, so at least they did often practice what they preached.59North wrote:I always took it as honor and courage over intelligence.
A running rabbit would be problematic due to the delay between pulling the trigger, and the shot actually going off with a flintlock. A stationary one would be entirely possible though -- assuming the flintlock in question had a rifled barrel. Large scale adoption of rifles was still a few decades off, and as that process ran it's course, uniforms and tactics changed. The soldiers of the Napoleonic wars were, with some notable exceptions, equipped with smoothbores.Must have watched too many movies where they can hit a running rabbit at 200yds with the old flintlock.
As usual, the movie industry just doesn't care about such details
Thank you.Indeed, the figures are very nice.
